Professor Gerber works in the areas of comparative and international law. He holds a bachelor's degree from Trinity College, a master's degree from Yale University and a law degree from the University of Chicago. He was formerly associated with the Frankfurt, Germany, law firm of Peltzer and Riesenkampff and the New York law firm of Casey, Lane & Mittendorf. Professor Gerber has taught law at the University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University and Washington University in the United States, as well as at the University of Stockholm and the University of Uppsala in Sweden and at the University of Freiburg and the University of Munich in Germany. He also spent a year working with the Institute of International and Comparative Law at the University of Freiburg. He is a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and has been a member of the executive committee of the American Society of Comparative Law. His book Law and Competition in Twentieth Century Europe was published by Oxford University Press in 1998 (paperback 2001). Professor Gerber's most recent book is Global Competition: Law, Markets and Globalization (Oxford University Press 2010, paperback 2012).
Articles
Method, Community and Comparative Law: An Encounter with Complexity Science, Roger Williams University Law Review (2011)
Assume that you are attending a symposium on comparative law being held in conjunction with...
Anthropology, History and the "More Economic Approach" in European Competition Law - A Review Essay, International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law (2010)
In several works over the last decade, Wolfgang Fikentscher has reminded us that there are...
Convergence in the Treatment of Dominant Firm Conduct: The United States, the European Union, and the Institutional Embeddedness of Economics, Antitrust Law Journal (2010)
Discussions of the competition law treatment of dominant firms often center on the issue of...
Economics, Law and Institutions: The Shaping of Chinese Competition Law, Washington University Journal of Law & Policy (2008)
China has been considering enactment of an anti-monopoly (antitrust) law since 1993, and it has...
Two Forms of Modernization in European Competition Law (symposium), Fordham International Law Journal (2008)
In European competition law, the term "modernization" has been a catchword and focus of attention...
Books
Contributions to Books
Regionalization, Development and Competition Law: Exploring the Political Dimension, Competition Policy and Regional Integration in Developing Countries (2012)
In discussions of the regionalization of competition law, the political dimension often leads a shadowy...
Competition Law and the Institutional Embeddedness of Economics, Economic Theory and Competition Law (2009)
Transnational debates about the role of economics in competition law have paid relatively little systematic...
The Future of Article 82: Dissecting the Conflict, European Competition Law Annual 2007: A Reformed Approach to Article 82 EC (2008)
Underlying the recurring debates over the future of Article 82 EC are competing images of...
A Comparative Perspective in The Enforcement of Competition Law in Europe (The Common Core of European Private Law), The Enforcement of Competition Law in Europe (The Common Core of European Private Law) (2007)
Reading the Map of European Private Law: Language and Knowledge in Contemporary Comparative Law, Opening Up European Law (2007)
Popular Press
Kartellrechtliche Probleme beim Erwerb von Unternehmen in den Vereinigten Staaten, Der Betrieb (1981)