European Competition Law Annual 1997: Objectives of Competition Policy

Description

This volume of essays contains contributions by a group of specialists in the area of competition law,including heads of the world's major competition and antitrust enforcement authorities, renowned scholars and private practitioners. The focus of the volume is the objectives of competition policy of the European Union and other major jurisdictions, the prospects of multilateral competition code, and the relationship between objectives and implementation issues. This is the second in a series of volumes intended to provide an up-to-date commentary on new developments and trends, the first of which was published in 1997.

Claus Dieter Ehlermann is Professor of Law at the European University Institute in Florence, Senior Counsel to Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr LLP in Brussels, and a former member of the Appellate Body of the WTO.

The aim [of the book] is clearly to provide an overview of the current state of developments in this complicated and fast-moving legal field and this is achieved in the best way possible. -- Tom Pick * World Competition Law and Economics Review *