Jens-Uwe Franck is Professor of Law at the University of Mannheim and a senior member of the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation - MaCCI. While his main field of research is competition law, research projects regularly address cross-cutting issues and also concern banking and securities regulation as well as consumer protection. Jens-Uwe has widely published in leading European and German law journals. His publications include the book “Marktordnung durch Haftung” (Mohr Siebeck 2016) where damages liability as a tool to enforce market regulation, notably in fields of securities regulation and competition law, is thoroughly analyzed.
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The European Commission has proposed the Digital Markets Act as a regulatory tool to address competition problems with Big Tech. It is mostly limited to behavioural ex ante regulation and thus can be seen to be at best a half-hearted and at worst a misguided way to effectively address the Big (...)
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Article 9 of the Damages Directive requires Member States to ensure that an infringement of competition law found by a final decision of a national competition authority is deemed to be irrefutably established for the purposes of an action for damages brought before their national courts. (...)
