2009 Archive
December 2009
Spencer Weber Waller
Professor and Director
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
Competition and Consumer Papers: http://www.oft.gov.uk/news/speeches/2009/1209
"First Business" Interview with Professor Waller on Comcast-GE merger
November 2009
Conference Announcement: New Frontiers of Antitrust, February 2010, Paris
Brazilian Legal Newspaper Interview with Professor Waller
October 2009
Concurring Opinions: Do We Need A Law of the Brand?
Patrick Polcari
Research Associate
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
September 2009
Audio of September 11th Loyola-ABA Program
Complete audio of the September program with the Antitrust Section of the ABA on Designing Better Institutions for Deciding Antitrust Issues is now available at http://www.abanet.org/antitrust/at-programs/symp-09/audio.html.
August 2009
Recent Antitrust Stories on National Public Radio
NPR recently featured two different antitrust-related stories in its Story of the Day. In its detailed story on competition and antitrust policy in the dairy sector, NPR features an interview with Peter Carstensen of the Wisconsin Law School who is also a member of the Institute Advisory Board. In a later story, NPR focuses on the fate of the Toyota plant in Fremont California which was the subject of the Toyota-GM joint venture that drew such close FTC antitrust scrutiny in the 1980s. These stories in both print and audio form are available at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112002639 and http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112118267.
New English Language Journal on Polish Competition and Regulatory Law
The Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies at the University of Warsaw has just published the first volume of the Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies. This is a first-rate English language resource for developments in Polish competition law. The first volume contains article on parallel trade in the EU; the goals of Polish antitrust law, private antitrust enforcement in Poland; telecommunications law; state-owned infrasturcture; copyright collectives, and a variety of legislative, case comments, and book reviews. For now, this appears to be a hard-copy only publication with a web site under construction at http://www.wz.uw.edu.pl/csair
Spencer Weber Waller
Professor and Director
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
July 2009
Professor Christopher Leslie of the University of California-Irvine School of Law has just published the first major critique of judgment sharing agreements in antitrust litigation. A copy of his thorough and excellent article is available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1400968.
June 2009
William Schubert
Student Fellow
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
REVIEW: ABA Section of Antitrust Law, Issues in Competition Law and Policy (2008)
Spencer Weber Waller
Professor and Director
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
Spencer Weber Waller
Professor and Director
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
REVIEW: ABA Section of Antitrust Law, Antitrust and Associations Handbook (2009)
Spencer Weber Waller
Professor and Director
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
May 2009
Thomas Weber
Student Fellow
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
See Professor Waller's interview on First Business on antitrust in the Obama Administration with a hot link to http://www.firstbusinessx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1337&Itemid=76
April 2009
Registration Open for AAI's Annual National Conference
On June 18, the American Antitrust Institute will host its 10th annual conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. This year's conference is titled "International Antitrust in a World without a Center" and will focus on international challenges facing the antitrust community.
The AAI is honored to host Mario Monti, former European commissioner for competition and now president of the Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi in Milan, and John Fingleton, the chief executive officer of the U.K. Office of Fair Trading, as speakers on the June 18 program.
Click here for complete agenda and to register today. http://www.antitrustinstitute.org/Events/EventDetails.aspx?eventId=32.
The Congressional Agenda in Antitrust (PDF)
Matt Showel
Student Fellow
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
The Melbourne Law School in Australia has launched a new Cartel Project. The web site can be found at http://www.cartel.law.unimelb.edu.au.
March 2009
Twenty Top Consumer Complaints of 2008
Comments on Draft Canadian Competition Guidelines (PDF)
February 2009
The EC Commission Article 82 Guidance
Femi Alese
Senior Research Fellow
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
Broadening Tobacco Litigation: A Look at Altria Group, Inc. v. Good (PDF)
Patrick Polcari
Student Fellow
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
January 2009
Justice Department's Section 2 Report Sparks a Heated Debate in the Antitrust Community (PDF)
by Dawn Goulet
(as published in 21 Loy. Cons. L. Rev. 268 (2008))
Spencer Weber Waller
Professor and Director
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
Spencer Weber Waller
Professor and Director
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of Law