The adversarial presentation of expert scientific evidence tends to obscure academic consensus. In the context of litigation, small, marginal disagreements can be made to seem important and settled issues can be made to appear hopelessly deadlocked. This Article explores this dynamic's effect on...

pt. 1. From old to new law and economics -- pt. 2. Towards an economic analysis of law -- pt. 3. The economics of the emergence and establishment of norms and customs -- pt. 4. The economics of legal systems -- pt. 5. The economics of judicial decision making -- pt. 6. Efficiency of the common...

The study focuses on the admissibility and assessment of economic expertise in EC competition law litigation. I start by exploring the broader issues raised by the integration of economic expertise in litigation: in particular the risk of moral hazard and adverse selection because of the...

This paper challenges the classical view on the role of litigation in Japan by examining a particular type of litigation, namely private antitrust litigation. It shows that the widely held idea that antitrust litigation in Japan is rare only holds when compared to the US, not Europe. The...