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Kristian Stout

Associate Director

Kristian Stout, ICLE Associate Director, is an expert in intellectual property, antitrust, telecommunications, and Internet governance. 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 awarded a Governor’s Executive Fellowship from the Eagleton Institute of Politics.

A Fellow in the Internet Law & Policy Foundry, Kristian was previously a lecturer in computer science. Kristian is frequently invited to speak on law and technology policy and has been published in law journals and legal treatises. He is licensed to practice law in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, is counsel at A&S Technologies, a software services firm, and is a member of the NJ State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

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March 28, 2019

Amazon is not essential, except to the EU’s flawed investigations

Kristian Stout & Geoffrey A. Manne
Amazon has largely avoided the crosshairs of antitrust enforcers to date (leaving aside the embarrassing dangerous threats of arbitrary enforcement by some US presidential candidates). The reasons seem obvious: in the US it handles a mere 5% of all retail sales (with lower shares in the EU), and it consistently provides access to a wide array of affordable goods.
Antitrust & Consumer Protection
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
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