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This course examines the transnational aspects of antitrust law. The globalization of economic activity has increased the importance of understanding antitrust in countries outside the United States and focused attention on the legal mechanisms that can be used to combat anticompetitive practices that occur on an international scale. We will examine both of these topics. The course will examine various sorts of practices of importance in both American and foreign antitrust law. Practices and agreements involving such things as horizontal and vertical contracts, unilateral behavior, tying, and mergers thus will be studied. Comparisons of American antitrust law and foreign laws of competition will be a key aspect of the course. Students therefore must have some understanding of American antitrust principles, either from having studied antitrust in a previous course or from enrollment in the course in American antitrust law being offered contemporaneously with this course. Grading for the course will be based on (a) class participation and (b) the writing and presentation of three short papers. As to the latter, students will choose three areas of interest to them concerning some aspect of the foreign law of competition, submit a brief (no more than 2000 words or so) paper on that subject, and present it for class discussion. This class does not satisfy the graduation writing requirement.