King's College London - Professor Wouter P J Wils

Visiting practitioners & professors

Professor Wouter P J Wils

Profile

Wouter was educated both as an economist and as a lawyer at Louvain, Utrecht and Harvard. He was a référendaire for Advocate-General Van Gerven at the EC Court of Justice. Since 1994, he has been a member of the European Commission’s Legal Service, where he has been working mainly in the fields of competition, intellectual property and consumer protection. He has represented the European Commission in more than 300 cases before the EC Court of Justice and Court of First Instance and the EFTA Court. He has lectured at the universities of Tours and Utrecht, and in 2004 became a Visiting Professor at King’s College London.

Research

Wouter's research interests include the law and economics of antitrust enforcement; and the objectives and general philosophy of competition law.

Selected recent publications

Books

Efficiency and Justice in European Antitrust Enforcement, (2008) Hart Publishing
Principles of European Antitrust Enforcement, (2005) Hart Publishing

Other

The Use of Settlements in Public Antitrust Enforcement: Theory and Practice, (2008) World Competition
The European Commission's 2006 Guidelines on Antitrust Fines: A Legal and Economic Perspective, (2007) World Competition 179-229
Leniency in Antitrust Enforcement: Theory and Practice, (2007) World Competition 25-64
Settlements of EU Antitrust Investigations: Commitment Decisions under Article 9 of Regulation No 1/2003, (2006) World Competition 345-366
Optimal Antitrust Fines: Theory and Practice, (2006) World Competition 183-208
Powers of Investigation and Procedural Rights and Guarantees in EU Antitrust Enforcement: The Interplay between European and National Legislation and Case-Law, (2006) World Competition 3-24
Is Criminalisation of EU Competition Law the Answer?, (2005) World Competition 117-159
Regulation 1/2003: A Reminder of the Main Issues, in Geradin, D., (ed.) Modernisation and enlargement: Two major challenges for EC competition law, (2004) Intersentia 9-82
Community Report in Cahill, D., and Cooke, J.D. (eds.) The Modernisation of EU Competition Law Enforcement – FIDE 2004 National Reports (2004) Cambridge 661-736
The Combination of the Investigative and Prosecutorial Function and the Adjudicative Function in EC Antitrust Enforcement: A Legal and Economic Analysis (2004) World Competition 201-224
Self-incrimination in EC Antitrust Enforcement: A Legal and Economic Analysis (2003) World Competition 567-588
Should Private Antitrust Enforcement be Encouraged in Europe? (2003) World Competition 473-488
The Principle of Ne Bis in Idem in EC Antitrust Enforcement: A Legal and Economic Analysis (2003) World Competition 131-148