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Reading suggestions – June 2026

30 June 2026Thibault Schrepel

Here are Thibault Schrepel’s monthly reading suggestions. Topics include when and how to rescue efficiencies in horizontal merger control, recent U.S. antitrust decisions from April through June, a large language model that predicts case outcomes under Peruvian competition law, how competition authorities can adopt and govern generative AI, hub-and-spoke collusion through a third-party pricing algorithm, a five-year scenario for Europe's slide into AI irrelevance, why the DMA's service-based taxonomy does not fit frontier AI, a new tool that debugs large...

Antitrust Antidote: April-June 2026

25 June 2026Jeremy Kauffman, Jeremy Sandford, Nathan Wilson, and Koren W. Wong-Ervin

Reading suggestions – May 2026

31 May 2026Thibault Schrepel

Innovation on Rugged Technological Landscapes: Implications for Competition Policy

25 May 2026Steven Callander, Nicolas Lambert, and Niko Matouschek

Latin Antitrust Chronicles: September 2025-March 2026

11 May 2026Carlos Ragazzo, Marcela Mattiuzzo, Bruna Cataldo, and Clara Duarte

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30 April 2026

Reading suggestions – April 2026

Here are Thibault Schrepel’s monthly reading suggestions. Topics include AI agents and complexity economics in antitrust, the limits of the...

29 April 2026

Antitrust Antidote: January-March 2026

There were a number of decisions from January through March 2026, including: (1) the Ninth Circuit’s decision in AliveCor v....

20 April 2026

Introducing Dynamic Competition in the Middle East

Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 is the most ambitious economic transformation program in the world today, yet it is widely misunderstood...

8 April 2026

Competition Stories: July 2025 – December 2025

This issue presents recent developments in EU competition law enforcement in digital markets. It examines the growing phenomenon of parallel...

31 March 2026

Reading suggestions – March 2026

Here are Thibault Schrepel's monthly reading suggestions. Topics include AI's reshaping of research and publishing, end-to-end automation of scientific inquiry,...

26 March 2026

Fairness and Redistribution in Antitrust Law

Many parts of the legal system pursue “fair” distributions of wealth or economic status. Antitrust law does not. The antitrust...

23 March 2026

The Matthew Effect at Scale: Attention Scarcity and the AI Output Explosion

Generative AI is lowering the marginal cost of academic writing. A natural prediction is that this will allow more researchers...

2 March 2026

Reading suggestions – February 2026

Here are Thibault Schrepel’s monthly reading suggestions. Topics include the constitutional limits of the Digital Markets Act, antitrust’s fixation on...

30 January 2026

Reading suggestions – January 2026

Here are Thibault Schrepel’s monthly reading suggestions. Topics include market power and competition regimes, the limits of AI scaling, the...

2 January 2026

The world’s most downloaded antitrust articles of 2025

As for previous years, here are the world’s most downloaded antitrust and competition law articles posted on SSRN during 2025.

1 January 2026

Reading suggestions – December 2025

Here are Thibault Schrepel’s monthly reading suggestions. Topics include measure market power, nascent competition and killer acquisitions, the end of...

22 December 2025

Antitrust Antidote: October-December 2025

There were a number of decisions from October through December 2025, including: (1) FTC v. Meta, in which the court...

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21 October 2024
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31 July 2021
Alexandre de Streel (guest article): “Why Legislators Want to Move Fast and Break Things in the Cyberspace?”
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12 May 2025
Thomas A. Lambert: “Neo-Brandeisianism: A Policy at War With Itself”
“Neo-Brandeisian” scholars contend that prevailing antitrust law fails to protect democratic values. They propose (1) to replace antitrust’s consumer welfare...
23 August 2021
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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...
9 March 2021
Michal Gal (guest article): “Do our Privacy Laws Strengthen the Already Strong?”
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2 May 2022
Thomas B. Nachbar: “An America Fit for the Digital Age?”
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2 November 2023
Vincent Martenet: “Separation of Powers and Antitrust”
The separation of powers principle and antitrust both relate to power and, notably, deal with the concentration of power. However,...
4 May 2023
Joseph Farrell: “Looking at More Evidence in Antitrust”
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21 November 2022
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18 June 2025
Towards Efficient Data Sharing in Platform Markets
Platforms collect valuable data that they do not share. Welfare then suffers as information asymmetry produces market failures. Current proposals...
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...
6 September 2023
Anu Bradford: “What is at Stake if Antitrust Regulation Fails?”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Anu Bradford, Henry L. Moses Professor...
30 September 2020
Nicolas Petit (guest article): “Digital Markets and the Incipiency Attitude in EU Antitrust Law”
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11 May 2020
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16 June 2020
Scott Hemphill (guest article): “Uncertain Harms: The Case of Nascent Competitors”
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15 February 2023
Carl Shapiro: “Regulating Big Tech: Factual Foundations and Policy Goals”
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25 March 2024
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson: “The Urgent Need to Tax Digital Advertising”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor...
15 August 2022
Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice E. Stucke: “The Darker Sides of Digital Platform Innovation”
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8 February 2021
A. Douglas Melamed (guest article): “Acquisitions of Nascent Competitors under Section 2 of the Sherman Act”
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8 February 2022
Richard Epstein: “The Unwise Extension of Antitrust Law to Labor Markets”
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15 September 2022
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17 February 2020
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6 April 2020
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24 September 2024
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16 November 2020
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20 August 2020
Michael Carrier (guest article): “Why Do Courts Err in Pharmaceutical Antitrust Cases?”
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15 June 2022
Lawrence J. White: “A Riff and a Half on the Delineation of Relevant Markets in Antitrust Cases”
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2 April 2021
Douglas H. Ginsburg & Jacob Philipoom (guest article): “A Certain Harm Overlooked: The Case of Nascent Competitors Revisited”
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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...
27 October 2025
An effects-based approach to the DMA?
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27 January 2022
Richard J. Gilbert: “The American Innovation and Choice Online Act”
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24 April 2023
Ramsi A. Woodcock: “Antimonopolism as a Misunderstanding of Power”
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21 July 2022
Jonathan M. Barnett and David J. Teece: “Is the West Giving Away the Game?”
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26 August 2022
Jonathan B. Baker: “A Competitive Process Goal Won’t Strengthen Antitrust”
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6 July 2020
Frédéric Jenny (guest article): “Market adjustments, Competition Law and the Covid-19 Pandemic”
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4 April 2024
Herbert Hovenkamp: “Antitrust Market Definition: the Hypothetical Monopolist and Brown Shoe”
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15 March 2023
Drew Fudenberg and David K. Levine: “Adjusting to Change in Complex Systems”
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30 August 2023
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2 November 2021
Diane Coyle: “Practical approaches to data in competition policy”
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23 January 2021
Pablo Ibáñez Colomo (guest article): “Be Careful What You Wish For”
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7 November 2023
Marina Lao: “FTC Rulemaking on Noncompetes”
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