Preface

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PREFACE

The Exemptions and Immunities Committee of the American Bar

Association Section of Antitrust Law is pleased to present this monograph,

The Noerr-Pennington Doctrine. This monograph focuses on public

policy issues arising from the antitrust treatment of efforts to petition

government or influence government toward anticompetitive action,

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 monograph on the same subject.

The preparat ion of this monograph was coordinated by the

Exemptions and Immunities Commit tee, currently chaired by M. Howard

Morse. Committee vice chair John Roberti was responsible for editing the

monograph and overseeing the revision of early drafts into a finished work.

Brandon Bigelow, a vice chair of the Section’s Books and Treatises

Committee, provided invaluable comments and support throughout this

process and deserves credit for shepherding the project to completion. The

early drafts of this monograph were written by Caroline Brown, Ken

Carroll, James Cooper, James Dougherty, Peggy Bayer Femenella, Richard

K. Fueyo, Gregory M. Garrett, D. Bruce Hoffman, Kevin D. McDonald,

Brian Netter, and John Roberti. Substantial contributions to the finished

work were made by M. Howard Morse, Caroline Brown, Jay Brown, Ken

Carroll, Grace Kwon, K. Shiek Pal and Rebecca Valentine. Substantive

work on the monograph was completed during the tenure of Christine

Sommer and Robin Moore as co-chairs of the Books and Treatises

Committee.

June 2009 M. Howard Morse

Chair, Exemptions and Immunities Committee

Section of Antitrust Law

American Bar Association

2008-09