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United States of America - Global Competition and Consumer Law - LibGuides at University of Melbourne
Antitrust Law in the United States
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US Legal Research Guide
For more detailed information on US legal research, see our United States Legal Research Guide: Introduction.
Inquiries, Reports & Guidelines
Legal Information Institute - Overview of US Antitrust Law
Provides concise reports on regulatory framework in U.S in the areas of cartel regulation, dominance, IP & antitrust, merger control, private antitrust litigation, pharmaceutical antitrust, vertical agreements and product liability.
Includes concise chapters for cartels & leniency, competition litigation, merger control and product liability in U.S.
Published by the Practising Law Insitute, this resource provides a basic, practical overview of U.S. antitrust law.
Comprehensive review of federal antitrust law, with reports on current case law and administrative and legislative developments.
Annual supplements to Antitrust Law Developments, including developments for a particular year in the courts, at the agencies, and in Congress.
Bloomberg BNA - Antitrust & Trade Regulation Resource Center
Includes the Antitrust & Trade Regulation Report, Antitrust & Trade Regulation Daily, etc.
Callman on Unfair Competition, Trademarks & Monopolies
Updated three times anually, this resource provides a thorough analysis of unfair competition and trademark law. To access: type "Callman on Unfair Competition" into the search box.
Provides a table summarising each state’s statutes. Browse by Category: Business and Consumer Laws or alternatively Browse Laws by Topic: Antitrust.
Restatement of Law - Unfair Competition
Restatements of the Law are a set of highly regarded treatises on general principles of common law. It's aim is to distill the "black letter law" from cases, to indicate a trend in common law. Includes a chapter on deceptive marketing and a table of recent cases.
Log in to Westlaw, Type in Restatement of Law - Unfair Competition. Click on Restatement (Third) of Unfair Competition. You can browse or search the content.
Westlaw - Practitioner Insights for Antitrust
Includes Antitrust Analysis, News and Insights from Reuters, etc. To access: click on Practice Areas tab > select Antitrust.
Westlaw - Federal Control of Business
Includes chapters on monopoly and various acts related to competition in U.S.
To access, log in to Westlaw and start type in Federal Control of Business.
Includes a chapter: Monopolies, Restrains of Trade and Unfair Trade Practices.
To access, log in to Westlaw and start type in American Jurisprudence 2d, scroll down to Monopolies, Restrains of Trade and Unfair Trade Practices.
Includes chapters on credit reporting agencies and consumer protection as well as monopolies and unfair competition.
To access, log in to Westlaw and start type in Corpus Juris Secundum, scroll down to topics.
Published by the American Bar Association - Antitrust Section.
Published by Bloomberg, this source provides information on developments in the enforcement of federal, state, and foreign competition and deceptive trade practice laws.
Published by Bloomberg, this report covers activities of the Federal Trade Commission, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, and the Supreme Court.
Antitrust & Trade News
Published by Bloomberg Law. You will need to register with Bloomberg to access. To register, search Bloomberg Law in the catalogue.
Published by New York Times.
Consumer Protection & the Law
Updated annually, this is a guide to consumer protection laws in the United States.
Annotated US Legislation
For more information on how to search for annotated US Code, see the United States Legal Research Guide.
Westlaw - Global Competition & Antitrust
Provides United States Statutes & Court Rules on competition and antitrust:
Title 15, Chapter 1 - Monopolies and Combinations in Restraint of Trade (Clayton Act, Sherman Act, HSR Act)
Title 15, Chapter 2, Subchapter 1 - Federal Trade Commission (Federal Trade Commission Act)
Log in to Westlaw, type in Global Competition & Antitrust Legislation, select United States under the heading Legislation. You can browse or search the content.
Contains federal and state legislation, including the United States Code Annotated (USCA).
To access antitrust legislation, click on the "Practice Areas" tab > Antitrust > on the right side of the page under "Browse Antitrust", click on Statutes & Court Rules
Lexis (US)
Contains federal and state legislation, including the United States Code Service - an annotated version of the US Code.
Federal Antitrust Acts
For more information on how to search for US federal legislation, see the United States Legal Research Guide. Note, the below acts are from the Legal Information Institute and may not be current.
Use Westlaw (previously Westlaw International) to find codified and more up to date versions of the acts. Click on 'Federal Materials' and select 'United States Code Annotated'. The annotated version provides valuable section by section commentary.
Sherman Act 26 Stat. 209, codified at 15 U.S.C. §§ 1–7
Pub.L. 63–212, 38 Stat. 730, codified at 15 U.S.C. §§ 12–27, 29 U.S.C. §§ 52–53
§ 28, Pub. L. 109–455, § 11(1), Dec. 22, 2006, 120 Stat. 3381, codified at 15 U.S.C. §§ 41-58
The Robinson-Patman Act of 1913
Also known as the Anti-Price Discrimination Act. Pub. L. No. 74-692, 49 Stat. 1526, codified at 15 U.S.C. § 13
Commonly referred to as the HSR Act. PL 94-435; codified at 15 U.S.C. §18a
State Antitrust Legislation
For more information on how to search for US state legislation, see the United States Legal Research Guide.
Westlaw provides a survey with links to antitrust legislation in the 50 states in the US.
Gives an overview of Antitrust followed by a table briefly summating each state’s statutes. The database is updated quarterly.
To access Bloomberg Law you must first register for a username and password. Follow the instructions from the above link.
To access the State Antitrust Law Directory: click on the "Practice Centers" tab > Antitrust > under Resources, select "Laws & Regulations" > select "State Antitrust Law Directory"
Provides a list to state antitrust legislation and relevant agencies.
Finding US Cases
For an introduction to finding US cases, see the United States Legal Research Guide.
Browse Recent Antitrust / Competition Cases
Bloomberg BNA - Latest Antitrust Cases
Bloomberg BNA - Latest Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices Cases
Bloomberg BNA - Latest State Cases
Bloomberg BNA - Latest International Cases
Westlaw - Antitrust Cases
Browse recent federal antitrust cases by clicking on Practice Areas tab > under Browse Antitrust (upper right), select Cases.
Use case citators to find subsequent cases that have considered your case, parallel citations, litigation history, and related secondary legal materials.
Use this free citator to see subsequent treatment from cases around the world.
Most journal articles will be found online. Search the Law Library's journal articles databases to find articles related to U.S. legal topics. The listed databases below are the best ones for finding articles related to U.S. legal research.
LegalTrac provides indexing and selective full-text for all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals and legal newspapers. The database offers coverage of mainly U.S. federal and state cases, laws and regulations, legal practice and taxation, as well as British Commonwealth, European Union, and international law.
HeinOnline's Law Journal Library is a full text legal journals database. The collection includes American Bar Association journals, core U.S. law journals, criminal justice journals, international and non-U.S. law journals, intellectual property law journals, and most-cited law journals.
Contains approximately 900 full text journals, law reviews, bar journals and legal newspapers. Mainly US and Canadian titles.
Contains 700+ full text journals, law reviews and bar journals. Focus is on US, Canadian and UK titles.
A large international scholarly business database including both bibliographic and full text content.
A large international business database which includes competition law.
An economics specific database that includes journal articles, working papers and theses.
A law, business and economics database that includes journal articles, working papers and forthcoming papers.
SSRN Research Papers are free to all, but all users must register and create an account to download papers.
Antitrust / Competition Law Journal Titles - United States
Antitrust (Antitrust Magazine)
Other Competition Journal Titles
Restraint of trade - United States
You also can search across various Ebook platforms allowing you to search full text of books.
Please see the Law ebooks research guide for more information about searching ebook platforms.
Selected Ebooks on United States Antitrust / Competition Law
Antitrust Economics on Trial by Walter Adams; James W. Brock
Collective Dominance and Collusion by Marilena Filippelli
Edward Elgar Pub. Ltd.
The Criminal Law of Competition in the UK and in the US by Mark Furse
Economics and the Interpretation and Application of U. S. and E. U. Antitrust Law by Richard S. Markovits
EU and US Antitrust Arbitration by Gordon Blanke
EU and US Competition Law - Divided in Unity? by Csongor István Nagy
Intellectual Property and Antitrust by Mariateresa Maggiolino
Intellectual Property and Competition by Michael A. Carrier (Editor)
Mergers, Merger Control, and Remedies by John Kwoka
Private Enforcement of Antitrust Law in the United States by Albert A. Foer (Editor); Randy M. Stutz (Editor); A. A. Foer (Editor); R. M. Stutz (Editor)
Standardization under EU Competition Rules and US Antitrust Laws by Björn Lundqvist
Selected Ebooks on United States Consumer Protection Law
Mass Marketing and Consumer Fraud by Martin A. Parham
More Than You Wanted to Know by Omri Ben-Shahar; Carl E. Schneider
Regulatory Breakdown by Cary Coglianese (Editor)
The Regulatory Revolution at the FTC by James C. Cooper (Editor)
The Division prosecutes certain violations of the antitrust laws by filing criminal suits that can lead to large fines and jail sentences. In other cases, the Division institutes a civil action seeking a court order forbidding future violations of the law and requiring steps to remedy the anticompetitive effects of past violations.
The FTC is the only federal agency with both consumer protection and competition jurisdiction in broad sectors of the economy. The FTC's stated stategic goals are:
1) Protect Consumers: Prevent fraud, deception, and unfair business practices in the marketplace.
2) Maintain Competition: Prevent anticompetitive mergers and other anticompetitive business practices in the marketplace.
3) Advance Performance: Advance the FTC’s performance through organizational, individual, and management excellence.
US Department of Justice - International Antitrust
Fosters international competition policy cooperation by collaborating with enforcement agencies in other jurisdiction.
Please note, the references provided are not exhaustive of all the inquiries, reports and guidelines of the competition authorities in the United States.
Federal Trade Commission - Reports
Reports by the Federal Trade Commission that focus on antitrust and consumer protection trends.
The U.S. Department of Justice website lists Guidelines and Policy Statements.
The U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission provide Horizontal Merger Guidelines (August 2010)
See more information on Merger Enforcement.
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