Competition Law and Democracy

Dr. Elias Deutscher is an Associate Professor in Competition Law and a member of the Centre for Competition Policy at the University of East Anglia. As a trained lawyer and political scientist, he publishes widely on the normative, conceptual and historical foundations of competition law, and new challenges for competition policy in digital and innovation-driven markets.

Introduction; Part I: 1. The object of inquiry: The idea of a competition–democracy nexus; 2. Republican liberty as the coupling between competition and democracy; Part II: 3. The building blocks of a republican competition law approach; 4. The competition–democracy nexus in US antitrust and EU competition law jurisprudence; 5. The policy parameters of republican antitrust: presumptions, standard of harm, and the error-cost framework; Part III: 6. The making of Laissez-Faire antitrust; 7. The operationalisation of Laissez-Faire antitrust law and the decline of republican liberty; Part IV: 8. Main findings and avenues towards a competition–democracy nexus 4.0; 9. Bibliography.