Understanding Antitrust and Its Economic Implications (Understanding Series) - Softcover

Leslie, Christopher; Sullivan, E. Thomas; Harrison, Jeffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1531031269 ISBN 13: 9781531031268

Publisher: Carolina Academic Press, 2026

Synopsis

This Understanding treatise explains the essential concepts of antitrust law. Over the last several decades, the Supreme Court and lower federal courts have fundamentally reshaped antitrust doctrine, often addressing new forms of anticompetitive conduct and incorporating new economic theories. The eighth edition of Understanding Antitrust and Its Economic Implications describes the current state of antitrust law as well as its historical foundations, economic underpinnings, and the evolution of the law. This edition addresses new developments in several areas, including:

• Direct-purchaser requirement
• Proving agreements with circumstantial evidence
• Summary judgment standards and applications
• Quick-look analysis
• The economics of monopolization
• Anticompetitive product design
• Abuse of patents and other intellectual property rights
• Refusals to deal
• Price squeezes
• Procompetitive justifications for anticompetitive conduct
• Updated discussion of merger law, including the 2023 Merger Guidelines

About this title

About the Authors

Christopher Leslie is the Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the UC Irvine School of Law.

Tom Sullivan is the President Emeritus of the University of Vermont and Dean Emeritus of the University of Minnesota Law School and University of Arizona Rogers College of Law.

Jeffrey Harrison is the Emeritus Huber C. Hurst Eminent Scholar Chair and an Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Florida's Levin College of Law.

Edition details

• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1531031269
• ISBN 13: 9781531031268
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 492