Zäch, Roger; Heinemann, Andreas; Kellerhals, Andreas --- "Preface" [2010] ELECD 232; in Zäch, Roger; Heinemann, Andreas; Kellerhals, Andreas (eds), "The Development of Competition Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010)

Book Title: The Development of Competition Law

Editor(s): Zäch, Roger; Heinemann, Andreas; Kellerhals, Andreas

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781848444461

Section Title: Preface

Author(s): Zäch, Roger; Heinemann, Andreas; Kellerhals, Andreas

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Preface
Competition law has substantially changed since 1990. The worldwide ten-
dency towards market-based economic systems has induced many coun-
tries to adopt competition rules. On the other hand, in those countries with
a long-standing competition law tradition, the foundations of competition
policy have undergone considerable change. The third conference of the
Academic Society of Competition Law (ASCOLA) in Zurich took this
development as a starting point for a deeper analysis. In the contributions
collected in this book, the focus is on three main topics. As regards meth-
odology, the relationship between law and economics has become blurred.
This is not only true for US antitrust law, which always has been relatively
open for economic thinking, but also for Europe where the transition to a
more economic approach animates the debate. The discussion is not only
theoretical but has an enormous impact on the formulation of substantive
law.
The second issue is the competition law experience in selected countries
(Japan, India, China, Czech Republic, Brazil). No matter if the competi-
tion law tradition is rather long or more recent, competition law has to
adapt to the political, economic, geographic and socio-cultural conditions
of states. The institutional framework heavily influences the outcome of
competition policy. The variety of selected countries gives a fascinating
insight into the specific problems which may occur.
Thirdly, the perspectives of competition law are explored. Competition
law has never been so international. What impact does this fact have on
the global level? In most ...