Spring 2023
The Network Law Review publishes four issues a year. Articles go online one by one and are gathered by season. This issue closed with 10 publications.
Contents
Newest first5 June 2023
The Limits of Antitrust Remedies: Brunswick v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat for the FTC
James C. Cooper and Bruce H. Kobayashi
For over four decades, the FTC successfully obtained equitable monetary remedies in federal courts using Section 13b of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act, until it didn’t. In AMG Capital Management v. FTC, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that Section 13b of the FTC Act did not allow…
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3 June 2023
Rankings of “law & technology” journals
This post features several rankings of “law & technology” journals and reviews, none of which were produced by the Network Law Review. Most of these rankings are US-centric.
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25 May 2023
Transparency by Design for Large Language Models
Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland, Robert Mahari and Tobin South
Large Language Models – like ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude – are akin to modern day oracles: they provide impressively useful outputs without revealing their reasoning. It remains extremely difficult to understand why exactly a large language model has created a specific output, and this issue of…
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17 May 2023
The Expected Impact of “Great Power Competition” on Antitrust Policy
Yogi Berra once said, “[i]t’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” He also said, “[y]ou can observe a lot by watching.” Observing the dynamics of current geopolitics, I predict that Great Power Competition (“GPC”) is about to redefine antitrust policy.
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4 May 2023
Looking at More Evidence in Antitrust
Competition policy builds on a simple idea. If much more business flows to those who offer better deals, as it does in markets that we call competitive, then society is significantly immunized from any actor’s incompetence or undue greed because the incompetent or greedy won’t do much business.
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27 April 2023
The Proof Is In the Digital Enforcement Pudding
The past years have seen a tremendous rise in the volume of technology regulation in the European Union, with the Digital Services package, the AI Act, and the Data Act, as mere examples of the waves of digital regulation affecting the Internet and its netizens.
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24 April 2023
Antimonopolism as a Misunderstanding of Power
There are two men alone in a room. One has a pile of cash. The other has a gun. Who is in control? Most people would say: the man with the gun. Antimonopolists say: the man with the cash. This is the mistake at the heart of the contemporary antimonopoly movement.
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17 April 2023
Competition Stories July – September 2022
With much delay, in part due to my workload, I am back. This time my “stories” cover three months: July, August, and September 2022. In no other period have the EU Courts been as active in competition law, notwithstanding the summer recess.
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13 April 2023
Innovation in European Antitrust Law
This short article serves as an introduction to Thibault Schrepel’s latest working paper, “A Systematic Content Analysis of Innovation in European Competition Law” (open-access)…
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27 March 2023
A “Proof of Vigilance” for Antitrust Constitutional Moment
This short contribution seeks to propose the implementation of a “Proof of Vigilance” to meet the challenges of antitrust constitutional moment. Hypothesis This short paper is based on a simple hypothesis: the face of antitrust is changing to an extent that will have a lasting impact on the future…
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