Antitrust Law

Competition law is a law that promotes or seeks to maintain market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies. Competition law is implemented through public and private enforcement. Competition law is known as antitrust law in the United States for historical reasons, and as anti-monopoly law in China and Russia. In previous years it has been known as trade practices law in the United Kingdom and Australia. In the European Union, it is referred to as both antitrust and competition law.The history of competition law reaches back to the Roman Empire. The business practices of market traders, guilds and governments …

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CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 29 April 2024 English

the United States to strengthen that country’s recommending streamlining the body but notably antitrust law, the content of the submission not the delegating of decision-making power to focuses primarily

recommending streamlining the body but notably antitrust law, the content of the submission not the delegating


CPRC: University of Regina Press · 19 March 2024 English

An exposé of the reality of Saskatchewan’s potash industry management—prioritizing private profit over public interest A single province in Canada—Saskatchewan—is blessed with a remarkable birthright: 50% of the world’s potash …

Canpotex could not market potash there because it would run afoul of US antitrust laws.


CBA: Canadian Bar Association · 13 February 2024 English

The CBA is a national association of 38,000 lawyers, Québec notaries, law teachers and students, with a mandate to promote improvements in the law and the administration of justice. [...] …

Competition and antitrust laws globally recognize that an assessment of market power and anticompetitive effects is highly


IGOPP: l'Institut sur la gouvernance d'organisations privées et publiques · 30 January 2024 English

The company says the timeline for the meeting on May 28 will give investors “a reasonable period” to evaluate the dissidents’ plan for the company while providing more opportunity to …

says it believes Browning West violated U.S. antitrust law when it built up its Gildan stake, making its


CIRANO: Centre for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organizations · 22 December 2023 English

The paradox of the current situation lies in the fact that it is possible to reconcile a high degree of price differentiation and variability with the firms' ability to identify …

algorithms to produce signals facilitating such collusive equilibria in oligopolistic markets and the challenges raised for antitrust laws enforcers. This perspective is of considerable importance in the application of antitrust laws, as it frames certain market behaviors


CBA: Canadian Bar Association · 22 November 2023 English

We support the revision proposed in the November 20 motion granting the Finance Committee the power to expand the Bill to “allow the Competition Bureau to conduct market study inquiries …

error costs. As the American Bar Association Antitrust Law and International Law Sections correctly identifies Comments of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Law Section and International Law Section on the


CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 27 September 2023 English

limits of corporate power and the threat that the concentration of this power might pose to the International peers are pursuing a range of future of competition and dynamism in …

digital markets, the Although long dormant in US antitrust law, the past decade has generated a flurry of evidence (Bundeskartellamt section 5, like other areas of US antitrust law 2022c). But the transformative enforcement such demands substantial the general retreat of antitrust law in the United time and resource requirements


OpenMedia.ca · 22 June 2023 English

Taking into account both the dysfunction of the current wholesale access framework to enable services-based competition and the failures of infrastructure funding programs to enable non-incumbent facilities buildout in rural, …

We need strong antitrust laws like they do in the states to foster more competition so that we the consumer Brian E.


CBA: Canadian Bar Association · 31 March 2023

The vast majority of vertical conduct (i.e., competitor/supplier interactions) is not harmful Submission of the Competition Law and Foreign Investment Page 3 Review Section of the Canadian Bar Association and …

establish appropriate limits on the use of antitrust law to scrutinize labour markets. Canada has established employment agreements.30 Over- expansion of antitrust law into labour market considerations could lead is not clear why conscious 44 ABA Section of Antitrust Law (2018), Algorithms: Challenges and Opportunities that accrue to larger buyers.”62 Similarly, US antitrust law, including authority from the US Supreme Court


PIAC: Public Interest Advocacy Centre · 31 March 2023 English

PIAC believes that the ‘modern’ history of Canadian competition law, in the era since the passing of the Competition Act in 1986, and in particular, the flaws in that law …

organizational design reform.78 Canada passed its first antitrust law in 1889, but the Competition Commission (the


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