Chillin'Competition

As the year comes to a close, I thought I would share some of the research that got published this year. It was an unusual exercise, as every one of the pieces reminded me of what is yet to come — and which I hope I will be sharing in the coming months. The exercise also delivered a resolution: increase the output on the blog (easily achievable given this year’s meagre production).

This year saw the publication of two articles (frustratingly, other pieces got stuck in the peer review process much longer than anticipated):

• Remedies in EU Antitrust Law (see here). published in Open Access in the Journal of Competition Law and Economics.
• Judicial review in EU merger control: towards deference on issues of law? (see here), publised, also in Open Access, in European Law Open.

In addition, I am delighted to announce that ‘How Android Auto Reshapes the Law of Refusal to Deal (and What it Means in Practice)‘ (see here), which received the AdC Competition Policy Award, has been accepted for publication and is forthcoming in World Competition.

I am also delighted that two book chapters were published this year:

• State aid control beyond the EU: legal convergence and unilateral expansion (see here), jointly authored with Damien Neven, was published in the long-awaited second edition of the treatise and brainchild of Philipp Werner and Vincent Verouden, EU State Aid Control: Law and Economics.
• Hoffmann-La Roche and the Notion of Abuse, published in Paul Craig and Robert Schütze (eds), published in Landmark Cases in EU Law, Volume 2. This piece was an interesting exercise in legal history, which got me looking back at the early days of competition law enforcement in Europe. The volume as a whole is really interesting. I will be sharing it on ssrn as soon as the embargo is lifted.

As mentioned the other days, morever, Luca Prete and Leila Rezki have put together a Liber Amicorum in Honour of Nils Wahl, to which I proudly contributed and which is available here.

Here’s wishing you a wonderful 2026!