Professor Sean P. Sullivan recently published an essay in the CPI Antitrust Chronicle, titled “Antitrust Amorphisms.”

From the abstract:

Advocates of traditional antitrust are increasingly called upon to defend the existing framework. In doing so they face a challenge: the traditional framework is actually quite difficult to explain. The problem is not that modern antitrust involves a lot of advanced economics—though that is also true. The problem is that foundational antitrust concepts like “harm to competition” and the protection of “consumer welfare” are shockingly ill-defined. This essay highlights several of the dormant ambiguities in these concepts, and thus the obstacles that antitrust has set for itself by failing ever to fully define its terms.

Read the article here. Access the entire issue here.

Sean P. Sullivan, Antitrust Amorphisms, Antitrust Chron., Nov. 7, 2019, at 37.

For more publications by Professor Sullivan, visit the Law Library’s faculty bibliography.