ANTITRUST ECONOMY

LAW557

Course Code: LAW557
Semester: -
Theory+Practice: 3 + 0
ECTS: 10

Course Type

Elective Course

Course Level

Master's Degree Without Thesis

Year of Study

Semester

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

At the end of the course the students are expected to be well informed about the topic of the course and will have the capacity to apply abstract legal rules to actual cases.

Mode of Delivery

Face to face

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

absent

Course Description

This is a course that analyses the current changes about anti-trust economy and law.

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	Basic legal terms
2^nd Week	Basic lagal terms
3^rd Week	Recent changes in antitrust policy
4^th Week	The Legitimacy of antitrust policy
5^th Week	The rationale of antitrust
6^th Week	The legality of antitrust
7^th Week	Competition theory and the market economy
8^th Week	Midterm exam
9^th Week	Monopoly under Turkish law
10^th Week	Price conspiracy teory
11^th Week	Price discrimination
12^th Week	Competitive process
13^th Week	Mergers, competition and antitrust policy
14^th Week	Evaluation of examples in practice and decisions of courts
15^th Week	Final

Recommended or Required Reading

- Federico Etro: Competition, Innovation, and Antitrust: A Theory of Market Leaders and Its Policy Implications, 2007
- Dominick T Armentano: Antitrust: The Case for Repeal, 2007.
- Dominick T. Armentano - Yale Brozen: Antitrust and Monopoly: Anatomy of a Policy Failure, 1996
- Ergun Özsunay: Kartel Hukuku, 1985.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Presentation
Other

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Mid-term	1	40
Total(%)		40
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)		40
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)		60
Total(%)		100

ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam	1	3	3
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work	14	5	70
Preparation for Final exam	14	9	126
Course hours	14	4	56
Preparation for Midterm exam	7	3	21
Laboratory (including preparation)	14	1	14
Final exam	1	3	3
Homework	1	2	2
Total Work Load			295
Total Work Load / 30 (h)			9.83
ECTS Credit of the Course			10

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Programme Qualifications / Learning Outcomes

	LO1
K1	X
K2
K3	X
K4
K5
K6
K7
K8	X