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Introducing The Minerva Papers, by Jorge Padilla

8 September 2026Jorge Padilla

Jorge Padilla opens The Minerva Papers, a new Network Law Review series. Mars still lends his name to war and Mercury to commerce, but Minerva has faded from our imagination. She stood for knowledge disciplined by judgement, for the union of the academy and the workshop. Padilla explains why an age rich in information and poor in wisdom should recall her.

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8 July 2026

A Farewell to Net Neutrality: Implications for Internet Access and E-Commerce

I consider legal decisions resulting in the end of the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality regulation. There is evidence that...

30 June 2026

Reading suggestions – June 2026

Here are Thibault Schrepel’s monthly reading suggestions. Topics include when and how to rescue efficiencies in horizontal merger control, recent...

25 June 2026

Antitrust Antidote: April-June 2026

There were a number of significant decisions from April through June 2026, including: (1) the Eastern District of California’s preliminary...

31 May 2026

Reading suggestions – May 2026

Here are Thibault Schrepel's monthly reading suggestions. Topics include innovation on rugged technological landscapes and its implications for competition policy,...

25 May 2026

Innovation on Rugged Technological Landscapes: Implications for Competition Policy

Digital and technology markets are often analyzed as if innovation moves along a smooth path. We describe an alternative view:...

11 May 2026

Latin Antitrust Chronicles: September 2025-March 2026

This edition of the Latin Antitrust Chronicles provides an overview of the main developments that took place in late 2025...

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...

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22 July 2025
How Employee Networks Drive Innovation, and How Remote Work Alters Both
Our research examines how employee collaboration networks within companies affect the quality of innovation, using data from over 28,000 employees...
16 June 2020
Scott Hemphill (guest article): “Uncertain Harms: The Case of Nascent Competitors”
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24 April 2023
Ramsi A. Woodcock: “Antimonopolism as a Misunderstanding of Power”
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7 November 2023
Marina Lao: “FTC Rulemaking on Noncompetes”
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26 August 2022
Jonathan B. Baker: “A Competitive Process Goal Won’t Strengthen Antitrust”
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11 May 2020
Richard Whish (guest article): "Do Competition Lawyers Harm Welfare?"
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24 September 2024
Richard N. Langlois: “Memes and Myths of Antitrust”
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16 November 2020
Alison Jones (guest article): “Spotlight On Cartels: Bid Rigging Affecting Public Procurement”
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15 July 2026
Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Assessing the Draft EU Merger Guidelines
This paper assesses the European Commission’s draft Merger Guidelines against the treatment of efficiencies, the failing firm defence, and the...
16 September 2021
Richard N. Langlois: “It’s Not Easy Being a Schumpeterian”
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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...
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...
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,...
30 September 2020
Nicolas Petit (guest article): “Digital Markets and the Incipiency Attitude in EU Antitrust Law”
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18 October 2021
Peter G. Klein: “Who Owns My Data?“
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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...
5 June 2023
The Limits of Antitrust Remedies: Brunswick v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat for the FTC
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by James C. Cooper, Professor...
11 September 2023
Justin (Gus) Hurwitz: “A Bad Merger of Process and Substance: Changing the Merger Guidelines and Premerger Review Form”
On June 27, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced proposed changes to Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (“HSR Act”) premerger notification form....
12 May 2025
Thomas A. Lambert: “Neo-Brandeisianism: A Policy at War With Itself”
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6 June 2022
Renato Nazzini: “Mergers in the Digital Economy”
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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....
20 August 2020
Michael Carrier (guest article): “Why Do Courts Err in Pharmaceutical Antitrust Cases?”
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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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6 September 2023
Anu Bradford: “What is at Stake if Antitrust Regulation Fails?”
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8 February 2022
Richard Epstein: “The Unwise Extension of Antitrust Law to Labor Markets”
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27 October 2022
Thomas W. Hazlett: The FTC’s Rendition of the “Cellophane Fallacy”
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6 April 2020
Eleanor Fox (guest article): "POWER: Trust and Distrust"
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21 November 2022
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15 September 2022
Dennis W. Carlton: “How to make sensible merger policies?”
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4 April 2024
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15 February 2023
Carl Shapiro: “Regulating Big Tech: Factual Foundations and Policy Goals”
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27 October 2025
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2 May 2022
Thomas B. Nachbar: “An America Fit for the Digital Age?”
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15 December 2022
Alan J. Meese: “The Constitutional Moment That Wasn’t: 1912-1914 and the Meaning of the Sherman Act”
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30 August 2023
Luc Soete and Sven Van Kerckhoven: “Deglobalisation and competition policy: the challenge to European economic integration”
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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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15 August 2022
Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice E. Stucke: “The Darker Sides of Digital Platform Innovation”
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23 January 2021
Pablo Ibáñez Colomo (guest article): “Be Careful What You Wish For”
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2 November 2021
Diane Coyle: “Practical approaches to data in competition policy”
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27 January 2022
Richard J. Gilbert: “The American Innovation and Choice Online Act”
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9 March 2021
Michal Gal (guest article): “Do our Privacy Laws Strengthen the Already Strong?”
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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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17 May 2021
George L. Priest (guest article): “What to do about the Big Tech Monopolies?”
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3 November 2022
Daniel F. Spulber: “How Do Vertical Mergers Affect Innovation? Learning from Illumina”
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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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18 June 2025
Towards Efficient Data Sharing in Platform Markets
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17 December 2020
Joshua D. Wright & Alexander Krzepicki (guest article): “Rethinking Foreclosure Analysis in Antitrust Law: From Standard Stations to Google”
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9 March 2020
William Kovacic (guest article): "Roads Not Taken: The Federal Trade Commission and Google"
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23 August 2021
Randal C. Picker: “Security Competition and App Stores”
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17 January 2020
Herbert Hovenkamp (guest article): On The Meaning of Antitrust’s Consumer Welfare Principle
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