Enforcement of Antitrust Law
A Comparison of the Legal and Factual Situation in Germany, the EEC, and the USA
Published on 1. July 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
XVI, 181 pages
978-3-631-47610-9 (ISBN)
Description
This study investigates the law in books and law in action of antitrust enforcement in Germany, the EEC, and the USA. Using the classic methodological principle of comparison, functionality, it analyzes the interdependence - the conflicts and the cooperation - between private and public enforcement. For instance, a legal order might not give a victim standing to sue for damages while another one does; perhaps, however, the victim has an adequate right to make the cartel agency act to its benefit, a right it might lack in the other legal order. The analysis is followed by some reform suggestions. - Conducting this investigation, the author focuses on an important and too little explored question in comparative law: the ways in which differing legal systems with roughly similar substantive law enforce that law.
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The Author: Frank Wamser studied law in Germany from 1987 to 1991. In 1992/93 he studied law at the University of Wisconsin - Madison Law School, which conferred upon him the degree of Masters of Law (LL.M.). Currently, he is assistant at the chair of Civil Law, Business Law, and Comparative Law at the University of Giessen and works at his doctoral thesis.
Content
Contents: Objectives of antitrust enforcement - Possible conflicts and useful cooperation between public and private enforcement - The optimal sanctions - The rights of third parties before the public cartel authorities - The question of desirable illegal acts.