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Just days before leaving office, the outgoing Obama FTC left what should have been an unwelcome parting gift for the incoming Commission: an antitrust suit against Qualcomm.

FTC v. Qualcomm: Innovation and Competition

7 January 2019

ICLE Comments, Competition in Markets Involving Consumer Data

18 December 2018

Senate Testimony on why US antitrust law should not emulate the EU

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February 21, 2019

ICLE Comments, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s Digital Platforms Inquiry

Gus Hurwitz & Chris Berg

The analysis in the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s Preliminary Report for the Digital Platforms Inquiry is inadequate in several ways. There is a real danger that if the policy recommendations outlined in the preliminary report were to be adopted, Australian consumers would be severely harmed.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

February 4, 2019

The Mozilla oral arguments and the ongoing hell of the “net neutrality” debate

Gus Hurwitz

In the opening seconds of what was surely one of the worst oral arguments in a high-profile case that I have ever heard, Pantelis Michalopoulos, arguing for petitioners against the…

Telecommunications

January 29, 2019

The Australian approach to “consumer protection” policy is a threat to consumer welfare and free speech

Kristian Stout & Akiva Malamet

The US Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights recently held hearings to see what, if anything, the U.S. might learn from the approaches of other countries regarding antitrust and consumer protection.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

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Dirk Auer

Senior Fellow, Law & Economics

Dirk Auer joined ICLE as a Senior Fellow in October 2018. His work focuses on the law and economics of antitrust, with an emphasis on innovation policy, digital markets and European competition law. Dirk is also a guest lecturer at the EDHEC business school in France, where he teaches a course on advanced competition law, and at UCLouvain in Belgium, where he teaches an introduction to American law course.

Before joining ICLE, Dirk worked as a research fellow at the Liège Competition and Innovation Institute (LCII). Dirk’s research has been published in a number of influential law journals. Prior to that, he worked for the competition practices of two leading law firms in Brussels.

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FTC v. Qualcomm: Innovation and Competition

ICLE Comments, Competition in Markets Involving Consumer Data

Senate Testimony on why US antitrust law should not emulate the EU

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ICLE Comments, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s Digital Platforms Inquiry

The Mozilla oral arguments and the ongoing hell of the “net neutrality” debate

The Australian approach to “consumer protection” policy is a threat to consumer welfare and free speech

Featured Scholar

Dirk Auer