This article examines European Union ("EU") competition law, as set out in the EC Treaty (treaty establishing the European Union) and subsequent legislation, for the purpose of evaluating the corresponding Latvian competition regulatory scene for its relative compliance and scope

This paper deals with the question what the relationship is between consumer activity and non-competitive market outcomes in deregulated markets. These market failures could be the result of bad regulation, bad competition law enforcement or insufficient consumer activity. The different causes...

The spread of competition laws in Latin America has been accompanied, as in Central and Eastern Europe, by warnings against over-enforcement, and in particular against enforcement of provisions against the "abuse of a dominant position" in a market that may discourage legitimate, pro-competitive...

This article examines the Supreme Court's 1977 decision in Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois, 431 U.S. 720 (1977) through the now public papers of Justices Blackmun, Brennan, Marshall and Powell. These papers illuminate all phases of consideration of the case, from the treatment of the petition for...

For more than half a century, courts have viewed certain uses of intellectual property (IP) as misuse, rendering the IP unenforceable until the misuse is purged. The doctrine began with patents, but courts have recently extended it to copyrights. In most cases, it reflects concern over...

Passive holdings and cross-investments among competing companies are common phenomena in the modern marketplace. Yet under certain market conditions such investments may cause anticompetitive effects. This paper explores the economic effects of passive investments and their regulation under...

Twenty-seven years ago I took my law-school antitrust course, from a fledgling assistant professor who had just left the Federal Trade Commission. My performance was adequate, earning one of the better grades in the course, but not spectacular. Unspectacular enough that afterwards the professor...

This article argues that while EU competition law rightly takes a functional approach to its subject—the undertaking and its economic activity—a string of cases has been developing leading to what this article coins as the Compass doctrine: economic activity of a public entity falling...