Antitrust & Trade Regulation Law Research

by Chris Byrne
June 2023

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Some resources on this page are subscription databases that require a W&M ID and password for off-campus access. See Off-Campus Access to Library Resources for more information.

Lexis and Westlaw require individual IDs and passwords for both off-campus and on-campus access.

Books

Library Catalog
To search for books, journals, and audiovisual materials held by William & Mary libraries, use the online catalog.

Search Tips:
Subject Queries--

  • antitrust law and United States
  • trade regulation and United States

Individual jurisdictions can be searched, e.g. antitrust law and Virginia; trade regulation and Virginia

Library of Congress Call Numbers for Trade Regulation: KF1601-KF1668. Browse the shelves under these call numbers to locate relevant treatises.

To search for materials from other libraries, use Worldcat.

Selected Treatises

Journal Articles

Journal Index

Legal Source

Contains detailed indexing for over 1,200 legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, institutes, statutes, bar association and university publications, and some journals from Canada, Great Britain, and Australia/NZ. Includes full text for over 1100 journals. Coverage: 1908 - present.

 


For More Information
 For more information about finding law review articles, including older ones, see Locating Legal and Non-Legal Journal Articles.

Full Text Articles (from journals, newsletters, and legal newspapers)

Specialized journals on antitrust and trade regulation include:

  • Antitrust Law Journal
    • Westlaw (selected coverage 1982-1983; full coverage 1984-present)
    • Lexis (1988-present), must add "Antitrust Law Journal" as a source to search filter.  
  • Antitrust
    • Westlaw (selected coverage 1986-present)
    • Lexis (1995-present)
  • Antitrust Bulletin
  • Yale Journal on Regulation
    • Westlaw (1983-present)
    • Lexis (1992-present), must add "Yale Journal on Regulation" as a source to search filter.

Looseleaf Services & Newsletters

Newsletters
  • Bloomberg Law Mergers & Antitrust News: Covers weekly significant judicial, legislative, administrative, and regulatory actions affecting enforcement of competition and deceptive trade practice law, and news and comment on private and public enforcement suits and initiatives of the Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, state attorneys general, foreign countries, consumer groups, and the manufacturing and service sectors.
  • Antitrust Report: Contains articles on U.S. or foreign antitrust law and covers recent developments in antitrust law including cases.
  • FTC Watch: A current awareness service which chronicles the activities of the FTC and antitrust division of the DOJ.
    • Lexis (1990-present), must add "FTC Watch" as a source to search filter.

W&M Databases

Lexis-Nexis


Westlaw

 

Other Databases
Business Source Complete
Full text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics.

EconLit
Contains subject indexing and abstracts of economic journals and over 500 collective volumes per year, plus books, dissertations, and working papers.

Web Sites

Department of Justice--Antitrust Division
The DOJ Antitrust Division web page contains full-text public documents including guidelines and policy statements, statutory provisions and division guidelines, appellate briefs, business reviews, health care news, international documents, press releases speeches, testimony, and comments.

Federal Trade Commission
The Federal Trade Commission enforces a variety of federal antitrust and consumer protection laws. Its web site includes commission actions, advisory opinions, guidelines, news releases, testimony, and speeches.

Associations

ABA Antitrust Law Section
The Antitrust Section offers a forum for ongoing analysis of policies and developments affecting competition and consumer protection law.
Address
321 North Clark St.
Chicago, IL 60654-7598
Phone: 800.285.2221

The American Antitrust Institute
The American Antitrust Institute is a national Washington-based independent non-profit education, research, and advocacy organization, whose mission is to increase the role of competition, assure that competition is fair, and challenge unduly concentrated power in the American and world economy.
Address
1025 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20036
202.828.1226