Professor David Gerber is Professor of Law and Director of the International and Comparative Law Programme at Chicago-Kent College of Law Illinois Institute of Technology. He has been a Visiting Professor in Law at Munich and Freiburg in Germany, and Stockholm in Sweden. He is also a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law. He formerly chaired the comparative law section of the Association of American Law Schools, and has been a member of the executive committee of the American Society of Comparative Law. He is also the recipient of the Francis Deak Younger Scholars Prize of the American Society of International Law.

... a sucessful and useful book that causes a careful reader to look at the world through a new and important lens.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Freedom, Law and Competition: The Nineteenth Century as Prelude ; 3. Fin-de-Siecle Austria: Conceiving Competition Law ; 4. Germany Before the First World War: Shaping the Discourse ; 5. The Interwar Period: Competition Law Takes Root ; 6. The Postwar Decades: Competition Law and Administrative Policy ; 8. Competition Law and Germany's Social Market Economy ; 9. Competition Law and European Integration: The Competition Law of the European Union ; 10. 1986 and After: Competition Law, the Member States and European Union ; 11. Law, Regulation and Competition: Europe and the Market ; Bibliography ; Index

Professor David Gerber is Professor of Law and Director of the International and Comparative Law Programme at Chicago-Kent College of Law Illinois Institute of Technology. He has been a Visiting Professor in Law at Munich and Freiburg in Germany, and Stockholm in Sweden. He is also a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law. He formerly chaired the comparative law section of the Association of American Law Schools, and has been a member of the executive committee of the American Society of Comparative Law. He is also the recipient of the Francis Deak Younger Scholars Prize of the American Society of International Law.

... a sucessful and useful book that causes a careful reader to look at the world through a new and important lens.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Freedom, Law and Competition: The Nineteenth Century as Prelude ; 3. Fin-de-Siecle Austria: Conceiving Competition Law ; 4. Germany Before the First World War: Shaping the Discourse ; 5. The Interwar Period: Competition Law Takes Root ; 6. The Postwar Decades: Competition Law and Administrative Policy ; 8. Competition Law and Germany's Social Market Economy ; 9. Competition Law and European Integration: The Competition Law of the European Union ; 10. 1986 and After: Competition Law, the Member States and European Union ; 11. Law, Regulation and Competition: Europe and the Market ; Bibliography ; Index

Professor David Gerber is Professor of Law and Director of the International and Comparative Law Programme at Chicago-Kent College of Law Illinois Institute of Technology. He has been a Visiting Professor in Law at Munich and Freiburg in Germany, and Stockholm in Sweden. He is also a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law. He formerly chaired the comparative law section of the Association of American Law Schools, and has been a member of the executive committee of the American Society of Comparative Law. He is also the recipient of the Francis Deak Younger Scholars Prize of the American Society of International Law.

... a sucessful and useful book that causes a careful reader to look at the world through a new and important lens.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Freedom, Law and Competition: The Nineteenth Century as Prelude ; 3. Fin-de-Siecle Austria: Conceiving Competition Law ; 4. Germany Before the First World War: Shaping the Discourse ; 5. The Interwar Period: Competition Law Takes Root ; 6. The Postwar Decades: Competition Law and Administrative Policy ; 8. Competition Law and Germany's Social Market Economy ; 9. Competition Law and European Integration: The Competition Law of the European Union ; 10. 1986 and After: Competition Law, the Member States and European Union ; 11. Law, Regulation and Competition: Europe and the Market ; Bibliography ; Index