This article examines the issue of whether United States antitrust law can be an affirmative tool to help US firms sell products and services into markets that have been closed to foreign competition as a result of either governmental or private barriers to trade. The issue first surfaced in the...

Substantive antitrust law has spread around the world. This has been a rather amazing turn of events in our post-cold war era, with more than 100 jurisdictions now claiming some form of antitrust legislation. Even though there is no global treaty framework for antitrust (similar, for example, to...

The Microsoft antitrust cases -- Microsoft's early encounters with the U.S. antitrust system : the FTC investigation and the Antitrust Division's licensing case -- Bringing the Windows 95/98 monopolization case -- Concluding the Windows 95/98 case : appeal and settlement -- Private litigation in...

The purpose of this paper is to describe the institutions of antitrust enforcement in the United States and to test those institutions against a set of norms used to assess the operations of administrative agencies. The paper is part of a broader project studying global administrative agencies....