This publication contains my latest reading suggestions, i.e., academic papers and articles I enjoyed reading in September 2025. You can follow me on X (@ProfSchrepel), LinkedIn (here) or BlueSky (here) to be notified of similar articles on a more regular basis. The Network Law Review is also available on X (@NetworkLawRev), BlueSky (here), and LinkedIn (here).
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Antitrust:
- The Antitrust Stack: A Computational Analysis of Lina Khan’s Legacy (Long – Stanford Comp. Antitrust)
- Nancy Scola on computational antitrust and antitrust journalism (Stanford Computational Antitrust)
- The Digital Markets Act’s impacts on EU users (Apple)
- Digital (Killer?) Acquisitions (Ederer et al.)
- Serial Acquisitions in Tech (Jin et al. – NBER)
Artificial Inteligence:
- Private, Verifiable, and Auditable AI Systems (Tobin South)
- Why is the AI Act so hard to kill? (Luis Garicano – Substack)
- AI, Society, and Democracy: Just Relax (Cochrane – UCLA)
- An AI system to help scientists write expert-level empirical software (Aygün et al. – Arxiv)
- DeepSeek-R1 incentivizes reasoning in LLMs through reinforcement learning (Guo et al. – Nature)
Econ:
- An Economy of AI Agents (Hadfield & Koh – NBER)
- Superstar Firms through the Generations (Ma et al. – NBER)
- Adaptive Regulation, the paper (Schrepel – SSRN)
- Adaptive Regulation, the podcast (Schrepel – Scaling Theory) 🎧
- Will your study change the world? This AI tool predicts the impact of your research (Owens – Nature)
Special issue:
- Special Issue on “The Law & Technology & Economics of AI” (Adrian Kuenzler, Thibault Schrepel & Volker Stocker)
- Toward Compliance Zero: AI and the Vanishing Costs of Regulatory Compliance (Paul Ohm)
- Artificial Intelligence and Data Policies: Regulatory Overlaps and Economic Tradeoffs (Ginger Zhe Jin, Liad Wagman & Mengyi Zhong)
- The Regulation that Cried Wolf: Generative AI Training Data and the Challenge of Lawful Scale (Alba Ribera Martínez)
- Governing Hyperobjects: The New Economics of AI Regulation (Jason Potts)
- Dams For The Infinite River: Limits To Copyright’s Power Over The Next-Generation of Generative AI Media (Zachary Cooper)
- AI Governance as Regulation of Collective Memory (Michal Shur-Ofry)
- Statutory Obsolescence in the Age of Innovation: A Few Thoughts about GDPR (Florence G’sell)
- Crafting the Regulatory Ecosystem for AI: Competition 2.0 (Nuno Cunha Rodrigues)
- Japanese AI Regulation and Competition Law (Kyohei Yamamoto & Yasunori Tabei)
- The New AI Regulation in Korea: Problems of Jurisdictional Overlaps (Yo Sop Choi)
- Implementing the European AI Act: Balancing Horizontal Consistency with Sector-Specific Requirements (Daniel Schnurr)
- Personalized Competition Law: The New Frontier of AI Market Governance (Adrian Kuenzler)
- Principal-Agent Dynamics and Digital (Platform) Economics in the Age of Agentic AI (Volker Stocker & William Lehr)
- The Future-Proof Fantasy of AI Regulation (Thibault Schrepel)
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