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
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)
The "Modernisation" of European Community Competition Law: Achieving Consistency in Enforcement-Part I (with P. Cassinis), European Competition Law Review (2006)
The "Modernisation" of European Community Competition Law: Achieving Consistency in Enforcement-Part II (with P. Cassinis), European Competition Law Review (2006)
The Common Core of European Private Law: The Project and Its Books, American Journal of Comparative Law (2004)
Books
Contributions to Books
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)
Private Enforcement of Competition Law: A Comparative Perspective, The Enforcement of Competition Law in Europe (2007)
Les doctrines européenne et américaine du droit de la concurrence, La modernisation du droit de la concurrence (2006)
Popular Press
Kartellrechtliche Probleme beim Erwerb von Unternehmen in den Vereinigten Staaten, Der Betrieb (1981)