The Competition Law Working Group and the European Union Law Working Group are pleased to invite you to a book presentation with the author.
About the book
This book presents a positive account of state aid law at the EU, UK, and global levels, and provides the keys to understanding how it is adjusting to emerging realities.
Industrial policy, decarbonisation, de-risking of supply chains: the regulation of subsidies is at the forefront of the transformations that the world economy is undergoing. The book provides an overview of the foundations of EU State aid law, one of the most dynamic areas of EU law. An up-to-date and accessible framework explains the core conditions underpinning the notion of State aid – including advantage and selectivity.
The book also covers how the EU model has changed over the past decade. It helps navigate the complex case law on the application of EU State aid law to tax rulings concluded with large multinationals (such as the Apple saga) as well as the perma-crisis of the regime since the COVID pandemic.
The ways in which the EU model extends its reach beyond its borders – convergence and unilateral expansion – are also addressed. The UK Subsidy Control Act 2022 and the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation are discussed and put in context.
About the author
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.
The event will be preceded by an informal lunch with the speakers in the Villa Salviati mensa (12:30 onwards). We invite everyone interested to join for lunch or coffee regardless of whether they can attend the book presentation.
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