Dr Philip Marsden

Director, Competition Law Forum and Senior Research Fellow

Philip is a competition lawyer with a particular interest in abuse of dominance, consumer welfare, and international competition issues. He is Non-executive Director on the Boards of the UK Office of Fair Trading and the Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority, and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges, teaching the core LL.M. competition course. He is also co-founder and General Editor of the European Competition Journal, Public Advisor to the Lithuanian Competition Council, and on the Advisory Council to Advocates for International Development. Prior to joining the İnstitute in 2003, Philip practised competition law in Toronto, Tokyo and London, advising firms in the retail, software and mobile telephony sectors and still acts as an advisor and expert witness in these areas.

Recent Publications

  • Online Search: "Antitrust" Competition Law Insight 26 July 2011, p. 17
  • 'Acta Non Verba: Keep 'Talking Shop', Don't Become Another Talking Shop', essay in The International Competition Network at Ten, ed. P. Lugard (Cambridge: Intersentia, 2011)
  • Guidance on abuse in Europe: The continued concern for rivalry and a competitive structure, Antitrust Bulletin 55/4 (2010) 707 (with L. Gormsen)
  • The Role of Competition and State Aid Policy in Financial and Monetary Law, Journal of International Economic Law 2010 13: 875-892 (with I. Kokkoris)
  • Antitrust Marathon IV: With Authority European Competition Journal, Vol. 6, No. 1, April 2010 (with SW Waller)
  • 'Selective Distribution in the Age of Online Retail', (2010) European Competition Law Review, with P. Whelan
  • 'The Curious Incident of Positive Comity - The Dog that Didn't Bark', chapter in Regulation and Competition in the Global Economy: Cooperation, Comity and Competition Policy, (Oxford: OUP, 2010)
  • 'Exclusionary Abuses and Competition on the Merits', chapter in The Reform of Competition Law: New Challenges, (Kluwer Law International, 2010)
  • 'Monopolization: What is Behind the Trans-Atlantic Divide?', chapter in Challenges in the Enforcement of Article 82, (Oxford: OUP, 2010)

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