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China’S Withdrawal Of Article 96 Of The Cisg: A Roadmap For The United States And China To Reconsider Withdrawing The Article 95 Reservation, Pan Zhen

University of Miami Business Law Review

The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) was created for the purpose of providing legal neutrality and certainty, and also for the purpose of avoiding choice of law issues in international sales of goods. However, the United States and China, the two largest trading nations in the world, made the Article 95 reservation at the time they ratified the CISG, therefore restricting CISG’s applicability in certain situations. In 2013, China withdrew its Article 96 reservation, which declares its non-recognition of free form of contract formation, taking one step closer to the vast majority of …

Beyond Trade Deals: Charting A Post-Brexit Course For Uk Investment Treaties, Lise Johnson, Lorenzo Cotula

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications

The Brexit referendum has raised questions about the future terms of the United Kingdom’s engagement with the world economy. While a debate over the UK’s future approach to trade deals has already begun, a similar discussion has yet to develop on the treaties that govern foreign investment. As this briefing note by Lorenzo Cotula of the International Institute for Environment and Development, and Lise Johnson of CCSI highlights, the stakes are high: ill-designed treaties could leave the UK excessively exposed to legal claims by foreign companies and could fail to address relevant economic, social and environmental challenges. While meaningful negotiations …

Other Markets, Other Costs: Modernizing Antitrust, Jeffrey L. Harrison

UF Law Faculty Publications

Today’s antitrust law is characterized by stagnation and indeterminacy. The failure is so thorough that it is not clear that U.S. competition law actually leads to any outcomes that are defendable except at the most superficial level. Moreover, when enforcement does result in a desirable outcome, it not clear that it is the best outcome. The principal reason for this state of affairs is that antitrust scholars and courts cling to misguided goals and theories that have not evolved despite an avalanche of information now available that can modernize the discipline.

This Article has two main sections that necessarily overlap. …

Manipulating, Fast And Slow: The Law Of Non-Verbal Market Manipulations, Shmuel I. Becher, Yuval Feldman

Cardozo Law Review

Consumers make purchasing decisions in various markets every day. Contrary to common belief, such decision-making is often not the result of deliberate analysis of information or of rational thinking. Rather, it is frequently based on feelings, sensations and intuition. Purchasing decisions are not made in a vacuum and are regularly influenced by sellers' manipulation and selling tactics.

It is well documented that people receive a substantial part of the information they possess via non-verbal communication. One of the most alarming aspects of this reality is that consumers are mostly unaware of non-verbal cues and the ways they can influence them. …

Moving Towards Harmonization Of The Food Safety Standards: Role Of The Tpp And Ttip Agreements, Ksenia A. Petrovets

Journal of Food Law & Policy

We are now less dependent on locally available food resources that we have ever been. The continuing industrialization of food production, the advancement in technologies and the rapid development of supply chains granted us the luxury of immediate access to a variety of products originating from local supermarkets all over the world. This, along with the greater level of food production industrialization, inevitably comes the rise of related food safety risks. Because of the enlargement of producing operations, an emerging safety threat in one place may result in a foodborne illness outbreak thousands of miles away from its place of …

Local And State Governments Are Taking The Stage When It Is Fda's Curtain Call - Are Local And State Governments' Safety Warnings Preempted By Federal Law?, Melissa M. Card

Journal of Food Law & Policy

Eliminated from fad diets, sworn off by celebrities, and frantically reformulated out of processed foods, added sugars have been deemed the new nutritional scoundrel. Recent studies from the American Heart Association, the World Health Organization, and the American Cancer Association demonstrate that the consumption of added sugar leads to increased risks of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and gout. While all foods containing added sugar are deemed unhealthy, Sugary-Sweetened Beverages ("SSBs") are said to be especially toxic by the American health community, by virtue of these beverages' being excessively high in added sugar content, low in satiety, and incomplete in compensation …

Will Consumers Be In The "Dark" About Labels On Genetically Engineered And Modified Foods?, Hilary Nat

Journal of Food Law & Policy

In the 1900s, the United States began to sell genetically engineered foods. One of the first genetically engineered foods sold in the United States and approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was the Flavr Savr tomato. The tomato's genetic structure was modified to prevent softening which allowed it to ripen after being picked. In the United States, statistics demonstrate that 92% of com, 94% of soybeans, and 94% of cotton sold is genetically engineered. In addition, it is estimated that 75% of the processed foods sold in supermarkets around the United States contain ingredients that are products of …

Energy Drink Regulations: Why The Time For More Fda Authority Is Not Ripe And How States Can Protect Children Without Unjustly Infringing On Adult Autonomy, Larry D. Treat

Journal of Food Law & Policy

In December of 2011, Anais Fournier ("Anais"), a fourteen-year-old from Maryland, was at the mall with her friends when she drank a twenty-four ounce Monster energy drink. Within twenty-four hours, Anais consumed a second twenty-four ounce energy drink. Together, the two Monster energy drinks Anais consumed contained around 480 milligrams ("mg") of caffeine. A few hours after the second drink, Anais went into cardiac arrest and later died from cardiac arrhythmia. An autopsy found that caffeine toxicity caused Anais's arrhythmia and impeded her heart's ability to pump blood. As it turns out, Anais suffered from a preexisting heart condition called …

2016 China Food Law Update, Michael T. Roberts, Ching-Fu Lin

Journal of Food Law & Policy

This update of China food law builds on a unique feature for the Journal of Food Law & Policy that has been provided since the Journal's inception - separate food law updates for both the United States and European Union. "Recognizing the globalness of the modem food system, these updates have served an invaluable role in keeping scholars and practitioners abreast of the world's leading food regulatory systems." China's emergence as a developed, modem food regulatory system with the potential of being a leading food regulatory system makes sense given its position as a world economic powerhouse. China's role in …

State-Action Immunity And Section 5 Of The Ftc Act, Daniel A. Crane, Adam Hester

Michigan Law Review

The state-action immunity doctrine of Parker v. Brown immunizes anticompetitive state regulations from preemption by federal antitrust law so long as the state takes conspicuous ownership of its anticompetitive policy. In its 1943 Parker decision, the Supreme Court justified this doctrine, observing that no evidence of a congressional will to preempt state law appears in the Sherman Act’s legislative history or context. In addition, commentators generally assume that the New Deal court was anxious to avoid re-entangling the federal judiciary in Lochner-style substantive due process analysis. The Supreme Court has observed, without deciding, that the Federal Trade Commission might …

Guest Lecture By Professor Michael Jacobs, “The Durability Of The Chicago School In Antitrust: What Accounts For It?”, Anna Tworkowska-Baraniuk

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From The Editor (Maciej Bernatt), Maciej Bernatt

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From the Editor

Failure To State Of Reasons As A Ground For Annulment Of The European Commission’S Decision In The Light Of Current Cjeu Case-Law On The Control Of Undertakings, Marta De Bazelaire De Ruppierre

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This article aims to analyse the European Commission’s obligation to state the reasons for decision issued in connection with the control of an undertaking suspected of anti-competitive activities. It indicates requirements that statement of reasons has to meet in order to remain in conformity with Article 296 TFEU and the case-law, as well as depicts the criteria of assessment used by the CJEU to verify the fulfilment of those conditions. It also addresses the issue of legal effects of the judgment annulling the decision and it ponders on the effectiveness of the protection of the rights of undertakings.

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Exemption Of The Selective Distribution From The Prohibition Of Agreements Restricting Competition, Maciej Marek

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The article studies the application of block exemptions and individual exemption to selective distribution systems. The author examines the conditions of applying Polish and European general block exemption and the possibility of combining selective distribution with common additional restrictions. Also, the article describes the methodology used by the European courts to individually exempt selective distribution systems and examines the relation of the prerequisites of individual exemption and the Metro doctrine.

Methods Of Detecting Bid Rigging, Marta Stryszowska, Joanna Piechucka

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The present article discusses the use of tools of economic analysis to detect bid rigging by taking a two-step approach. Firstly, the structural approach to identify markets that are more susceptible to bid rigging is presented. Secondly, the behavioral approach consisting of identifying suspicious behavior in tenders is discussed. Within the latter approach, tools for the identification of suspicious bid rigging patterns, price variance analysis and other tests used to study whether bidding behavior is more consistent with collusion rather than competition are analyzed. Finally, the extent to which tools of economic analysis could be used in practice by competition …

Impeding Market Access As A Prerequisite Of Unfair Competition Practice Of Collecting Slotting Allowances That Ought To Be Examined In Every Case, Joanna Affre, Joanna Piechucka, Piotr Skołubowicz, Marta Stryszowska

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Article concerns ways of examination, when the unfair competition practice set forth in the article 15 sec. 1 p. 4 of Combating Unfair Competition Act takes place. Authors present different views on meaning of “impeding market access” in this provision and support the concept that it should be considered as one of prerequisites of committing this practice. They also explain why this prerequisite should be examined in every case before the court. Further, authors describe how, with the economical approach, this examination can be executed.

Restrictions Of Competition In Vertical Agreements – Is There A Place To Study The Effects? Comments In The Light Of The Recent Case-Law Of The Polish Courts And The Cjeu, Katarzyna Górna, Małgorzata Kozak, Anna Wawruch

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The subject of this article is to examine the current judicial practice of Polish common courts and the ECJ on the agreements that restrict competition by object or by effect. The article discusses the decisions and judgements, the content of which confirms that in the absence of that agreement to be restrictive of competition by object, it is necessary to carry out an extensive analysis of the economic and legal environment of the agreement for the assessment of its possible anti-competitive effects. The analysis leads to the conclusion that in the recent case law there is still a noticeable tendency …

Possibility To Hold A Company Liable For The Anticompetitive Behaviour Of An Independent Service Provider. Case Comment To The Judgment Of The Court Of Justice Of The European Union Of 21 July 2016 In Case C-542/14 Vm Remonts Sia, Ausma Grupa Sia V. Konkurences Padome (And Konkurences Padome V. Pārtikas Kompānija Sia), Marta Michałek-Gervais

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The case comment relates to the judgment the Court of Justice of the European Union of 21 July 2016 in the case VM Remonts (C-542/14), delivered in response to a preliminary reference made by the Latvian Supreme Court. The question at stake referred to possibility to hold a company liable (in the light of Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union) for the anticompetitive behaviour of a third-party service provider. The Court of Justice did not follow the Opinion of the Advocate General Wathelet who suggested introducing rebuttable presumption of the company's liability in this …

Control Of Concentration Proceedings And Access To Public Information. Case Comment To The Judgment Of Regional Administrative Court In Warsaw Of 16 December 2015, Sab/Wa 796/15, Aleksandra Kędzior

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