Confucian Culture and Competition Law in East Asia

Jingyuan Ma · Mel Marquis

Sep 2022 · Cambridge University Press

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Competition law is a significant legal transplant in East Asia, where it has come into contact with deeply rooted variants of Confucian culture. This timely volume analyses cultural factors in mainland China, Japan and Korea, focusing on their shared but diversely evolved Confucian heritage. These factors distinguish the competition law systems of these countries from those of major western jurisdictions, in terms of the goals served by the law, the way enforcement is structured, and the way subjects of the law respond to it. Concepts from cultural studies inform a new and eclectic perspective on these dynamics, with the authors also drawing on ideas from law and economics, comparative law, East Asian studies, political science, business management and ethics, and institutional economics. The volume presents a model for cultural analysis of comparative legal topics and contributes to a greater understanding of the challenges to deeper convergence of competition laws between East and West.

About the author

Jingyuan Ma is Associate Professor at the School of Law of Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China. She obtained her PhD from the University of Hamburg, Erasmus University Rotterdam and the University of Bologna, taking part in the European Doctorate in Law and Economics programme (EDLE).

Mel Marquis is Deputy Associate Dean and Senior Lecturer at Monash Law School, Melbourne, Australia. He has taught law at several universities in Europe and Asia. He is Special Editor for Competition Law of European Papers: A Journal on Law and Integration, and he is a member of the Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies. He is a co-founder and co-director of the Monash Inter-Faculty Competition Law and Economics group, and a co-founder of the Rome Antitrust Forum.

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