This course aims to

• enable students to reflect critically upon the basic principles and policies at the heart of European Competition law;
• offer an understanding of how the law governs business practices that may restrict competition in economic markets through private and public enforcement; and
• equip students to analyse how competition law can curb anticompetitive activities and facilitate free competition.

Continuous Assessment: 50%

Examination: 50%

Examination Duration: 2 hours

Students may be required to do class work orally or in writing at different intervals of the course. Students are encouraged to read more materials apart from the reading materials listed for the tutorial to enrich their performance in the class.

To pass this course student must obtain an aggregate mark of 40% and a minimum of 30% in each of the coursework and the examination elements of the assessment. Coursework for this purpose means those ways in which students are assessed otherwise than by the end of session examination.