Book Review: EEC Competition Law: A Practitioner's Guide

• Author: Joel Davidow
• DOI: 10.1177/0003603X9303800210
• Date: 01 June 1993
• Published date: 01 June 1993
• Subject Matter: Book Review

The Antitrust Bulletin/Summer 1993

EEC Competition Law:

APractitioner's Guide

L. Ritter,

W.D.

Braun &F. Rawlinson

Norwell, MA: Kluwer (1991), 719 pp., $125.00.

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Reviewed by Joel Davidow, Partner, Dickstein, Shapiro &Morin,

Washington, DC.

There was a time when comprehensive sources on EEC competi-

tion law were rare. This is no longer true. The EC is one of the

great success stories

of

our time, and the study of EC law is a

necessity

for all lawyers representing

international

business

clients.

One

can

now

use

weekly

newsletters,

monthly

law

reviews, full-scale treatises or pocket guides to keep up with

developments in EC law generally or EC competition law specifi-

cally. Nevertheless, EEC Competition Law is so good, so clear, so

authoritative and definitive regarding its subject that practitioners

will need it, or should desire it, regardless of what other sources

they already use.

For V.S. readers, the major alternative to the Ritter, Braun,

Rawlinson (RBW) book is Barry Hawk's multivolume treatise,

United

States, Common

Market

and

International

Antitrust

(1985). The Hawk book has a number of features that the RBW

book does not:

It

is in binder form so that yearly supplements can

be integrated into the text.

It

compares EC doctrines with analo-

gous rules

of

V.S. antitrust law.

It

offers historical, critical and

prescriptive analyses of EC decisions and approaches.

RBW has quite different advantages:

It

hangs together as a

comprehensive analysis conceived at a single time after the law

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