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Book Title: Private Enforcement of Antitrust Law in the United States

Editor(s): Foer, A. Albert; Stutz, M. Randy

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9780857939593

Section Title: Preface

Author(s): Foer, Albert A.; Stutz, Randy M.

Number of pages: 7

Extract:

Preface


This Handbook has a history. In 2010, the American Antitrust Institute (AAI) published
The International Handbook on Private Enforcement of Competition Law.1 This compara-
tive law volume contained 11 original essays on private enforcement in the United States,
where the bulk of the world's experience with private enforcement is located, and 19 essays
on private enforcement in countries scattered around the rest of the world. As we edited
the American essays, we realized that we had something surprisingly new and valuable
on our hands.
Our treatment of the U.S. experience seemed to be the first resource in which
practitioners explain in a systematic and highly detailed way how a private antitrust
case is put together and pursued, canvassing practical, procedural, and substantive
considerations from inception to final resolution. Step-by-step, in more or less chrono-
logical order, the collection of essays explains how a case moves from suspicion to
proof and from complaint to trial, or more likely to dismissal or settlement, and nearly
everything in between. It even deals with how claims are administered and how lawyers
are compensated. It is simultaneously about law, economics, procedure, and practical
life within the antitrust community, covering almost everything a serious antitrust
student or an inexperienced antitrust practitioner would want to know. In short, it
was a resource that the various editors wished we had encountered much earlier in our
careers.
Naturally, then, we advised Edward Elgar that we would like to present an
expanded and updated ...