Amity Law School Delhi’s National Symposium on Competition Law ; Submit till June 20

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Institutional Profile: Amity Law School, Delhi was established in 1999 by Dr. Ashok K. Chauhan, Founder President

and the Chairman of Amity Group of Institutions under the aegis of Ritnand Balved Education Foundation (RBEF). The School has the distinction of being the first legal Insititution inDelhi/NCR to offer a Five Year Integrated B.A.LL.B(Hons.) programme. During the last 15 years of its existence, Amity Law School, Delhi has earned admiration from academic fraternity, members of the bar and bench for its performance and contribution to contemporary Indianlegal education. Since the year 2006, the law school has consistently been rated as one of theforemost law schools in the country in various surveys conducted by accredited agencies. Thelaw school’s faculty members, drawn both from Law and Social Science backgrounds, aredistinguished scholars with academic credentials and commitment.

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SYMPOSIUM BACKGROUND

Since its independence, India adopted a socialist pattern based on the Directive Principles ofState Policy to prevent concentration of wealth and to maximize the maximum good of maximum number of people. Licensing policy led to the growth of Monopolistic industries resulting into Monopolistic, Restrictive and Unfair trade practices leading to the enactment of Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act. With the development of liberalization, privatization and globalization, MRTP Act was deficient to cope up with the economic reforms and led to the repeal of the same and the enactment of the Competition Act, 2002. The Symposium aims to stress on the objective of Competition Law that is to maximise the consumer welfare by promoting competition by offering better quality products at lower prices. Competition is indisputably advantageous to all the market participants whether it is consumer or business, thereby accelerating the growth of the economy. Competitive Industry offers its consumers wider options to choose the product and that too at lower price. It also motivates producers to do maximum utilization of available resources and also to invent new technologies, thereby, to reduce cost of production and to enhance quality.

The subject-matter of competition law and its various arenas is a priority area for the Government, the Competition Commission of India and the larger global community. Hence, it is imperative that Univerities and Institutions of

Higher Education generate and disseminate knowledge and perspectives among various stakeholders regarding competition law reforms in India.

With this objective, Amity Law School, Delhi proposes to hold a National symposium on ‘Competition Law in India’ on 21st of August, 2015.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Devoted to a theme that has continued to engage the attention of the intelligentsia for decades; this Symposium will discuss various issues related to competition law in India in a profound and substantive manner. The Organizing Committee of the First Amity National Symposium invites academic and policy papers on the thematic areas highlighted below: