Anu Bradford (formerly Piilola)
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S.J.D. 2007
Dissertation
Seeking an Optimal Design for an International Antitrust Regime: Understanding Obstacles to Cooperation and Options for Progress
The dissertation provides an explanation for why the many attempts to negotiate a binding international antitrust agreement have thus far failed. With the help of insights developed in game theory, the dissertation redefines the collective action problem surrounding international antitrust cooperation, and challenges the conventional wisdom that the WTO can facilitate an international antitrust agreement through issue linkages. Given the enhanced understanding of the strategic situation underlying international antitrust cooperation, the comparative institutional advantages of the WTO are argued to be impractical, unnecessary and costly. This leads to the conclusion that international antitrust cooperation is more likely to emerge under the auspices of non-binding international regimes.
Fields of Research and Supervisors
- International Law and International Relations, with Professor Jack Goldsmith, Harvard Law School, Overall Faculty Supervisor
- International Antitrust Regulation, with Professor Einer Elhauge, Harvard Law School
- International Trade and International Political Economy, with Professor Joel Trachtman, Fletcher School of Diplomacy, Tufts University
Additional Research Interests
- European Law
- Transnational Regulatory Cooperation
Education
- Harvard Law School, S.J.D. 2007
- Harvard Law School, LL.M., 2002
- University of Helsinki, Licentiate in Laws, 2001
- University of Helsinki, Master of Laws, 2000
Appointments and Fellowships
- Brandeis University, Lecturer, Fall 2005, International Law and Organizations
- University of Helsinki, Visiting Lecturer in Law, Spring 2005 and Spring 2006, EU Competition Law
- University of Tampere (Finland), Visiting Lecturer in Law, Spring 2006, European Law
- Harvard College, Department of Government, 2005-2006, Teaching Fellow, International Law
- Harvard Law School , 2006, Summer Academic Fellow
- Harvard Law School, 2005-2006, Graduate Fellow, Coordinator, Law Teaching Colloquium
- Harvard Law School, 2004-2005, Graduate Fellow, Teaching Assistant for the LL.M. Paper Writers Workshop
Representative Publications
- “Regime Theory,” in: Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Oxford University Press (forthcoming in 2008)
- “International Antitrust Negotiations and the False Hope of the WTO,” 48 Harv. Int'l L.J. (2007)
- "Assessing Theories of Global Governance: A Case Study of International Antitrust Regulation", 39 Stanford Journal of International Law 2 (2003)
- "The Proposed New Technology Transfer Block Exemption: Is Europe really better off than with the current regulation?" (Co-authored with Maurits Dolmans), 26 World Competition 4 (2003)
- "Technology licensing: Will the new technology transfer block exemption balance the goals of innovation and competition?" (Co-authored with Maurits Dolmans), Competition Law Insight, June 2003; full version of the article published in: American Bar Association, Intellectual Property Law Newsletter, Volume 21, number 4, Summer 2003, 32-43
- "Is There a Need for Multinational Competition Rules?", 10 Finnish Yearbook of International Law (1999) [publ. 2002] 263-323
Additional Information
- Languages: English, Finnish, Swedish, German, French