Francesco Russo is a competition lawyer at Bonelli Erede Pappalardo in Rome and a visiting PhD student at the Amsterdam Center for Law and Economics (ACLE), researching the effects on competition of minority shareholdings. Francesco studied law at the University Federico II of Naples where he graduated (JD) in October 2003. After having lectured on the history of European law at the same university and serving as a trainee lawyer, in September 2004 he enrolled in the EU Business Law LLM (Adv.) program at the Amsterdam Law School, University of Amsterdam. He graduated with distinction in August 2005, after which he became a research fellow of ENCORE in the Amsterdam Center for Law and Economics (ACLE), University of Amsterdam.

• List of figures; Acknowledgements; Table of legislation; Table of equivalences; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Horizontal constraints; 3. Abuse of dominance; 4. Licensing; 5. Vertical restrictions; 6. Joint ventures and alliances; 7. Decisions addressed to Member States pursuant to Article 106 FEU Treaty; 8. Mergers and acquisitions; Annex: 1. Decisions related to procedural issues; 2. Table of landmark decisions described in the book; 3. Table of mergers blocked by the European Commission; 4. Table of merger decisions described in the book in alphabetical order; 5. Table of all European Commission decisions on antitrust in alphabetical order; Bibliography; Index.

Review of the hardback: 'This book is an invaluable asset for associating theories from industrial economics with actual case studies. Organized by economic theories of harm, the basic facts and the Commission or Court's analysis in dozens of cases are succinctly summarised. This is great material to get students thinking about how competition works, and is impeded, in practice. It is also a valuable reference work for practitioners and researchers.' Bruce Lyons, University of East Anglia