EU and US Competition Law: Divided in Unity?

Csongor István Nagy, dr. jur. (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest), LL.M. (Central European University, Budapest/New York), Ph.D. (Eötvös Loránd University), S.J.D. (Central European University) is a Hungarian academic and an attorney-at-law admitted to the Budapest Bar. His areas of expertise cover general antitrust, regulated industries, private international law and international economic law. He studied in Budapest, Rotterdam, Heidelberg and New York, and had visiting appointments in the Hague, Munich, Brno, Hamburg and Edinburgh. Csongor is associate professor of law and department head at the University of Szeged (Hungary) and associate professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He is head of department (International and EU Law) at the István Bibó College of Law, and external research fellow at the Competition Law Research Centre in Budapest. Csongor has more than 90 publications in Hungarian, English, German, Romanian and (in translation) Spanish language; he has written five books (three in Hungarian and two in English language). He is the legal editor of the Hungarian yearbook entitled Competition and Regulation.

’The book demonstrates that, as a result of recent changes in US law, not followed in the EU, there is now a significant difference in the treatment of vertical restraints between the two jurisdictions. The author thoroughly documents these differences and discusses how they accord with modern economic analysis.’ George A. Hay, Cornell Law School, USA ’Through a minute and contextual analysis of the application of the relevant rules on vertical restraints in the US and the EU, Csongor Nagy makes a unique contribution to comparative competition law and very competently helps practitioners to avoid the pitfalls of false friends.’ Jules Stuyck, KU Leuven, Belgium and the Central European University, Hungary

• EU and US Competition Law: Divided in Unity?