Antitrust Syllabus

ANTITRUST LAW

 

Syllabus – Winter Quarter 2009

University of Chicago

 

Professor Daniel Crane

(dcrane@yu.edu)

 

 

 

Assigned Text

 

    Pitofsky, Goldschmid, Wood, Trade Regulation: Cases and Materials (5^th ed).

 

    2007 Supplement to Pitofsky, Goldschmid, Wood

 

Assigned Reading

 

1. The goals of antitrust policy; common law antecedents (pp. 1-12, 169-172, 23-35)
   
   
2. Statutory history of antitrust (pp. 35-51; handout on antitrust statutes)
   
   
3. Early development of legal doctrine (pp. 51-66)
   
   
4. Market power, market definition, and the Cellophane fallacy (pp. 128-165)
   
   
5. Market definition – Grinnell and the Merger Guidelines (pp. 165-168, 172-191; Section 1.0-1.322 of the Merger Guidelines, pp. 1034-1042)
   
   
6. Price-fixing and the per se rule (pp. 197-227)
   
   
7. Characterization of joint action (pp. 228-249)
   
   
8. The quick look approach (pp. 249-275)
   
   
9. Professional associations (pp. 276-296)
   
   
10. Horizontal non-price restraints (pp. 297-323)
    
    
11. Boycotts and refusals to deal (pp. 331-345; 354-370; 378-386)
    
    
12. Political "conspiracies" and Antitrust Federalism: The Noerr-Pennington doctrine (pp. 410-418; 443-449; pp. 450-455; 472-483)
    
    
13. Proving collusion (pp. 490-505; Twombly, Supplement; 526-532)
    
    
14. Facilitating practices (586-610; 551-584)
    
    
    
15. Resale price maintenance (pp. 620-645; Leegin (Supplement)
    
    
16. Vertical nonprice restraints (pp. 648-675)
    
    
17. Vertical refusals to deal (pp. 679-711)
    
    
18. Monopolization (pp. 722-750; Trinko (Supplement))
    
    
19. Microsoft (pp. 765-812)
    
    
20. Attempted monopolization (pp. 832-846)
    
    
21. Predatory pricing (pp. 847-870; Weyerhaeuser (Supplement)
    
    
22. Tying (pp. 876-903)
    
    
23. More tying and bundled discounts (pp. 903-924) (3M v. LePages (Supplement))
    
    
24. Exclusive dealing (pp. 935-953)
    
    
25. Merger caselaw (pp. 964-975; 978-990; 994-1110)
    
    

The Merger Guidelines (pp. 1034-1065)