Dewey & LeBoeuf - Crowther, Peter

Peter Crowther Partner

Dr. Crowther heads our EU and Competition practice, working out of our London and Brussels offices. His practice embraces contentious and non-contentious competition law, EU and national merger control, state aid, public procurement, trade and general EU law advice. Dr. Crowther also provides ongoing commercial and corporate advice to an international client base.

Dr. Crowther is a former law lecturer and former holder of a Jean Monnet Professorship in European Law.

Selected Publications and Speeches

Co-author

"Is the EU Insurance Block Exemption Regulation Still Relevant?" Global Competition Policy (June 2008).
"EU Sector Inquiry into Competition in Insurance Heads for Home Stretch," The Insurance Policy (October 2006).
Telecommunications Law (2nd ed).

Author

Media and Communications Division, Butterworths Competition Law Looseleaf.
"Pre-emptive competition policy meets regulatory antitrust" [2005] ECLR 481.
"The impact of increased reliance on competition law," Oxford University Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (May 2005).
"Competition Law and Spectrum Trading," Radio Spectrum Liberalisation & Trading in the UK (Autumn 2004).
"Competition and Liberalisation," in Fundamentals of the World Power Industry, Petroleum Economist (2002).
"The Communications Bill," PLC Magazine (2002).
"Recent EU Mergers," Royal Society of Arts (October 2001).
"Broadcasters v. Regulators: The Threat to Football from Media Company Ownership of Football Clubs," in Hamil et al. (eds), The Changing Face of the Football Business, Frank Cass (2000).
"The Attempted Takeover of Manchester United by BskyB," in Michie et al., Football in the Digital Age, Mainstream Publishing (2000).
"Essential Facilities in Broadcasting," 5th Annual IBC Communications Law Conference (2000).
"Market Definition in Broadcasting," Global Communications Consortium Seminar, London Business School (2000).
"Recent Legal Developments in the ISP Marketplace," European ISP Forum, Rome (October 2000).
"Data Protection and Network Security: Commercial and Legal Issues," Communicate 2000 (September 2000).
"Examining Business and Regulatory Challenges for a Widespread and Cost-Effective Internet Service Business Model," Telecoms @ the Internet VI, Geneva (June 2000).
"The WTO and Chinese Telecoms Sector," China-Britain Business Council Conference (March 2000).
"Investing in Internet Companies," Investor 2000 Conference.
"Intellectual Property Rights on the Internet," ISP Forum, Amsterdam (December 1999).
"The 1999 Telecoms Review," London Business School (October 1999).
"Liability for Telcos on the Internet," September, Berlin.
"Market Definition in EC Mobile Telephony," Global Competition Law Review (1999).
"The Joint Regulation of Telecommunications and Broadcasting in Europe," Utilities Law Review (9(1) Jan-Feb 1998).
"The Impact of the WTO Agreement," Telecommunications Policy.
"Regulatory Issues in Interconnection," paper presented to Asia Pacific Billing 1998 Conference (March 1998).
"Infrastructure Competition and Local Loop Unbundling," paper presented to CEPS Workshop, Brussels (April 1998).
The Allocation of Digital Multiplex Licences and Its Consequences for Competition in UK Broadcasting," paper prepared for submission to the Independent Television Commission.
"Regulating Digital Broadcasting from a European Competition Law Perspective," paper prepared for the CRPT-CTDC Conference on the Economics of the Information Society (March 1997).
"Asymmetric Regulation of Telecommunications and Broadcasting," paper presented to the 7th OECD Conference on the Economics of the Information Society (March 1997).
"Some Problems in Regulating European Telecommunications," paper presented to Conference on the Future of Digital Television, Hertford College Oxford (May 1997).
Competition Aspects of Access Pricing, (1996), Commission of the European Communities.
"Product Market Definition in EC Competition Law: A Comparison of Legal And Economic Approaches," Journal of Business Law (March 1996).
"Regulating Interconnection Charges from a Competition Law Perspective," paper presented to the 11th Biennial International Telecommunications Society Conference (June 1996).
"Assigning Regulatory Functions in European Telecommunications: A Preliminary Assessment," Telecommunications Policy, Special Issue (Winter 1996).
"Liberalisation in Utility Industries: A Fertile Ground for Anticompetitive Behaviour," in Nielsen & Dahl (eds)., Future Directions in Business Law Research, GADJURA (1996).
"Licensing of Mobile and Satellite Services and Infrastructure," paper presented to the WIK Conference (above).