So good afternoon, everyone, both to those joining us in person today and those who are also

joining us online, I am delighted to welcome our speaker today, Professor Nibdan.

I should really say to welcome Nive back because her connections with Cambridge and with

this faculty are strong and long-standing.

Neve was an undergraduate at Gerton College. She then went on to take an LLM at New York University

and an MA at King's College, London. She worked for some time in the Irish Competition Authority

before returning to Cambridge in 2009

to follow her PhD in competition law,

which talked about the relationship between competition and regulation,

and her thesis was published shortly afterwards as a

monograph by Cambridge University Press. She was a fellow of Fitzwilliam College for two

years before she took up a lectureship at King's College London and from there she

moved to the LSC where she remains and she's now a full professor.

I remember Neve as one of the most brilliant students that have passed through this faculty,

and she's today a leading light in the field of competition law.

She has published very extensively in the field in top journals in competition law, and more

recently, she joined Alison Jones and Brenda Saffrin in the publication of the last three editions

of Johns, Dan, and Suffering, who I'm sure any student in competition law would recognize instantly as a Bible for competition lawyers.

And I understand that the manuscript for the ninth and last edition was delivered only a few days ago.

So today, NIP has chosen to speak on effectiveness and coherence in Article 1 or 2 of the Treaty on

the Functioning of the European Union. As you all know, the search for an effective

enforcement of Article 1 or 2 has been a constant theme in the application and in the

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