With contributions from leading scholars from all over Europe and the US, this book covers the major areas of substantive competition law from an evolutionary perspective. The leitmotiv of the book has been to assess the dividing line between safeguarding and regulating competition, which it does by reviewing the following subjects:foundations of competition policy in the EU and the US strategic competition policy the evolution of European competition law from a national (Italian) perspective the block exemption of vertical agreements after four yearsthe new Technology Transfer Block Exemptioncooperative networkingmergers in the media sectorabuse of market powerconcepts of competition in sector specific regulationcompetition, regulation and systems coherenceefficiency claims in EU competition law and sector specific regulation.The Evolution of European Competition Law will be of great interest to lawyers, economists, academics, judges and public officials working in the fields of competition law and policy.