Curriculum Competition Law in Practice
Competition Law in Practice
How competition authorities, especially India's CCI, catch cartels, police dominant firms, review mergers and tackle Big Tech - with real cases and the debates behind them.
- From MRTP to the Competition Act How India moved from a law aimed at limiting big business to a modern competition law focused on protecting competition and consumers. 📄 Read-aloud
- Catching Cartels How cartels fix prices and share markets, why they are the most serious competition offence, and how India's CCI has penalised them. 📄 Read-aloud
- Leniency: Rewarding the First to Confess How leniency programmes use game theory to break cartels apart by offering reduced penalties to members who come forward first. 📄 Read-aloud
- Abuse of Dominance: The Google Android Case What counts as abusing a dominant position under Indian law, illustrated by the CCI's landmark cases against Google. 📄 Read-aloud
- Merger Control: Reviewing Big Deals How the CCI reviews mergers and acquisitions before they happen, what the deal value threshold changed, and how remedies work. 📄 Read-aloud
- Predatory Pricing: Low Prices as a Weapon When very low prices become illegal, why predatory pricing is hard to prove, and how it plays out in debates about e-commerce and quick commerce. 📄 Read-aloud
- Competition Law in Practice: Checkpoint 1 Quick checkpoint - five questions on India's competition law, cartels, leniency, dominance and mergers. 5 questions
- Vertical Restraints: Rules Between Makers and Sellers How agreements between manufacturers and dealers, such as fixing resale prices or exclusive dealing, can harm competition, with Indian car industry cases. 📄 Read-aloud
- Bid Rigging in Public Procurement How companies rig government tenders through fake bids, rotation and bid suppression, the red flags that reveal them, and why it matters for taxpayers. 📄 Read-aloud
- Regulating Digital Markets Before Harm Happens Why many countries are moving from case-by-case enforcement to upfront rules for big digital platforms, from Europe's Digital Markets Act to India's debate. 📄 Read-aloud
- Big Tech on Trial Around the World Landmark competition cases against large technology firms in the United States and Europe, and what their outcomes mean for consumers and rivals. 📄 Read-aloud
- What Should Competition Law Protect? The debate between the consumer welfare standard and newer views that competition law should also address the power of big companies, workers and democracy. 📄 Read-aloud
- Competition Advocacy and What Citizens Can Do How competition authorities push governments to remove barriers to competition, how anyone can report concerns to the CCI, and a recap of the module. 📄 Read-aloud