2019-2020 / DROI2357-1

International and Comparative Competition Law

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

 Specialised master in European law4 crédits 

Lecturer

David Hull

Language(s) of instruction

English language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

The course focuses on substantive US antitrust law. It seeks to contrast the antitrust case-law of the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) with that of the EU courts.
Possible study of Japanese competition law.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

This course aims at offering a good understanding of the main legal and economic principles underpinning the seminal US antitrust cases.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

SCOTUS cases will be selected as reading assignments for each class, and the course will take the form of a back and forth discussion with the Professor.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

Recommended or required readings

Ouvrage: Ernest Gellhorn, William Kovacic & Stephen Calkins, Antitrust Law and Economics in a Nutshell, 5th Edition, West Academic Publishing, 2004.

Assessment methods and criteria

For the exam, the students will be asked to discuss a US antitrust law case, possibly through the form of a moot court competition out of the facts of a known US antitrust case.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

  2-3 hours a week

Contacts

Chargé de cours: david.hull@uliege.ac.be Assistant: norman.neyrinck@uliege.ac.be

Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session

Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning

The classes where taught via LiveSize

Assessment subjects

The exam will cover the material/cases discussed in class.

Assessment methods

50% final exam, which will be done orally (virtually); 50% -- paper assigned to students during class.

Contacts

caroline.langevin@uliege.be

Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session

Assessment subjects

Assessment methods

Contacts