Introduction

• Author: Harry First,Darren Bush
• Published date: 01 December 2011
• Date: 01 December 2011
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/0003603X1105600401
• Subject Matter: Introduction

Introduction

BYDARREN BUSH*AND HARRY FIRST**

How to encapsulate the scholarship of a prolific author within the

confines of a single volume? Not an easy task when the author is

John J. Flynn, our friend and mentor. John produced over fifty pub-

lished articles and countless books and book chapters, in addition to

contributing to the development of antitrust law through his involve-

ment in litigation and legislation.

The problem, though, is not just one of volume. It is also one of

scope. John’s interests were broad, and he wrote against the tide. John

was a humanist in a time of technocrats, a believer in jurisprudence in

a time of economics, a fighter in a time of equivocation and retreat.

How to do justice—one of John’s favorite words—to his efforts?

The five articles in this symposium issue rise to the task by taking

on a wide range of issues about which John cared deeply. Peter

Carstensen writes about the problem of anticompetitive state

regulation. Jim Brock writes about the problem of mergers and

concentration. Rudy Peritz argues for an expansive reading of the

FTC’s section 5 power so as to foster a broadly defined competitive

process. Bert Foer and Bill Curran separately examine the connection

between competition policy and the political values of civil liberties

and democracy. John was interested in, and wrote about, all these

issues.

THE ANTITRUST BULLETIN:Vol. 56, No. 4/Winter 2011 :673

* Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center.

** Charles L. Denison Professor of Law, New York University School of

Law.

© 2011 by Federal Legal Publications, Inc.