Economic approaches to determining criminal sanctions focus on harm-based “optimal” penalties. In this note, we examine the extent to which the criminal fines for organizations convicted of price fixing contained in the United States Sentencing Commission Guidelines (USSG) and relied on by...

This comment is submitted by the Global Antitrust Institute (GAI) at Scalia Law School, George Mason University in response to the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China's public consultation on the February...

This comment is submitted in response to the National Development and Reform Commission of the People's Republic of China's public consultation on the Proposed Revisions to the Guidelines of the Anti-Monopoly Commission of the State Council on Determining the Illegal Gains Generated from...

By allowing parties to proceed on an informed basis, liberal discovery under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure was intended to support the Rule 1's idealized goal of securing the "just, speedy, and inexpensive" resolution of civil cases. The large costs of conducting discovery may instead...

This comment is submitted in response to the Japan Patent Office's request for comments on its Guidelines for Licensing Negotiations Involving Standard Essential Patents. The Global Antitrust Institute's Competition Advocacy Program provides a wide-range of recommendations to facilitate adoption...

This comment is submitted in response to the Canadian Competition Bureau's White Paper entitled “Big Data and Innovation: Implications for Competition Policy in Canada.” The Global Antitrust Institute's Competition Advocacy Program commends the Bureau's conclusion that existing competition...

This chapter examines the nature of optimal price fixing penalties on organizations in the presence of criminal sanctions for individuals employed by convicted firms. In other work, we examined the nature of optimal penalties for firms convicted for price fixing when the only sanction is the one...

This chapter examines the basic model of the law and economics of litigation. Because the Rules of Civil Procedure and the Economics of the Litigation/Settlement decision are covered in separate chapters of this volume, this chapter will focus on private civil litigation, in particular the...

This comment is submitted to Korea's Fair Trade Commission ("KFTC") by the Global Antitrust Institute (GAI) at George Mason University School of Law in response to the KFTC's December 16, 2015 amendments to its Review Guidelines on Unfair Exercise of Intellectual Property Rights. The GAI...