Preface

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PREFACE

The Exemptions and Immunities Committee of the American Bar

Association’s Antitrust Law Section is pleased to present the t hird edition

of this handbook, The Noerr-Pennington Doctr ine. This handbook focuses

on public policy issues arising from the antitrust treatment of efforts to

petition government or influence government activities, including

petitioning efforts that are themselves collective or anticompetitive. In

creating this book, we have relied heavily upon and been guided by the

Section’s 1993 and 2009 monographs on the same subject.

The Exemptions and Immunities Committee, currently co-chaired by

Melissa H. Maxman and Vittorio E. Cottafavi, coordinated the preparation

of this handbook. Committee vice chairs David J. Shaw and Stephen M.

Medlock were principally responsible for editing the handbook and

overseeing the revision of early drafts into a finished work. Craig Minerva

and Katherine Clemons, vice chairs of the Section’s Books and Treatises

Committee, provided invaluable comments and support throughout this

process and deserve credit for shepherding the project to completion.

Tiffany Brown, Megan Gerking, William Haun, Meytal McCoy, Katherine

Monks, Oral Pottinger, Saurabh Prabhakar , Micah Stein, an d Lauren Willard

prepared early drafts, while Katherine Monks, Oral Pottinger, and Meytal

McCoy made substantial contributions to the finished work. Substantive

work on the handbook was completed during the tenure of Christine

Sommer and Robin Moore as Chairs of the Books and Treatises Committee.

January 2022 Stephen M. Medlock

David J. Shaw

Vice Chairs, Exemptions and Immunities Committee

Antitrust Law Section

American Bar Association

2021–22