TRANSCRIPT - Distinctive DNA of EU Antitrust?

This is the edited transcript of the Competition Lore podcast episode 26, "The distinctive DNA of EU antitrust?", with Ariel Ezrachi.

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Neither the law nor economics are value-free sciences. If we are to understand why and how competition laws operate in a certain way in an individual jurisdiction, we need to understand the underlying values and belief systems that inform and shape its design and enforcement.

In this episode, we are joined by Slaughter & May Professor of Competition Law and Director of the Centre for Competition Law and Policy at the University of Oxford, Ariel Ezrachi.

Ariel shares his insights on the values that underpin European competition policy and law, the ways in which they inform the pluralistic objectives of the law and affect its enforcement.  In the course of the discussion, not surprisingly, the Bundeskartellamt’s decision in relation to Facebook’s data practices comes up.