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Antitrust and Trade Regulation

University at Buffalo School of Law

Series

2022

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Refashioning Old Tools For Modern Society, Christine P. Bartholomew Oct 2022

Refashioning Old Tools For Modern Society, Christine P. Bartholomew

Book Reviews

Reviewing Peter Ormerod, Privacy Qui Tams, 98 Notre Dame L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2023), available at SSRN.


Antitrust Class Actions In The Wake Of Procedural Reform, Christine P. Bartholomew Jul 2022

Antitrust Class Actions In The Wake Of Procedural Reform, Christine P. Bartholomew

Journal Articles

What is the current vitality of antitrust enforcement? Antitrust class actions—the primary mode of competition oversight—has weathered two decades of procedural reform. This Article documents the effects of those reforms. Relying on an original dataset of over 1300 antitrust class action settlements, this Article finds such cases alive but far from well. Certain suits do succeed on an impressive scale, returning billions of dollars to victims. But class action reform has made antitrust enforcement narrower, more time-consuming, and costlier than only a decade ago. And, as this Article’s sources reveal, new battle lines are forming. Across the political spectrum, people …