In treating Heinrich Kronstein's influence on United States antitrust law, we encounter a situation quite different from many other in which German emigre jurists operated. In areas such as contracts, torts or private international law, German experience was rich and varied, providing a trove of...

In a 1991 article entitled The Transformation of Europe, Joseph Weiler analyzed the profound changes that have occurred in the institutional structure of the European Community during the past two decades. The cumulative effect of these changes has been, he claimed, to "transform" the Community,...

“Do we take the next step in the internationalization of competition law?” This question is at the center of the conflict over the “globalization” of antitrust law (or, more generically, competition law). Conceptually, the step is a big one. Legally and politically, it may be even...

This article looks at the European experience with competition law against the backdrop of the globalization of antitrust law. Antitrust is no longer the province of the United States alone or of a small group of industrialized states. It is increasingly an international phenomenon that operates...

Kingman Brewster's exceptionally influential Antitrust and American Business Abroad (1958) came to symbolize an era in antitrust law and in the relationship of U.S. business to international economic activity. It gave conceptual contours to a fundamental problem that had been only dimly...

John Haley's comparative study of competition law in Germany and Japan is in many ways a pioneering work. It uses comparative analysis to provide insights into the development and operation of competition law in the two countries, and, as the author notes, there has been very little serious...

Two topics have featured in discussions of transnational competition law over the last few years — the evolution of competition law in Asia and the global convergence of competition laws. The role of Asia, especially China, in global competition law development has attracted attention...

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has in several cases, most recently in Akzo Nobel (Case C-97/08) and General Química (Case C-90/09), held parent companies liable for competition law infringements of their subsidiaries. This practice is widely criticized by scholars and practitioners. The...

This article deals with an important, but yet unexplored issue, being to what extent the anti-monopoly law of China of 2008 can be applied in an extraterritorial manner. The paper reviews first the extraterritorial application of anti-trust law in the United States and in EU competition law and...