Advanced EU Competition Law

This 16-hour executive online course provides participants with an in-depth and systematic overview of fundamental aspects of EU competition law. It focuses on recent developments, key case law, and emerging trends shaping contemporary competition practice.

Overview

The Advanced EU Competition Law executive short course offers a systematic and practical examination of core and advanced issues in EU competition law. Participants develop a structured framework to analyse agreements, unilateral practices, merger control, and digital market challenges under EU law. Through case law discussion, strategic assessment, and review of current enforcement trends, the course supports informed decision-making and deeper understanding of legal risk and evolving doctrines.

The course is delivered online over four interactive seminar-style sessions led by Professor Pablo Ibáñez Colomo, with space for discussion, practical examples, and engagement with recent case law and policy developments.

I would definitely recommend the course to my colleagues – Pablo’s knowledge, and thoughtful analysis, of the CJEU’s jurisprudence is outstanding. The course provides a great insight into current trends in competition law.

Aims

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Apply a structured framework to analyse agreements and unilateral practices under EU law
• Understand the major trends shaping contemporary EU competition law, including the latest case law
• Evaluate judicial approaches to competition matters and identify legal arguments that are most likely to succeed
• Analyse theories of harm in merger control, including those relevant to digital markets
• Assess legal risk and develop informed strategies within organisations
• Navigate novel issues at the intersection of competition, intellectual property, and technology

Target audience

• Legal practitioners and civil servants who work on EU competition law matters and want coherent and comprehensive exposure to key and recent developments
• In-house lawyers who are regularly exposed to competition law issues and would benefit from an understanding of the major trends in the field and the potential risks that might arise in practice
• Professionals, scholars and students who are familiar with competition or antitrust law in their own jurisdiction and want in-depth knowledge of the EU approach to key issues

Course Content

Topics

• Relevant considerations when evaluating the lawfulness of agreements under EU competition law
• Potential for unilateral practices to infringe provisions on abuse of dominance
• Major trends in the field and likely evolution of the discipline (agreements, unilateral practices, merger control)
• Practical implications of some of the most recent case law developments
• How courts perform judicial review in EU competition law and which legal arguments tend to prevail
• Theories of harm considered by competition authorities in merger control
• Novel issues raised by practices implemented in digital markets
• The role of intellectual property and its impact on legal and economic assessment in light of recent developments

Teaching materials

• Annotated slides and case summaries
• Pre-course readings
• Documentation issued after registration

Academic staff

Course convenor

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  Professor Pablo Ibáñez Colomo is Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is also an Ordinary Member at the Competition Appeal Tribunal, a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges) and one of the Joint General Editors of the Journal of European Competition Law & Practice (Oxford University Press). He received a PhD from the European University Institute in June 2010 (Jacques Lassier Prize). Before joining the EUI as a Researcher in 2007, he taught for three years at the Law Department of the College of Europe (Bruges), where he also completed an LLM in 2004. He has been a Visiting Professor at several institutions around the world, including Aix-Marseille University, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Kobe University and Torcuato di Tella University.

Professional services staff

Course manager

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  Amanda Tinnams is the Short Course Manager at LSE Law School, bringing over two decades of experience managing short course programs. Amanda has successfully overseen courses offered on-campus, online and internationally. She is committed to creating impactful learning experiences that combine academic excellence with practical application, supporting professionals and organisations worldwide.

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