In 2017, Professor Alexandra Lahav of the University of Connecticut School of Law published an impressive book entitled In Praise of Litigation. She argues that private civil litigation in the United States is an important tool for democracy. In the preface and introduction, she explains how...

Antitrust has been impoverished as a discipline by systematically devaluing business discourse in favor of a nearly exclusive reliance on one form of economics as its guiding discipline. I have previously discussed elsewhere the historical reasons why antitrust has ignored the theories that...

This article introduces a special symposium issue of the Antitrust Law Journal based on a conference on monopolization. It argues that monopolization law has been experiencing simultaneous expansion and contraction processes that are not wholly contradictory but at least partly complementary....

David Gerber's scholarship has been an inspiration and a major contribution to international competition policy. His earlier book Law and Competition in Twentieth Century Europe: Protecting Prometheus made a compelling case that there is a European competition law that stands apart from US...

The following is a compilation of short book reviews I have prepared over the past two years for the World Competition Law & Economics Review or the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, Loyola University Chicago School of Law website. In one case, the book discussed was published in 2010,...

If the only thing one knew about US antitrust law were the decision of the United States Supreme Court, you would have a decidedly unbalanced view of the law. Defendants have won the vast majority of cases in that court since the early 1990s. The tone of the majority opinions of the Court has...

This paper, presented at the Oxford Conference "Online Markets and Offline Welfare Effects," explores two areas that were not the focus of the conference but that are quite important to how competition law will deal with Internet markets and their challenges: (1) the role of private rights of...

The Antitrust Marathon is a long-running series of roundtable discussions sponsored by the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies of Loyola University Chicago School of Law and the Competition Law Forum of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, focusing on enduring issues...

The inherent limitations of remedies as a method of resolving competitive concerns with mergers have become more evident. The expansive use of remedies in actual practice has likely exceeded the capabilities of agencies and courts; and empirical evidence has increasingly cast doubt on their...