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Dr Robert Lane
Senior Lecturer in EC Law
BA, MA, PhD


School of Law
University of Edinburgh
Old College
South Bridge
Edinburgh EH8 9YL
UK

Tel: 0131-650-2039
Fax: 0131-650-6317
Email: robert.lane@ed.ac.uk
Biographical Details
Robert Lane's principal areas of interest lie within the various strands of EC law. They include in particular the consitutional and adminstrative law of the European Union and the European Community, the methods and reasoning of the European Court of Justice, and the law of the internal market and EC competition law.
Courses Taught
Competition Law (Honours) (Course Organiser)
*LLM Programmes (LLM)
EU Competition Law (LLM) (Course Organiser)
European Procurement Law (LLM)
State Aid (LLM) (Course Organiser)
Commercial Law (Ordinary)
EU Law (Ordinary) (Course Organiser)
PhD Supervisees
Genci Bilali  'The Anglo-American Competition Aspects of Bank Mergers'
Yangyang Huang  'Trade Remedies in the WTO and Regional Trade Agreements'
Selected Publications
Books
Robert Lane EC Competition Law (Longman, 2000)
Robert LaneDavid Edward EU Ho No Tebiki (Kokusai Shoin, 1998)
David EdwardRobert Lane European Community Law: An Introduction (Butterworths Law (Scotland), 1995)
Synopsis
This text provides an overview of European Community law. It takes account of provisions of the Maastricht Treaty. Coverage includes the orgins and development of the European Community and the European Union; institutions of the European Community; and methods of European Community Law.
Journal Articles
Niamh Nic Shuibhne, Robert Lane 'Oil and Troubled Waters' (2002) Dublin University Law Journal Vol. 24 pp. 251-267
Robert Lane 'Current Developments - Competition' (2001) International and Comparative Law Quarterly Vol 50, pp 702-714
Robert Lane, Niamh Nic Shuibhne 'Casenote on Case C-281/98 Roman Angonese v Cassa di Risparmio di Bolzano' (2000) Common Market Law Review Vol.37, pp.1237-1247
Robert Lane 'Current Developments: Competition' (2000) International and Comparative Law Quarterly Vol 48, pp.227-234
Robert Lane 'Current Development: Competition' (1998) International and Comparative Law Quarterly Vol 47 pp.713-719
Robert Lane 'Unilateral Agreements and EC Competition Law' (1997) Edinburgh Law Review Vol. 1 pp.494-500
Robert Lane 'The Fishermen's Tale: National Liability for Breaches of Community Law' (1996) Edinburgh Law Review Vol. 1 pp.91-105
Chapters
Robert Lane 'Article 234: A Few Rough Edges Still' in M. Hoskins and W. Robinson (eds) A True European: Essays for Judge David Edward (Hart Publishing, 2004) pp. 327-344
Robert Lane, Christine Boch 'European Community Law au pays du tartan' in Hector MacQueen Scots Law into the 21st Century: Essays in Honour of W. A. Wilson (W. Green / Sweet & Maxwell, 1996) pp.254-264

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