99172 - INTERNATIONAL LAW AND MARKETS

Learning outcomes

At the end of the module, students: - are familiar with the forms and legal disciplines applicable to public intervention in the economy, with regard to relations between State and market, in the European legal order; - know how to apply the relevant legal rules in simple factual situations and how to identify the interaction between various sources of European law, in particular Treaty and directives.

Course contents

Module I:

Introduction

International contest, international organization (historical view, present rules)

European contest, single market (from 1951 to the present), Law and legal systems

Regulatory framework of specific sectors: organization, european agencies, rules, assessment of market structures and european regulation

 

Module II:

Institutional and economic aspects of competition law. The European Union's 'economic constitution'

Competition law and digitalisation: Main issues

Competition law and regulation of digital markets: The new legislative framework

Competition law and environmental protection

Law and economics: Main aspects

Readings/Bibliography

Rittberger, Bernhard Zangl, Andreas Kruck, Hylke Dijkstra, International Organization, 3. ed Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

other specific Readings are related to specific topics:

- Chiti E, Managing the ecological transition of the EU: The European Green Deal as a regulatory process, Common Market Law Review, volume 59, Issue 1, (2022), 19-48 https://doi.org/10.54648/cola2022003

- Scott, J. (2011), The multi-level governance of climate change, Carbon & Climate Law Review : CCLR, 5(1), 25-33, https://doi.org/10.21552/CCLR/2011/1/167

- Boffo, R., and R. Patalano (2020), “ESG Investing: Practices, Progress and Challenges”, OECD Paris, www.oecd.org/finance/ESG-Investing-Practices-Progress-and-Challenges.pdf

Final List of readings will be distribute at the end of the course

 

Reading list module II:

Compulsory readings

• A. Ezrachi, Sponge, Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, 2017, 5, pp. 49-75
• A. Piletta Massaro, Back to the Treaties: Towards a ‘Sustainable’ Competition Law, Revija za Evropsko Pravo, 2023, available at http://revija.pravoeu.org/index.php/REP/article/view/335/296
• A. Piletta Massaro, Competition Law and Data Protection: The Need for Legal Certainty in a Necessary Relationship, pp. 49-68. https://kopaonikschool.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/KOP_PZivot_2021_WEB_TOM_IV.pdf
• G. Monti, EC Competition Law, Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 53-88
• M. Lorenz, An Introduction to EU Competition Law, Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp. 62-127, 188-241
• G. Calabresi, The Future of Law and Economics. Essays in Reform and Recollection, Yale University Press, 2017, pp. 1-23
• Regulation (EU) 2022/1925 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 September 2022 on contestable and fair markets in the digital sector (Digital Markets Act, DMA)ECJ, decision 4 July 2023, case C-252/21, Facebook

Additional reading:

• S. Shavell, Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law, pp. 77-109, 177-206
• M. Lorenz, An Introduction to EU Competition Law, Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp. 62-127, 188-241
• G. Monti, EC Competition Law, Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 124-158
• T. Tóth (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Competition Law Sanctions, Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 218-229

 

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons and students discussion.

The course is organized with a part of lectures taught in presence (21 hours) and a part taught online on MS TEAMS (9 hours) aimed at discussing specific topics.

Assessment methods

Written exam based on one question, 1 hour

Student can refuse the grade one time; grades are published in alamesami one week after the exam day. From publication, the student has a maximum of 4 days to refuse the vote by sending an email to the teacher from student UNIBO email address where clearly indicate that wants to refuse the vote.

If the student does not write an email the vote is considered accepted.

Evaluation criteria:

18-23: the student has sufficient preparation and analytical skills, spread however, over just few topics taught in the course, the overall jargon is correct

24-27: the student shows and adequate preparation at a technical level with some doubts over the topics. Good, yet not to articulate analytical skills with the use of a correct jargon

28-30: Great knowledge about most of the topics taught in the course, good critical and analytical skills, good usage of the specific jargon

30L: excellent and in depth knowledge of all the topics in the course, excellent critical and analytical skills, excellent usage of specific jargon.

Teaching tools

Power point presentation

Office hours

See the website of Beatrice Bertarini

See the website of Andrea Piletta Massaro