Module LAWM087 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
LAWM087: Competition Law
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Aims
This module aims at providing a critical understanding of the development of EU competition law and policy as a key area of EU in its private and public dimension. The contemporary challenges faced by the competition regime are accentuated with the rise of global corporations and the various aims within both individual and competing competition law jurisdictions. The module aims to enable you to understand, assess and critically address the legal issues at stake in this field of law.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. demonstrate deep, systematic and critical understanding of the role, aims and underlying principles of competition law; 2. demonstrate detailed knowledge and understanding of the principal features of EU competition law; 3. identify, explain, assess and analyse issues arising in the areas of competition law considered in the module and identify and apply relevant legal rules and theories to those issues; |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 4. demonstrate a high level of ability in selecting, integrating and presenting coherently and reflectively, relevant law and legal/theoretical arguments; 5. demonstrate a high level of ability in integrating and assessing information from a wide variety of primary and secondary legal sources, using this to produce reasoned arguments and analysis in relation to legal issues; |
Personal and Key Skills | 6. demonstrate effective, confident and autonomous ability to manage relevant learning resources/ information/ learning strategies and to develop own reasoned arguments and opinions; and 7. communicate and engage in debate effectively and accurately, in a manner appropriate to the discipline and context. |
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module's precise content may vary, it is envisaged that the syllabus will include all/some of the following topics, which will be covered in this order.
- Competition and its economic justification
- Article 101 TFEU
- Article 102 TFEU: The abuse of dominance
- Competition enforcement powers
- European Merger Control Regulation 139/2004
- Articles 107-109 TFEU State Aids Policy
- International dimensions of competition law
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
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30 | 270 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled learning & teaching activities | 30 | 10 x 3 hour Lecturer-led seminars |
Guided independent study | 150 | Preparation for seminars |
Guided independent study | 120 | Preparation and writing of summative essay assessment |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
See in particular the Web pages of the European Commission on:
http://ec.europa.eu/competition/index_en.html
Case law of the European Court of Justice available at: http://curia.eu
Other Learning Resources
Westlaw, Lexis, EURLex
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
R. Whish & D. Bailey, Competition law, (9th ed. OUP, 2018)
A. Jones & B. Sufrin, EU Competition law, (7th ed. OUP, 2019)
A. Ezrachi, EU Competition Law, An Analytical Guide to the Leading Cases (3rd ed, Hart 2012)