CADE issues a special edition of its journal for the tenth anniversary of the Brazilian Competition Law

The Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) will publish in May a special issue of its journal Revista de Defesa da Concorrência (Journal of Competition Defence), with articles about the Brazilian Competition Law (Law 12529/2011). The initiative celebrates the 10th anniversary of a law that gave CADE a more significant role by bringing in new duties and institutional innovations.

The thematic issue gives academics, practitioners, and citizens alike the opportunity to discuss the statute's positive impact on the Brazilian economy after a decade in force, its importance in fighting anticompetitive conduct, its effects on consumer welfare, amongst other relevant topics.

Papers should be original, written in Portuguese, English, French, or Spanish, and submitted electronically through the journal's website. The journal's editorial process involves an initial screening of the format and content of papers against the journal's scope and parameters.

If a work passes the first stage, expert referees external to CADE will examine it and then approve, sometimes requiring changes, or reject it. The submission and analysis happen electronically and keep the authors’ identity unknown through a blind review process.

Background

CADE published its first periodical title on policies of competition protection in 1975, the Revista de Direito Econômico (Journal of Economic Law). In 2004, the publication was renamed Revista de Direito da Concorrência (Journal of Competition Law), and only in 2013, it gained its current title Revista de Defesa da Concorrência (Journal of Competition Defence).

The journal is published by CADE every six months to foster academic production on competition protection. The first issue under the current format was launched in the first half of 2013, bringing editorial changes planned since the enactment of the new Competition Law (Law 12529/2011).

In 2015, after only two years of publication, Capes (a body linked to the Ministry of Education) ranked the journal B2 in the Qualis programme, which assesses scientific publications. In the subsequent evaluation, the journal rated B1. The Capes index is updated regularly and ranks the quality of academic journals as A1, A2, B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, and C, where A1 is the highest rate.

Find out more on the journal website.