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Competition law and privacy: extensive data acquisition as the “eye” of the problem

9 March 2023

Welcome to Ph.D. Voices, a monthly series in which Ph.D. candidates share their research with the antitrust world. This...

A Conversation with Vernon Smith on Complexity Theory, Adam Smith, Web3, and More

3 March 2023

The following transcript has been lightly edited. Thibault Schrepel Welcome, everyone. I am delighted to be joined today...

Drew Fudenberg and David K. Levine: “Adjusting to Change in Complex Systems”

15 March 2023

Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Drew Fudenberg, Professor of Economics at MIT, and David K. Levine, Professor of Economics at the European University Institute. **** While driving a car, you hear a large bang, the car no longer accelerates properly, and the engine makes loud noises. You are not an automobile mechanic and do not know how engines work, but you are aware of some basic facts, such as that breaking...

Reading suggestions – February 2023

1 March 2023

Reading suggestions about the AI search war, cartel dynamics, the computable economy, Web3 protocols, bitcoin's future, ChatGPT, legal...

Reviving the Robinson-Patman Act

28 February 2023

Welcome to Crane’s Cartel, a trimonthly series where University of Michigan law professor Daniel Crane engages in hard-core...

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6 April 2020
Eleanor Fox (guest article): "POWER: Trust and Distrust"
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by several of the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars...
15 June 2022
Lawrence J. White: “A Riff and a Half on the Delineation of Relevant Markets in Antitrust Cases”
Dear readers, I am delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Lawrence J. White, Robert Kavesh Professor of...
15 August 2022
Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice E. Stucke: “The Darker Sides of Digital Platform Innovation”
Dear readers, I am delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Ariel Ezrachi, Slaughter and May Professor of...
30 September 2020
Nicolas Petit (guest article): “Digital Markets and the Incipiency Attitude in EU Antitrust Law”
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars every month...
15 November 2022
William H. Page & John E. Lopatka: “Parker v. Brown, Legislative Immunity, and Anticompetitive State Regulation”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by William H. Page, Marshall M....
3 November 2022
Daniel F. Spulber: “How Do Vertical Mergers Affect Innovation? Learning from Illumina”
"How Do Vertical Mergers Affect Innovation? Learning from Illumina", this month's guest contribution by Daniel F. Spulber, Professor of International...
15 March 2023
Drew Fudenberg and David K. Levine: “Adjusting to Change in Complex Systems”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Drew Fudenberg, Professor of Economics...
23 January 2021
Pablo Ibáñez Colomo (guest article): “Be Careful What You Wish For”
Dear readers, In 2020, I started publishing monthly guest articles written by some of the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars. The series continues in 2021....
21 November 2022
Ioannis Lianos: “Mind The (Institutional) Gap: Digital Economy, Competition Law and The Toolkit Approach”
Far from its depiction as a well-defined and linear techno-social phenomenon that developed incrementally over the last three decades following...
17 January 2020
Herbert Hovenkamp (guest article): On The Meaning of Antitrust’s Consumer Welfare Principle
Dear readers, I am incredibly happy and honored to introduce a new series in which, every month of the year 2020, I...
27 January 2022
Richard J. Gilbert: “The American Innovation and Choice Online Act”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that thisbe month’s guest article is authored by Richard J. Gilbert, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at the...
2 April 2021
Douglas H. Ginsburg & Jacob Philipoom (guest article): “A Certain Harm Overlooked: The Case of Nascent Competitors Revisited”
Dear readers, In 2020, I started publishing monthly guest articles written by some of the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars. The series continues in 2021....
17 May 2021
George L. Priest (guest article): “What to do about the Big Tech Monopolies?”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by George L. Priest, Edward J. Phelps Professor of Law...
20 August 2020
Michael Carrier (guest article): “Why Do Courts Err in Pharmaceutical Antitrust Cases?”
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars every month...
15 February 2023
Carl Shapiro: “Regulating Big Tech: Factual Foundations and Policy Goals”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Carl Shapiro, Professor at...
23 August 2021
Randal C. Picker: “Security Competition and App Stores”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Randal C. Picker, James Parker Hall Distinguished Service...
16 June 2020
Scott Hemphill (guest article): “Uncertain Harms: The Case of Nascent Competitors”
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by several of the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars...
20 October 2020
Mark A. Lemley & Andrew McCreary (guest article): How Venture Capital’s “Exit Strategy” Drives Tech Industry Concentration
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars every month...
17 February 2020
Daniel Crane (guest article): Democracy and Monopoly in Governments, Markets, and Firms
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles authored by some of the world’s most renowned antitrust...
8 February 2021
A. Douglas Melamed (guest article): “Acquisitions of Nascent Competitors under Section 2 of the Sherman Act”
Dear readers, In 2020, I started publishing monthly guest articles written by some of the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars. The series continues in 2021....
25 March 2022
Okeoghene Odudu: “Do competition agencies harm welfare?”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Okeoghene Odudu, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law; Fellow...
9 March 2020
William Kovacic (guest article): "Roads Not Taken: The Federal Trade Commission and Google"
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by several of the world’s most renowned antitrust...
8 February 2022
Richard Epstein: “The Unwise Extension of Antitrust Law to Labor Markets”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Richard Epstein, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at...
17 December 2020
Joshua D. Wright & Alexander Krzepicki (guest article): “Rethinking Foreclosure Analysis in Antitrust Law: From Standard Stations to Google”
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars every month...
27 October 2022
Thomas W. Hazlett: The FTC’s Rendition of the “Cellophane Fallacy”
In the pending case of FTC v. Facebook, the Government alleges price increases for the “free” service. In this zero-price...
6 June 2022
Renato Nazzini: “Mergers in the Digital Economy”
Dear readers, I am delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Renato Nazzini, Professor of Law at King’s...
21 July 2022
Jonathan M. Barnett and David J. Teece: “Is the West Giving Away the Game?”
Dear readers, I am delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Jonathan M. Barnett, Torrey H. Webb Professor...
18 October 2021
Peter G. Klein: “Who Owns My Data?“
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Peter G. Klein, Professor of Entrepreneurship at Baylor...
15 December 2022
Alan J. Meese: “The Constitutional Moment That Wasn’t: 1912-1914 and the Meaning of the Sherman Act”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Alan J. Meese, Ball Professor...
31 July 2021
Alexandre de Streel (guest article): “Why Legislators Want to Move Fast and Break Things in the Cyberspace?”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Alexandre de Streel, Professor of digital law at...
11 May 2020
Richard Whish (guest article): "Do Competition Lawyers Harm Welfare?"
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by several of the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars...
9 March 2021
Michal Gal (guest article): “Do our Privacy Laws Strengthen the Already Strong?”
Dear readers, In 2020, I started publishing monthly guest articles written by some of the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars. The series continues in 2021....
16 November 2020
Alison Jones (guest article): “Spotlight On Cartels: Bid Rigging Affecting Public Procurement”
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars every month...
15 September 2022
Dennis W. Carlton: “How to make sensible merger policies?”
Dear readers, I am delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Dennis W. Carlton, Professor of Economics Emeritus...
26 August 2022
Jonathan B. Baker: “A Competitive Process Goal Won’t Strengthen Antitrust”
Dear readers, I am delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Jonathan B. Baker, Research Professor of Law...
2 May 2022
Thomas B. Nachbar: “An America Fit for the Digital Age?”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Thomas B. Nachbar, Professor of Law at the...
6 July 2020
Frédéric Jenny (guest article): “Market adjustments, Competition Law and the Covid-19 Pandemic”
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by several of the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars...
16 September 2021
Richard N. Langlois: “It’s Not Easy Being a Schumpeterian”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Richard N. Langlois, Professor of Economics at the...
2 November 2021
Diane Coyle: “Practical approaches to data in competition policy”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Diane Coyle, Bennett Professor of Public Policy at...