Lecture Topic - Basics of European Competition Law. This session provides an overview of the main provisions of European Union Competition Law (or Antitrust Law, in US terms), their enforcement by the European Commission, and their interpretation by the European Court of Justice, while pointing out some of the expected future developments in this area.
Born in Barcelona in 1980, Dr. Sánchez Graells is Lecturer in Commercial Law at the Pontifical University Comillas of Madrid. He earned his European Doctorate (PhD cum laude) from Madrid Autonomous University (2010), after conducting research at the United States Library of Congress, the Copenhagen Business School, and the University of Oxford. He also holds a BA in Law (2002, honors), a BA in Business Management (2003, honors) and an Advanced Legal Studies Diploma (2007, honors), all of them from Spanish universities.
Prior to joining the Universidad Comillas, he worked as an attorney in private practice for a British law firm in Madrid (2003-2004), a Spanish company active in the industrial sector (2004-2005), and a law and economics consultancy (2005-2009). His practice spanned the areas of European Union competition and commercial law. Dr. Sanchez Graells specializes in EU competition law, with particular focus in the areas of merger control and the relationship with other fields of economic regulation, such as public procurement. His research interests focus on EU and comparative competition law and, more generally, law and economics. His PhD dissertation, published as PUBLIC PROCUREMENT AND THE EU COMPETITION RULES (Oxford: Hart Pub., 2010) has been complemented by articles on the EU competition rules applicable to the insurance sector, the interplay between competition and public procurement law, and the current process of assessment of EU competition rules of a general scope (such as Regulation 1/2003).