Alan Riley

Professor Alan Riley BA, LLM, PhD, Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales
Director of the LLM Programme, The City Law School
Email: alan.riley.1@city.ac.uk

Professor Riley specialises in two principal areas. In the field of  competition law he is one of the leading scholars in the United Kingdom. He co-founded and chairs the European-wide Competition Law Scholars Forum and is co-editor of the Competition Law Review. He also specialises in energy law, particularly in relation to the market and strategic questions in relation to pipeline gas and LNG.

In his competition law research he has focused on procedural issues in European competition law, notably in relation to the Commission's modernisation project and human rights questions. Professor Riley's most recent and substantial article on the issue is The Modernisation of EU Anti-Cartel Enforcement: Will the Commission Grasp the Opportunity? CEPS Special Report, January 2010.  Also noteworthy is a short paper which has had a significant impact on the debate over the consequences for EU competition law as a result of the coming into force of the Lisbon Treaty The EU Reform Treaty and the Competition Protocol: Undermining EC Competition Law, CEPS Policy Brief, September 2007. A selected list of articles published on competition law are listed below. He is currently working on a major analysis of the Commission's sanction policy in the field of competition law.

• The ECHR Implications of the Draft Competition Regulation (2002) ICLQ 55-87.
• Cartel Whistleblowing Toward an American Model?(2002) MJECL 67-102
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• The Commission Does Very Nicely-Thank You! Part I (pdf)and Part II (pdf)(2003) ECLR, 604-612 and 657-672
• The Consequences of the European Cartel Busting Revolution (2005) IJEL 3-52 (pdf).
• Damages in EC Antitrust Actions Who Pays the Piper? (2006) ELRev 748-761 (pdf).
• Outgrowing the European Administrative Model: Ten Years of British Anticartel Enforcement, in Rodger (ed)Ten Years of UK Competition Law Reform (DUP) (2010)

In the energy field he is researching a number of questions concerning market liberalization, and market regulation in both the Russian and European Union gas markets. He is currently working on a major paper examining the legal and geostrategic implications of the unconventional gas revolution. His recent energy papers include:-

• The Russian Gas Deficit: Consequences and Solutions (2006) CEPS Brussels
• Out of Gas (with Frank Umbach) DGAP Berlin 2007
• Energy Security, Gas Market Liberalisation and our Energy Relationship with Russia (2007) European Parliament, Foreign Affairs Committee paper
• Nordstream and Economic and Market Analysis of the North European Pipeline Project (2008-2009) European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee paper
• EU-Energy Liberalisation-Coming to a Member State Near You (2008) Competition Law Review (pdf)
• De-Weaponising the Energy Weapon, House of Commons Defence Select Committee (2009)
• Can Nordstream and Southstream Survive in a  Changing Gas Market? OGEL Special Issue EU-Russia Relations (2009)
• The EU-Russia Energy Relationship: Will the Yukos Decision Trigger a Fundamental Reassessment in Moscow? (2010) IELR 36-41 (pdf)

Professor Riley also advises governments, the EU institutions, NGOs and corporations on major strategic problems in relation to abuse of dominance, price-fixing and merger cases, as well as in relation to strategic problems found in the global and European energy markets.

He is also a Research Fellow of the British Thinktank Respublica  and is also an Associate Research Fellow of the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels, and is a regular guest columnist on competition law issues with the Wall Street Journal.

In addition he blogs on the Russia Behind the Headlines website. See for instance, his recent blog on  Unconventional Gas: A Warning for Russia

Professor Riley is a regular contributor to topical programmes in the media. He appeared recently as an expert analyst on CNBC to discuss the prospects for the modernisation of the Russian economy.

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