Author Archives: Mark Warner

Mark Warner interviewed on BNN about the Canada-EU Free Trade Agreement (October 18, 2013)

Canada 2020: Competition Matters – Q&A (January 20, 2013)

• The Canadian Law and Practice of International Trade: Second Edition (co-author with J.G. Castel, A. de Mestral, W.C. Graham, M. Hainsworth,  1997). (responsible for the Chapters on the International Competition Law and the Principles of International Business Conduct)

• “Exploring the GATS Implications of Integrating Competition Policy Disciplines into the WTO” in “Services 2000: New Directions In Services Trade Liberalization (Pierre Sauvé and Robert M. Stern eds., 2000)
• “Canadian Competition Policy in a Competitive Global Trading Environment”, with Calvin S. Goldman, Q.C. and John D. Bodrug, in  Global Competition Policy (E.M. Graham and J.D. Richardson, eds. 1997).
• “Private and Public Restraints on Trade: Effects on Investment Decisions and Policy Approaches to Them” in Market Access After the Uruguay Round: Investment, Competition and Technology Perspectives 123 (Pierre Sauvé and Americo Beviglia Zampetti, eds., 1996).
• “Private and Public Impediments to Market Presence: Exploring the Investment – Competition Nexus” in Investment Rules for the Global Economy: Enhancing Market Access Through Market Presence , (Pierre Sauvé and Daniel Schwanen, eds., 1996).
• “Competition Policy and North American Multinationals”, with E.M. Graham, in Multinationals in North America 463 (L. Eden ed., 1994).
• “A History of United States-Canada Trade and Investment Relations”, in Multinationals and Canada-United States Free Trade 16 (Alan M. Rugman ed., 1990).
• “Strategies for the Canadian Multinationals”, with Alan M. Rugman, in International Business in Canada:  Strategies for Management 200 (Alan M. Rugman, ed., 1989).

• “After Seattle: Is there a Future for Trade and Competition Policy Rule-making?”,  26 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 307 (2000).
• “International Competition Policy After ICPAC: Where Next”, Antitrust 46 (Summer 2000).
• “After Seattle: Is there a Future for Trade and Competition Policy Rule-making?”, 6 International Trade Law and Regulation 66 (June 2000).
• “Restrictive Trade Practices and the Extraterritorial Application of U.S. Antitrust and Trade Legislation”, 19 Northwestern J. Int’l. Bus. 330 (1999).
• “International Aspects of Competition Policy – Possible Directions for the FTAA”,  22 World Competition 1 (1999.
• “Globalization and Human Rights: An Economic Model”, 25 Brooklyn J. Int’l. L. 99 (1999).
• “Efficiencies and Merger Review in Canada, the European Community and the United States: Implications for Convergence and Harmonization”, 26 Vanderbilt J. of Transnat’l. L. 1059 (1994).
• “Competitiveness: An Emerging Strategy of Discrimination in U.S. Antitrust and R&D Policy?”, 25 L. & Pol. Int’l. Bus., with Alan M. Rugman, (1994).
• “Recent U.S. Protectionist R&D Policies: Are Canadian Multinationals Exempted?”, Canadian Bus. L. J., with Alan M. Rugman, (1994).
• “Foreign Ownership, Free Trade & the Canadian Energy Sector”, with Alan M. Rugman, 14 The Journal of Energy and Development, 1 (1988).

• “Thin ICPAC: Report on International Antitrust Enforcement Does not Dare Enough” The Legal Times, April 3, 2000 at 46 (considering implications of an international antitrust report to Attorney General Janet Reno).
• “Cutting Ourselves on Cuban Policy”, The Legal Times, March 11, 1996 at 26 (considering the implications of expanded sanctions on trade with Cuba).
• “Saarstahl, A.G. v. United States; Inland Steel Bar Co. v. United States, (Court of International Trade, June 7, 1994”, 88 Am. J. of Int’l. L. (1994) (considering countervailing duties on the exports of privatized companies).
• “Hunt v. Lac d’Amiante du Quebec, et al., [1993] 4 S.C.R. 289 (Canadian Supreme Court)”, 88 Am. J. of Int’l. L. (1994) (considering Canadian “blocking” statutes).

• “ General Motors Completes US$23.1B IPO”, Lexpert (April 2011)
• “Back in Business”, Canadian Lawyer (August 2010)
• “Canadian Big Deals: GM & Chrysler Bailouts”, American Lawyer (September 2009)
• “Assembly Line”, Canadian Lawyer (August 2009)
• “GM Negotiations”, Financial Post (February 2009)
• “EU’s Monti urges international competition rules outside WTO framework”, “AFX Financial News”, October 7, 2004
• “Alcan faces rough ride in hostile Pechiney bid”, Toronto Star, July 9, 2003
• “World Unites For War – On Price Fixers”, “Dow Jones Newswires”, February 27, 2003
• James Kanter and Matthew Newman, “EU May Face Lone Fight To Get Competition On WTO Agenda”, Dow Jones Newswires, August 10, 2001
• Andrew Bounds, “Acting on OECD list ‘against law'”, Financial Times, February 14, 2001

On the Possibilities of Renegotiating NAFTA (March 7, 2008)

• “Leniency and Multijurisdictional Cartel Enforcement in Canada, the E.U. and the U.S.:  Risks and Rewards”, Paper presented to the University of Minnesota Law School Conference on Global Antitrust Law and Policy, Minneapolis.
• “Recent Developments in Antitrust:  A Global Review,” Panel Participant at the ABA Section of Business Law Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. August.
• “Remarks on Competition Policy, Outreach and Technical Assistance” Presentation on behalf of the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD at the OECD Global Forum on Competition, Paris.
• “The Globalization of Antitrust Law:  Lessons From GE/Honeywell and Other Recent Developments,” Program Chair, Practising Law Institute (PLI) Web Conference on New York.
• Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on Private International Law Study Group on Enforcement of Foreign Judgments” Washington, D.C.
• “International Antitrust for the U.S. Lawyer” Presentation to New York ACCA, New York.
• “Rising to the Challenges:  The Rule of Public Law and Regulators” Rapporteur’s Report to the Ditchley Park Competition Policy in a Globalized Economy Conference, Oxford.
• “Comity and Cooperation at the Crossroads: Rationalizing International Antitrust Enforcement” Speech to the 1998 Conference Board 1998 Antitrust Conference Program on “Antitrust Issues in Today’s Economy, New York City.
• “Cooperation Versus Centralization: Different Strokes for Different Folks” Paper presented to the Conference on Global Markets, Competition and Democracy: Objectives and Methods in the Allocation of Antitrust Enforcement Powers sponsored by the Universita Catholica del Sacro Cuore and Camera di Commercio Industria Artigianato E Agricoltura di Milano, Milan, Italy.
• “Extraterritorial Application of National Laws Regulating Business Activities”, Speech to Ditchley Foundation Conference on this theme, Oxford, U.K.

• “What Level Playing Field: How OECD Proposals Discriminate Against Developing Countries”, Speech to a Heritage Foundation and Friedrich Naumann Foundation Conference, Berlin.
• “The FTAA, Regional Trade Agreements and Small States: Risks and Opportunities”, Speech to a Landfall Centre Conference, Nassau, the Bahamas.
• “How OECD Tax Proposals Violate International Trade Norms”, Speech to the Center for Freedom & Prosperity Roundtable on International Tax Issues, Ottawa.
• “The Patriot Act: International Issues” Lecture, Finnis Terrae University, Santiago, Chile.
• “The Patriot Act: New Rules for Financial Institutions and Broker-Dealers – International Issues”, Presentation to Joint Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP and Kroll Inc. Luncheon Program, Miami.
• “The Patriot Act and the Bank Secrecy Act: International Issues” Presentation to Joint Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP and Kroll Inc. Luncheon Program, New York.
• “Offshore Finance:  What is the Future?” Speech to Caribbean Latin American Action Annual Meeting, Miami.
• “The OECD Harmful Tax Competition Initiative: A Violation of WTO Obligations”, Speech to the Capitol Hill Club, Washington, D.C.
• “The OECD Harmful Tax Competition Initiative:  A Discriminatory Policy” Presentation to the Panamanian Business Managers Association First Forum on the Competitiveness of Panama’s Service Export Industries, Panama City.
• “Competition Policy and Corporate Governance in a Globalized Economy: Are German and Japanese Interests Special?” Paper presented to an  International Conference on Japan and Germany in a Globalizing Economic Environment: Saving Institutional Strengths or Radically Converging on International Standards? Sponsored by Asia-Pacific Economic Research Institute and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Duisberg University – Mercatorhaus, Germany.