Editor's Note

• Jurisdiction: United States,Federal,California
• Publication year: 2014
• Citation: Vol. 23 No. 2

EDITOR'S NOTE

Thomas N. Dahdouh¹

Federal Trade Commission

San Francisco

Mind the Gap: A Symposium on Federal/State Antitrust Differences

This issue offers a Symposium answering five key questions in the evolving relationship — dare I say the growing gap? — between federal and California state antitrust laws:

• Do State Antitrust Statutes Reach Foreign Conduct? In the first set, two articles explore the reach of both federal and state antitrust laws to foreign conduct. First, Craig C. Corbitt and Aaron M. Sheanin discuss substantial questions about the reach of federal antitrust statutes. Their article addresses the most recent appellate court machinations concerning interpretation of the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act ("FTAIA"), a statute whose tortured language has spawned conflicting interpretations of the reach of federal antitrust statutes beyond our shores. Then, Marc Pilotin takes the plaintiff perspective in arguing that California's state antitrust laws should apply to foreign conduct. Dominique-Chantale Alepin and Jonathan Guss argue for the defense that...