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Kristian Stout

Associate Director

Kristian Stout, Associate Director at the International Center for Law and Economics (ICLE), has expertise in technology and innovation policy. As a technology professional and entrepreneur for over ten years, Kristian’s scholarship is influenced by a practical understanding of the challenges facing innovators in the modern economy. He works on policy areas that include intellectual property, antitrust, telecommunications, and Internet governance.

Kristian, a contributor to TheHill.com, and a fellow in the Internet Law & Policy Foundry, has previously been a lecturer in the computer science department of Rutgers University, is frequently invited to speak on law and technology topics, and has been published in law journals and legal treatises. Kristian is an attorney licensed to practice law in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, is counsel at A&S Technologies, a software services firm, is a member of the NJ State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, and sits on the boards of CodedByKids, a nonprofit organization that provides STEM education to underprivileged children and the New Jersey Leadership Program, a nonprofit devoted to helping South Asian youth gain practical experience in politics and policy.

Kristian graduated magna cum laude from the Rutgers University School of law, served on the editorial board of the Rutgers Journal of Law and Public Policy, and was additionally awarded a Governor’s Executive Fellowship from the Eagleton Institute of Politics.

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Scholarship

October 6, 2017

When “Reasonable” Isn’t: The FTC’s Standard-less Data Security Standard

Kristian Stout & Geoffrey A. Manne
Although the FTC is well-staffed with highly skilled economists, its approach to data security is disappointingly light on economic analysis. The unfortunate result of this lacuna is an approach to these complex issues lacking in analytical rigor and the humility borne of analysis grounded in sound economics.
Antitrust & Consumer Protection
September 1, 2017

The Fundamental Flaws in Behavioral L&E Arguments Against No-Surcharge Laws

Geoffrey A. Manne & Kristian Stout & Todd Zywicki
During the past decade, academics—predominantly scholars of behavioral law and economics—have increasingly turned to the claimed insights of behavioral economics in order to craft novel policy proposals in many fields, most significantly consumer credit regulation.
Financial Regulation
October 13, 2016

A Critical Assessment of the Latest Charge of Google’s Anticompetitive Bias

Geoffrey A. Manne & Kristian Stout & Ben Sperry
Late last year, Tim Wu of Columbia Law School (and now the White House Office of Management and Budget), Michael Luca of Harvard Business School (and a consultant for Yelp), and a group of Yelp data scientists released a study claiming that Google has been purposefully degrading search results from its more-specialized competitors in the area of local search.
Antitrust & Consumer Protection
March 17, 2016

IN ICANN WE TRUST: ASSURING ACCOUNTABLE INTERNET GOVERNANCE

Kristian Stout & Geoffrey A. Manne & Ben Sperry
"It’s no surprise to anyone that illegal activity happens online. What may be surprising, however, is that one of the central figures in administering core Internet functions is deeply ambivalent (at best) about its role in preventing illicit online activity..."
Innovation & The New Economy

Other Resources

January 29, 2019

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

January 7, 2019

ICLE Comments, Competition in Markets Involving Consumer Data

December 31, 2018

ICLE Comments, the Consumer Welfare Standard and the Role of Presumptions

November 13, 2018

ICLE urges NTIA to avoid heavy-handed privacy regulation that would stifle innovation and limit consumer choice

October 18, 2018

Amicus Brief of ICLE and Participating Scholars, Mozilla v. FCC

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