The Cambridge Handbook of Competition Law Sanctions

A unique comparison of the theory and practice of corporate and individual sanctions applied in competition law across five continents.

Tihamer Tóth (Edited by)

9781108831710, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 23 June 2022

400 pages
26.3 x 18.5 x 4.3 cm, 1.6 kg

'Tihamér Tóth presents in this amazing book a truly global approach to the critical global challenge of creating a genuine competitive market economy with less private restrictions.' Professor Luis G Franceschi, Senior Director, The Commonwealth of Nations

This handbook brings together an international roster of competition law scholars and practitioners to address the issue of sanctions in competition law from all angles. Covering nineteen jurisdictions around the world, the book analyzes the theoretical foundations and practice of sanctioning competition law infringements and, most importantly, cartels. Contributors include a range of experts drawing on criminal law, company law, labor law, human rights, and law and economics, to determine what sanctions are available as a matter of positive law against corporations and individuals, including fines and other criminal, administrative, and civil law sanctions; whether law enforcers are using these sanctions effectively; and if new sanctions – including individual sanctions – should be introduced.

1. The quest for creating an effective set of competition law sanctions: converging goals with a divergent tools Tihamer Toth
2. The role of fines in the toolkit of competition agencies András Tóth
3. Sanctions on legal persons-an economic analysis Ákos Szalai
4. The effectiveness of European antitrust fines Cento Veljanovski
5. Corporate governance and competition law sanctions Dávid Sóbor
6. Antitrust criminalization as a legitimate deterrent Peter Whelan
7. Criminalization of anti-competitive conducts: a real deterrence or a 'Paper Tiger' in practice? Ádám Békés
8. Consensus based sanctions and commitments Darren Bush
9. Effectiveness of commitment decisions – a review of selected practice by the European Commission Surd Kováts
10. Compliance policies and sanctions – the US, EU and UK perspectives Peter Sükösd
11. The role of administrative courts in the effective enforcement of competition law sanctions András Kovács
12. Civil sanctions in antitrust public enforcement Max Huffman
13. What role for private enforcement in EU competition law? A religion in quest of founder Csongor I. Nagy
14. The insights of labor law: how can we prevent infringements by rouge employees? Tamás Gyulavári
15. Human rights jurisprudence and the effectiveness of competition law sanction Pál Szilágyi
16. Catholic teaching on just punishment, especially in connection with financial matters Peter Artner
17. Austria Arno Scharf
18. Belgium Juliana Oliveira Domingues and Eduardo M. Gaban
19. China Wang Xianlin and Fang Xiang
20. EU Viktor Bottka
21. Germany Carsten König and Fernanda Luisa Bremenkamp
22. Hungary András Pünkösty
23. Indonesia and ASEAN countries Sih Yuliana Wahyuningtyas
24. Italy Michele Carpagnano
25. Japan Tadashi Shiarishi
26. Kenya and East-Africa Vellah Kedogo Kigwiru
27. Netherlands Johan van de Gronden and Marc Veenbrink
28. Poland ?ukasz Grzejdziak
29. Portugal Nuno Castro Marques
30. Spain Jerónimo Maillo González
31. Sweden Helene Andersson
32. Turkey Cem Kerem
33. UK Andreas Stephan.

Subject Areas: Criminal law & procedure [LNF], Competition law / Antitrust law [LNCH], Civil procedure, litigation & dispute resolution [LNAC], Comparative law [LAM]