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Book Review - Mestmäcker/Schweitzer, Europäisches Wettbewerbsrecht (2004) - Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker and Heike Schweitzer, Europäisches Wettbewerbsrecht, C. H. Beck, Second Completely Revised Edition, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-33065-7, pp. LXV, 1226, € 98,00

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

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