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A Smithian Political Economy Approach for the Competition Law of the 21st Century

The Modern Law Review, Volume 88, Issue 4, Page 712-768, July 2025.
This study aims to show how a Smithian political economy approach could assist competition law in addressing the challenges of the 21st‐century economy. We revisit Smith's Wealth of Nations to provide a more nuanced understanding of his views, contrasting them with the prevailing libertarian interpretation called here ‘Chicago Smith’.
Stavros Makris
wiley   +1 more source

A Chicago-School Island in the Ordo-liberal Sea? The Hungarian Competition Office’s Relaxed Treatment of Abuse of Dominance Cases [PDF]

Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, 2013
The paper presents and evaluates the impact of the ‘more economic’ approach of the Hungarian Competition Office’s decisional practice as to predatory pricing, margin squeeze and refusal to deal under Hungarian competition law.
Csongor István Nagy
doaj  

A Post‐Neoliberal European Order? Public Purpose and Private Accumulation in Green Industrial Policy

The Modern Law Review, Volume 88, Issue 4, Page 769-803, July 2025.
This article examines the emerging legal rationalities of EU's green industrial policy, questioning if they represent a departure from the neoliberal paradigm that prioritised safeguarding the competitive order. I argue that the European Green Industrial Plan signals a new role for law in the orchestration and balancing of public purpose and private ...
Ioannis Kampourakis
wiley   +1 more source

Building a European Union ‘Treasury’: Explaining the European Commission's New Approach to Debt Issuance and Management

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 1197-1216, July 2025.
Abstract This article examines how the European Commission went from being an occasional participant in capital markets in the 1970s to an established bond issuer by the 2020s. As a result of these changes, the Commission has moved away from its traditional model of back‐to‐back lending using a wide array of funding instruments towards the regular ...
Lukas Spielberger, Dermot Hodson, David Howarth, Iacopo Mugnai   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The elephant in the room of EU copyright originality: Time to unpack and harmonize the essential requirement of copyright

The Journal of World Intellectual Property, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 471-490, July 2025.
Abstract The dividing line between the artistic and literary heritage privatized by copyright and the public domain depends on just one word which is completely alien to the traditional legal jargon: originality. As if it were not enough the essential requirement of copyright is highly polysemic, being its meaning also sensitive to the specific ...
Vincenzo Iaia
wiley   +1 more source

The “Regulatory Authority Dixit” Defence in European Competition Law Enforcement [PDF]

Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, 2014
The European Commission (EC) and the European Courts have being reaffirming in the Deutsche Telekom and Telefónica cases that guide-prices established by sector regulators upon electronic communications incumbents cannot per se exclude that conducts with
Pierluigi Congedo
doaj  

Future proofing EU law – Does the European Union have a legal obligation to protect future generations?

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 420-434, July 2025.
Abstract This article analyses the normative landscape of future generations within the current body of European Union (EU) law, including the treaties, the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, existing and potentially emerging general principles of EU law, as well as relevant international treaties and customary international law. The article argues that,
Katalin Sulyok
wiley   +1 more source

Civil society participation in EU preparation for UN climate negotiations—Questions of openness and transparency

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 379-393, July 2025.
Abstract Despite the European Union's strong commitment to transparent and participatory governance, the preparation of its position for international climate negotiations is not particularly transparent or open to civil society participation. The situation could be said to reflect a broader paradigm of secrecy in EU policy‐ and law‐making.
Tuula Honkonen
wiley   +1 more source

Waste pickers in extended producer responsibility policies: A comparative analysis of Brazil and the European Union

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 352-364, July 2025.
Abstract This article presents a case study of extended producer responsibility (EPR) policies adopted by the European Union (EU) and Brazil. It focuses on waste pickers—a group increasingly visible in EU countries such as Spain and Italy. While EU directives emphasise the polluter pays principle, little attention is given to the role of informal ...
Leila Giovana Izidoro, Ana Flávia Trevizan   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Litigating the Fit for 55 Package: Statutory and rights‐based challenges to national energy and climate plans as a means of implementing and/or enhancing the ambition of the EU's Fit for 55 Package

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 49-61, April 2025.
Abstract Despite the growing recognition of climate change's impact on human rights, it is not clear that the Fit for 55 Package has been informed by human rights. This prompts questions as to whether human rights arguments might therefore be used in the next wave of EU level climate litigation.
Orla Kelleher, Clodagh Daly
wiley   +1 more source