Aims and scope

The European Competition Journal publishes outstanding scholarly articles relating to European competition law and economics. Its mission is to help foster learning and debate about how European competition law and policy can continue to develop in an economically rational way. Articles published in the Journal are subject to rigorous peer review by leading experts from around Europe. Topics include:

  • Vertical and Conglomerate Mergers
  • Enlargement of the Union - the ramifications for Competition Policy
  • Unilateral and Coordinated Effects in Merger Control
  • Modernisation of European Competition law
  • Cartels and Leniency

'A valuable forum for practitioners and academics in the field of European competition law and economics, and a rare opportunity to view competition policy from a holistic perspective.'
Philip Lowe, Formerly Directorate General for Competition, European Commission

'The European Competition Journal is valuable and important because it brings together law and economics, as is now essential, with practical and detailed papers on a wide variety of subjects.'
John Temple Lang, Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton LLP

'The quality is consistently high, managing to ground economic policy discussion in the specifics of current EC doctrine.'
Josh Holmes, World Competition

Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal.

Read the Instructions for Authors for information on how to submit your article.