Antitrust Law

This course focuses on the statutes and regulations that promote fair and open competition within different industries and geographic markets. Antitrust laws scrutinize monopoly activity, price-fixing and collusion, bid-rigging, merger plans between businesses, price discrimination, group boycotts, and a range of other business conduct that, depending on the circumstances and the impact on the consumer, may run afoul of the law. There is a core set of relevant statutes –perhaps most central is the Sherman Act – and a little over a century of case law fleshing out the rules; state antitrust laws tend to follow federal statutes.

Lecturer - Olta Andoni