Based on an insightful analysis of a decade's worth of criminal trial statistics, Joseph Warin, David Burns, and John Chesley consider whether criminal antitrust defendants might be better off going to trial than pleading guilty.
Jeffrey Jacobovitz and Brian Neff explore the implications for criminal antitrust defendants of changes to the legal framework governing sentencing since the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Booker.
Historian Wyatt Wells reviews Spencer Weber Waller's new biography of Thurman Arnold, an important figure in the development of antitrust law and legal thought in the post-New Deal era.
Editors Bill Page and John Woodbury comment on two new DOJ Economic Analysis Group papers that offer original insights into the case law on the single entity defense and the relationship between posted and discounted prices.
NB: From the Editor
WELCOME to the July issue of The Antitrust Source – your source for up-to-the-minute expert analysis on the most timely topics in antitrust. In this issue, we are pleased to feature two articles on important currenttopics in criminal antitrust enforcement. In the first article, Jeffrey Jacobovitz and Brian Neff assess the potential impact of Booker on antitrust sentencing since the Supreme Court decision last year. The second article, by Joseph Warin, David Burns, and John Chesley, examines the strikingly lower rate of conviction in antitrust criminal cases compared to all other criminal cases and suggests potential reasons for the difference. We also offer, for the first time, an organization chart and links to speeches and other resources for the FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection.
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