Angus MacCulloch

PhD Supervision Interests

Competition Law, EU Law, and Regulation

Current Teaching

EC & UK Competition Law; EU Law; Business Law & Regulation

Profile

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Law School.

Angus MacCulloch first graduated with an LL.B (Hons) from the University of Dundee (1992), before going on to undertake LL.M (European Law) at the University of Strathclyde (1994) and an M.Phil at the University of Manchester (1997). From 1996 he was a Lecturer at the University of Manchester with his research focusing largely on Competition Law. Angus MacCulloch joined Lancaster University Law School, as Senior Lecturer, in September 2006.

Research Interests

Angus MacCulloch's research interests lie primarily in Competition Law, particularly antitrust and enforcement issues, but he retains a wider interest in EU Law, Regulation, White Collar Crime, and IP.

The majority of his recent work focuses on the impact of the introduction of the UK's cartel offence and the wider global move towards the criminalisation of cartel activity. Cartels are seen as the 'supreme evil' of antitrust and there has been a strong focus on addressing damaging cartel activity in contemporary antitrust enforcement priorities. A number of jurisdictions have moved towards the use of criminal sanctions to deter cartel activity, with varying degrees of success. The research has examined the value of the adoption of criminal sanctions, the different type of criminal sanctions utilised in different jurisdictions, and the problems they have and will face in practice.

Angus MacCulloch's other work includes the interaction between competition law and human rights/due process during contentious competition law investigations, and the provisions in IP law which seek to protect copyright through technological measures, and their impact on the consumer of copyrighted material.

Angus MacCulloch also continues to publish a popular Competition Law textbook, Competition Law and Policy in the EC and UK, now in its 4th edition, and a Cases and Materials text. He is also one of the Editors of a popular new Journal the Competition Law Review, founded in 2004, which is an increasingly important home for competition law scholarship. He is a founding member of the Competition Law Scholars Forum and maintains the 'Who's Competing?' blog.

• Criminalisation of Cartels

  02/02/2009 →
  Angus MacCulloch
  Following on from my previous work, 'The Cartel Offence and the Criminalisation of UK Competition Law' (2003) and 'Honesty, Morality and the Cartel Offence' (2007), I am continuing my work in cartel r ... Read more»

• Litigation on Minimum Alcohol Pricing

  25/07/2012
  Angus MacCulloch quoted in Decanter.com on the upcoming litigation in relation to Minimum Alcohol Pricing in the UK. ... Read more»

• Minimum Alcohol Pricing

  28/03/2012
  Will the UK Govts palns to introduce a minimum price for alcohol of 40p per unit breach EU law? The government has a good chance of defending its plans against legal challenge ... Read more»