In recent years, national competition laws have become increasingly important, often creating tensions between national-level and European-level regulation. Despite this importance, images of Europe's experience with competition law often remain vague and are sometimes dangerously distorted. This book examines the European experience in protecting competition by analyzing its dynamics, revealing its importance, and highlighting the political and economic issues it raises.
In recent years, national competition laws have become increasingly important, often creating tensions between national-level and European-level regul...
2008 United States Postal System's Rita Lloyd Moroney Award
In the era before airplanes and e-mail, how did immigrants keep in touch with loved ones in their homelands, as well as preserve links with pasts that were rooted in places from which they voluntarily left? Regardless of literacy level, they wrote letters, explains David A. Gerber in this path-breaking study of British immigrants to the U.S. and Canada who wrote and received letters during the nineteenth century.
Scholars have long used immigrant letters as a lens to examine the experiences of immigrant groups...
2008 United States Postal System's Rita Lloyd Moroney Award
In the era before airplanes and e-mail, how did immigrants keep in touch w...
Global competition now shapes economies and societies in ways unimaginable only a few years ago, and competition (or 'antitrust') law is a key component of the legal framework for global competition. These laws are intended to protect competition from distortion and restraint, and on the national level they reflect the relationships between markets, their participants, and those affected by them. The current legal framework for the global economy is provided, however, by national laws and institutions. This means that those few governments that have sufficient 'power' to apply their laws to...
Global competition now shapes economies and societies in ways unimaginable only a few years ago, and competition (or 'antitrust') law is a key compone...
The Institute of Competition Law had the privilege to collect contributions of the "Global Competition Law Conference," organized by Professors David Gerber and Sungjoon Cho, held on October 28, 2011 at Chicago-Kent College of Law. The Conference's goals to expand the discussion on the future of competition law on the global level fully embody the Institute's mission. This collating volume includes ten contributions signed by prominent antitrust practitioners and academics. Readers will be offered the opportunity to explore the various views on the current and future developments of...
The Institute of Competition Law had the privilege to collect contributions of the "Global Competition Law Conference," organized by Professors David ...