Other Guidelines
U.S. Enforcement Guidelines
FTC: Competition Policy Guidance
This is the FTC's center for "antitrust practitioners, policy makers, businesses, and consumers" to receive guidance and general information about the FTC's activities, policies and procedures. The site contains resources from general consumer informatio
Antitrust Guidelines for Collaborations Among Competitors
These Guidelines...assist businesses in assessing the likelihood of an antitrust challenge to a collaboration with one or more competitors. They should enable businesses to evaluate proposed transactions with greater understanding of possible antitrust issues.
US DoJ: Antitrust Guidelines
The DOJ issues guidelines on a number of areas of practice, to help make businesses and consumers aware of the agency's enforcement policies in various areas of commerce. Guidelines are available on Agriculture, Criminal Liability, Health Care, International Conduct, Joint Ventures, and Criminal Liability.
US DoJ: Merger & Joint Venture Guidelines & Resources
This page contains more than guidelines. It also contains links explaining the merger review process, a link to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Premerger Notification Program page, statistics and other merger documents.
NAAG: Guidelines & Protocols for State, Multistate, and State-Federal Enforcement
Documentation of the NAAG's enforcement policies.
U.S. Laws & Regulations
Law Library of Congress’ Guide to Law Online: U.S. Federal Resources
Law Library of Congress’ Guide to Law Online: U.S. State & Territory Resources
LII: Legal Information Institute @ Cornell University Law School
LexisONE State Resource Center
THOMAS
U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Govtrack.us
Find current bills, and legislation in force.
FindLaw: Cases & Codes
State and Local Government on the Net
LexisONE Federal & State Codes & Statutes
Links to databases of federal and state legislation, as well as to individual items of legislation.
U.S. Code
Code of Federal Regulations
Regulations issued by executive branch agencies are available in the Code of Federal Regulations.
Federal Register
Proposed and recently adopted regulations may be found in the Federal Register.
Regulations.gov
A database of over a million (estimated) documents on regulations (proposed and passed) and rulemaking and other government actions under regulations.
International Guidelines
OECD Recommendations and Best Practices
"OECD Recommendations and Best Practices are often catalysts for major change by governments...The OECD’s governing Council has adopted a number of non-binding Recommendations on competition law and policy."
International Competition Network: Guidelines/Best & Recommended Practices for Governments
A clearinghouse of general antitrust practice and enforcement guidelines and handbooks on numerous topics, such as pre-merger notification, cartel investigations, investigative techniques, state monopolies and regulated industries, penalties and remedies.
US DOJ Antitrust Division's International Documents
The homepage of the USDoJ's work in furthering international antitrust enforcement coordination, providing numerous documents, including guidelines, international agreements, links to other countries' competition agencies, and more.
US DoJ: Guidelines for International Operations
The U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission jointly issued this enforcement policy statement in 1995. It covers statutes relevant to international trade and conduct, along with issues such as jurisdiction, comity, and sovereign immunity.
OECD Competition Assessment Toolkit
The Toolkit is a guide for government officials on how to identify whether a regulation has anti-competitive effects, how to assess those effects, and how to craft alternatives. The Toolkit explicitly assumes no prior training in economics or competition policy training.
International Antitrust in the 21st Century: Cooperation and Convergence
Assistant Attorney General Charles A. James of the USDoJ's address before the OECD Global Forum on Competition in 2001.
The American Society of International Law’s EISIL: Electronic Information System for International Law
FindLaw: International Trade Resources
Europe: EUR-LEX
Asia: Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation’s Competition Policy and Law Database
U.K.: British and Irish Legal Information Institute
Autrailia: AUSTLII
AustLII is the most popular online free-access resource for Australian legal information...AustLII publishes public legal information -- that is, primary legal materials (legislation, treaties and decisions of courts and tribunals); and secondary legal materials created by public bodies for purposes of public access (law reform and royal commission reports for example) and a substantial collection of law journals.
Global Legal Information Network
Washington University School of Law Library’s International and Comparative Law Links
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy Multilaterals Project’s List of International Treaties