Juan Jorge Piernas López is a Doctor of Laws from the European University Institute in Florence (2013). He formerly graduated from Harvard University (LL.M., Harvard Law School 2007), the College of Europe (Master in Advanced European Studies, Natolin, Poland 2005) and the University of Murcia (Law degree, Spain, 2003). Juan Jorge is currently assistant professor of European Union and International law at the University of Murcia and consultant to the World Bank in State aid matters. He previously worked for the international law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, focussing on European Union and Spanish Competition, Trade, and State Aid Law matters (Brussels, 2007-2009), and the European Commission (Stagiare at the Legal Service in 2005 and temporal agent at DG Competition in 2006). Juan Jorge Piernas López has published extensively on International and European Union Law.

Piernas' recurring argument is that by focusing on the position of the Commission and developments in state aid policy, it is possible to provide a better understanding of the development of the case law. If only because of the novelty of this effort, the work is certainly a major and remarkable contribution to the field of state aid law. State aid law has not yet been approached on this basis and the coherent and consistent discussion of case law is in itself likely to set the book up as one of the important referential works for some time to come... Piernas has produced an important piece of scholarship with a clear added value.

• 1: Introduction 2: Origins of Subsidy Control 3: The Evolution of European State Aid Policy 4: The Notion of Advantage 5: The Notion of Selectivity 6: The Notion of Aid Granted by the State or Through State Resources 7: The Notion of Distortion of Competition and Effect on Trade 8: Case Study: State Aid for Banks During the Financial Crisis 9: The Concept of Aid Under EU Law: From Internal Market to Competition and Beyond Conclusion

Juan Jorge Piernas López is a Doctor of Laws from the European University Institute in Florence (2013). He formerly graduated from Harvard University (LL.M., Harvard Law School 2007), the College of Europe (Master in Advanced European Studies, Natolin, Poland 2005) and the University of Murcia (Law degree, Spain, 2003). Juan Jorge is currently assistant professor of European Union and International law at the University of Murcia and consultant to the World Bank in State aid matters. He previously worked for the international law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, focussing on European Union and Spanish Competition, Trade, and State Aid Law matters (Brussels, 2007-2009), and the European Commission (Stagiare at the Legal Service in 2005 and temporal agent at DG Competition in 2006). Juan Jorge Piernas López has published extensively on International and European Union Law.

Piernas' recurring argument is that by focusing on the position of the Commission and developments in state aid policy, it is possible to provide a better understanding of the development of the case law. If only because of the novelty of this effort, the work is certainly a major and remarkable contribution to the field of state aid law. State aid law has not yet been approached on this basis and the coherent and consistent discussion of case law is in itself likely to set the book up as one of the important referential works for some time to come... Piernas has produced an important piece of scholarship with a clear added value.

• 1: Introduction 2: Origins of Subsidy Control 3: The Evolution of European State Aid Policy 4: The Notion of Advantage 5: The Notion of Selectivity 6: The Notion of Aid Granted by the State or Through State Resources 7: The Notion of Distortion of Competition and Effect on Trade 8: Case Study: State Aid for Banks During the Financial Crisis 9: The Concept of Aid Under EU Law: From Internal Market to Competition and Beyond Conclusion

Juan Jorge Piernas López is a Doctor of Laws from the European University Institute in Florence (2013). He formerly graduated from Harvard University (LL.M., Harvard Law School 2007), the College of Europe (Master in Advanced European Studies, Natolin, Poland 2005) and the University of Murcia (Law degree, Spain, 2003). Juan Jorge is currently assistant professor of European Union and International law at the University of Murcia and consultant to the World Bank in State aid matters. He previously worked for the international law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, focussing on European Union and Spanish Competition, Trade, and State Aid Law matters (Brussels, 2007-2009), and the European Commission (Stagiare at the Legal Service in 2005 and temporal agent at DG Competition in 2006). Juan Jorge Piernas López has published extensively on International and European Union Law.

Piernas' recurring argument is that by focusing on the position of the Commission and developments in state aid policy, it is possible to provide a better understanding of the development of the case law. If only because of the novelty of this effort, the work is certainly a major and remarkable contribution to the field of state aid law. State aid law has not yet been approached on this basis and the coherent and consistent discussion of case law is in itself likely to set the book up as one of the important referential works for some time to come... Piernas has produced an important piece of scholarship with a clear added value.

• 1: Introduction 2: Origins of Subsidy Control 3: The Evolution of European State Aid Policy 4: The Notion of Advantage 5: The Notion of Selectivity 6: The Notion of Aid Granted by the State or Through State Resources 7: The Notion of Distortion of Competition and Effect on Trade 8: Case Study: State Aid for Banks During the Financial Crisis 9: The Concept of Aid Under EU Law: From Internal Market to Competition and Beyond Conclusion