Damages Claims for the Infringement of EU Competition Law

Damages Claims for the Infringement of Competition Law addresses the current state of the law in the EU on damages claims for the infringement of EU competition law by combining a theoretical with a practical perspective.

The work first focuses on the relevant Community acquis, examining all aspects of EU law that may be relevant to damages claims (whether brought by a consumer or not) such as those concerning fault and 'excusable errors', small claims, legal aid, alternative dispute resolution, as well as private international law instruments.

The book then delves into the economic underpinnings of claims for damages, including optimal enforcement theory and damages and the legal standards of liability, the evaluation of damages for cartels, exploitative conduct and exclusionary conduct.

The work also examines collective actions (legal regime and financing aspects), the interaction between damages claims and public enforcement, as well as issues relating to multi-jurisdictional enforcement and damages claims.

Peter Davis, Compass Lexecon,Ioannis Lianos, University College London,Paolisa Nebbia, Italian Competition Authority

Peter Davis is Executive Vice President of Compass Lexecon in London where he specialises in competition policy and regulatory investigations. Previously, he was the Deputy Chairman of the Competition Commission (2006-2011) and President of the Association of Competition Economics (2009-2011). Peter Davis read for his PhD in Economics at Yale University and is the co-author of the leading textbook Quantitative Analysis for Competition and Antitrust Investigations (Princeton University Press 2010).


Ioannis Lianos is a Reader in European and Competition Law and Economics at University College London and the Gutenberg Research Chair at the Ecole Nationale d'Adminstration in France. He is the author, contributor and editor of 7 books including Competition Law and the Enforcement of Article 102 (OUP 2010) and The Global Limits of Competition Law (Stanford University Press 2012). Ioannis Lianos was awarded the prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2012 for his influential research on economic evidence.


Paolisa Nebbia is a faculty member of the International University College of Turin and works at the Italian Competition Authority. She was a fellow in Law at St Hilda's College Oxford and a Reader in Law at the University of Leicester. Her specialisms include competition law, EU law, consumer law and comparative contract law. She is also a co-author of EU Consumer Law (OUP 2004).