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Antitrust Chronicle® – Recidivism

Antitrust Chronicle® January 2026 Volume 1

Dear Readers,   Recidivism has an intuitive moral pull in antitrust: if competition law is meant to deter, repeat offending feels like the clearest evidence that deterrence has failed. Yet, as this edition’s contributions show, recidivism is also a concept riddled with definitional, institutional, and jurisdictional complexity. Whether antitrust has...

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