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Description

1. xx, 230 pages; 25 cm

Summary

1. "In a global economy, anticompetitive agreements and transactions often have transnational repercussions. In the absence of a global enforcer of antitrust or competition law, States have, since the Second World War, increasingly resorted to self-help. In other words, they have exercised unilateral jurisdiction over restrictive business practices they considered harmful to their economy, even when those practices originated abroad. Not surprisingly, this has often led to serious sovereignty concerns." "This book analyzes whether, and to what extent, the exercise of extraterritorial jurisdiction in cartel and merger matters is in fact lawful under international law. It does so from a transatlantic perspective, with an emphasis on practice in the United States and the European Community. The book mainly focuses on the use of the controversial effects and implementation doctrines of jurisdiction. Without turning a blind eye to the necessity of those doctrines in a decentralized global economy, it proposes a number of restraining principles in order to soothe other States' sovereignty concerns."--Jacket

Series statement

1. International Law ; [2]

Uniform title

1. International law (Antwerp, Belgium) ; 2.

Subject

1. Europäische Union
2. Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
3. Conflict of laws > Antitrust law
4. Conflict of laws > Jurisdiction
5. Antitrust law (International law)
6. Jurisdiction (International law)
7. Exterritoriality
8. Droit de la concurrence
9. UE/CE Droit
10. Jurisprudence internationale
11. Conflit des lois
12. Extraterritorialité
13. Droit international
14. Internationales Recht
15. Kartellverstoß
16. Rechtsprechung
17. Internationales Kartellrecht
18. Exterritorialität
19. Kollisionsrecht
20. Etats-Unis d'Amérique

Contents

1. Pre-World War II international antitrust practice -- The Alcoa case : the breakthrough of the effects doctrine in the United States -- Justifying effects-based antitrust jurisdiction -- The reach of EC competition law (cartels) -- The reach of EU member states' competition laws -- Direct, substantial, and reasonably foreseeable effects -- The jurisdictional rule of reason in antitrust cases -- The antitrust comity agreements between the US and the EC -- Personal jurisdiction over defendants in international antitrust cases -- Jurisdiction over foreign antitrust harm -- Using antitrust law to secure foreign market access -- International merger jurisdiction -- Procedural peculiarities of US antitrust litigation upsetting foreign nations -- Concluding remarks.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-226) and index.