The dream of establishing an African common market that would lead to an African Economic Community begun in the 1980s, when the Lagos Plan of Action for the Economic Development of Africa was adopted. The establishment of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) which came into force on...

The regulation of mergers that go beyond national borders within the European Union (EU) common market has its origins in the adoption of the Council Regulation 4064/89 of 21 December on the Control of Concentrations between Undertakings (Regulation 4064/89). Regulation 4064/89 was as a result...

Innovative technologies trigger changes that threaten current markets, social as well as political orders; and the once conservative and exclusive legal market is no longer immune. The increasingly informed tech-savvy client base, the unbundling of legal services, online service delivery, and...

Global advances have changed teaching, access to resources and interaction in many ways. In particular, ‘technological advances have further transformed both the practice and teaching of law’. Despite the technological changes, generally, as I have argued in my article, the legal...

African countries are currently negotiating the substantive and procedural rules under the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) Competition Protocol. However, the most daunting task ahead for the negotiators is whether to institutionalize cooperation by delegating authority to the...

Economic law – the focus of this new journal – has enabled and shaped the phenomenal, extremely dynamic, yet also highly uneven development of markets in Africa in recent years. It also is called upon to “govern” those markets and to ensure that individually rational behavior by economic...

Competition policy regime in Africa is developing at a heightened speed as countries establish and strengthen both their legal and institutional framework. This calls for continuous legal education, research and development in competition law and policy for competition lawyers and practitioners...

The issue of addressing cross-border competition enforcement has recently come into sharp focus. In order to address cross-border competition enforcement, Africa has established a number of regional competition regimes which presents a number of opportunities and challenges. This paper focuses...

Although the aspiration of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is to reduce and progressively remove trade barriers, enhance intra-African trade at the continental level and increase Africa’s global market share, anti-competitive conduct is likely to pose as a barrier hindering...

This carefully researched yet highly accessible book includes a comparative analysis of 17 sub-Saharan African countries' competition laws and policies, going beyond an analysis of the black-letter law to also examine the great variance in enforcement and more generally in implementation. As the...