International and Foreign Competition Law Research Guide

This introductory resource provides a practical overview of antitrust law for the non-expert who wants to understand the basic concepts, using a question and answer format. Although the primary foucs is on U.S. antitrust law, it also provides an overview of the analytical frameworks utilized in other jurisdictions, including China, the E.U., Japan, Mexico, and the U.K.

This book examines the convergence of competition law from a comparative perspective. Part I provides an introduction; Part II analyzes the substantive provisions common to all competition law regimes; Part III covers enforcement issues and remedies; and Part IV examines the emergence of competition regimes in the developing world.

The authors explain the purpose of competition policy, introduce the reader to key concepts and techniques in competition law, and provide insights into the numerous issues that arise when analysing market behaviour. Describing the law in its economic and market context, they particularly consider the competition law implications of business phenomena such as distribution agreements, licences of intellectual property rights, cartels, joint ventures, and mergers. The book assimilates a wide variety of resources, including judgments, decisions, guidelines, and periodical literature.

Divided into four parts, this book covers the elements of competition laws, its decisions, targets, and globalization and the future of competition law. It also provides global context by looking at competition law in the US, Europe, and growing markets like Asia and Latin America. This title covers the most pressing issues of competition law in an informative and concise way.

Provides a through overview of competition law from a comparative perspective, outlining the similarities and differences between the competition law regimes in the U.S. and the E.U. before turning to antitrust developments in the emerging economies of Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa. Also examines the internationalization of competition law via the extraterritorial application of domestic law and through bilateral and multilateral cooperation.

This comprehensive Handbook illuminates the objectives and economics behind competition law. It takes a global comparative approach to explore competition law and policy in a range of jurisdictions with differing political economies, legal systems and stages of development. A set of expert international contributors examine the operation and enforcement of competition law around the world in order to globalize discussions surrounding the foundational issues of this topic. In doing so, they not only reveal the range of approaches to competition law, but also identify certain basic economic concepts and types of anticompetitive conduct that are at the core of competition law. Taking a forward-thinking perspective, the Handbook also analyses the challenges to the assessment methodology of anticompetitive conduct that are posed by the growth of the digital environment and changing views on economic approaches.