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On The Public-Law Character Of Competition Law: A Lesson Of Asian Capitalism, Michael Dowdle
On The Public-Law Character Of Competition Law: A Lesson Of Asian Capitalism, Michael Dowdle
Michael Dowdle
This article argues that competition law is best seen as a form of public law – ‘the law that governs the governing of the state – and not as simply a form of private market regulation. It uses the experiences of ‘Asian capitalism’ to show how capitalist economies are in fact much more variegated than the orthodox model of competition law presumes, and that this variegated character demands a form of regulation that is innately political rather than simply technical. Orthodox competition regimes address this complexity by segregating non-standard capitalisms into alternative doctrinal jurisprudences, but this renders conceptually invisible the …
Demon At The Back Door: Rise Of The Mexican Drug Cartels, Oliver T. Beatty
Demon At The Back Door: Rise Of The Mexican Drug Cartels, Oliver T. Beatty
Oliver T Beatty
This article addresses the rise of the violent Mexican drug cartels and searches within the legislative and law enforcement toolbox on how to dethrone the epidemic of violence on the border. The Mexican drug cartels rose from the ashes and structural framework of the Colombian cocaine cartels which gave these new criminal empires their routes, connections, and ease at taking over Pablo Escobar’s monopoly on the drug trafficking game. In addressing the origins of the cartels this article explores the trajectory of cocaine from imported medical remedy to criminalized substance. Additionally this article explores how the Italian mafia was dismantled …