April 15, 2019

New Paper: Consumer Welfare & the Rule of Law: The Case Against the New Populist Antitrust Movement, Pepperdine Law Review

Geoffrey A. Manne & Kristian Stout & Joshua Wright

Summary In this paper, forthcoming in the Pepperdine Law Review, Elyse Dorsey, Geoffrey A. Manne, Jan M. Rybnicek, Kristian Stout, and Joshua D. Wright argue that the modern consumer welfare…

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April 12, 2019

Geoffrey Manne & Richard Epstein Join WLF in Pusle Network v. Visa Amicus Brief

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Summary On April 12, 2019, WLF asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to reject an effort by a competitor-plaintiff to weaken one of the core elements…

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March 28, 2019

Geoffrey Manne on Ohio v. American Express in the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement

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ICLE President and Founder, Geoffrey A. Manne published an analysis of Ohio v. American Express in the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement. This article was written as part of a pair of articles,…

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February 19, 2019

Paper publication: Geoffrey Manne & Kristian Stout on the FTC's Standardless Data Security Standard in the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy

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ICLE President & Founder Geoffrey Manne and ICLE Associate Director Kristian Stout published a paper in the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy titled: When “Reasonable” Isn’t: The FTC’s Standardless…

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August 21, 2018

ICLE's Comments to the FTC as part of the "HEARINGS ON COMPETITION AND CONSUMER PROTECTION IN THE 21ST CENTURY"

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Yesterday ICLE filed comments with the Federal Trade Commission in response to its request for comments in its recently announced Hearings On Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century.…

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February 26, 2018

ICLE Affiliate Douglas H. Ginsburg, Focus of a New Book of Essays

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This March, Concurrences will be releasing a volume of essays that pay tribute to ICLE affiliate Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg. From the publisher's announcement: This first volume of Douglas H.…

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January 29, 2018

ICLE Scholars Co-Author Supreme Court Amicus Brief in American Express Platform Antitrust Case

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This week, a prestigious group of fifteen scholars of antitrust law and economics — ten of whom are affiliated with ICLE — submitted an amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court in State…

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November 15, 2017

New Report: Canadian Interchange Fee Caps Would Hurt Consumers

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Canada’s large merchants have called on the government to impose price controls on interchange fees, claiming this would benefit not only merchants but also consumers. But experience elsewhere contradicts this…

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November 9, 2017

ICLE Files Ex Parte Notice With FCC on Restoring Internet Freedom NPRM

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This week, the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) filed an ex parte notice in the FCC’s Restoring Internet Freedom docket. In it, we reviewed two of the major…

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