This course will provide a comprehensive introduction to the federal antitrust laws dealing with restraints of trade, monopolization and mergers. 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 examines issues affecting creative artists, financiers, producers and other participants in the world of theater, print publishing, motion pictures, television, music, and the fine arts. The course also examines the balance between First Amendment interests and the individual rights of creative artists. Special emphasis will be given to the manner in which copyright protections affect new technologies, such as videotaping, computer hardware and software, electronic data transfer, and cable television rebroadcast, and the ability of such legal concepts to keep pace with technological developments.