An Emerging Competition Law for a New Economy? Introductory Remarks for the Chillin Competition Panel
This is a lightly edited version of a speech I gave at the Chillin’ Competition conference late last year where I gave the opening speech for the panel, “An Emerging Competition Law for a New Economy?” I begin with the usual disclaimer that I’m speaking in a personal capacity and my views are not necessarily those of the European Commission. In the early years of the “new economy”, lawyers had a strange tendency to use horse metaphors to describe what they thought was going on in the law. Judge Frank Easterbrook – an excellent jurist and one never short of a strong opinion – speaking at an internet law conference with Lawrence Lessig lambasted the very idea of the conference. […]