Tim Muris & Bruce Kobayashi on ‘Zombie Antitrust,’ Price Discrimination, and Robinson-Patman

Joseph V. Coniglio hosts two guests, Tim Muris, Foundation Professor of Law at Antonin Scalia Law School, and Bruce Kobayashi, Paige V. and Henry N. Butler Chair in Law and Economics at Antonin Scalia Law School, to discuss the Robinson-Patman Act and its renewed enforcement.Publications MentionedBruce Kobayashi and Timothy J. Muris. "Stop Making Sense: Reviving the Robinson-Patman Act and the Economics of Intermediate Price Discrimination," Competitive Enterprise Institute. Timothy J. Muris. "Zombie Antitrust: Is Robinson-Patman a Dead Law Walking?" Competitive Enterprise Institute. Melissa Holyoak and Christopher G. Mufarrige. “From Protecting Competitors to Protecting Competition: The Past, Present, and Future of the Robinson-Patman Act,” Antitrust Law Journal 87, no. 2 (2025).Bork, Robert H. The Antitrust Paradox: A Policy at War with Itself. New York: Basic Books, 1978.Sreya Kolay, Janusz Ordover, and Greg Shaffer. “All-Units Discounts in Retail Contracts,” Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 13, no. 3 (2004): 429–59.Frederick M. Rowe, Price Discrimination Under the Robinson-Patman Act. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1962. Joseph J. Spengler, “Vertical Integration and Antitrust Policy,” Journal of Political Economy 58, no. 4 (1950): 347–52.Cases MentionedFederal Trade Commission v. Morton Salt Co.Federal Trade Commission v. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, LLC.