Introducing DALL·E In early January 2021, OpenAI introduced DALL·E, a trained neural network “that creates images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language.” DALL·E is a real technological breakthrough, “a 12-billion parameter version of GPT-3 trained to generate images from text descriptions, using a dataset of text-image pairs. […] It has...Read More
I am pleased to be introducing the Computational Antitrust project at Stanford University’s CodeX Center (visit the website). The project gathers over 40 antitrust agencies and 30 scholars. Ambition Computational law is a branch of legal informatics concerned with the mechanization of legal analysis (whether done by humans or machines). Deriving from it, the “Computational Antitrust” project at...Read More
Click here to order “Blockchain + Antitrust” *** This post features my latest reading suggestions based on the academic papers and press articles that I enjoyed reading in December 2020. As I tend to favor open-source publications and active sharing, you may follow me on Twitter (@LeConcurrential) or LinkedIn (here) to access similar articles on a more regular basis. SUBSCRIBE TO THE NETWORK...Read More
Click here to order “Blockchain + Antitrust” *** This post features my latest reading suggestions based on the academic papers and press articles that I enjoyed reading in November 2020. As I tend to favor open-source publications and active sharing, you may follow me on Twitter (@LeConcurrential) or LinkedIn (here) to access similar articles on a more regular basis. SUBSCRIBE TO THE...Read More
Over the last couple of months, I’ve published several articles and chronicles with the hope that they could benefit antitrust (U.S.) and competition law (E.U.) students (as well as the community?!). Today, I am gathering them all in the same place. Here we go. 1 – Literature: U.S. antitrust professors’ favorite articles: link Here, you will find a...Read More
Click here to order “Blockchain + Antitrust” *** You’ll find below the academic papers and press articles that I enjoyed reading in October 2020. You can follow me on Twitter (@LeConcurrential) or LinkedIn (here) if you want to find out about similar articles on a more regular basis. SUBSCRIBE TO THE NETWORK LAW REVIEW NEWSLETTER (100% free) SUBSCRIBE TO THE STANFORD COMPUTATIONAL ANTITRUST NEWSLETTER...Read More
Last year, I published a list of podcasts for antitrust law enthusiasts. I am pleased to be posting a new list, this time around, about newsletters. Not all of them are antitrust-centered, but they (all) contribute to keeping me up-to-date. In fact, I find that reading them (religiously) is a small commitment from which I derive a significant benefit. So, here we...Read More
Click here to order “Blockchain + Antitrust” *** Please find below the papers and articles that I enjoyed reading in September 2020. You can follow me on Twitter (@LeConcurrential) or LinkedIn (here) if you want to find out about similar articles on a more regular basis. Antitrust: Antitrust law professors’ favorite articles (Thibault Schrepel – Concurrentialiste) Digital Markets and the Incipiency Attitude...Read More
Last year, I asked European professors of competition law to list their three favorite articles ever written in the field (they’re here). Today, I am delighted to be publishing the American counterpart. About 30 antitrust law professors have sent me their contribution–for which I am very grateful. Our antitrust family doesn’t agree on everything (to say the...Read More
Click here to order “Blockchain + Antitrust” *** Please find below the papers and articles that I enjoyed reading in August 2020. You can follow me on Twitter at @LeConcurrential if you want to find out about similar articles on a more regular basis. Antitrust: Why Do Courts Err in Pharmaceutical Antitrust Cases? (Michael Carrier – Concurrentialiste) “Never Break the Chain”: Pursuing...Read More
Click here to order “Blockchain + Antitrust” *** Please find below the papers and articles that I enjoyed reading in July 2020. Surprisingly good for the summer period. You can follow me on Twitter at @ProfSchrepel if you want to find out about similar articles on a more regular basis. Antitrust: Google, Facebook, and Amazon are no platforms (Thibault...Read More
EDIT: a more academic version of this article is now available at the Oxford Journal of European Competition Law & Practice: link. *** It’s been a while since I wanted to write about Ben Thompson’s aggregation theory because it has significant implications for antitrust law. Today is the day I’m finally doing it. Yay. 1- Platforms vs. aggregators Before...Read More
Dear all, Vitalik and I are very pleased to present you with this 12-minute video discussing (part of) our article entitled “Blockchain Code as Antitrust” (link). Thank you for watching!Read More
One day, Darwin encountered a young public permissionless blockchain. Here is the transcript of their conversation (all Darwin’s quotes are directly taken from his book, “On the Origin of Species“): Narrator: The blockchain is concerned about not fitting in the existing framework. The blockchain is not a market and is not a firm (see this article)....Read More
Click here to order “Blockchain + Antitrust” *** Please find below the papers and articles that I enjoyed reading in June 2020. Learn about them on a more regular basis by following me on Twitter at @LeConcurrential. Antitrust: Uncertain Harms: The Case of Nascent Competitors (Scott Hemphill) Blockchain Code Can Fill In When Antitrust Law Fails (Thibault Schrepel) Fascism and Monopoly (Daniel...Read More
