The rapid expansion of sharing economy platforms has generated enormous controversy. Law and the "Sharing Economy" closely examines the challenges that arise from this phenomenon with regard to labour, market, technology and regulation through a legal and interdisciplinary lens. The controversy...

The ECJ's judgment in Coop de France represents an important clarification and affirmation of the basic principles and objectives of the EC fining policy for violations of the competition law. In the present case the Community courts encountered the situation where the appellants were in effect...

Part of a larger textbook on business law and economics, this Chapter surveys how economic analysis has been applied to competition, or antitrust, law, in the main jurisdictions on both sides of the Atlantic. The first part chronicles the successive schools of thought in the US and the EU, with...

For the purposes of discussing the idea of a possible integration of public and private enforcement of competition law in the Europe it is useful, on the one hand, to perceive how the idea of private enforcement of EU competition law has developed over recent years and, on the other hand, to...

The study deals with Huerta de Soto's thesis about the "mistaken doctrine of common law", which is based on the equalization of depositum irregulare and mutuum contracts. He concluded that equalization of these contracts resulted in the creation of business cycles. According to this study,...