Competition law and economics

The course aims at providing students with an introduction to EU antitrust rules and case law, as well as to the underlying basic economic concepts and tools.
Students will be presented with principles, notions and rules within the context of the broader policy issues at stake and invited to discuss their interrelations.
The course also encourages students to learn through analysis and critical discussion of cases, with a view to stimulating debate on the application of rules to specific factual scenarios, use of argumentation and development of convincing skills.

By the end of this course, students should be able to:
- Understand the fundamental principles of Antitrust Law and the connected economic tools and methods.
- Select, interpret and apply argumentatively the relevant bodies of laws and the relevant precedents to specific cases, in a problem-solving perspective.
- Understand the scope and role of rules, enforcement mechanisms, institutions, making autonomous judgements.
- Use their communication skills (written and oral) to argue convincingly, expressing their knowledge with propriety of language within logical, legal and (basic) economic reasoning.
- Deploy learning skills suitable to continue their education with a high degree of autonomy.