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,...

In Eleanor Fox and Mor Bakhoum's new book titled Making Markets Work for Africa: Markets, Developments, and Competition Law in Sub-Saharan Africa (Oxford University Press, 2019), the authors offer a comprehensive look at the role that competition law can play in promoting economic development as...

In the course of its investigation of digital platforms the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee invited submissions on 1) the adequacy of existing laws that prohibit monopolization and monopolistic conduct; 2) the adequacy of existing laws that prohibit anticompetitive transactions; and 3)...

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...

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...

A dreary debate has occupied the antitrust community over the past 30 years. The debate is a more elegant, scholarly version of the commercials for Miller Lite beer that ran during much of the same period. In the beer commercials, one group of modestly recognizable celebrities and personalities...

The late Phillip Areeda's 1990 article Essential Facilities: An Epithet in Need of Limiting Principles has had a profound impact on the development on the essential facilities doctrine in antitrust law. It has become the intellectual basis for the critique and roll back of a doctrine that has...

At first glance, Holmes's general prominence in American jurisprudence does not appear to carry over into antitrust law. His antitrust opinions often appear to a modern reader perverse. Early in his tenure on the Supreme Court, he opined in his famous dissent in Northern Securities Co. v. United...