Dr David Reader
- Senior Lecturer in Competition Law (Law)
Publications
2025
Reader, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570 and Summers, Scott
(2025)
Response to CMA market investigation into Veterinary services for household pets: Remedies working paper (27 May 2025).
Documentation.
Competition and Markets Authority.
(In Press)
Reader, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570
(2025)
Parental Liability in EU Competition Law: A Legitimacy-Focused Approach, Peter Whelan. 1st Edition. Oxford University Press. 2023. 624 pp. £195.00. ISBN 9780198844839.
World Competition,
[Book Review]
(Accepted for Publication)
Reader, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570 and Summers, Scott
(2025)
Response to CMA Market Investigation into Veterinary Services for Household Pets: Working Papers.
Documentation.
Competition and Markets Authority.
2024
Eben, Magali ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1069-7609 and Reader, David
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570
(2024)
Draft Guidelines on Exclusionary Abuse of Dominance – CREATe contributes to European Commission’s Consultation.
[Website]
Reader, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570 and Summers, Scott
(2024)
Written submission to the Senedd Cymru Petitions Committee (P-06-1291: Hold an enquiry into the corporate takeover of the veterinary profession in Wales).
Documentation.
Welsh Parliament (Senedd Cymru) Petitions Committee.
Reader, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570 and Summers, Scott
(2024)
Response to CMA Market Investigation into Veterinary Services for Household Pets: Consumer Survey Draft Questionnaire.
Documentation.
Competition and Markets Authority.
Reader, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570 and Summers, Scott
(2024)
Response to CMA Market Investigation into Veterinary Services for Household Pets: Issues Statement.
Documentation.
Competition and Markets Authority.
Reader, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570 and Summers, Scott
(2024)
Paws for thought: putting UK vet acquisitions on a tightened leash.
CPI Antitrust Chronicle, 2024(Jun II),
CREATe Team, Eben, Magali ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1069-7609, Reader, David
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570 and Thomas, Amy
(2024)
Press X to Kill: an IP-competition conversation on Microsoft’s game studio closures (part 2).
[Website]
CREATe Team, Eben, Magali ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1069-7609, Reader, David
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570 and Thomas, Amy
(2024)
Press X to Kill: an IP-competition conversation on Microsoft’s game studio closures (part 1).
[Website]
Reader, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570
(2024)
Merger (withdrawal).
In: Healey, Deborah, Whish, Richard, Kovacic, William E. and Trevisan, Pablo (eds.)
Global Dictionary of Competition Law.
Concurrences.
ISBN 9781939007056
2023
Eben, Magali ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1069-7609 and Reader, David
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570
(2023)
Taking aim at innovation-crushing mergers: a killer instinct unleashed?
Yearbook of European Law, 42,
pp. 286-321.
(doi: 10.1093/yel/yead013)
2022
Harker, Michael and Reader, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570
(2022)
How statutory duties shape the decision making of an economic regulator: insights from the energy regulatory community, past and present.
Journal of Law and Society, 49(1),
pp. 118-150.
(doi: 10.1111/jols.12339)
2021
Reader, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570
(2021)
UK merger control: finely tailored but time for a new suit?
In: Rodger, Barry, Whelan, Peter and MacCulloch, Angus (eds.)
The UK Competition Regime: A Twenty-Year Retrospective.
Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 169-200.
ISBN 9780198868026
(doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198868026.003.0007)
2018
Deller, David, Waddams Price, Catherine, Errington, Elizabeth, Fletcher, Amelia, Hargreaves, Tom, Harker, Michael, Longhurst, Noel, Reader, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570 and Turner, Glen
(2018)
Fairness in Retail Energy Markets? Evidence from the UK. A report by the Centre for Competition Policy.
Documentation.
UK Energy Research Centre.
Reader, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570
(2018)
Extending ‘National Security’ in merger control and investment: a good deal for the UK?
Competition Law International, 14(1),
pp. 35-52.
2017
Reader, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570
(2017)
UK Merger Control: Law & Practice 3rd edition. Sweet & Maxwell (2016) ISBN: 9780414034167. By Nigel Parr, Roger Finbow and Matthew Hughes.
European Competition Law Review, 38(11),
pp. 530-531.
[Book Review]
2014
Reader, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570
(2014)
Pfizer/AstraZeneca and the public interest: do U.K. foreign takeover proposals prescribe an effective remedy?
CPI Antitrust Chronicle(1),
Reader, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570
(2014)
Does Ofcom Offer a credible solution to bias in media public interest mergers in the United Kingdom?
CPI Antitrust Chronicle,
2013
Reader, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570
(2013)
UK public interest mergers: uncertain times ahead.
CCP Research Bulletin(26),
pp. 18-19.
Articles
Reader, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570 and Summers, Scott
(2024)
Paws for thought: putting UK vet acquisitions on a tightened leash.
CPI Antitrust Chronicle, 2024(Jun II),
Eben, Magali ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1069-7609 and Reader, David
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570
(2023)
Taking aim at innovation-crushing mergers: a killer instinct unleashed?
Yearbook of European Law, 42,
pp. 286-321.
(doi: 10.1093/yel/yead013)
Harker, Michael and Reader, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570
(2022)
How statutory duties shape the decision making of an economic regulator: insights from the energy regulatory community, past and present.
Journal of Law and Society, 49(1),
pp. 118-150.
(doi: 10.1111/jols.12339)
Reader, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570
(2018)
Extending ‘National Security’ in merger control and investment: a good deal for the UK?
Competition Law International, 14(1),
pp. 35-52.
Reader, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570
(2014)
Pfizer/AstraZeneca and the public interest: do U.K. foreign takeover proposals prescribe an effective remedy?
CPI Antitrust Chronicle(1),
Reader, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570
(2014)
Does Ofcom Offer a credible solution to bias in media public interest mergers in the United Kingdom?
CPI Antitrust Chronicle,
Reader, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570
(2013)
UK public interest mergers: uncertain times ahead.
CCP Research Bulletin(26),
pp. 18-19.
Book Sections
Reader, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570
(2024)
Merger (withdrawal).
In: Healey, Deborah, Whish, Richard, Kovacic, William E. and Trevisan, Pablo (eds.)
Global Dictionary of Competition Law.
Concurrences.
ISBN 9781939007056
Reader, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570
(2021)
UK merger control: finely tailored but time for a new suit?
In: Rodger, Barry, Whelan, Peter and MacCulloch, Angus (eds.)
The UK Competition Regime: A Twenty-Year Retrospective.
Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 169-200.
ISBN 9780198868026
(doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198868026.003.0007)
Book Reviews
Reader, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570
(2025)
Parental Liability in EU Competition Law: A Legitimacy-Focused Approach, Peter Whelan. 1st Edition. Oxford University Press. 2023. 624 pp. £195.00. ISBN 9780198844839.
World Competition,
[Book Review]
(Accepted for Publication)
Reader, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570
(2017)
UK Merger Control: Law & Practice 3rd edition. Sweet & Maxwell (2016) ISBN: 9780414034167. By Nigel Parr, Roger Finbow and Matthew Hughes.
European Competition Law Review, 38(11),
pp. 530-531.
[Book Review]
Research Reports or Papers
Reader, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570 and Summers, Scott
(2025)
Response to CMA market investigation into Veterinary services for household pets: Remedies working paper (27 May 2025).
Documentation.
Competition and Markets Authority.
(In Press)
Reader, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570 and Summers, Scott
(2025)
Response to CMA Market Investigation into Veterinary Services for Household Pets: Working Papers.
Documentation.
Competition and Markets Authority.
Reader, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570 and Summers, Scott
(2024)
Written submission to the Senedd Cymru Petitions Committee (P-06-1291: Hold an enquiry into the corporate takeover of the veterinary profession in Wales).
Documentation.
Welsh Parliament (Senedd Cymru) Petitions Committee.
Reader, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570 and Summers, Scott
(2024)
Response to CMA Market Investigation into Veterinary Services for Household Pets: Consumer Survey Draft Questionnaire.
Documentation.
Competition and Markets Authority.
Reader, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570 and Summers, Scott
(2024)
Response to CMA Market Investigation into Veterinary Services for Household Pets: Issues Statement.
Documentation.
Competition and Markets Authority.
Deller, David, Waddams Price, Catherine, Errington, Elizabeth, Fletcher, Amelia, Hargreaves, Tom, Harker, Michael, Longhurst, Noel, Reader, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570 and Turner, Glen
(2018)
Fairness in Retail Energy Markets? Evidence from the UK. A report by the Centre for Competition Policy.
Documentation.
UK Energy Research Centre.
Website
Eben, Magali ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1069-7609 and Reader, David
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570
(2024)
Draft Guidelines on Exclusionary Abuse of Dominance – CREATe contributes to European Commission’s Consultation.
[Website]
CREATe Team, Eben, Magali ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1069-7609, Reader, David
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570 and Thomas, Amy
(2024)
Press X to Kill: an IP-competition conversation on Microsoft’s game studio closures (part 2).
[Website]
CREATe Team, Eben, Magali ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1069-7609, Reader, David
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-6570 and Thomas, Amy
(2024)
Press X to Kill: an IP-competition conversation on Microsoft’s game studio closures (part 1).
[Website]
Supervision
- Zhu, Yingying
A critical analysis of the application of merger control in China and in the European Union to big data