A Harvard International Law Journal article written by Professor Katerina Linos and two co-authors has been named one of two winners of the best article award given by the International Law and Social Science Interest Group of the American Society of International Law.
“The Limits and Promise of Global Antitrust Law,” written with Columbia Professor Anu Bradford and University of Chicago Dean Adam Chilton, reassesses long-held conventional wisdom about the relationship between countries’ antitrust laws and their economic growth. They find that, on average, such laws have little to no effect on economic development — but they have improved growth in countries that adopted them without external incentives.
“The benefits of antitrust law appear to be contingent on the organic development of antitrust regimes rather than their transplantation through external pressure,” they write. “This adds crucial empirical support to the broader critique that the effectiveness of legal institutions cannot be separated from the conditions and processes of their adoption.”
Linos, the co-director of the law school’s Miller Institute on Global Challenges and the Law, does empirical research and is focused on developing and applying new qualitative and quantitative methods. She teaches international business transactions, international law, European Union law, and international organizations, and hosts the “Borderlines” podcast.