Alan J. Meese

William & Mary Law School

Ball Professor of Law

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Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795

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1.

The Team Production Theory of Corporate Law: A Critical Assessment

William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 43, p. 1629, 2002
Number of pages: 87 Posted: 17 Feb 2003
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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A Careful Examination of the Live Nation-Ticketmaster Merger

William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-41
Number of pages: 130 Posted: 27 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 28 Dec 2014
Alan J. Meese and Barak D. Richman
William & Mary Law School and Duke University School of Law
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Hobby Lobby, Corporate Law, and the Theory of the Firm: Why For-Profit Corporations are RFRA Persons

Harvard Law Review Forum, Vol. 127, p. 273, 2014, William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-279
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 24 May 2014 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2014
Alan J. Meese and Nathan B. Oman
William & Mary Law School and William & Mary Law School
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Hobby Lobby, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, RFRA, Corporations, Corporate Law, Theory of the Firm, Closely Held Corporation, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Contraception Mandate

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Brief of Amici Curiae Antitrust Law Professors in O'Bannon v. NCAA

University of Illinois College of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-24
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 22 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2015
Thomas C. Arthur, Amitai Aviram, Edward D. Cavanagh, Jorge L. Contreras, Daniel A. Crane, Susan Beth Farmer, Herbert Hovenkamp, Keith N. Hylton, Michael S. Jacobs, Alan J. Meese, Salil K. Mehra, William H. Page, Gary R. Roberts, D. Daniel Sokol and Alexander Volokh
Emory University School of Law, University of Illinois College of Law, St. John's University - School of Law, University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Michigan Law School, The Pennsylvania State University (University Park) – Penn State Law, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Boston University - School of Law, DePaul University - College of Law, William & Mary Law School, Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, Indiana Univ. Robert H. McKinney School of Law, USC Gould School of Law and Emory University School of Law
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NCAA, antitrust, rule of reason, sports

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Exclusive Dealing, the Theory of the Firm, and Raising Rivals' Costs: Toward a New Synthesis

Antitrust Bulletin, Vol. 50, p. 371, 2005
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 09 Aug 2006
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Exclusive Dealing, Price Theory, Transaction Costs Economics, Raising Rivals' Costs

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Price Theory, Competition, and the Rule of Reason

Illinois Law Review, Vol. 77, 2003
Number of pages: 94 Posted: 19 Jun 2006
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Price Theory, Transaction Cost Economics, Contractual Integration, Rule of Reason, Antitrust

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Market Failure and Non-Standard Contracting: How the Ghost of Perfect Competition Still Haunts Antitrust

Journal of Competition Law and Economics, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 21-95, 2005
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 08 May 2006 Last Revised: 04 Jun 2012
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Antitrust, Market Failure, Perfect Competition, Ronald Coase, Oliver Williamson, Transaction Costs, Transaction Cost Economics, Rule of Reason

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Property, Aspen, and Refusals to Deal

Antitrust Law Journal, Vol. 73, p. 81, 2005
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 26 Jan 2006
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Property, Monopolization, Transaction Costs, Refusal to Deal

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Comments on the HHS' Flawed Post-Hobby Lobby Rules

UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 14-18, Hofstra Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2014-23
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 22 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2014
Lyman Johnson, David Millon, Stephen M. Bainbridge, Ronald J. Colombo, Brett McDonnell, Alan J. Meese and Nathan B. Oman
Washington and Lee University - School of Law, Washington and Lee University - School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law, Hofstra University - Maurice A. Deane School of Law, University of Minnesota Law School, William & Mary Law School and William & Mary Law School
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corporate law, corporate governance, law, religion

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The Externality of Victim Care

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The Externality of Victim Care

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 12 Oct 2000
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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The Externality of Victim Care

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 68, 2001
Posted: 23 Oct 2001
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School

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Price Theory and Vertical Restraints: A Misunderstood Relation

UCLA Law Review, Vol. 45, p. 143, 1997
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 19 Aug 2006 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2015
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Vertical Restraints, Price Theory, Chicago School, New Institutional Economics, Transaction Costs, Ronald Coase, Oliver Williamson

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Monopoly Bundling in Cyberspace: How Many Products Does Microsoft Sell?

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Monopoly Bundling in Cyberspace: How Many Products Does Microsoft Sell?

Antitrust Bulletin, Vol. 44, p. 65, 1999
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 08 Aug 2006
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Microsoft, tying, separate products, price theory, transaction costs

Monopoly Bundling in Cyberspace: How Many Products Does Microsoft Sell?

Posted: 06 Jan 1999
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School

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Competition and Market Failure in the Antitrust Jurisprudence of Justice Stevens

Fordham Law Review, Vol. 74, p. 1775, 2006
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 04 Aug 2006 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2020
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Justice Stevens, Market Failure, Partial Integration, Competition, Rule of Reason, NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma

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Regulation of Franchisor Opportunism and Production of the Institutional Framework: Federal Monopoly or Competition between the States?

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Regulation of Franchisor Opportunism and Production of the Institutional Framework: Federal Monopoly or Competition between the States?

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 21 Mar 2000
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Regulation of Franchisor Opportunism and Production of the Institutional Framework: Federal Monopoly or Competition between the States?

Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy
Posted: 18 Nov 1999
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School

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Debunking the Purchaser Welfare Account of Section 2 of the Sherman Act: How Harvard Brought Us a Total Welfare Standard and Why We Should Keep it

New York University Law Review, Vol. 85, No. 3, p. 659, 2010, William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-55
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 04 Oct 2010
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Sherman Act, Monopolization, Consumer Welfare, Total Welfare, Purchaser Welfare, Harvard School, Chicago School

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Monopolization, Exclusion and the Theory of the Firm

Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 89, 2005
Number of pages: 105 Posted: 16 Jul 2006
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Monopoly, Price Theory, Competition on the Merits, Transaction Cost Economics, Partial Integration, Vertical Integration

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Don't Disintegrate Microsoft (Yet)

George Mason Law Review, Vol. 9, 2001
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 26 Nov 2001
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Intrabrand Restraints and the Theory of the Firm

North Carolina Law Review, Vol. 83, p. 5, 2004
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 15 Nov 2005 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2012
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Antitrust, Transaction Costs, Vertical Integration, Intrabrand Restraints

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Farewell to the Quick Look: Redefining the Scope and Content of the Rule of Reason

Antitrust Law Journal, Vol. 68, p. 461, 2000
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 11 Sep 2006
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Rule of Reason, Quick Look, Transaction Cost Economics

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The Market Power Model of Contract Formation: How Outmoded Economic Theory Still Distorts Antitrust Doctrine

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 88, No. 3, 2013, William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-250
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 01 Aug 2013
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Market Power, Monopolization, Tying, In Pari Delicto, Ronald Coase, Transaction Cost Economics, Voluntary Integration

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Robert Bork's Forgotten Role in the Transaction Cost Revolution

Antitrust Law Journal , Vol. 79, No. 3, 2014
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 03 Dec 2014
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Robert Bork, Transaction Cost Economics, Rule of Reason

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Reframing Antitrust in Light of Scientific Revolution: Accounting for Transaction Costs in Rule of Reason Analysis

Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 62, No. 2, 2010, William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-93
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 30 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2011
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Transaction Costs, Rule of Reason, Technological Transaction Costs, Non-Technological Transaction Costs, Partial Equilibrium Trade-off Paradigm, Oliver Williamson, Ronald Coase, Harvard School

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Competition Policy and the Great Depression: Lessons Learned and a New Way Forward

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2013, William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-281
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 13 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2019
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Competition Policy, Great Depression, Sherman Act, Liberty of Contract, Macroeconomics, Dormant Commerce Clause, National Industrial Recovery Act, National Labor Relations Act, Nebbia v. New York, Parker v. Brown

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Property Rights and Intrabrand Restraints

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 89, p. 553, 2004
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 14 Jan 2007
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Intrabrand Restraints, Property Rights, Minimum Resale Price Maintenance, Transaction Costs

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Requiem for a Lightweight: How NCAA Continues to Distort Antitrust Doctrine

Wake Forest Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 28 May 2021 Last Revised: 07 Jun 2021
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Sherman Act, NCAA v. Board of Regents, NCAA v. Alston, Per Se Rule, Rule of Reason, Sports League Exemption, Quick Look

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Antitrust Balancing in a (Near) Coasean World: The Case of Franchise Tying Contracts

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 95, No. 1, p. 111, 1996
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 08 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 09 Apr 2011
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Franchising, Business Format Franchising, Franchise Tying Contract, Antitrust, Less Restrictive Alternative, Trademarks, Ronald Coase, Transaction Cost Economics, Partial Equilibrium Trade-Off Model

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Reframing the (False?) Choice between Purchaser Welfare and Total Welfare

Fordham Law Review, Vol. 81, No. 5, 2013 , William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-243
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 06 Apr 2013
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Antitrust, Consumer Welfare, Purchaser Welfare, Total Welfare, Partial Equilibrium Trade-off Model, Sherman Act, Clayton Act

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Antitrust, Regulatory Harm and Economic Liberty

99 Iowa Law Review Bulletin 115 (2014)
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 18 Jan 2015
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Sherman Act, Liberty of Contract, Due Process of Law, Contractual Integration

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Limitiations on Corporate Speech: Protection for Shareholders, or Abridgement of Expression?

William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal, Vol. 2, p. 305, 1993
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 01 May 2007
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Corporations, Corporate Political Speech

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Don't Abolish Employee Noncompete Agreements

Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 57, No. 1, 2022
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 07 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 26 Sep 2022
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Employee Noncompete Agreements, Sherman Act, Federal Trade Commission Act, Rule of Reason, Transaction Cost Economics, Inhospitality Tradition, Quick Look, Labor Markets, Monopsony, Contract Formation

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Tying Meets the New Institutional Economics: Farewell to the Chimera of Forcing

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Tying Meets the New Institutional Economics: Farewell to the Chimera of Forcing

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 146, No. 1, 1997
Number of pages: 100 Posted: 28 Jan 2009
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Tying, Transaction Costs, Market Failure, Antitrust, New Institutional Economics

Tying Meets the New Institutional Economics: Farewell to the Chimera of Forcing

Posted: 14 Nov 1996
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School

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Antitrust Federalism and State Restraints of Interstate Commerce: An Essay for Professor Hovenkamp

Iowa Law Review, Vol. 100, No. 5, 2015
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 07 Aug 2015
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Sherman Act, Dormant Commerce Clause, Parker v. Brown, Antitrust Federalism, Preemption

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Standard Oil as Lochner's Trojan Horse

Southern California Law Review, Vol. 85, No. 3, 2012, William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-242
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 30 Mar 2013
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Sherman Act, Rule of Reason, Standard Oil v. United States, Lochner v. New York, Liberty of Contract, Due Process Clause, Consumer Welfare, Total Welfare, Purchaser Welfare

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Section 2 Enforcement and the Great Recession: Why Less (Enforcement) Might Mean More (GDP)

Fordham Law Review, Vol. 80, No. 4, 2012, William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-221
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 25 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2019
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Macroeconomics, Monopolization, Monopoly, Section 2 of the Sherman Act, Consumer Welfare, Total Welfare, Obama Administration, National Industrial Recovery Act, National Labor Relations Act, New Deal, Great Depression, Great Recession, Aggregate Demand, Aggregate Supply, Potential Output

35.

Liberty and Antitrust in the Formative Era

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 79, No. 1, 1999
Number of pages: 92 Posted: 02 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 03 Sep 2013
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Sherman Act, liberty of contract, antitrust, formative era, Rufus Peckham

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Will, Judgment and Economic Liberty: Mr. Justice Souter and the Mistranslation of the Due Proces Clause

William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 41, No. 1, 1999
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 26 Oct 2009
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Justice Souter, Liberty of Contract, Great Depression, Translation, Lochner v. New York

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Inadvertent Waiver of the Attorney-Client Privilege by Disclosure of Documents: An Economic Analysis

Creighton Law Review, Vol. 23, No. 3, 1990, William & Mary Law School Research Paper
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 17 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2014
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Attorney-Client Privilege, Information. Property Rights, Liability Rules, Waiver, Strict Liability, Negligence

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Will the Supreme Court Recover Its Own Fumble? How Alston Can Repair the Damage Resulting From NCAA's Sports League Exemption

Wake Forest Law Review Online, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2021
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 16 Jun 2021
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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NCAA v. Alston, Rule of Reason, Quick Look

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In Praise of All or Nothing Dichotomous Categories: Why Antitrust Law Should Reject the Quick Look

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 104, 4, 2016
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 27 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 24 Oct 2016
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Sherman Act, Rule of Reason, Quick Look, Per Se Rule

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Assorted Anti-Leegin Canards: Why Resistance Is Misguided and Futile

Florida State University Law Review, Vol. 40, No. 4, 2013
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 07 May 2016
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Dr. Miles, Leegin, Minimum Resale Price Maintenance, Transaction Cost Economics, Oliver Williamson

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The Constitutional Moment that Wasn't: 1912-1914 and the Meaning of the Sherman Act

Network Law Review, 2022
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 13 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2023
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Sherman Act, Standard Oil v. United States, Rule of Reason, Consumer Welfare, William Howard Taft, Constitutional Moment, Clayton Act, Federal Trade Commission Act, Woodrow Wilson, Louis Brandeis

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Federalism, Free Competition and Sherman Act Preemption of State Restraints

16 Virginia Law & Business Review 115 (2021)
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 17 Mar 2022
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Sherman Act, Preemption, Federalism, Competitive Federalism, Commerce Clause, Parker v. Brown, State Restraints, State Action Doctrine

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Wickard Through an Antitrust Lens

William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 60, No. 4, 2019
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 27 Jan 2020
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Sherman Act, Wickard v. Filburn, Antitrust, Commerce Clause, Federalism, Antitrust Federalism

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Antitrust Regulation and the Federal-State Balance: Restoring the Original Design

American University Law Review, Vol. 70, No. 1, 2020
Number of pages: 92 Posted: 26 Jan 2022
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Sherman Act, Commerce Clause, Federal-State Balance, Federalism, Competitive Federalism, Intrastate Restraints, Antitrust Federalism, Parker v. Brown, Mandeville Island Farms v. American Crystal Sugar

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Justice Scalia and Sherman Act Textualism

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 92, No. 5, 2017
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 07 Jan 2019
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Justice Scalia, Sherman Act, Original Public Meaning, Commerce Clause, Statutory Interpretation, Super Statutes

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Are Employee Noncompete Agreements Coercive? Why the FTC's Wrong Answer Disqualifies It from Rulemaking (For Now)

Number of pages: 136 Posted: 14 Sep 2023 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2023
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Federal Trade Commission, Unfair Methods of Competition, Employee Noncompete Agreements, Coercion, Section 5, Rule of Reason, Transaction Cost Economics, Voluntary Contract Formation, Myth of Labor Market Hyperconcentration

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Economic Theory, Trader Freedom and Consumer Welfare: State Oil Co. v. Khan and the Continuing Incoherence of Antitrust Doctrine

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 84, No. 3, 1999
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 29 Dec 2022
Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law School
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Albrecht v. Herald Co., State Oil Co. v. Khan, Sherman Act, Maximum Resale Price Maintenance, Trader Freedom, Consumer Welfare, Transaction Costs, Judicial Legitimacy, Stare Decisis