June 17, 2026 In a sign of the times, Union Pacific Railroad Chairman Jim Vena visited President Trump in the Oval Office to receive a blessing after announcing Union Pacific’s historic agreement with Norfolk Southern Railway to combine and create the nation’s first transcontinental railroad. The visit was followed by Union Pacific donating several million
April 8, 2025
Carl W. Hittinger (BA ’76, LAW ’79) reflects on his clerkship experience with the late Judge Louis C. Bechtle (BS ’51, LAW ’54), including work on the infamous antitrust “Consumer Bag” case.
March 17, 2025
AJ Rudowitz (LAW ’17), Bryan Shapiro (LAW ’20), Sean P. McConnell, and Leigh M. Skipper discuss the growing relationship between college sports and private equity firms.
November 22, 2024,
Professor Salil Mehra Responds to Questions Following His Recent Friel-Scanlan Lecture.
October 31, 2024
Barbara T. Sicalides (LAW ’89) outlines the FTC’s new rules governing premerger notification filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act.
October 24, 2024
Haesun Burris-Lee (LAW ’21), Laura C. Giles, Jason A. Leckerman, and Philip M. Dodd discuss possible regulatory hurdles to the proposed merger between PGA Tour and the Public Interest Fund of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
September 23, 2024
Barbara Sicalides (LAW ’89) and Matthew DelDuca discuss the recent injunction of the FTC’s ban on noncompete agreements from a Texas court.
August 5, 2024
Forrest Lovett (LAW ’19) co-authored an article discussing the unanimous jury verdict in Epic v. Google that Google unlawfully maintained a monopoly over its Google Play Store and Google Play Billing.
Carl Hittinger discusses recent antitrust litigation in a price-fixing class action suit against universities, and finds that the Sherman Act is broad, and its exemptions narrow, such that it applies similarly in the educational as in the business setting.
Carl Hittinger (LAW ’79, BA ’76) of BakerHostetler co-authored an article with Tyson Herrold discussing the history of baseball’s antitrust exemption and whether this judicially ordained exemption may be overturned by the current Supreme Court.