Competition
is the life of markets and a fundamental driver of innovation.If competition is what makes markets work, competition law is what keeps
markets healthy and fair, to businesses consumers, and the whole society.

In
other words, the law has a key role to play, because it sets the rules of the game. And competition law institutions are here to monitor markets and check that competition law is followed and intervene whene it is breached.

Learning
competition law is not just understanding the system of legal rules and institutions
that help preventing undertakings from distorting the competition process and exploiting
consumers through collusive behaviour and the abuse of market power. In
this subject, law and economics are closely intertwined.In
learning competition law you will have a unique chance to look at the law
through economic lenses and to use economic theories and concepts in order to
understand the law and how it works in practice.

Since
markets are real, competition law has a dynamic nature, because it is always
adapting to  reality. For example, the
expansion of digital markets poses new and important challenges that
competition law systems have to deal with. That’s
why the goals and the tools of competition law and competition policy are always
evolving and are hotly debated.