Both anti-corruption law and anti-trust law aim to create a level playing field and they are complementary to each other in support of this aim. Given the indispensable nature of both fields in terms of reaching social welfare, it is striking how differently society reacts to the breaching...

Competitor agreement not to solicit or hire each other's employees as well as agreements among competitors to poach a rival entity's key employees could be deemed as a violation of competition law principles (and in some jurisdictions, public policy doctrines).European and US jurisprudence shows...

Technology, whose etymology derives from Aristotle’s “techne,” (which means “craftsmanship” or “art”) represents one of the most primal instincts and distinctive features of human beings, which is the ability to use tools to increase one’s quality of life. In fact, today we can...

Web-based businesses have become potential targets of antitrust concerns across the world with the proliferation of information, the growth of internet-related businesses and over two billion users of the internet worldwide as of the end of 2011. As a result of the use of this exponentially...

This article examines data-related abuses in competition law within today’s data driven economic world. There is no doubt that data has become an indispensable source of information and an essential business tool for almost all companies operating in various diverse markets. In this regard,...

Unlike other industries, significant changes in the airline industry have not mainly occurred due to technological changes, but rather as a result of developments in the applicable legal framework and various institutional reforms. As a consequence of the deregulation wave which dates back to...

The applicability of competition laws to collective bargaining has long been debated in the law literature of the U.S. and the European Union.The competition laws, playing a major role in national economic policy, are designed in a way to regulate the structure of markets and to promote...

This article examines competition law approach towards collective sale of football broadcasting rights. In particular, following the proliferation of the Internet-enabled technologies, the values of football broadcasting rights have been increasing relentlessly. To that end, given the size of...

In order to fully execute rights of defense, parties within a cartel investigation should be allowed to see the extent of the investigation file in an open and transparent manner, subject to the limit that the confidential information of undertakings must be respected and their confidentiality...

This article discusses the collaborative and complementary relationship between competition law and net neutrality rules for sustaining openness of the internet. Net neutrality is an ongoing debate since early 2000s regarding equal and fair treatment to data transmitted through network services....