Article:
Frank H. Easterbrook, Is There a Ratchet in Antitrust Law, 60 Texas L. Rev. 705 (1982).
 

Abstract:
Purporting to represent the Chicago Branch of the Stanford School of Antitrust, the author responds to accompanying articles by Professor Lawrence A. Sullivan and Sanford Litvack, head of the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice during the Carter administration, on the appropriate approach to enforcement of antitrust law. The author’s thesis is that antitrust law should be allowed to evolve as the law is allowed to evolve in areas of contract and tort. Specifically, the author argues that antitrust law does not require that that which was once illegal must forever be illegal.