Spring 2026
Professor(s):
Nikolas Guggenberger (FACULTY)
Credits: 3
Course Areas: Business and Commercial Law
Intellectual Property and Information Law
Time: 2:30p-4:00p TTH Location: 210
Course Outline: This course introduces the foundations of U.S. antitrust law and policy. Focusing primarily on the Sherman and Clayton Acts, it examines how courts and enforcement agencies apply these statutes. Readings draw from case law, scholarly analysis, historical materials, and contemporary developments. Major topics include the goals of antitrust law, anticompetitive agreements, monopolization, merger review, political economy considerations, political developments, and emerging challenges. By the end of the course, students will be able to understand the legal, economic, and policy principles that shape antitrust enforcement and assess reform proposals.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.
Quota=30
Prerequisites:
First Day Assignments:
Final Exam Schedule: 5/12/2026 2:00:00 PM 102A
This course will have:
Exam:
Paper:
Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Available
Course Materials
Book(s) Required
Course Materials: Antitrust Law, Policy, and Procedure Cases, Materials, Problems Ninth Edition by E. Thomas Sullivan, CAP Press, ISBN: 9781531027537
