Can Two Parties Settle What Belongs to the Market? Antitrust Arbitrability and the CCI's Settlement Powers

Introduction: ADR Promise and Anti-trust paradox A Puerto Rican car dealership found itself compelled to arbitrate upon an antitrust matter before a panel of Japanese lawyers in Tokyo in 1985. In 1999, a Dutch court was told by the European Court of Justice that it had to annul an arbitral award that had ignored a foundational competition law prohibition. Further, in 2025, an Indian company under investigation for abuse of dominance could walk into the Competition Commission of India and...