Packer Consolidation – are they breaking the law?

Part 3 of our Black Swan Event Series - with Peter Carstensen.
Topics that we will be covering:

History of antitrust law in the United States
Antitrust enforcement in the meat packing industry
Available options to producers: how to change the current structure
Failure of merger law to succeed
Monopolization
Role of the Packers & Stockyards Act and its relevancy in recent market disruptions (Holcomb & COVID)

Speaker: Peter  C. Carstensen is a Professor of Law Emeritus. From 1993 to 2002 he  served as Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development at the UW  Law School. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, and  received his law degree and a master’s degree in economics from Yale  University. From 1968 to 1973, he was an attorney at the Antitrust  Division of the United States Department of Justice assigned to the  Evaluation Section, where one of his primary areas of work was on  questions of relating competition policy and law to regulated  industries. He has been a member of the faculty of the UW Law School  since 1973. He is a Senior Fellow of the American Antitrust Institute.