The Boundaries of EC Competition Law

The Scope of Article 81

Okeoghene Odudu (, Lecturer in Competition Law, King's College London)

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Oxford University Press
01 April 2006

Series: Oxford Studies in European Law

This monograph addresses two problems surrounding the interpretation and application of Article 81 of the EC Treaty - what is competition and how does Article 81 ensure that competition is protected. After over 40 years of application and a period of modernisation, decentralisation, and reflection, it is possible to understand Article 81 and what it seeks to achieve. The monograph's aim is to reveal the intellectual order and rational structure underlying the law so as to enable the reader to understand Article 81 in a clear and rigorous manner. This is done by breaking Article 81 down into its constituent elements and examining the function that each element serves. Arguing that jurisdiction rests on a public/private distinction, both the substantive and the justificatory rules are cast to generate obligations appropriate for private actors to perform. Actors and activities falling within the scope of Article 81 are subject to the substantive element prohibiting contrived reductions in output. Since output reduction can co-exist with cost reduction/innovation, and that these latter features are desirable, cost reduction and innovation operate to justify infringement of the substantive obligation. Thus this monograph argues that output, cost and innovation are the only legitimate issues in an Article 81 analysis. It is in this sense that the monograph is concerned with the boundaries of Article 81 EC.

By: Okeoghene Odudu ( Lecturer in Competition Law King's College London)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 242mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780199278169
ISBN 10: 0199278164
Series: Oxford Studies in European Law
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 01 April 2006
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Okeoghene Odudu is a Lecturer in Competition law at King's College London, where he teaches US Antitrust, EC State Aid and State Regulation Law, EC and UK Competition Law, and EU Law. Odudu read law as an undergraduate at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and received an MA in Criminology from Keele University. He was a graduate student at Keble College, Oxford, where he competed a DPhil. He was awarded a Kennedy Scholarship and spent a year at Harvard conducting research in US antitrust. After being awarded a DPhil in law from Oxford University Odudu was elected Fellow in law at Downing College, Cambridge where he taught EU and Administrative law.

Reviews for The Boundaries of EC Competition Law: The Scope of Article 81

Mr Odudu has written an interesting book..it is well written, provocative, and presents a blueprint for the further development of European Community competition law. The Antitrust Bulletin This volume presents an articulate and well-argued thesis on the scope of Article 81 EC. World Competition