International and Foreign Competition Law Research Guide

• Journal articles can be an excellent source for researching recent developments and narrower, more specialized legal topics. Articles published in law journals typically include extensive footnotes with citations to primary and secondary sources that are relevant to the topic. Two types of tools for conducting journal article research are described below:

• Journal indexes include bibliographic information about articles, such as titles, the names of the authors, and the names of the journals in which the articles appeared, as well as one or more subject descriptors. Searching in a journal index usually retrieves more relevant articles than searching in a full-text database because the searches are run only on the bibliographic data and the subject descriptors.
• Full-text journal databases allow you to search within the entire texts of articles. Most also include bibliographic information. It is easier to run searches in full-text databases than using journal indexes, but they tend to retrieve many irrelevant articles.

Two major indexes for competition law topics are the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (use this link to see all articles listed in IFLP that are tagged with the subject “Antitrust and restraint of competition”) and Westlaw’s Legal Journals Index. Additional indexes are discussed in the library’s guide to Articles for Legal and Non-Legal Research. Note that indexes are not exhaustive, so particular journals may not be included in a particular index.

Full-text databases for journal articles are available through HeinOnline, Westlaw, Lexis, Oxford Journals Online, and Kluwer Law Online, among others.

Specialized Journals on International and Foreign Competition Law

The journals listed below focus exclusively on international and foreign competition law.

• European Competition Law Review (ECLR)
  • Print: Call No. K5 .U65 (1980–present)
  • Electronic: Selected articles available on Westlaw (1986–present)
• Journal of Competition Law and Economics
  • Print: Call No. K10 .O2778 (2005–2007)
  • Electronic: Oxford Academic (2005–present)
• Journal of European Competition Law and Practice
  • Electronic: Oxford Academic (2010–)
• World Competition
  • Print: Call No. K27 .O65 (1987–2005)
  • Electronic: Kluwer Competition Law (1977–present); HeinOnline (1977–; 4-year embargo on full-text)