Kluwer Competition Law is a fully searchable collection of primary source material, commentary, and analysis for anyone with an interest in EU competition law.

Kluwer Competition Law includes e-Competitions, published by the Institute of Competition Law, which is a weekly bulletin published in English on national competition laws and regulations and on the implementation of European Union (EU) competition law by Member States. The service contains over 1700 articles to date and includes contributors from major law firms and universities throughout the EU who provide first-hand access to national decisions and court judgments applying EC rules and delivering detailed analysis.

Also included are press releases, decisions and key documents from the European Commission (DG Competition) and the European Court of Justice.

Kluwer Law International is indebted to the following experts:

Special Adviser

Ymke Hofhuis

Ymke Hofhuis works as an advisor in European law at the department of Physical Planning at the City of Amsterdam. Her work focuses on the impact of European environmental legislation on spatial planning. She was a university lecturer of EU Law at the University of Amsterdam from 1995 to 2006. As well as editing the looseleafs, Competition Law in Western Europe and the USA and the Amsterdam Financial Series, from Kluwer Law International, she has also published numerous articles on EU substantive law. Her dissertation on 'Minimum harmonisation in European Law' was published in 2006.

Editorial Advisory Board

René Barents

René Barents is head of division in the ECJ's research and documentation department and professor of European Law at the University of Maastricht. He has been practising EU law as a legal secretary of various members of the ECJ and in the Commission's legal service. His teaching experience, expertise and numerous publications cover all areas of EU law. He is editor of the 19 volumes looseleaf Handboek Europees Kartelrecht (Handbook on European Competition Law). In the domain of competition law his recent publications include Directory of EC Case Law on Competition and Directory of EC Case Law on State Aids.

Thomas Graf

Thomas Graf is a partner with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton based in Brussels. Mr. Graf’s practice focuses on EC competition law, regulatory affairs, and intellectual property law. He has represented companies before the European Commission, national authorities and the Community Courts in a broad range of matters, including abuse of dominance cases, vertical restraints, horizontal cooperation, cartels, mergers and joint ventures, standardization, IP licensing, R&D agreements, regulatory questions, and free movement of goods. His experience covers a number of different industries, including IT, pharmaceuticals, media, sports rights, energy, and engineering.

José Rivas

José Rivas is one of today’s leading antitrust attorneys. He is the Head of Bird & Bird’s International EU and Competition Group and a partner at Bird & Bird at its Brussels office. He has been practicing EC competition law since 1986, representing several complainants and clients under investigations, as well as handling numerous transactions before the EU Commission, national competition authorities, and pleading more than 20 antitrust cases before the EU courts. His expertise covers all areas of EU law, with particular specialization in EU competition law (Articles 81 & 82, State Aid and Merger Control) and public procurement. His sectoral expertise ranges from media, telecommunications, energy and biotech.

José is the editor of World Competition, Law and Economics Journal (Kluwer) and a visiting Professor of Competition and State Aids Law at the College of Europe, Natolin Campus (www.coleurop.be). He is also a member of the Working Groups on Competition and State Aids Law of The Confederation of European Business (Business Europe).

Barry Rodger

Barry Rodger has been an academic at Strathclyde University Law School since 1993 and has been a Professor there since 2001. Professor Rodger has published widely in competition law. His co-authored textbook (with A MacCulloch) Competition Law and Policy in the EC and UK (Cavendish) is in its fourth edition and he has published numerous articles in journals such as the European Competition law Review, Columbia Journal of European Law, the Common Market Law Review, the Juridical Review, the Irish Journal of European Law and World Competition. Many of his recent publications have focused on private enforcement of competition law including his comprehensive study of all competition-related litigation in the UK courts (ECLR 2006), the Kluwer Law International book Competition Law and Article 234: An Analysis (2008) which focuses on all competition law Article 234 preliminary rulings, and an empirical study of competition law litigation settlements in the UK between 2000-2005 (2008 ECLR). Professor Rodger is a member of the organizing committee of the Scottish Competition Law Forum and is the Vice-Chair of the Competition Law Scholars’ Forum (www.clasf.org) and co-editor of the Competition Law Review.