Frédérique Daudret-John works at the French Ministry of Economy and Finances in the competition department. She is the co-author of the International Policy of the Concurrences review since 2005.
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Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, Response outlining the decisions of the Government on a Competition Regime for Growth, London, 15 March 2012 As part of a comprehensive reform of its public bodies, the "quangos" ("quasi non-governmental organisations"), promised by (...)
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The Competition Committee held its 113th session from 17 to 20 October 2011, with its regular configurations, two working groups devoted respectively to the issues of the relationship between competition law and regulation and to international cooperation in the implementation of competition (...)
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Christine Varney, Assistant Attorney General of the United States, Head of the Antitrust Division at the US Department of Justice, resigned from her position at the end of July 2011 to join the prestigious and very former New York law firm Cravath, Swaine and Moore, a few days after the (...)
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US Supreme Court, 24 May 2010, American Needle v. National Football League, No. 08-661 In a relatively infrequent occurrence, on 24 May 2010, the United States Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling (9/9) in a 20-page decision. This ruling clarifies the definition of the contours of (...)
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US Supreme Court, Pacific Bell Telephone Co. D/B/A AT &T California v. linkLine Communications, Inc. et al, No. 07-512, Feb. 25, 2009 The linkLine judgment of the US Supreme Court has just been handed down in a case which questioned the conditions for the application of Section 2 of the (...)
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This paper was written at the time of the swearing-in ceremony of the 44th President of the United States. It aims at outlining the strong fluctuations of conceptions and enforcement of antitrust law since the Great Depression which started in 1929, which is compared by its magnitude to the (...)
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The publication on 8 September 2008, in the midst of the US presidential campaign, of a report on the treatment of unilateral conduct - in European law, abuse of dominant position - by the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) immediately gave rise to a lively political (...)
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The OECD Committee of Experts on Competition celebrated its 100th session on 20 February 2008 on a specific day of its February session. On this occasion, former members of the Committee were invited to share their experiences with current members on how the Committee’s work has shaped or (...)
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US Supreme Court, Bell Atlantic Corporation, et al, Petitioners v. William Twombly et al, On writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, May 21, 2007, 550 USC __(2007) A ruling by the United States Supreme Court has provided interesting food for thought (...)
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Many French-speaking countries in North Africa, West Africa and Asia have had competitive regulatory systems in place for one to two decades. Those that did not have such systems are in the process of setting up such systems. These institutional systems are based on national laws, national (...)
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USA Supreme Court, order in pending case, August 21, 2006, Stolt-Nielsen S. A. v. United States, 548 U.S._(2006) This case raises a series of questions about the powers to grant and suspend clemency and its use in the extra-territorial context. On August 21, 2006, the United States Supreme (...)
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USA Supreme Court, March 1, 2006, Illinois Tool Works Inc. et al. v. Independent Ink Inc, No. 04-1329 In the first quarter of 2006, the United States Supreme Court, now presided over by Judge Roberts, appointed by President G.W. Bush, issued three landmark rulings in antitrust matters. These (...)
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USA Supreme Court, January 10, 2006, Volvo Trucks North America Inc. v. Reeder-Simco GMC Inc, No. 04-905 In the first quarter of 2006, the United States Supreme Court, now presided over by Judge Roberts, appointed by President G.W. Bush, issued three landmark rulings in antitrust matters. (...)
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Important changes have taken place at the head of the US and UK competition authorities in the second half of 2005. USA 1. Appointment of Mr. Thomas Barnett as Director of the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice R. Hewitt Pate, Assistant Attorney General, head (...)
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Antitrust Modernization Commission The modernisation of the European Union’s competition rules has given the United States ideas that could be taken back to Europe on certain aspects of the modernisation of Community instruments: an Antitrust Modernization Commission (hereinafter AMC) was (...)
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US District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose Division, 4 October 2004, INTEL v. AMD On remand, following the June 2004 US Supreme Court ruling between the world’s two leading manufacturers of electronic chips, a judge of the Federal Court for the Northern District of (...)
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On January 13, 2004, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision entitled Verizon Communications Inc. V. Law Offices of Curtis V. Trinko LLP, to which American commentators refer, mentioning only the name of the plaintiff, Trinko. This Trinko decision is considered in the United States (...)
