AbstractWe assess the relationship between professional sport and European Union competition law using the example of the FIFA Football Agent Regulations (FFAR), a set of rules
enacted by FIFA, the world football governing body, to regulate the activities of football agents. [...]
AbstractDigital technologies and platforms have brought a much-needed plurality to communications and the press, but have also opened the door to increased manipulation, misinformation,
and distortion in the marketplace of ideas. The worrying erosion of citizens’ autonomy has progressively intensified with the evolution of certain business models. [...]
AbstractUnder the Digital Markets Act, gatekeeper platforms abide by numerous ex-ante rules, including narrow data-sharing obligations that address data-driven market tipping.
Gatekeepers also remain subject to ex-post competition interventions. While interventions under both ex-ante and ex-post (antitrust) mandates are not novel, they [...]
AbstractIn 2020, Bertelsmann SE & Co., the owner of Penguin Random House (PRH), offered to acquire Simon & Schuster for $2.175 billion. If the merger had been consummated,
the newly merged firm would have had a 49 per cent share of the market for publishing rights to anticipated top-selling books. [...]
AbstractThe debate surrounding the application of European Union competition law to online platforms so far has predominantly focused on identifying anti-competitive practices.
The design of corresponding remedies has been far less explored, although it is of equal importance to practice. [...]
AbstractWe extend the dataset, revise, and improve the methodology applied in empirically measuring the role of economics in antitrust enforcement by European Commission’s
DG for Competition (EC’s DGCOMP), first examined in Katsoulacos and Makri (2021, this journal). [...]
‘Why Must Legal Ideas Be Interpreted Sociologically? (1998) presented an argument about methods of juristic inquiry rather than about the nature of sociology of law. It claimed
that juristic analysis of legal doctrine must be sociologically grounded. But such an analysis does not thereby become sociology of law, nor does it necessarily promote [...]
Legal pluralism and decolonisation are global academic discourses and activist practices that emerge and intersect differently in different locations. In this paper, I draw
upon and amplify some of the critical points made in Bharat Malkani's article with specific reference to the intersection of legal pluralism and decolonising practices [...]
This brief comment draws on Sabine Frerich's paper to discuss the contribution of the Journal to the study of regulation of the economy, especially in the political context
of the 1980s and later. It will concentrate on issues of non-economic values in economic regulation and the role of institutional design, and it will contrast behaviouralist [...]
The Journal of Law and Society (JLS) is nationally and internationally recognised for its ground-breaking contribution to shaping understandings of the relationship between
law and society. We relished the opportunity to come together to reflect upon ‘participation’ and its relationship to criminal justice as part of the JLS 50th [...]
