Antitrust Law: Interpretation and Implementation, 4th Edition
The Fourth Edition of Goetz & McChesney, Antitrust Law: Interpretation and Implementation will be available to users in ample time for Spring 2009 classroom use.
This new edition is extensively reworked and updated, incorporating the unusually important developments that emerged from the Supreme Court in the past two Terms as well as some new wrinkles in the lower courts. For instance, a thoroughly revamped Chapter 5 highlights the extremely significant changes in the law of vertical restraints. Chapter 2’s new “Early Exits” section focuses on the new cases triggering dismissal for factual insufficiency (Twombly) or preclusion (Credit Suisse). Elsewhere, numerous new developments are integrated and the Notes updated, all reflecting the most exciting and new areas of case-law, subject-matter (e.g., a student-engaging MP3 music case) and doctrinal themes.
This edition of the casebook remains true to the authors’ original aims, aims that distinguish it from other leading competitors in the antitrust casebook market. Thus, the 4th edition:
- Focuses more than other texts on lower-court interpretations and applications of antitrust principles, minimizing the importance of older “classic cases” from the Supreme Court except to the extent they influence antitrust today;
- Makes more use of materials from actual cases and real-life situations, introducing students to the world of actual complaints, expert reports, jury instructions, and (new in this 4th edition) certiorari petitions, amicus briefs, and illustrative trial exhibits;
- Concentrates on the sorts of problems encountered (indeed, sometimes unwittingly created) by lawyers who do not specialize in antitrust, but practice in areas—especially business contracting—where antitrust concerns must permeate any truly able attorney’s planning and drafting process;
- Emphasizes that modern antitrust continues to evolve under the motivating force of applied economics, but also that the learning required to be economics-capable in the antitrust arena 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 (pun intended) way, omitting material that pads many other texts but which an instructor typically will not even dream of having time to cover
- Makes available to instructors adopting the text a comprehensive set of very sophisticated instructional Powerpoint slides linked informatively to each section of the book
For those already planning to use the text in its current (third) edition this Fall, new material will be made available--via the "Excerpts" link of this on-line support site--in time for the Fall semester. In particular, instructors have access to the text of the Fourth Edition’s new Chapter 5 in its entirety. This material is easily downloadable and, already formatted in a fashion identical to the current 3rd edition, can be provided to students as hard-copy printouts--or, students can access the new material in electronic form directly from the website.
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