Preface

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PREFACE

The Section of Antitrust Law is pleased to publish this Handbook of

U.S. Antitrust Sources. The Handbook is designed to give practitioners

easy access to the most fundamental resources for practicing antitrust

law. It collects the full text of the relevant antitrust statutes, the most

important statutory antitrust exemptions, all current federal antitrust

guidelines, and the Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger notification rules.

The lead editor for this Handbook was Stephen A. Stack, ably

assisted by Joyce E. Choi and Elizabeth A. N. Haas of the Section’s Civil

Practice and Procedure Committee, Kristen M. Anderson, the Young

Lawyer Representative to the Books and Treatises Committee, Tracey D.

Berger, Wesley R. Powell, and Melissa Whitehead.

Sarah Mackey Mathias

Chair, Civil Practice and Procedure Committee

Section of Antitrust Law

American Bar Association

2011-2012