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[email protected]. CONNECTICUT LAW REVIEW VOLUME 52 APRIL 2020 NUMBER 1 Article The Omega Man or the Isolation of U.S. Antitrust Law SPENCER WEBER WALLER There is a classic sciencefiction novel andfilm that presenta metaphorfor the isolation of United States antitrust law in the current global context. Richard Mathiesson 's 1954 classic science fiction novel, I am Legend, and the later 1971 film released under the name of The Omega Man starring Charleton Heston, both deal with the fate of Robert Neville, a survivor of a world-wide pandemic who believes he is the last man on Earth. While I am Legend and The Omega Man are obviously works offantasy, it nonetheless has resonancefor contemporaryantitrust debate and discourse. United States antitrust law and policy diverges significantly from the rest of the global antitrust community in important areas of scope, philosophy, doctrine, procedure, remedies, and institutions.Much of this divergence in world view is the product of history and path dependence that is largely unique to the United States experience.