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Examples & Explanations: Antitrust, Fourth Edition

Authors
  • Christopher L. Sagers
Series / Examples & Explanations Series
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Table of contents
Preface

A favorite classroom prep tool of successful students that is often recommended by professors, the Examples & Explanations (E&E) series provides an alternative perspective to help you understand your casebook and in-class lectures. Each E&E offers hypothetical questions complemented by detailed explanations that allow you to test your knowledge of the topics in your courses and compare your own analysis. 

Here's why you need an E&E to help you study throughout the semester: 

  • Clear explanations of each class topic, in a conversational, funny style. 
  • Features hypotheticals similar to those presented in class, with corresponding analysis so you can use them during the semester to test your understanding, and again at exam time to help you review. 
  • It offers coverage that works with ALL the major casebooks and suits any class on a given topic. 

The Examples & Explanations series has been ranked the most popular study aid among law students because it is equally as helpful from the first day of class through the final exam. 

New to the Fourth Edition: 

  • Coverage of the latest Supreme Court developments, including the epochal sports-athlete decision in NCAA v. Alston and its rule-of-reason codification, and the lingering effects of Ohio v. American Express on two-sided markets and BigTech. 
  • Analysis of major developments in merger administration during the Biden administration, including a full discussion of the 2023 Merger Guidelines and the remarkable return to vertical merger enforcement after a 40-year hiatus. 
  • Discussions of lower-court developments in monopolization law, including potential revitalization of theories of liability long-dormant under restrictive Supreme Court interpretations, like pricing strategy cases and refusals-to-deal. 
  • Incorporation of the major BigTech challenges that have dominated attention since the Third Edition, including both Google cases, United States v. Apple, and FTC v. Amazon
  • Unbiased consideration of the real-world consequences of antitrust politics, so far as they affect student access to the doctrinal law, including progressive and conservative reform action, the effect of so-called "populist" antitrust, and the "consumer welfare" debate.
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Table of contents

Summary of Contents


Contents 
Preface to the First Edition 
Preface to the Fourth Edition 


PART I. AN INTRODUCTION TO ANTITRUST LAW
Chapter 1 The History, Nature, and Theory of Federal
Competition Policy 
PART II. THE ECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS OF
CONTEMPORARY ANTITRUST
Chapter 2 Part One of a Two- Part Strategy for
Understanding Antitrust Economics 
Chapter 3 Part Two of the Two- Part Strategy: Economic
Generalizations That Pervade Modern Antitrust 
Chapter 4 The All- Important Concept of Market Power 
PART III. CONSPIRACIES IN RESTRAINT OF TRADE
Chapter 5 An Introduction to Sherman Act §1 
Chapter 6 Per Se Offenses 
Chapter 7 The Rule of Reason and the Doctrine of
Ancillary Restraints 
Chapter 8 Section 1 Now: The Long Struggle to Define
an Intermediate Rule of Reason and the Law of
the Sliding Scale 
Chapter 9 One Further Problem in Horizontal
Cooperation: Exchanges of Information 
PART IV. VERTICAL RESTRAINTS
Chapter 10 Antitrust and the Distribution of Goods 
Chapter 11 Tying and Exclusive Contracting 
PART V. PROOF OF CONSPIRACY
Chapter 12 Proof of Conspiracy Under Sherman Act §1 
PART VI. CONFRONTING MR. BIG: THE LAW OF
MONOPOLY
Chapter 13 The Offense of Monopolization 
Chapter 14 Attempted Monopolization and Conspiracy to
Monopolize 
PART VII. ANTITRUST, INNOVATION, AND
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Chapter 15 Antitrust, Innovation, and Intellectual Property 
PART VIII. PRICE DISCRIMINATION
Chapter 16 Price Discrimination and the Robinson- Patman Act 
PART IX. ANTITRUST ASPECTS OF MERGERS AND
ACQUISITIONS
Chapter 17 Antitrust Aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions 
Chapter 18 Merger Review Under Hart- Scott- Rodino 
PART X. INSTITUTIONS AND PROCEDURES IN
ANTITRUST
Chapter 19 Institutions and Procedures in Antitrust 
PART XI. THE SCOPE OF ANTITRUST
Chapter 20 The Scope of Antitrust Generally 
Chapter 21 Antitrust and Politics 
Chapter 22 Antitrust and the Regulated Industries 
Chapter 23 The Labor Exemption 
Appendix Further Topics in Antitrust Economics: The
Problem of Industrial Organization 


Glossary 
Table of Cases 
Index 

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About the authors
Christopher Sagers
Professor of Law
Cleveland State University

Chris Sagers is Professor of Law at Cleveland State University, where he teaches Antitrust, Banking Regulation, Business Organizations, Law & Economics, Administrative Law, and a seminar concerning the theory of the firm. He is the author or editor of four books and numerous articles that focus on antitrust, regulated industries, and financial regulation. He has given testimony on these matters before Congress and the U.S. Antitrust Modernization Commission and is a frequent panelist and lecturer. He is a Senior Fellow of the American Antitrust Institute, an elected member of the American Law Institute, and a leadership member of the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association.

Before joining the faculty, Professor Sagers practiced law for four years in Washington, D.C., first at Arnold & Porter and then at Shea & Gardner. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan Schools of Law and Public Policy.

Hailing originally from the peaceful obscurity of small-town Iowa, Professor Sagers lives with his wife and sons in the nicest little town in America, Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

Product Information
Edition
Fourth Edition
Publication date
2026-01-15
Copyright Year
2026
Pages
544
Print
9798889068099
eBook
9798889068105
Subject
Antitrust Law
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