The UK Competition Regime A Twenty-Year Retrospective

Barry Rodger, Professor of Law, University of Strathclyde,Peter Whelan, Professor of Law, University of Leeds,Angus MacCulloch, Senior Lecturer, Lancaster University

Barry Rodger has been an academic at Strathclyde University Law School since 1993. His primary teaching and research interests are related to EU and UK competition law and international private law, and he also teaches aspects of private law. In recent years his work has focused on the interface between competition law and private law with various projects related to developments in the private enforcement of competition law in the UK and EU. An AHRC-funded project in this area led to the 2014 publication of Competition Law Comparative Private Enforcement and Collective Redress Across the EU (Rodger (ed), Kluwer Law International), and more recently he has co-ordinated a project which resulted in the co-edited publication (with M Sousa Ferro and F Marcos) by OUP in December 2018 of The EU Antitrust Damages Directive, Transposition in the Member States. He is currently working on a range of projects related both to enforcement and substantive issues in EU and UK competition law.

Peter Whelan is a Professor of Law at the University of Leeds, where he is the Director of the Centre for Business Law and Practice. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and is a qualified US Attorney-at-Law. He has published in prestigious law journals (such as Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Cambridge Law Journal, Modern Law Review, and Antitrust Law Journal) and recently completed a monograph on cartel criminalisation, which was published by Oxford University Press. He is currently finalising a monograph for OUP on parental antitrust liability. He has presented his research on six continents and in over 30 countries, including at various competition authorities globally. He has provided oral evidence to the New Zealand Parliament and to the Indian Competition Law Review Committee and has acted as a peer-reviewer for the World Economic Forum. He is a Non-Governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network and is the Managing Editor of Oxford Competition Law.

Angus MacCulloch has been an academic since 1996. Initially at the University of Manchester, and at Lancaster University Law School from 2006. His research interests lie primarily in Competition Law, particularly antitrust and enforcement issues, and EU Law, particularly free movement of goods. He retains a wider interest in Regulation, White Collar Crime, and IP law. The majority of his recent Competition Law work focuses on the impact of the introduction of the UK's cartel offence and the wider global move towards the criminalisation of cartel activity. Angus continues to publish a popular Competition Law textbook, Competition Law and Policy in the EU and UK. He is also one of the Editors of the Competition Law Review, founded in 2004, which is an increasingly important home for competition law scholarship. He is a founding member of the Competition Law Scholars Forum and maintains the 'Who's Competing?' blog.

1. Towards a World Class Regime: An Overview of 20 Years of UK Competition Enforcement, Peter Freeman
2. Horizontal Agreements, Richard Whish
3. Vertical Agreements, Alison Jones
4. Exclusionary Abuses, Renato Nazzini
5. Exploitative Abuses, Robert O'Donoghue
6. 'Jack of All Trades, Master of None': The Ever-Increasing Ambit of the Market Investigation Regime, Christian Ahlborn and Will Leslie
7. UK Merger Control: Finely Tailored but Time for a New Suit?, David Reader
8. Unfinished Reform of the Institutions Enforcing UK Competition Law, Bruce Lyons
9. Human Rights and the UK Competition Act: Public Enforcement and Due Process, Arianna Andreangeli
10. Concurrency, Niamh Dunne
11. The Emerging Contribution of Director Disqualification in UK Competition Law, Peter Whelan
12. Private Enforcement in the UK: Effective Redress for Consumers?, Barry Rodger
13. The Quiet Decline of the UK Cartel Offence: A Principled Victory in the Face of Practical Failure, Angus MacCulloch
14. Competition Law and the Digital Economy in the UK and Beyond, Liza Lovdahl Gormsen