The fast-evolving relationship between the promotion of welfare-enhancing competition and the balanced protection of intellectual property (IP) rights has attracted the attention of policymakers, analysts and scholars. This interest is inevitable in an environment that lays ever greater emphasis...

The three body problem in physics concerns the challenge of accurately calculating the interaction of three different bodies (e.g. planets). Examples include the motion of the Moon around the Earth as disturbed by the action of the Sun, or the movement of one planet around the Sun as disturbed...

Während das nationale und das europaische Wettbewerbsrecht seit vielen Jahrzehnten eine differenzierte Regelung und wissenschaftliche Durchdringung erfahren haben, ist ein vergleichbarer wettbewerbsrechtlicher Normenbestand auf internationaler Ebene nicht zu verzeichnen. Diese Dissertation...

For decades, the extent to which US courts should enforce antitrust laws against state-led export cartels has been a subject of intense debate among academics, courts, and policymakers. As defendants in such cases often invoke comity-related defenses, the outcomes of these cases have turned on...

In July 2004, the Working Group on Interaction between Trade and Competition Policy at WTO was made inactive post decision by General Council at Cancun as the proposal to have a formal multilateral framework to enhance the contribution of competition policy to international trade and development...

Today, multinational corporations operate in increasingly international markets, yet antitrust laws regulating their competitive conduct remain national. Thus, corporations are subject to divergent antitrust regimes across the various jurisdictions in which they operate. This increases...

Contents: Preface by Jeong Pyo Choi -- 1. Introduction and overview / Jay Pil Choi, Wonhyuk Lim and Sang-Hyop Lee -- Part I: Setting the stage -- 2. Competition law and economics: International cooperation and convergence in competition policy / Jay Pil Choi -- Part II: Market structure -- 3....

International comity is one of the principal foundations of U.S. foreign relations law. The doctrines of American law that mediate the relationship between the U.S. legal system and those of other nations are nearly all manifestations of international comity — from the conflict of laws to the...

The right to food has been recognized in Art. 25(1), Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948, and further elaborated in Art. 11(1), International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 1966 (ICESCR). 1 Art. 11(2), ICESCR, refers also to the right to be free from hunger, which is...

The article, written jointly by a law professor and political science professor, endeavors to explain why the United States is particularly resistant to various efforts at international harmonization of antitrust law. While others have wrangled with this question over the years, none has...

The phrase 'international competition law' is something of a misnomer. There is no supranational authority charged with generating, applying, or enforcing competition law, there are almost no binding international agreements on the subject, and there are no international requirements with...

The paper discussed the economic theory of international antitrust institutions. Economic theory shows that non-coordinated competition policies of regimes that are territorially smaller than the international markets on which business companies compete violate cross-border allocative efficiency...

The concept of international competition law has caught on in the academic world and more in specific in the English literature on competition law. With the publication of books like International Competition Law and Emerging Principles of International Competition Law, a trend has been set in...

Introduction -- The purpose of Article 102 TFEU -- Defining anti-competitive foreclosure effects -- By object restrictions within Article 102 TFEU -- Predation versus exclusion -- Predation -- Exclusion -- Final remarks

Competition and Intellectual Property Law in the Pharmaceutical Sector' deals with the apparent contradiction between intellectual property (IP) rights (particularly patents) and competition law, with a focus on the pharmaceutical sector: in its aim to promote innovation and long-term...

As long as there is no effective state aid control outside the EU, the European Commission faces a dilemma: either European firms will be disadvantaged in global competition by strict EU rules, or the Commission will come under pressure to relax the rules, thereby running the risk that fair...

This article starts with the cautionary note that an alternative approach for international cooperation in competition law and policy is needed. After the Doha Trade Talk, negotiations about this issue reached a deadlock, so there is no longer any prospect of the WTO assuming this responsibility...

The breakdown in the negotiations for the adoption of multilateral competition rules through the WTO in 2003 is most commonly attributed to the opposition voiced by developing and least-developed countries who were suspicious of attempts to facilitate market access and permit possible...

The governance of competition on global markets is an open policy question (lack of international competition policy). In this paper, it is analyzed to what extent different types of regulatory competition, which in other regulatory contexts (as, e.g., corporate law) can be beneficial, might...

This paper develops a proposal for an international multilevel competition policy system, which draws on the insights of the analysis of multilevel systems of institutions. In doing so, it targets to contribute bridging a gap in the current world economic order, i.e. the lack of supranational...

As a result of international legalization, the potential for conflicts of overlapping jurisdictions has multiplied vertically between national and international law, as well as horizontally between national and foreign law. In competition control, the latter type of horizontal overlap between US...

"The enormous economic power of the People's Republic of China makes it one of the most important actors in the international system. Since China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001, all fields of international economic law have been impacted by greater Chinese participation....

Globalisation presents major challenges for competition authorities around the world, requiring close cooperation between them in order to best tackle cross-border competition issues. The Commission has therefore concluded numerous international agreements in recent years, both bilaterally and...

This paper develops a proposal for an international multilevel competition policy system, which draws on the insights of the analysis of multilevel systems of institutions. In doing so, it targets to contribute to bridge a gap in the current world economic order, i.e. the supranational...

This paper develops a proposal for an international multilevel competition policy system, which draws on the insights of the analysis of multilevel systems of institutions. In doing so, it targets to contribute to bridge a gap in the current world economic order, i.e. the supranational...

Main description: Zielführende praktische Wettbewerbspolitik bedarf der wissenschaftlichen Reflexion und Begleitung. Gleichzeitig jedoch würde sich die wissenschaftliche Diskussion schnell im modelltheoretischen "Nirvana" verlieren, würde sie nicht beständig durch die Auseinandersetzung mit...