This publication contains my latest reading suggestions, i.e., academic papers and articles I enjoyed reading in August 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:
- Antitrust Laws’ Supposed Preference for “Internal Growth” over Acquisitions (Manne & Hurwitz – SSRN)
Artificial Inteligence:
- Special issue on “The Law & Technology & Economics of AI” (Kuenzler, Schrepel & Stocker – NLR)
- AI is Polytheistic, Not Monotheistic (Balaji Srinivasan – Substack)
- Unbundling AI Openness (Nobel et al. – SSRN)
- The Two People Shaping the Future of OpenAI’s Research (Melissa Heikkilä – MIT Technology Review)
- Five Ways That AI Is Learning to Improve Itself (Will Douglas Heaven – MIT Technology Review)
- Gamblers Now Bet on AI Models Like Racehorses (Ben Raab – Wall Street Journal)
- Natural language processing enhanced literature reviews (Liu et al. – JIT)
Econ:
- The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Privacy Regulation (Dubé et al. – Marketing Science)
- The Economic Costs of Ambiguous Laws (Giommoni et al. – CESifo Working Paper)
- Vertical Integration and Consumer Choice: Evidence from a Field Experiment (Farronato et al. – NBER)
- AI’s Overlooked $97 Billion Contribution to the Economy (Collis & Brynjolfsson – WSJ)
Others:
- Generative AI in Legal Education: A Two-Year Experiment with ChatGPT (Thibault Schrepel – SSRN)
- How Internet Scaled (Vint Cerf – Scaling Theory) 🎧
- Crypto-asset trading on top of Ethereum Blockchain comprehensive dataset (Somin et al. – Nature)
- On Classical Liberalism: Hayek, Freedom, and Serfdom (Cass Sunstein – Substack)
- How Common Knowledge Shapes the World (Steven Pinker – TED Talk)
- What It’s Like to Brainstorm With a Bot (Kyle Chayka – The New Yorker)
Thibault Schrepel
@ProfSchrepel
