"Preface" [2011] ELECD 739; in Drexl, Josef; Grimes, S. Warren; Jones, A. Clifford; Peritz, J.R. Rudolph; Swaine, T. Edward (eds), "More Common Ground for International Competition Law?" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011)

Book Title: More Common Ground for International Competition Law?

Editor(s): Drexl, Josef; Grimes, S. Warren; Jones, A. Clifford; Peritz, J.R. Rudolph; Swaine, T. Edward

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849803946

Section Title: Preface

Number of pages: 5

Extract:

Preface
This book assembles 17 contributions based on talks given at the fourth
conference of the Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA)
which was held at the Competition Law Center of the George Washington
University Law School in Washington DC on 16­17 June 2009. All the
contributions take account of the legal development until the end of 2010.
The choices of conference venue and topic were very timely. After the
collapse of the financial markets in the fall of 2008, scepticism toward
what economic theory can explain and predict has increased enormously,
also in the field of competition law. The beginning of the financial crisis
coincided with the election of a new US president and the coming into
office of new decision-makers at the US antitrust agencies, which raised
the question whether the new administration would turn away from its
former lenient approach in the field of unilateral conduct, with regard to
intellectual property in particular, and increase its enforcement activities.
In this regard, the conference, above all, aimed to investigate whether
those changes would increase the potential for consensus across competi-
tion jurisdictions. Of course, potential for more transatlantic convergence
between the US and the EU was in the forefront of the debate. Yet,
given the global outreach of ASCOLA, it was important also to take
account of new interesting developments in other jurisdictions that may
and will have an impact on the global landscape of competition law and
enforcement.
This book is divided into four parts: ...