The article analyses the significance of the ECJ preliminary ruling on competition law. Starting with the general …

The so-called commitment decision procedure, introduced into European competition law with Art. 9 of Regulation 1 …/2003, was meant to provide the Commission with the possibility to dispose of competition law cases by way of a kind of formal … settlement, roughly analogous to the US consent decree. It has quickly become an important instrument of European competition law …

has demonstrated a number of interesting institutional practices. This paper illuminates a role of law in the EC … discursive power of law. In order to elucidate this discursive viewpoint, this paper offers a conceptual framework as follows: 1 …) Law catalyses normative discourse during the process of the creation, application and interpretation of norms. Laws in and …

This contribution argues that concepts of social justice in European and international private law must remain … consistent with the principles of justice underlying European and international public law. The contribution begins with a brief … public and private law (1). After clarifying the constitutional terminology used in this contribution (2), Rawlsian …