Aims

This course seeks to develop the abilities that are often required in professional life: development of a personal working strategy. Each class is treated as a meeting between lawyers and their clients. Questions are asked in advance of each class and have to be prepared by the students; the students must learn to speed-read legal texts (legislation and judgments); they have to be able to analyse situations and apply a legal reasoning to them; finally, it is important for every student to get some idea of competition as a way of organising relations in society.

Main themes

EU competition rules (Art. 31, 81-82, 86-88 EC Treaty, merger regulation); certain aspects of Belgian competition law; elements of international and comparative law that are necessary to an understanding of the subject.

Content and teaching methods

The course seeks to analyse the main rules of European competition law, namely: Articles 85 and 86 EC Treaty, regulations (private undertakings); Article 90 (public undertakings and undertakings with special and exclusive rights); Articles 92 et 94 (State aids); and merger control. The course also provides the international and European law elements necessary to understand the rules. The course is not given exclusively in the form of lectures and, if need be, relies on practical cases.

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