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- Written by a high-profile attorney with an extensive background and experience in United States antitrust law
- Helps the reader gain familiarity with the law and develop the ability to spot and analyze issues quickly and accurately
- An easy-to-read resource for statutes and regulations that comprise the antitrust laws, the leading Supreme Court decisions that create the framework for analysis found in lower court cases, the elements that must be proved to make out a claim under the various antitrust laws, and the guidelines and policy statements that describe antitrust enforcement at the federal agency level
- The Second Edition features new Supreme Court decisions as well as analyses of important revisions to the Merger Guidelines used by the federal antitrust enforcement agencies and to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Rules and the premerger notification report form
U.S. Antitrust Law and Enforcement provides readers with an updated unique and straight-forward introduction to United States antitrust law. This book delivers a one-stop introduction to the entire field of antitrust law and practice, allowing law firm and in-house practitioners who do not specialize in antitrust, foreign attorneys, newly-minted lawyers, and law students to quickly gain an understanding of the wide variety of issues and policies affected by U.S. antitrust laws. The Second Edition features new Supreme Court decisions as well as analyses of important revisions to the Merger Guidelines used by the federal antitrust enforcement agencies and to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Rules and the premerger notification report form.
U.S. Antitrust Law and Enforcement helps attorneys develop the ability to spot and analyze antitrust law issues by providing an approachable overview of the statutes and regulations that make up the law, the leading Supreme Court decisions that create the framework for analysis found in lower court cases, the elements that must be proved to make out a claim under the various antitrust laws, and the guidelines and policy statements that describe antitrust enforcement at the federal agency level.
Readership: Attorneys (law firm and in-house), foreign attorneys and law students (if college, state course and level)
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Foreword
Chapter 1:Overview and History of U.S. Antitrust Enforcement
Chapter 2:Federal Antitrust Statutes
Chapter 3:Agreements in Restraint of Trade-Sherman Act, Section 1
Chapter 4: Monopolization and Attempted Monopolization-Sherman Act, Section 2
Chapter 5: Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures-Clayton Act, Section 7
Chapter 6:Premerger Notification-The Hart-Scott-Rodino Act
Chapter 7:Price Discrimination-The Robinson-Patman Act
Chapter 8:Antitrust Enforcement
Appendices
Glossary of Antitrust and Related Terms
Table of cases
Index
Douglas Broder, Partner & Co-Chair of the Global Antitrust Practice, K&L Gates
Douglas Broder is a leader of the global antitrust practice at K&L Gates LLP. He has been practicing antitrust law and commercial and appellate litigation in New York City since 1977. Mr. Broder is the author of two earlier books on antitrust law and practice as well as of numerous book chapters and articles on antitrust and on written advocacy. For over twenty years, Mr. Broder has served as the US law reporter for the monthly European Competition Law Review.
