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Peter Carstensen

Peter C. Carstensen is the Fred W & Vi Miller Chair in Law Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Law School and a Senior Fellow of the American Antitrust Institute. His scholarship and teaching have focused on competition policy issues. He is the author of Competition Policy and the Control of Buyer Power: A Global Issue (2017), co-edited Federal Statutory Exemptions from Antitrust Law (ABA, 2007); and co-edited Competition Policy And Merger Analysis In Deregulated And Newly Competitive Industries (2008). He has also done extensive research on the competition issues in agricultural markets.
Antitrust and Competition

The DOJ Knows What To Do About Those Seed Mergers. Will It Reverse Them?

Peter Carstensen
Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater recently gave a speech repudiating the laissez-faire antitrust enforcement policy of past administrations. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has ordered antitrust agencies to investigate how price-fixing has raised food prices. If the administration is serious about bringing food prices down for Americans, it should begin by addressing the costs farmers face. For that reason, Slater should investigate and possibly challenge the mergers between large seed sellers that occurred during Trump’s first term in office, writes Peter Carstensen.
Antitrust and Competition

Paltry Poultry Settlements and a Paralyzed Public Interest Protection

Peter Carstensen
A series of class-action antitrust cases involving poultry, pork, and turkey processors have been settled before a trial could take place. However, these litigations...

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