This inaugural issue of the NJEL focuses on business law aspects of European law. The contributions analyse legal developments in the fields of public procurement, merger control, intellectual property law and EU company law.

Contributions:

Article. Dr. Albert Sanchez Graells (University of Bristol), ‘You Can’t Be Serious: Critical Reflections on the Liability Threshold for Damages Claims for Breach of EU Public Procurement Law After the EFTA Court’s Fosen-Linjen Opinion’.

Article. Julia Österman, ‘Non-Discriminatory Royalties for Standard Essential Patents: Setting the Boundaries’.

Article. Iryna Basova, ‘Cross-Border Conversions in the European Union After the Polbud Case’.

Case Note. Doctoral Candidate Vasiliki Fasoula, ‘The EU Court of Justice Clarifies the Role of the Full-Function Criterion in the Interaction Between Article 3(1)(b) and 3(4) of the EU Merger Regu