This publication contains my latest reading suggestions, i.e., academic papers and articles I enjoyed reading in April 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:
- Fueling Concentration: AI Agents and Network Effects (Agranat & Gal – NLR)
- Stanford Conference: Computational Antitrust in 2025 (SCA) 🎧
- Stanford Conference: Computational Antitrust in 2030 (SCA) 🎧
- Andy Chen on Computational Antitrust in Taiwan (Chen & Schrepel – SCA) 🎧
- Antitrust Antidote: January-March 2025 (Sanford & Wong-Ervin – NLR)
- Is Lina Khan Back at the FTC? (WSJ)
Artificial Inteligence:
- Researchers Propose a Better Way to Report Dangerous AI Flaws (Will Knight – Wired)
- General-Purpose AI Needs Coordinated Flaw Reporting (Longpre & Appel – HAI)
- AI Liability Along the Value Chain (Botero Arcila – Mozilla)
- Introducing AI 2027 (Scott Alexander – Substack)
- Will AI improve your life? Here’s what 4,000 researchers think (Fred Schwaller – Nature)
- Classifying legal interpretations using large language models (Dugac & Altwicker – AI and Law)
- AI as Normal Technology (Narayanan & Kapoor – Knight)
Digital:
- Asymmetric Content Moderation in Search Markets: The Case of Adult Websites (Madio et al. – SSRN)
- Mapping the empirical literature of the GDPR’s (In-)effectiveness (Li et al. – CLSR)
Econ:
- The long-term evolution of technological complexity and its relationship with economic growth (Broekel & Klarl – Technovation)
- Who Benefits from Online Gig Economy Platforms? (Stanton & Thomas – AER)
- (Successful) Democracies Breed Their Own Support (Acemoglu et al. – RES)
Other:
- Get a Wikipedia-like report on your topic with AI (Co-STORM)
- The Techno-Utopians Who Want to Colonize the Sea (Mark Yarm – NYTimes)
- The network science of philosophy (Moser et al. – NSP)
Thibault Schrepel
@ProfSchrepel
