Cosmo Graham

Professor
BA (Sussex), LLM (London), co-editor Utilities Law Review

Email: cosmo.graham@le.ac.uk
Telephone: 0116 252 2355

Cosmo Graham is a competition lawyer and a public lawyer who specialises in the law relating to the regulation of public utilities.  He is the Director of the Centre for Consumers and Essential Services (CCES).  He was a member of the Competition Commission from 1999 to 2008.

Research Interests

Regulation of public utilities, competition law, administrative law, constitutional law

Selected Publications

• EU and Uk Competition Law  (London, Longmans, forthcoming 2010)

• “The Politics of Necessity:  electricity and water in Great Britain” (2006) Journal of Consumer Policy, 29, 435-448.  Available at;  http://www.springerlink.com/content/j73827t058737480/

• “Essential Facilities and Services of General Interest” (2007) Diritto e Politiche Dell’Unione Europea, 1, 22-31.

• Regulating Public Utilities: A Constitutional Perspective, 2000, Hart Publishing, Oxford.
• “Judicial Review of the Decisions of the Competition Authorities and the Economic Regulators in the UK”  in S Lavrijssen, O Essens and A Gerbrandy (eds) National Courts and the Standard of Review in Competition Law and Economic Regulation (2009) Europa Law Publishing
• Competition, Regulation and the New Economy, jointly edited with Fiona Smith, (2004), Hart Publishing, 206 pp.
• “Methods of Privatization” in D. Parker and D. Saas (eds) International Handbook on Privatization, (2003) Cheltenham, Edward Elgar. Pp. 87-101.
• “The Enterprise Act 2002 and Competition Law” (2004) Modern Law Review, 67, 273-88.
• “Human Rights and the Privatisation of Public Utilities and Essential Services” in K de Feyter and F Gomez Isa Privatisation and Human Rights in the Age of Globalisation, (2005), Antwerp-Oxford, Intersentia. Pp. 33-56