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Saturday Schedule
Program
Annual
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Saturday, January 4, 2003
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10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Section on Antitrust and Economic Regulation
Susan Beth Farmer, The Pennsylvania State University, Chair |
Harding
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
Mezzanine Level |
Competition Without Borders: Antitrust Law
and the Challenge of Globalization
(Program to be published in the Pennsylvania State International Law Review.)
Moderator:
Susan Beth Farmer, The Pennsylvania State University
Speakers: - Bruce Carolan, Head of Law, Dublin Institute of Technology,
Dublin, Ireland
- William E. Kovacic, The George Washington University
- Salil Kumar Mehra, Temple University
Commentators:- Sharon Elaine Foster, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
- Eleanor M. Fox, New York University
Increasing competition in global markets raises important new issues for antitrust scholars. The debates over substantive harmonization, multiple enforcement regimes including supra-national agencies, and the exercise of jurisdiction over transnational business disputes present fundamental questions for antitrust policy seeking to further competition, promote public interest and provide predictability for firms competing in global markets.
This panel and commentators examine several aspects of international and comparative antitrust law. Professor Carolan will present his new article "Concerning Incorporation of European Union Competition Law into the Domestic Law of EU Member States: Article 82 and Refusals to Deal." Professor Mehra updates and expands his recent work on extraterritorial antitrust enforcement in private litigation and jurisdiction under the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act. Finally, Professor Kovacic, currently serving as General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission, will discuss issues concerning legal harmonization and cooperative enforcement. These speakers and commentators combine academic theory with expertise gained from advising, government service and practice.
These topics raise timely and cutting edge questions in light of the recent action of the European Commission disapproving the proposed GE/Honeywell merger, cases pending in various federal circuits on United States jurisdiction in private antitrust litigation, efforts to harmonize antitrust law and procedures, substantive conflict, as well as the intersection between international trade and antitrust law.
Business Meeting at Program Conclusion
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