Book Launch: Research Handbook on Competition and Corporate Law

We’re excited to invite to you the book launch event of our Research Handbook on Competition and Corporate Law, co-edited by Dr Anna Tzanaki and Dr Florence Thépot (University of Strasbourg).

This open-access Research Handbook adopts an interdisciplinary approach to examine the nexus between competition law and corporate law, engaging with legal systems across the Americas, Asia and Europe. Competition and corporate law are brought together through shared historical backgrounds and modern challenges that cut across the two fields. For that reason, competition and corporate law meet naturally, albeit sometimes their interaction may yield counterintuitive results. In this Research Handbook we decided to break with disciplinary tradition that is often single-sided and approach issues though the joint lens of the market and the corporation.

We’re proud that our editorial collaboration on this project was joined by many highly esteemed academics, lawyers and economists from around the world, who share the same understanding and vision. Combining theoretical, empirical and case-based research, world-leading experts provide detailed explorations of cutting-edge topics at the intersection of the two fields such as consumer welfare, shareholder primacy, liability in corporate groups, common ownership, interlocking directorates, killer acquisitions, corporate governance, corporate board diversity, ESG, managerial liability and antitrust sanctions.

During this book launch event we will have the opportunity to unpack some of the chapter contributions to the Handbook with their authors, stellar UK academics such as Prof. Alison Jones (King's College London) and Dr Steven Daly (King’s College London) and Prof. Andreas Stephan (University of East Anglia), and explore several other themes and methodologies included in the Handbook together with the book editors and expert scholars from the University of Leeds such as Prof. Peter Whelan and Dr Eun Hye Kim who will be acting as commentators.

The discussion will cover as diverse topics as the boundaries of the firm in competition and corporate law and the concept of ‘undertaking’ or single entity doctrine in EU and UK competition law, parental liability for antitrust violations, the interplay between compliance and antitrust enforcement, the contribution of corporate board diversity to competition law compliance and much more.

The event is free, but please register for tickets here.