LAW-626 : Antitrust

This course focuses on the policies and legal principles associated with protecting competition and the competitive process through enforcement of the federal antitrust laws, primarily the provisions of the Sherman, Clayton, and Federal Trade Commission Acts. We will study the application of these laws to collusion by rivals, mergers, exclusionary conduct by dominant firms, and various kinds of potentially anticompetitive distribution practices. The course integrates traditional case law study with the use of problems, policy, economic analysis, and consideration of the current antitrust matters in the news, especially those involving the tech-related industries. No prior formal coursework in economics, however, is required. You will quickly come to realize how much of the necessary economic principles you already understand by virtue of your daily encounters with markets.