The use of videotapes, demonstrations, and role play exercises will give students a better understanding of the skills involved in these various methods of dispute resolution. There are five 2 to 3 page papers and one 10 page paper. This is a three unit course offered and taught jointly in the law school and the Department of Economics. It surveys several important areas of current federal antitrust policy, but the economics is somewhat more sophisticated than that found in the basic law school antitrust course. Topics covered include federal merger policy, monopolization, predatory pricing, vertical restrictions and resale price maintenance, private enforcement, as well as others.
Readings come from both the case law and other literature, and there is a final exam.
Either a basic antitrust or macroeconomics course is generally a prerequisite. However, students who fail to meet this prerequisite may seek the consent of one of the instructors. This course will provide a comprehensive introduction to the federal antitrust laws dealing with restraints of trade, monopolization and mergers. Familiarity with economics is not a prerequisite. I must be taken in the second year.