What should the U.S. do about Big Tech? This essay proposes antitrust rule-making by the Federal Trade Commission. Case-by-case litigation is too slow and too piecemeal, and the Sherman Act jurisprudence is too conservative. Break-ups are unlikely to be ordered; even divestitures of...

US antitrust law was once the shining star of competition law; the model for the world. But, as laissez faire interpretations took deeper and deeper hold, especially with regard to single firm conduct, US antitrust law began to protect incumbents, not competition, and the star lost its glow....

The Supreme Court will soon decide an unusual price-fixing case: In re Vitamin C Antitrust Litigation. It is unusual because the defendants – Chinese manufacturers – do not deny they fixed prices; because China claims it ordered them to do so, but this is a controversial fact; because the...

In this month's edition of CPI Talks, we have the pleasure of speaking with Professor Eleanor Fox, the Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation at the New York University School of Law, on the topics of consumer welfare and antitrust

What form of antitrust (competition) law is fitting for regional free trade areas comprised of developing countries? This article explores the question by tackling, first: Are there special characteristics of developing countries indicating their need for a competition law different from...

The purpose of this paper is to describe the institutions of antitrust enforcement in the United States and to test those institutions against a set of norms used to assess the operations of administrative agencies. The paper is part of a broader project studying global administrative agencies....

This book offers an unparalleled analysis of the emerging law and economics of competition policy in Latin America. Nearly all Latin American countries now have competition laws and agencies to enforce them. Yet these laws and agencies are relatively young. The relative youth of Latin American...

This fascinating and highly relevant book facilitates discussion on the difficult technical, legal and economic issues with respect to innovation, competition and welfare raised, through the span of more than a decade, by the US and EC Microsoft antitrust cases. It assesses their impact on the...