LL4AG Half Unit
Advanced Competition Law
This information is for the 2025/26 session.
Course Convenor
Prof Pablo Ibanez Colomo
Availability
This course is available on the LLM (extended part-time), LLM (full-time), MSc in Law and Finance, MSc in Regulation and University of Pennsylvania Law School LLM Visiting Students. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. This course uses controlled access as part of the course selection process.
How to apply: Priority will be given initially to LLM, MSc Regulation and MSc Law and Finance students on a first-come-first-served allocation.
Spaces permitting, requests from all other students will be processed on the same first-come-first-served allocation from 10am on Thursday 2 October 2025
By submitting an application, students are confirming that they meet any pre-requisites specified. Providing an additional written statement will not aid a student's chances of being accepted onto a course, and statements are not read.
Deadline for application: Not applicable
For queries contact: Law.llm@lse.ac.uk
This course has a limited number of places and demand is typically high. This may mean that you’re not able to get a place on this course.
Requisites
Additional requisites:
Prior knowledge of Competition Law is desirable, but not essential.
Course content
This module addresses some of the most topical and intellectually challenging aspects of contemporary Competition Law. The emphasis will be put on US antitrust and EU Competition Law, but developments from other jurisdictions are discussed where relevant. The module examines, inter alia, the response of competition law to some emerging issues from a substantive (such as online distribution agreements and the interaction of the regime with intellectual property) and an institutional standpoint (such as the rise of private enforcement).
Topics may include the following:
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Competition Law and Intellectual Property
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The role of innovation in competition law
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Distribution agreements
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The reform of competition law
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Private enforcement
Teaching
2 hours of seminars in the Spring Term.
20 hours of seminars in the Winter Term.
This course has a reading week in Week 6 of Winter Term.
Regular teaching may be complemented with visits from officials from the UK and the EU.
Formative assessment
All students are expected to produce one 2,000 word formative essay during the course.
Indicative reading
Ibanez Colomo, The New EU Competition Law (Hart Publishing 2023).
Assessment
Exam (100%), duration: 150 Minutes in the Spring exam period
Key facts
Department: LSE Law School
Course Study Period: Winter and Spring Term
Unit value: Half unit
FHEQ Level: Level 7
CEFR Level: Null
Total students 2024/25: 61
Average class size 2024/25: 31
Controlled access 2024/25: YesCourse selection videos
Some departments have produced short videos to introduce their courses. Please refer to the course selection videos index page for further information.
For this course, please see the following link/s:
LL4AG Advanced Competition Law Course Guide Video https://youtu.be/0wsU_VWQLWY
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