The Global Limits of Competition Law [Hardcover]

Over the last three decades, the field of antitrust law has grown increasingly prominent, and more than one hundred countries have enacted competition law statutes. As competition law expands to jurisdictions with very different economic, social, cultural, and institutional backgrounds, the debates over its usefulness have similarly evolved.

This book, the first in a new series on global competition law, critically assesses the importance of competition law, its development and modern practice, and the global limits that have emerged. This volume will be a key resource to both scholars and practitioners interested in antitrust, competition law, economics, business strategy, and administrative sciences.

This book has a little bit for everyoneacademics, practicing attorneys, policy-makers, and students . . . The book's disparate approaches, subjects, and viewpoints are a major strength, and collectively celebrate both the limits and potential of competition law. Lianos and Sokol'sThe Limits of Antitrusttakes as its intellectual impetus the anniversary of the publication of Easterbrook's seminal article (1984), which pointed to the limits of US antitrust (competition) law . . . The edited collection explores where limits now lie in the subdiscipline, ranging well beyond current issues in law and economics thinking in US antitrust law to broader themes. Ioannis Lianos is City Solicitors' Educational Trust Reader in European and Competition Law at the University College London. D. Daniel Sokol is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Overall, this book is an enjoyable and enriching read for those academics who have a broad interest in the limits of competition law and, in a more general sense, in its development. Institutionalists, economists, cultural anthropologists and lawyers, as well as the general interested reader, will find something to appeal to them in this book, which presents a critical approach tolS@