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).
Articles
Anthropology, History and the "More Economic Approach" in European Competition Law - A Review Essay, International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law (2010)
Convergence in the Treatment of Dominant Firm Conduct: The United States, the European Union, and the Institutional Embeddedness of Economics, Antitrust Law Journal (2010)
Economics, Law and Institutions: The Shaping of Chinese Competition Law, Washington University Journal of Law & Policy (2008)
Two Forms of Modernization in European Competition Law (symposium), Fordham International Law Journal (2008)
Competition Law and the WTO: Rethinking the Relationship, Journal of International Economic Law (2007)
This essay identifies obstacles to the inclusion of a competition law regime in the WTO...
Books
Contributions to Books
Competition law and the institutional embeddedness of economics, Economic Theory and Competition Law (2009)
The Future of Article 82: Dissecting the Conflict, European Competition Law Annual 2007: A Reformed Approach to Article 82 EC (2008)
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)
Competition Law, Contracts and Consumer Projection in European Integration, Liber Amicorum Guido Alpa: Private Law Beyond the National Systems (2007)
Popular Press
Kartellrechtliche Probleme beim Erwerb von Unternehmen in den Vereinigten Staaten, Der Betrieb (1981)