(Ebook) The Design of Competition Law Institutions: Global Norms, Local Choices by Eleanor M Fox, Michael J Trebilcock ISBN 9780199670048, 9780191648960, 0199670048, 0191648965

(Ebook) The Design of Competition Law Institutions: Global Norms, Local Choices by Eleanor M Fox, Michael J Trebilcock ISBN 9780199670048, 9780191648960, 0199670048, 0191648965

Competition (or antitrust) law is national law. More than 120 jurisdictions have adopted their own competition law. Is there a need for convergence of the competition law systems of the world? Much effort has been devoted to nudging substantive law convergence in the absence of an international law of competition. But it is widely acknowledged that institutions play as great a role as substantive principles in the harmonious - or dissonant - application of the law.This book provides the first in depth study of the institutions of antitrust. It does so through a particular inquiry: Do the competition systems of the world embrace substantially the same process norms? Are global norms embedded in the institutional arrangements, however disparate?Delving deeply into their jurisdictions, the contributors illuminate the inner workin