LAW 4021

Competition Law and Policy

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2021-2022.

This course will examine issues that arise when a country attempts to implement and maintain a "competition policy" as a way of promoting economic growth and efficiency. The basic reading material will start with actual cases (most of them arising under U.S. antitrust law), and use those cases to probe the legal, economic and broad policy issues that the cases raise.

When Offered Fall.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to undergrads only. This course requires no legal training or background. This course will examine issues that arise when a country attempts to implement and maintain a "competition policy" as a way of promoting economic growth and efficiency. The basic reading material will start with actual cases (most of them arising under U.S. antitrust law), and use those cases to probe the legal, economic and broad policy issues that the cases raise. By the end of the course, students should be able to apply economic analysis to business conduct to determine whether the conduct is or should be unlawful under the antitrust laws, if those laws are applied using an economic framework.
Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: ECON 1110 or its equivalent.

• This course examines, through the lens of economic analysis, legal principles drawn from various branches of law, including contracts, torts, and property. Cases are assigned for class discussion; in addition, there are exams and writing assignments. By the end of the course, students should be able to use basic economic analysis to better understand how the law does and should decide cases in various branches of law.

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