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CURRENT ISSUE

To Plead or Not To Plead? Reviewing a Decade of Criminal Antitrust Trials

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.

Antitrust Sentencing Post-Booker: What We Know So Far

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.

Book Review: The Many Lives of Thurman Arnold

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.

FTC Bureau of Competition Organization Chart, Photos, and Links

A new resource offers a useful guide to how the Bureau of Consumer Protection is organized, with photos and links to the enforcers' speeches.

Paper Trail: Working Papers and Recent Scholarship

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.

If there is something you think we should cover or you have something you'd like us to publish, send it to us at antitrust@att.net.

Gary Zanfagna
Editorial Chair

Abid Qureshi
Patrick Thompson
Issue Editors

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