Archive for the 'Publications' Category
June 2, 2014
Two new competition/antitrust law related books caught my eye – one relating to antitrust law and sport and the other in the quickly growing area of Chinese competition law: Competition Law in China: Laws, Regulations and Cases (Jones Day) and Sports and Antitrust Law (American Bar Association).
May 30, 2014
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute has issued a new paper on government regulation (authored by Philip Cross) together with a companion Globe article (Regulation a ‘quaint relic’ with a firm grip on Canada’s economy) that caught my eye, which argues that the historic rationales for regulation in many sectors no longer hold true: Estimating the True Size of Government: Adjusting for Regulation.
May 28, 2014
On my media sweep earlier, two interesting trade association cases caught my eye, both including allegations of “output restriction” or “boycott” type activities. In one case, involving the Irish Medical Organisation (“IMO”), the Irish Competition Authority (the “Competition Authority”) announced that the IMO had provided undertakings (i.e., settlement terms) in an ongoing case that had raised collective refusal to supply (i.e., boycott) concerns for the Competition Authority. In particular, this case had involved alleged efforts by a medical association and its competing members to collectively refuse to participate in certain publicly funded health services.
May 28, 2014
A U.S. antitrust law colleague of mine (Steve Cernak) has written what I thought was a very interesting new practical competition/antitrust law publication entitled Antitrust Simulations (2014) (see: here). What caught my eye about this new publication was its effort to bridge the gap between the theoretical – and in the competition/antitrust law world there is a lot of that – and the practical (which is what clients want and students of competition/antirust law should have – when I teach I try to inject as many “real world” scenarios as possible). In sum, this struck me as a very interesting and practical publication well worth a look for potential clients and students alike.
May 28, 2014
Canada’s federal Competition Bureau is currently updating and “rebranding” its corporate compliance materials for companies, associations and other organizations. As part of this, the Bureau has recently issued several new videos (over the past several months). The Bureau is also making a greater effort to use social media and new media, including video and LinkedIn, for its communication and compliance efforts. As such, I thought it would be good to post them together here:
May 27, 2014
Earlier today, the Competition Bureau announced that a Canadian telemarketer has been sentenced, following a guilty plea, to an 18 month prison sentence in a misleading advertising and deceptive telemarketing case. According to the Bureau, the telemarketer was engaged in deceptive marketing of online business directory listings.
May 21, 2014
Several days ago the Competition Bureau posted new remarks by the Commissioner of Competition from the Canadian Bar Association’s 2014 Competition Law Spring Forum (one of two annual Canadian competition law conferences hosted by the CBA). See: Remarks by John Pecman, Commissioner of Competition. These new remarks are a bit of a “one stop shop” for Canadian competition law developments over the past year or two. A few highlights of the Commissioner’s remarks that caught my eye included:
May 22, 2014
I’m getting closer to being a middle-aged guy – well, closer to middle age than a young guy. As such, I remember some of those things that commercials sometimes mock middle aged guys, or older guys than me yet, for remembering. Like Pintos, vinyl records, those plastic things you used to have to put in the middle of some records to play them, printed books and typewriters.
Templates/precedents and checklists to run promotional contests in Canada
Templates/precedents and checklists to comply with Canadian anti-spam law (CASL)
