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MaCCI Director Thomas Fetzer Joins International Project on Antitrust Law in China, Europe, and the U.S.
International businesses often face a bewildering variety of laws that vary widely from country to country. With fines in the area of antitrust law sometimes approaching or exceeding $1 billion, global companies are calling for more research into what constitutes good antitrust enforcement practices.
To address these challenges, MaCCI has joined a project led by Penn Law’s Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition (CTIC), with Penn Law professors Christopher Yoo and Jonathan Klick, and Wharton professor Joseph Harrington to launch a three-year study comparing antitrust law in China, Europe, and the United States. MaCCI director Professor Thomas Fetzer will examine competition law in the EU. Professor Huang Yong, the Director of the Competition Law Centre of the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), and Professor Guobin Cui, Director of the Center for Intellectual Property at the Tsinghua University School of Law, will evaluate Chinese anti-monopoly law.
The first year will focus on whether current administrative enforcement practices satisfy the demands of procedural fairness and the rule of law. Financial support for the project is being provided by Google, Microsoft, and Qualcomm.
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