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"Preface" [2015] ELECD 1212; in Drexl, Josef; Di Porto, Fabiana (eds), "Competition Law as Regulation" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015) ix

Book Title: Competition Law as Regulation

Editor(s): Drexl, Josef; Di Porto, Fabiana

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781783472581

Section Title: Preface

Number of pages: 15

Extract:

Preface
This book assembles various contributions that are based on talks given
at the 8th Conference of the Academic Society of Competition Law
(ASCOLA), which was held at the University of Salento, Lecce (Italy) on
22­23 May 2013. By raising the thought-provoking question of `Com-
petition Law as Regulation?', ASCOLA's 2013 conference, based on a
call for papers, aimed at discussing the emergence of a `regulatory
approach' to competition law and thereby tried to advance scholarship on
the relationships between competition law and regulation.
While there is a lot of literature on market regulation and regulated
industries, legal and economic writing has not yet sufficiently addressed
the more recent trend of competition law and competition law enforce-
ment to develop mechanisms and tools that go beyond mere protection of
competition against restraints, but try to improve the market conditions in
a forward looking approach, which is more typical for market regulation.
The 8th ASCOLA Conference reacted to this trend by launching a
scholarly debate on its causes and consequences, as well as the advan-
tages and disadvantages of this new `regulatory approach' of competition
law. Accordingly, the conference concentrated on what competition
agencies and courts are doing when they apply competition law and not
so much on what specialized regulatory agencies are doing. Like the
conference, this book is highly topical and at the same time original,
because by going beyond the traditional view that competition law is
essentially an ex post intervention that only reacts to ...