Corporate & Securities Law

Google/DoubleClick and the Power of Information to Raise Antitrust Concerns in Vertical Mergers

Posted on March 24, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David Went (Sidley Austin) and Stephen Kinsella (Sidley Austin) discuss Google/DoubleClick and the Power of Information to Raise Antitrust Concerns in Vertical Mergers. Last week, following an investigation that lasted almost six months but that...

Beyond Critical Loss: Properly Applying the Hypothetical Monopolist Test

Posted on March 24, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Greg Werden of DOJ Antitrust discusses Beyond Critical Loss: Properly Applying the Hypothetical Monopolist Test in his latest article. ABSTRACT: The hypothetical monopolist test (HMT) for market delineation holds that a group of products and...

New Antitrust Research Fellowship For Aspiring Law and Economics Profs

Posted on March 23, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Loyola University Chicago School of Law Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies has announced a new Research Fellowship. The Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies invites applications for a Research Fellowship for the upcoming academic year (2008-09)...

2007 Annual Review of Antitrust Law Developments

Posted on March 23, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Recently published is the ABA Antitrust Section's 2007 Annual Review of Antitrust Law Developments. SUMMARY: For over 35 years, Antitrust Law Developments and its annual supplements have been recognized as the single most authoritative and...

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EC Competition Law: An Analytical Guide to the Leading Cases

Posted on March 22, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol New from Hart Publishing is EC Competition Law: An Analytical Guide to the Leading Cases by Ariel Ezrachi (Oxford Faculty of Law). BOOK SUMMARY: This book is a concise, highly practical guide to the leading...

Mergers and Acquisitions: Understanding the Antitrust Issues

Posted on March 21, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The ABA Antitrust Section has just released Mergers and Acquisitions: Understanding the Antitrust Issues, Third Edition. SUMMARY: Since the publication of the first edition of Mergers and Acquisitions, the federal agencies and state attorneys general...

Teaching Fellowships for Aspiring Law Professors

Posted on March 21, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Paul Caron at Tax Prof Blog has listed various law teaching and research fellowships to help enter the world of legal academics. These programs have proliferated in recent years and in most cases an advanced...

Market Definition, Competition, and Privacy in the Google/DoubleClick Transaction

Posted on March 21, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Mark Seidman (Federal Trade Commission) & Christine Naglieri (Federal Trade Commission) discuss two of the key issues: market definition in the online advertising industry; and the interplay of competition and privacy concerns in their article...

The Use of Customer Surveys For Market Definition and the Competitive Assessment of Horizontal Mergers

Posted on March 20, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Graeme Reynolds (Economic Adviser, U.K. Competition Commission) and Chris Walters (Assistant Director, Mergers, Office of Fair Trading) have written on The Use of Customer Surveys For Market Definition and the Competitive Assessment of Horizontal Mergers...

Managing Economic Analysis in Competition Law

Posted on March 20, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The European School of Management and Technology will be holding a conference on Managing Economic Analysis in Competition Law on April 11-12, 2008. Modern EU competition law focuses on an effects-based analysis. The handling of...

Call For Papers - Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy

Posted on March 20, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Northwestern University School of Law Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth CALL FOR PAPERS "ANTITRUST ECONOMICS AND COMPETITION POLICY" September 26th & 27th, 2008 The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth...

The Roberts Court after Two Years: Antitrust, Intellectual Property Rights, and Competition Policy

Posted on March 19, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Rudolph Peritz of New York Law School provides his analysis of the Roberts Court's antitrust jurisprudence in his paper The Roberts Court after Two Years: Antitrust, Intellectual Property Rights, and Competition Policy. ABSTRACT: The Supreme...

Cy Pres as an Antitrust Remedy

Posted on March 19, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Bert Foer of the American Antitrust Institute discusses Cy Pres as an Antitrust Remedy in his latest working paper. ABSTRACT: This paper discusses the cy pres doctrine and more specifically the courts? authority to use...

Critical Loss Analysis in the Whole Foods Case

Posted on March 19, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Kevin Murphy (University of Chicago Graduate School of Business) and Robert Topel (University of Chicago Graduate School of Business) discuss Critical Loss Analysis in the Whole Foods Case. ABSTRACT: In the matter of the U.S...

Elhauge's United States Antitrust Law and Economics

Posted on March 18, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol New to the casebook world next month is Einer Elhauge's United States Antitrust Law and Economics. Einer's recent Global Antitrust Law and Economics (along with Damien Geradin) is a first rate comparative antitrust casebook.

Remedies for Dominant Firm Misconduct

Posted on March 18, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Chris Sprigman of UVA Law School is helping the ABA Antitrust Section put together what looks to be a great program on Remedies for Dominant Firm Misconduct on June 5, 2008 at UVA. Download aba_remedies_schedule.doc...

RPM as an Exclusionary Practice

Posted on March 18, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ittai Paldor of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law offers a contrarian take on RPM in his piece RPM as an Exclusionary Practice. ABSTRACT: The existing explanations for resale price maintenance (RPM) are divided...

St. Patrick's Day, Ireland and Competition Policy

Posted on March 17, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol You could not ask for better timing. Earlier this year, the Irish Competition Authority undertook some competition advocacy work involving the alcohol sector. As its news release on the report states, "The Competition Authority has...

The Celtic Tiger and Competition Policy

Posted on March 17, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ireland has been the economic success story of Europe of the past two decades. Two weeks ago, the Irish Competition Authority released its 2007 Annual Report. The report gives a sense of how competition policy...

Report on Competition Issues in the Norwegian Software Market

Posted on March 17, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol New on the Norwegian Competition Authority website is its report on Norwegian software markets. In 2007 the Norwegian Competition Authority took a closer look at the Norwegian software markets. The software markets differ from traditional...

The Growing Influence of Economics and Economists on Antitrust: An Extended Discussion

Posted on March 16, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Lawrence White of NYU's Economics Department and Stern School of Business provides some good insights in his latest work The Growing Influence of Economics and Economists on Antitrust: An Extended Discussion. ABSTRACT: Over the past...

Central American Competition Bulletin

Posted on March 15, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The first edition of the Central American Competition Bulletin is now out. This Bulletin is the effort of the staff members of the Central American Competition Authorities. Download 1a20edicic3b3n2020boletc3adn20ca20205mar082020ingles...

Competition Law And Patents

Posted on March 14, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Out this month from Edward Elgar Publishing is Competition Law And Patents by Irina Haracoglou. SUMMARY: Within the broad context of the relationship between intellectual property rights and competition law, this book takes the example...

Latest on Efforts to Reform Mexico's Competition Law

Posted on March 14, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Efforts are underway by Mexico's Comisión Federal de Competencia (CFC) to reform Mexican competition law to give it more teeth. The CFC is pushing for greater sanctions against anticompetitive behavior with penalties based upon 15%...

Antitrust Handbook for Franchise and Distribution Practitioners

Posted on March 14, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The new Antitrust Handbook for Franchise and Distribution Practitioners is out. SUMMARY: Organized by issue--pricing and advertising, customer and territorial restrictions, exclusive dealing, purchasing constraints, and joint franchisee action--to enhance its usefulness to practitioners, this...

Behavioral Economics and the Federal Trade Commission

Posted on March 13, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Former FTC economist Joseph P. Mulholland of Westport63 Consulting has posted the interesting Behavioral Economics and the Federal Trade Commission. ABSTRACT: This paper discusses the relevance of behavioral economics to consumer protection policy, especially to...

AAI Summer Conference - The Next Antitrust Agenda

Posted on March 13, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The American Antitrust Institute's newsletter (see below) provides registration details about their June 18-19 conference "The Next Antitrust Agenda", which will focus on antitrust priorities for the next administration. Download AAI2008_NewsletterFINAL...

The Decision of the Commission to Fine Microsoft ?899 millions for Non-Compliance With Its 2004 Decision: A Discussion on Procedure and Substance

Posted on March 13, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The College of Europe's Global Competition Law Centre will host a talk The Decision of the Commission to Fine Microsoft ?899 millions for Non-Compliance With Its 2004 Decision: A Discussion on Procedure and Substance on...

Call for Nominations for the Jerry S. Cohen Award for Best Antitrust Scholarship of 2007

Posted on March 12, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol From AAI: Wanted - The Best Antitrust Scholarship of 2007: Call for Nominations The Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Charitable Trust is again seeking nominations for its annual award for best antitrust scholarship. Legal, economic, and...

Profit Neutrality in Licensing: The Boundary between Antitrust Law and Patent Law

Posted on March 12, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Stephen M. Maurer and Suzanne Scotchmer both of Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy address Profit Neutrality in Licensing: The Boundary between Antitrust Law and Patent Law. ABSTRACT: We address the patent/antitrust conflict in licensing...

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