Competition Law, The Basic Functions Of Research

Studies in the functions of competition laws is limited to the analysis of competition laws' actions, legislative intentions in the past years. This paper describes the functions of competition laws comprehensively in the Functional Analysis Way.The thesis can be divided into four sections. The first part is mainly related to the concepts of function and law's function, discusses the relationships and differences existing in law's action , legislative intention, law's value and law's function, and then specifies the ranges of research into competition laws' function in the Way of Functional Analysis.The second part is focus of this paper, mainly discussing the definition of competition law, the generation of competition laws' function, the relationship between its form and function. It ends with two angles, namely, functional and dysfunctional, and then treats contemporary competition laws functions from the two angles.The third part involves in development of the competition laws' functions. It approaches the latest .tendencies of these functions from three points of view: competitive theory, economic globalization and knowledge economy.The author makes a thorough inquiry into flaws of Chinese competition laws' functions in the last section of this article, and givessome suggestion about how to deal with those obstacles.