Postgraduate Course: Fundamentals of EU Competition Law 1 (LAWS11529)
Course Outline
| School | School of Law |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | 1. the concept of competition in economic literature and in the structure of the EU treaties;
2. common concepts: 'undertaking'; 'effect on trade' and 'appreciable' effect
3. Article 101: structure, goals and function; Article 101 (1) and (3);
4. Article 101 and 'valuable' content: media licensing and trademarks in e-commerce;
5. Article 102: purpose; concept of dominance and assessment;
6. Competition law and Intellectual Property Rights in innovative industries: refusals to licence; pay-for-delay agreements;
7. Competition law in digital markets: platforms and the Digital markets Act;
8. Artificial Intelligence and Competition Law
9. An introduction to state aid
10. An introduction to the enforcement of competition law: public and private
11. Review and Q&A, assessment skills training. |
| Course description |
See above.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2025/26, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 25 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
176 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Students will be assessed by means of a 5,000 word assignment (100%) to be handed in after the end of semester 1. |
| Feedback |
Feedback on the formative assessment may be provided in various formats, for example, to include written, oral, video, face-to-face, whole class, or individual. The course organiser will decide which format is most appropriate in relation to the nature of the assessment.
Feedback on both formative and summative in-course assessed work will be provided in time to be of use in subsequent assessments within the course.
Feedback on the summative assessment will be provided in written form via Learn, the University of Edinburgh's Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- have acquired an appreciation of the place, policy and objectives of the regulation of competition;
- demonstrate a detailed understanding of the relevant rules of EU law, their application, and the role competition regulation plays in the wider purpose of the Union;
- analyse the interactions between competition law and others area of the law, e.g. Intellectual property law;
- discuss the impact of the competition rules on digital markets.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | EU,Competition,Law,Level 11,Postgraduate,LLM,European Law |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Arianna Andreangeli
Tel: (0131 6)50 2008
Email: a.andreangeli@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Susanna Wickes
Tel:
Email: Susanna.Wickes@ed.ac.uk |
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