The Historical Foundations of EU Competition Law

Edited by Kiran Klaus Patel, Professor of European and Global History; Maastricht University, and Heike Schweitzer, Professor of Law, Mannheim University; director of the Mannheim Centre for Competition, Regulation and Innovation (MaCCI)

Kiran Klaus Patel serves as Professor of European and Global History in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Before joining Maastricht University, he held a professorship at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and an assistant professorship at Humboldt University in Berlin. He has been (inter alia) a visiting fellow/professor at Harvard University, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales in Paris, Oxford University, and the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies. He has published widely on the history of European integration and transatlantic relations.

Heike Schweitzer is Professor of Private Law, European Economic Law and Competition Law in Mannheim, Germany. Before joining Mannheim University, she held the chair for European Competition Law at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She received her legal education in Freiburg, Germany, and at the Yale Law School, and she served as a research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative and International Private Law and at Columbia Law School. She has published widely on issues of competition law, including state aid and public procurement law, as well as on issues of regulation (telecommunications, media, and health).

Contributors: 
Thorsten Käseberg, German Economic Ministry
Adrian Kuenzler, Zurich University
Arthe Van Laer, University of Louvain la Neuve
Brigitte Leucht, London School of Economics
Mel Marquis, University of Verona and the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University
Institute
Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker, former director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg
Lorenzo Federico Pace, Molise University
Kiran Klaus Patel, Maastricht University
Sigfrido M. Ramírez Pérez, Bocconi University and University of Louvain la Neuve
Heike Schweitzer, Mannheim University
Katja Seidel, University of Westminster
Sebastian van de Scheur, European University Insitute
Laurent Warlouzet, University of Arras