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"Preface" [2012] ELECD 400; in Zimmer, Daniel (ed), "The Goals of Competition Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012)

Book Title: The Goals of Competition Law

Editor(s): Zimmer, Daniel

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9780857936608

Section Title: Preface

Number of pages: 3

Extract:

Preface
The Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA) has to date held
five international conferences. The first conference, organised in 2004
in Florence, was devoted to the `Evolution of European Competition
Law'. The second conference in Paris in 2006 addressed the relation-
ship of `Economic Theory and Competition Law'. A third conference,
organised in Zurich in 2008, dealt with the `Development of Competition
Law'. `More Common Ground for International Competition Law' was
the topic of the fourth conference convened in 2009 in Washington, D.C.
These conferences revealed a need for further discussion on the norma-
tive foundations of Competition Law: What are the goals of Competition
Law? What is the relationship between the law and economic considera-
tions? Does the law indicate that competition as a process ought to be fur-
thered, and as far as this is the case, how does this goal relate to desired
outcomes of competition such as an enhancement of welfare and distribu-
tional fairness? The board of ASCOLA deemed it necessary to deepen the
discussion on these issues and decided to devote a conference to the `Goals
of Competition Law'. The conference took place in Bonn from 27­29 May
2010. This volume contains the contributions to this fifth international
conference.
The conference was hosted by the newly founded Center for Advanced
Studies in Law and Economics (CASTLE) at the University of Bonn. A
distinguished scholar from the field of Law and Economics and current
President of the American Law and Economics Association, ...