When Robert Bork’s magnum opus, The Antitrust Paradox, was published in 1978 it was reviewed by a generation of antitrust scholars who were comfortable with the idea that the antitrust laws were intended to be and should be enforced so as to further a number of diverse and sometimes...

A standard essential patent (SEP) may give the patent holder market power in the market for an input that technology manufacturers need in order to make their products compatible with each other. Several commentators have argued that, when a patent becomes part of a standard pursuant to an...

Competition policy is at a crossroads on both sides of the Atlantic. In this insightful book, judges, enforcers and academics in law and economics look at the consensus built so far and clarify controversies surrounding the issue.

The diverse and excellent set of authors assembled in this book sheds light on the continuing and conflicting calls for deregulation and re-regulation of important industries and informs the ongoing, increasingly global, policy debate over the evolving line between regulation and general...