ANTITRUST

Catalog description

This course covers antitrust and competition laws as they impact companies and consumers. The focus is primarily, but not exclusively, on federal antitrust law. The faculty will cover key procedural aspects of antitrust practice, including class actions and grand jury practice. Students taking this course will learn about price fixing, market division, exclusionary conduct, tying sales, exclusive dealing, price and non-price vertical restraints, monopolization and attempted monopolization, price discrimination, business torts, and merger practice. This learning will cover both prosecution and defense of actions involving alleged restraints of trade. Faculty will also cover applications of traditional antitrust doctrines to new developments like algorithmic price fixing. A background in economics is helpful but not required. Economic and political considerations are explored as they may affect the potential evolution of antitrust and competition law in state and federal courts.