The articles in this collection focus on the intersection of competition law and class actions. They consider the role that class actions can play in achieving an optimally competitive market for goods and services and in providing compensation for those who have suffered as a result of anticompetitive conduct. They examine key issues such as the appropriate test for class action certification and acceptable methodologies for calculating damages, and in doing so, they bring to bear the views of legal academics, economists, and experienced practising lawyers.

This book grew out of a symposium held at the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario in late March 2005. The symposium brought together Canadian academics working in either the competition or class action field, practitioners involved in competition class action cases, judges who had heard some of these cases, and American academics who contributed a valuable comparative law perspective. The speakers each contributed an article to this collection, as did many of the commentators.

Stephen G.A. Pitel has a B.A. from Carleton University, an LL.B. from Dalhousie University, and an LL.M. and Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. He is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario. He has co-authored, edited, or co-edited eight books since 2003 including Litigating Conspiracy: An Analysis of Competition Class Actions (2006) and Emerging Issues in Tort Law (2007). His teaching and research is focused on international commercial litigation, civil procedure, torts, unjust enrichment, and legal ethics. His articles on private international law have been published in the Canadian Bar Review, Canadian Business Law Journal, Journal of Private International Law, and Advocates’ Quarterly. In 2008 he received Western’s Award of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. A former commercial litigator, he has an extensive background in coaching trial and appellate advocacy.

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Kathryn N. Feldman was appointed a justice of the Ontario Court of Justice (General Division) on December 24, 1990, and sat on the Commercial List as well as on criminal and civil matters. She was appointed to the Court of Appeal for Ontario on June 11, 1998. In January 2001, she became the first recipient of the Canadian Superior Court Judges Association President's Award.

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Robert Sharpe was formerly a professor at the Faculty of Law, University of toronto, where he wrote and taught in the areas of constitutional law, remedies, civil procedure, and criminal law. From 1990 to 1995 he served as Dean of the Faculty. He has appeared as counsel in a number of Charter cases in courts at all levels, including the Supreme Court of Canada. From 1988 to 1990, he served as the Supreme Court's Executive Legal Officer. Robert Sharpe was elwcted a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1991. He was appointed to the Ontario Court of Justice (General Division) in 1995 and was appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal in 1999. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1991, awarded the Ontario Bar Association Distinguished Service Award in 2005, elected a Senior Fellow of Massey College in 2006, and received the Mundell Medal for Distinguished Contribution to Law and Letters in 2008. Justice Sharpe has published many scholarly articles and is the author of several award-winning books on law and legal history.

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Kenneth Mackenzie was appointed to the Court of Appeal for British Columbia on June 25, 1998.

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