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| Preface | |
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| Contributors to the volume | |
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| Abbreviations (including legislation) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Remedies in Unfair Competition and Consumer Protection Law | |
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| Setting the basics - the legal framework | |
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| Approach of this comparative study | |
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| The legal background in the different Member States in unfair competition law | |
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| The European context of unfair competition law | |
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| Enforcement and sanctions under US - American unfair competition law | |
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| Contemporary solutions: the case studies | |
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| Objects of claim - the sanctions | |
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| Risky bread: order to cease and desist, elimination, publication | |
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| Watch imitations I: interim injunction | |
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| Whisky: damages and discovery | |
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| Plaintiffs and defendants | |
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| Children's swing: attracting customers - the different plaintiffs | |
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| Discontinued models: misleading advertisement - the consumer as plaintiff | |
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| Child labour: civil and criminal law | |
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| Recycled paper: advertising agencies and the press as defendants | |
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| Out-of-court settlements of disputes | |
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| Watch imitations II: pre-trial measures | |
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| Results and conclusions for remedies in unfair competition law | |
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| Summary of theses | |
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| Proposed draft | |
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| Instead of closing words - methods of harmonizing European law | |
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| Graphics | |
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| Remedies in Antitrust Law | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Methodological note | |
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| National antitrust law - a survey | |
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| The European context of antitrust law | |
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| Private enforcement of competition law: a comparative perspective | |
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| Private enforcement in US antitrust law | |
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| Competition law in Europe: administrative centrality | |
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| Incorporating private enforcement into European competition law: comparative perspectives | |
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| Concluding comments | |
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| Case studies | |
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| Objects of claim | |
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| Predatory price undercutting agreements - forbearance (cease-and-desist order) | |
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| Abuse of a dominant market position against a competitor - damages | |
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| Boycott - pre-trial measures and temporary relief | |
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| Plaintiffs and defendants | |
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| Horizontal restraints of competition - consumer claims against general cartel effects | |
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| Horizontal restraints of competition - validity of subsequent contracts | |
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| Vertical restraints of competition - resale price maintenance | |
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| Selective distribution and refusal to deal | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The overall results of the country reports | |
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| Measures for the strengthening of private enforcement | |
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| Conflict of laws | |
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| European harmonization of remedies in antitrust law? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Outlook: the link between unfair competition law and antitrust law | |
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| Reasons for the different weight of private enforcement in unfair competition and antitrust law | |
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| Unfair competition law remedies as a model for antitrust law? | |
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| Examples | |
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| Standing of consumers | |
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| Standing of consumer protection associations | |
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| Future prospects | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| General index | |
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| Index by state | |