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Professor Pablo Ibáñez Colomo

Professor Pablo Ibáñez Colomo

Professor of Law

ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law School

Telephone
020-7955-7779
Room No
Cheng Kin Ku Building 5.13
Languages
English
Key Expertise
Law

About me

Pablo Ibáñez Colomo is Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is also an Ordinary Member at the Competition Appeal Tribunal, a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges) and one of the Joint General Editors of the Journal of European Competition Law & Practice (Oxford University Press). He received a PhD from the European University Institute in June 2010 (Jacques Lassier Prize). Before joining the EUI as a Researcher in 2007, he taught for three years at the Law Department of the College of Europe (Bruges), where he also completed an LLM in 2004. He has been a Visiting Professor at several institutions around the world, including Aix-Marseille University, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Kobe University and Torcuato di Tella University.

Administrative support: Law.Reception@lse.ac.uk

Research interests

Pablo’s work focuses on the substantive and institutional dimensions of competition law and regulation (in particular in the digital and telecommunications arena). He is particularly interested in the way the various actors in the institutional landscape interact with one another and how this interaction shapes the discipline. While he has followed closely developments at the EU level, his outlook is global in scope.

External activities

  • Ordinary Member, Competition Appeal Tribunal
  • Visiting Professor, College of Europe (Bruges): Droit des industries de réseau
  • co-editor of Chillin’ Competition:
  • Joint General Editor, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice

Teaching

Books

The New EU Competition Law (Bloomsbury, 2023)

This book provides the first comprehensive account of the New EU Competition Law: an emerging understanding of the discipline that breaks from the consensus of the early 2000s and that ventures into uncharted territories. It discusses the shift from traditional enforcement in the industrial era to the sort of intervention that a knowledge-based economy demands. It presents the changes that the field is undergoing and illustrates them by reference to the most significant  developments.

 


 

The Shaping of EU Competition Law (Cambridge, 2018)

Based on a unique and comprehensive database, The Shaping of EU Competition Law combines qualitative and quantitative approaches to shed light on the evolution of EU competition law. It brings a new perspective to some of the most topical issues in the field including due process and the intensity of judicial review. The author's main purpose is to examine how the institutional structure influences the substance of EU competition law provisions. He seeks to identify patterns in the behaviour of the European Commission and the EU Courts and how they interact with each other. In particular, his analysis considers how the European Commission reacts to the case law and whether, and in what instances, the EU courts defer to the analysis of the administrative authority. The analysis is supported by the database and an unprecedented array of statistics and figures free to view online.

 


 

European Communications Law and Technological Convergence. Deregulation, Re-regulation and Regulatory Convergence in Television and Telecommunications (Wolters Kluwer, 2011)

This book presents a critical examination of the European regulatory reaction to technological convergence, tracing the explicit and implicit mechanisms through which emerging concerns are incorporated into regulation. It seeks to identify the patterns that underlie these responses to determine the extent to which the issues at stake, and the implications of intervention, are fully understood and considered by authorities. The focus of the analysis is placed on ‘conflict points’ – areas of overlap between regimes – the study of which has been largely neglected. The PhD thesis on which this monograph is based was awarded the 2011 Jacques Lassier Prize.


 

Manual de Derecho de la Competencia (with L. Ortiz Blanco, Jeronimo Maillo Gonzalez-Orus and Alfonso Lamadrid de Pablo), Tecnos, 2008

 

Articles

  •  Common Market Law Review (2024) 61 (2) 387–416
  • 'Restrictions by object under Article 101(1) TFEU: from dark art to administrable framework' (2024) Yearbook of European Law (forthcoming)
  • (2023) Journal of European Competition Law and Practice 14 (8) 457-458
  • (2023) 46 World Competition 401-428
  • (2023) 14 Journal of European Competition Law & Practice 608-623
  •  (2023) 24 Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, 143–168
  • (2022) World Competition 45 (3) pp.323-50
  • (2022) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
  • 'EU Merger Control Between Law and Discretion' (2021) 44 World Competition 347-372
  • (2021) 17 Journal of Competition Law & Economics 309–363
  • (2021) 12 Journal of European Competition Law & Practice 561–575
  • (2021) 29 Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht 8-34
  • (2021) 18 Concurrences 8  
  • in Adina Claici and Denis Waelbroeck (eds), Vertical Restraints in The Digital Economy: Vertical Block Exemption Regulation Reform and the Future of Distribution (Kluwer 2021)
  • (2020) 57 Common Market Law Review 1933-1952  
  • (2020) 43 World Competition 417–446
  • (with José Marino García García) in Daniel Mandrescu (ed), EU Competition Law and the Digital Economy: Protecting Free and Fair Competition in an Age of Technological (R)evolution: The XXIX FIDE Congress in The Hague, 2020 Congress Publications, Vol. 3 (Eleven 2020) 499-516
  •  (2020) 83 Modern Law Review 321-372 (with Andriani Kalintiri)
  • Journal of European Competition Law & Practice (2019) 10, 532-551
  • J.E.C.L. & Pract. 2018, 9(5), 293-303
  •  J.E.C.L. & Pract. 2017, 8(8), 477-478
  •   in Damien Gerard, Massimo Merola and Bernd Meyring (eds), The Notion of Restriction of Competition: Revisiting the Foundations of Antitrust Enforcement in Europe (Bruylant 2017) (with Alfonso Lamadrid de Pablo)  
  • Journal of European Competition Law & Practice  (2016) 7 (10)  pp.651-660
  • (2016) European State Aid Law Quarterly 15 (3) pp.440-445
  • C.M.L. Rev. 2016, 53(3), 709-739(first published in ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law Society and Economy Working Paper Series, 09-2016)
  • ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law Society and Economy Working Paper Series, 08-2016
  •   (2016) 12 Journal of Competition Law & Economics]; ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law Society and Economy Working Paper Series, 07-2016
  • Journal of European Competition Law & Practice (2016) 7(2) 113-115
  • ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law Society and Economy Working Paper Series, WPS 19-2015
  • European Law Review (2016) 41 (2) pp.201-219
  • ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law Society and Economy Working Paper Series, WPS 15-2015
  • Law Society and Economy Working Paper Series WPS 29-2014 December 2014
  • ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law: Policy Briefing Papers 5/2014
  • 'Discriminatory Conduct in the ICT Sector: A Legal Framework' in Gintare Surblyte (ed), vol 23 (Springer 2014) 63-79
  • Journal of European Competition Law and Practice (2014), 5(8) 531-541
  • Common Market Law Review (2014), 51(1) 141-163
  • Journal of European Competition Law and Practice (2013), 4(6) 469-484
  • 'Three Shifts in EU Competition Policy: Towards Standards, Decentralization, Settlements' (2013), 20(3), 363-385
  • Yearbook of European Law (2013) pp.389-431
  • European Law Review 2012, 37(5), 541-562
  • (with Inge Govaere), e-Competitions Special Issue, April 2012
  • 'Rules of purely sporting interest and EU competition law: why the Wouters exception is not necessary'  Competition Law International 2012, 8(1), 54-58
  • 'On the application of competition law as regulation: elements for a theory' Yearbook of European Law (2010), 29 261-306
  • 'Judicial review in Article 102' (with Jean-Yves Art) in Federico Etro and Ioannis Kokkoris (eds), (OUP 2010)
  • 'The Future of Communications Regulation after Ofcom's Pay-TV consultation', Utilities Law Review  2010, 18(3), 99-107
  • 'Evolving Priorities and Rising standards: Spanish Law on Abuses of Market Power in the Light of the 2008 Guidance Paper' (with Luis Ortiz Blanco), in Lorenzo Pace (ed.), , Edward Elgar, 2011
  • 'Article 82 EC as a “built-in” remedy in the system of Intellectual Property: the example of supplementary protection for pharmaceuticals in Italy', in (2008), Peter Lang, pp. 119-142
  • 'The most appropriate tool for a better targeted State aid policy' (co-author), in (2007), Lexxion, pp. 29-67
  • 'Selectivity, Economic Advantage, Distortion of Competition and Effect on Trade' (co-author), in (2007), Lexxion, pp. 119-155
  • 'Annotation on Case C-171/05 P, Laurent Piau, (with Denis Waelbroeck) Common Market Law Review (2006), vol. 43, n. 6, pp. 1743-1756
  • 'Recent Developments on the Invocability of WTO Law in the EC: A Wave of Mutilation', European Foreign Affairs Review (2006), vol. 11, n.1, pp. 63-86
  • 'The Revival of Antitrust Law in Argentina: Policy or Politics?', European Competition Law Review (2006) vol. 27, n.6, pp. 317-323