Antitrust Law

Catalog description

The course provides an introduction to antitrust law, focusing on its application in various competitive relationships and practices, including restraints of trade, price-fixing, tying arrangements, exclusive dealing, refusals to deal, conduct by a dominant firm, loyalty programs and mergers and acquisitions. In addition to teaching the substantive law of the Sherman and Clayton Acts, the course will provide a look at government and private enforcement of the antitrust laws, issues of business planning and the application of the antitrust laws to the new technologies.