The German Federal Cartel Office and the Austrian Federal Competition Authority have recently published a draft "Guidance on Transaction Value Thresholds for Mandatory Pre-merger Notification (Section 35(1a) GWB and Section 9(4) KartG)" for public consultation. Prof. Dr. Christian Kersting,...

In 2015, the Munich District Court dealt with the staging of the play "Baal" by Bertolt Brecht in Munich Residenztheater. The heirs of the author claimed that the director of the play, Frank Castorf, a giant of German "Regietheater" (Director's Theater) had taken too much liberty in working with...

Wer heute ein Fahrzeug oder eine Maschine reparieren will, braucht Zugriff auf Daten und Schnittstellen. Für viele Handwerksunternehmen wird „Zugang“ zur Schlüsselfrage der digitalen Wirtschaft. In dieser Studie wird herausgearbeitet, welche Regeln derzeit dafür gelten. Dabei zeigt sich:...

This is a statement on the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the question what is next for implementation of the DMA and other regulatory questions in digital markets. The statement was prepared for the German Parliament (Bundestag) where the author served as an expert in a hearing of the Economic...

The German Federal Supreme Court in 2016 decided a case brought by athlete Claudia Pechstein against the International Skating Union on a doping matter. The question at issue was whether the arbitration clause in the athlete’s contract for participating in the World Championships, entered into...

This paper is the national report for Germany in the project "Mapping Judicial Review of Competition Law Decisions", directed by Or Brook and Barry Rodger. The project is based on an empirical exercise with all decisions taken in judicial review of competition law cases between 2004 and 2020...