Publisher's Synopsis
The new edition of the casebook, which welcomes Thomas A. Lambert as a co-author, remains true to its original goals, in that it:
- focuses more than other texts on lower-court interpretations and application of antitrust principles, minimizing the importance of older “classic cases” from the Supreme Court except to the extent they influence antitrust today
- makes use of materials from actual cases and real-life situations, materials such as complaints, expert reports, pleadings and jury instructions
- exposes the sorts of problems encountered (indeed, sometimes created) by lawyers who do not necessarily specialize in antitrust, but work in contract-related areas where antitrust concerns must be part of the attorney's planning and drafting
- emphasizes that modern antitrust continues to evolve as a branch of applied microeconomics, but also that the learning required to be economically literate is neither as complicated nor as lengthy as presented in other texts
- is geared for a one-semester course by presenting the antitrust basics in an economical way, omitting material that pads many other texts but which an instructor typically will not have time to cover
- makes available to instructors adopting the text a large set of visual-aid slides prepared specially for this book.
