Antitrust Analysis: Problems, Text, Cases, Sixth Edition

Antitrust Analysis: Problems, Text, and Cases earned the respect of instructors nationwide by its dependable and distinguished treatment of the history of antitrust law and its up-to-date coverage of horizontal and vertical agreements, mergers, and monopolies. Now, in its Sixth Edition, this highly regarded casebook covers a wealth of new material with the same authority and insight for which the book is so well known.

The book builds on the strengths that have made it such a longtime favorite:

• exceptional authorship, with two of the leading lawyer economists of the early 21st century revising and updating the work of Phillip Areeda, the leading antitrust commentator of the 20th century
• effective pedagogy: traditional casebook with cases, explanatory text, and problems
• insightful textual examples that convey essential background information
• and necessary economic principles thorough Appendix containing Selected Statutes, the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act, and the Federal Trade Commission Act
• complete Teacher's Manual

• updated chapter on Mergers now discusses current merger practice, emphasizes agency enforcement standards, presents compelling examples, and considers the range of negotiated remedies and the importance of international law
• older Supreme Court cases are converted to note form or omitted
• recent lower court decisions, such as FTC v. Staples, give students an understanding of modern litigation
• streamlined chapter on Vertical Restraints includes recent cases and new text to provide a more coherent framework for this complicated area in major revisions to the chapter on monopolization include the Microsoft
• and American Airlines cases

With the added expertise of new co-author Aaron Edlin, the definitive antitrust casebook is now also the most current. When you examine your complimentary copy, you will see why Antitrust Anaysis: Problems, Text, and Cases, Sixth Edition, is sure to continue as the standard in law school classes.

A textbook for a course on antitrust law. The cases, edited and organized for easy comprehension, are augmented with discussions of the economic theory and behavior necessary to understand the purpose of antitrust laws, and several hundred questions and problems. It has been updated periodically since 1967, here from 1997, to incorporate recent cases. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR