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Informationen zum Autor Thomas M. J. Mollers has a Chair for Civil Law! Business Law! European Law! Comparative Law and International Private Law at the University of Augsburg. Andreas Heinemann is Professor of Law at the Centre of Comparative and European Law of the University of Lausanne. Klappentext In the debate on the enforcement of competition law! many take the view that Europe should avoid the traps US law has fallen into by admitting excessive litigation. European law should not pave the way for judicial proceedings which ultimately serve the interests of lawyers or other agents rather than injured parties. This inquiry describes the state of remedies in competition law in fifteen European countries! analyses the underlying determinants! and proposes ways of improving the enforcement of competition law. The International and European legal frameworks are presented! as is the approach of US-American law. It is argued that efforts to strengthen private enforcement of antitrust law should benefit from the rich European experience in unfair competition law. The divergence between the two fields of law is not so huge that a completely different treatment is justified. Thus! a specifically European way of competition law enforcement could be developed. Zusammenfassung This inquiry describes the state of competition law in fifteen European countries. The International and European legal frameworks are presented! as is the approach of US-American law. It is argued that efforts to strengthen private enforcement of antitrust law can benefit from rich European experience in unfair competition law. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Remedies in Unfair Competition and Consumer Protection Law: 1. Setting the basics - the legal framework; 2. Contemporary solutions: the case studies; 3. Results and conclusions for remedies in unfair competition law; 4. Graphics; Part II. Remedies in Antitrust Law: 5. Introduction; 6. Private enforcement of competition law: a comparative perspective David J. Gerber; 7. Case studies; 8. Conclusions; 9. Outlook: the link between unfair competition law and antitrust law....
