Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, WORTH NOTING—Other Antitrust and Trade Regulation developments, (Jan 23, 2015)
Organizations Mentioned:Public Policy | U.S. Department of Justice
A periodic roundup of other items of interest to the Antitrust and Trade Regulation community:
ANTITRUST NEWS: Loyola University Chicago’s School of Law has announced the world’s first online-only master’s program in Global Competition Law for lawyers and working professionals in the field. The online program offers a Master of Laws (LLM) degree for students who already have law degrees and seek to strengthen their knowledge of competition and consumer law and policy. Loyola also will offer a Master of Jurisprudence (MJ) degree for non-lawyer professionals who want to gain in-depth, specialized knowledge in this growing area of the law. “Competition and antitrust laws have become increasingly complex on a global scale,” said Spencer Waller, director of Loyola’s Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies. Applications are now being accepted for fall 2015 enrollment. Further information is available here.
ANTITRUST NEWS: The U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division has appointed Caroline Holland as chief counsel for competition policy and intergovernmental relations. She will provide advice to Assistant Attorney General Bill Baer on a wide range of antitrust policy issues. Holland was chief counsel and staff director for the Senate Antitrust, Competition, and Consumer Rights subcommittee. She holds a B.A. in Public Policy from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.
ANTITRUST NEWS: The U.S. Department of Justice collected $1.861 billion in criminal fines and penalties resulting from Antitrust Division prosecutions in the fiscal year ending on September 30, 2014, it was announced yesterday. The total was one of the largest yearly collections for the division. Five companies paid penalties that exceeded $100 million, including a $425 million criminal fine levied against Bridgestone Corp., the fourth-largest fine the Antitrust Division has ever obtained. In addition to the fines and penalties, the division obtained jail terms for 21 individual defendants, with an average sentence of 26 months, the third-highest average ever.
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