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Secondary Sources on the International Aspects of Competition Law

The columns below highlight secondary sources on the international aspects of competition law from the Georgetown Law Library’s collection. The column on the left includes sources discussing international cooperation and the harmonization and convergence of competition law; the column on the right includes sources discussing jurisdictional issues and the conflict of laws.

International Cooperation & Harmonization

Cooperation, Comity, and Competition Policy
Call Number: K3850.5 .C668 2011 and Electronic
Summarizes competition laws in nine jurisdictions and the conditions under which they may be applied extraterritorially. Also addresses the concept of comity, under which a state may decline to exercise jurisdiction over a competition law dispute and defer to another state to resolve the matter. The book concludes by offering proposals for improving the coordination of antitrust regimes with respect to the cross-border operations of multinational companies.
Emerging Principles of International Competition Law
Call Number: K3850 .N66 2008 and Electronic
Examines the harmonization and coordination of national competition laws, cooperation between enforcement agencies, international judicial assistance, and the role of trade agreements and the WTO in opening markets and policing anti-competitive practices. The author concludes that an evolving—if still somewhat chaotic—international competition law system has emerged, and offers suggestions on what states can do, individually and collectively, to modify this system to their mutual advantage.
The Governance of Global Competition
Call Number: HF1414 .B83 2008
After assessing the current state of global competition governance—which he characterizes as a multilevel system built upon the existing, predominantly national antitrust institutions and authorities—the author uses the economics of federalism to develop a proposal for a revised system that combines elements of both centralized and decentralized governance and which more effectively allocates horizontal and vertical competences.
The International Competition Network at Ten
Call Number: K3850 .I567 2011
This collection of essays evaluates the origins, aspirations, accomplishments, and future direction of the International Competition Network, an informal venue for national competition authorities to facilitate the harmonization and convergence of procedural and substantive antitrust law and policy, ten years after its inception.
More Common Ground for International Competition Law?
Call Number: K3850.A6 A83 2009
This compilation of papers presented at the fourth conference of the Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA) assesses whether the proliferation of national competition law regimes in recent years will result in greater convergence or diversity in the long term. Issues addressed include the introduction of criminal sanctions, resale-price maintenance, unilateral conduct, and the application of competition law to intellectual property and state-owned enterprises.

Conflict of Laws & Jurisdictional Issues

International Antitrust Litigation: Conflict of Laws and Coordination
Call Number: K3850 .I5685 2012
This book features contributions from leading experts in the U.S. and Europe on the need for clear, workable rules to better coordinate cross-border antitrust actions, including rules on jurisdiction, applicable law, the sharing of evidence, the protection of business secrets, and the interplay between judicial and administrative proceedings.
Jurisdiction Over Antitrust Violations in International Law
Call Number: K3850.5 .R96 2008
Analyzes whether, and to what extent, the exercise of extraterritorial jurisdiction over cartel regulation and merger control is justified under international law. It does so from a transatlantic perspective, comparing U.S. practices with those of the E.U.

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International and Foreign Competition Law Research Guide

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Secondary Sources on the International Aspects of Competition Law

International Cooperation & Harmonization

Conflict of Laws & Jurisdictional Issues

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