Claude Lucas de Leyssac

The ruling of the Paris Court of appeal in the steel cartel case raises one more time an irritating phenomenon of French competition law : the substantial reduction by the Court of appeal of financial sanctions imposed by the Competition Authority. Such a state must cease as it leads to fuzzy (...)

In view of the reform of French competition law, Professor Lucas de Leyssac suggests that 12 years of continuous changes of retail distribution law has proven enough that one can not pretend at the same time to be relying on a spontaneous market order and protect such or such category of (...)

1. After the acute gaze we have just had on the law of very many countries, it is my duty to return to France to examine our positive law. Having only 20 minutes, like all speakers, I could not imagine addressing all the issues that deserve to be addressed. We had to take a side. But what was (...)

In this Foreword, Lucas de Leyssac, Counsel and Professor, welcomes the growing influence of economics in the competition law analysis and claims that the absence of any existing competition should not be sanctioned. Economic analysis of law is in fashion. As if one were to discover, in (...)

This foreword is a brief comment on the Thales arbitral sentence decision held by the Paris Court of Appeal on the 18 November 2004 (1st chamber C) 18 novembre 2004 par la première chambre C de la cour de Paris The importance of the role of the judge in the implementation of competition law has (...)