Foreword
Author | Paul Crampton |
Pages | 23-24 |
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FOR E WOR D
This book comes to us in very challenging times. Even before the onset
of the COVID-19 pandemic, income inequality was rising markedly,
international support for open market s and globalization was beginni ng
to wane, and protectionist sentiments were growing. As these trends
have persisted, the shi ft to the online world for shopping, entertainment,
and social interaction has accelerated. This has accentuated concerns
about “big data,” such as its rapid accumulation by a small number of
global behemoths and the ways in which it is being used. To a signifi-
cant degree, that accumulation has been facilitated by the acquisition
of innovative start-up companies, as the behemoth s expand their reach
into new domains.
In the face of these and other developments, questions are increas-
ingly being posed about existing competition/antitrust laws and
enforcement tools. Are they up to the challenge? Do they need to be
modified? Some, including proponents of “hipster antitrust,” answer
the latter question in the negative.
Against this backdrop, this book oers a very practical and helpful
mainstream perspective, enriched by the author’s experience of over
three decades of hand s-on work in the legal trenches of competition law,
following the completion of an LLM thesis at McGill University on the
adjudication of competition law issues in 1983.
When the merger and abuse of dominance provisions of the Compe-
tition Act were decriminalized in 1986, the year John joined the Depart-
ment of Justice, he was at “ground zero” as new enforcement approaches
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