Spring 2024
The Network Law Review publishes four issues a year. Articles go online one by one and are gathered by season. This issue closed with 8 publications.
Contents
Newest first5 June 2024
Antitrust Antidote: March-May 2024
Nathan Wilson and Koren W. Wong-Ervin
There were a number of decisions from April-May 2024, covering topics such as (1) the use of the SSNIP test in monopolization (as opposed to merger) cases, which raises the issue of the proper benchmark for the competitive price; (2) the proper methodologies for damages models; and (3) the…
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20 May 2024
A New Measure For GenAI Competition
This short article serves as an introduction to the working paper by Thibault Schrepel and Jason Potts entitled “Measuring the Openness of AI Foundation Models: Competition and Policy Implications”
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16 April 2024
Antitrust Usage and the Secret Handshake
I was recently proofing edits to a law review article when I noticed that the editors had made a global change to decapitalize “school” in “Chicago School.” I asked to change it back to Chicago School.
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9 April 2024
Bridging Disciplinary Disconnects: The Role of Legal Experts in Legal NLP
The potential of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to transform the legal industry is increasingly undeniable. NLP can be used to reimagine legal search, improve legal reasoning and writing, answer legal questions, or extract information from legal documents.
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4 April 2024
Antitrust Market Definition: the Hypothetical Monopolist and Brown Shoe
Aside from naked restraints such as price-fixing, antitrust offenses require proof of the defendant’s market power, or ability to profit by raising price above cost. Conventionally we have measured market power “indirectly” by defining a “relevant market” of close substitutes and computing the…
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27 March 2024
The Apple Music Streaming Case: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
On March 4, 2024, the European Commission fined Apple €1.84 billion “over abusive App store rules for music streaming providers”. In particular, the Commission was concerned about the anti-steering provisions that Apple imposed on these providers.
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25 March 2024
The Urgent Need to Tax Digital Advertising
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson
There is widespread agreement that social media has become a major social problem. The original hope was that Facebook, Google, Twitter, and similar products would help people connect and encourage more decentralized forms of human communication, such as sharing local news.
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20 March 2024
Introducing the “Scaling Theory” podcast
Network Law Review
The Network Law Review is proud to support the “Scaling Theory” podcast created by Dr. Thibault Schrepel, LL.M. and available on your favorite platforms (Spotify, Apple, YouTube). The podcast is dedicated to exploring the power laws behind the growth of businesses, technologies, legal systems, and…
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