Bloomsbury Global Competition Law and Economics

This is the second edition of the acclaimed text on global antitrust law. With markets becoming increasingly global, mergers requiring approval in several different jurisdictions, cartels in one nation affecting supply in others, and countries increasingly entering into treaties with each other about the content or enforcement of competition laws, antitrust law is now a truly global phenomenon. Lawyers and lawmakers cannot rely on understanding only the antitrust and competition law of their home country. Modern antitrust law is also different because it now reflects an increasingly economic approach to analysing antitrust and competition policy. This innovative work is the only truly comparative and economically sophisticated casebook on the market. Addressed to students from all jurisdictions having competition laws, this casebook provides an in-depth analysis of the two major global antitrust regimes in the world, as well as a summary of selected national antitrust laws. As such it will also serve as a useful reference for practitioners, competition officials, and policy-makers interested in competition law. '...worthy of considerable praise...contains a vast collection of well-chosen material taking in a wide span of both antitrust and merger law issues. It is well written and clear throughout, particularly on the economic concepts, and provides incisive commentary and questions which inspire further study' - Peter Whelan, "Cambridge Law Journal". '...Enlightened law professors and law schools will best serve their students not by teaching national competition law but by adopting "Global Competition Law and Economics"...an excellent book for introductory courses in comparative competition law at either a graduate or undergraduate level' - Okeoghene Odudu, "Common Market Law Review". '...the best four-and-a-half centimetres of shelf-space that I have seen devoted to competition law and policy issues for a very long time' - Yvonne van Roy, "New Zealand Law Journal". '...Free from the ideologically-driven perspective that can affect other antitrust casebooks, this is also the first casebook organized from inception with an eye directly on the global context...this book may be used in a classroom in Europe just as it will be used in the U.S. The result is a highly welcome contribution to the evolution of competition studies' - Judge Douglas Ginsburg. 'this book is the only one on the market that is extremely well suited for use in a comparative antitrust law class...an extraordinarily teachable book that contains everything you might want to present...Finally, the comparative antitrust field has a standard textbook to use. And a wonderful standard it is' - Robert H. Lande, University of Baltimore Law School.