Luca Rubini is Lecturer in Law at the School of Law of the University of Birmingham. Previously, he was Lecturer at the University of Leicester (2005-2007) and legal secretary to Advocate General Francis Jacobs at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg (2002-2003).

• I INTRODUCTION AND FOUNDATIONS ; Overview ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Foundations: The Purpose of Subsidy Control ; II FORMS OF GOVERNMENTAL ACTION ; Overview ; 3. Introduction: Governmental Intervention in the Economy and Subsidies ; 4. The Forms of Governmental Action Covered by WTO Subsidy Rules ; 5. The Forms of Governmental Action Covered by EC State Aid Rules ; 6. Forms of Governmental Action: Internal and External Perspectives ; III THE ADVANTAGE ANALYSIS ; Overview ; 7. The Advantage Analysis: An Introduction ; 8. Economic Activity and the Advantage Analysis ; 9. Non-economic Activity and the Advantage Analysis in the WTO ; 10. Non-economic Activity and the Advantage Analysis in the EC ; 11. Concluding Remarks: Objectives and the Advantage Analysis ; IV BENEFICIARIES ; Overview ; 12. The Identification of the Beneficiaries ; 13. The Idea and Analysis of Specificity ; V DISTORTION OF COMPETITION ; Overview ; 14. The Distortion of Competition ; Conclusions

Overall, this is a very useful and well-researched book and includes a great deal of useful reference to academic commentary. As an analysis of the difficult subject of the notion of subsidy/State aid, it is to be welcomed as a serious addition to the literature on this ever developing area.