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About: ICLE hosted a practical, enforcement-focused workshop for officials from the COMESA (Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa) Competition and Consumer Commission (CCCC) and . . .

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ICLE’s invitation-only Big Ideas Workshop series brings together early- and mid-career scholars to discuss important ideas in law & economics. Presented by ICLE Academic Affiliate, . . .

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About: The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is delighted to have co-organized, together with ICLE, a special event dedicated to the Master Thesis Competition in Competition Law. . . .

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About: The roundtable convened practitioners, academics, and other competition professionals for two linked discussions: Panel 1 assessed the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCC) . . .

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About: “The European Commission’s ongoing review of its merger guidelines attempts to reconcile the seemingly heterogeneous objectives of competitiveness, resilience, innovation and legal certainty within . . .

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ICLE’s invitation-only Big Ideas Workshop series brings together early- and mid-career scholars to discuss important ideas in law & economics. Scholars have recently argued that . . .

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Call for submissions: Best Master’s Thesis Award in European Competition Law & Competitiveness Are you completing a Master’s degree in law or economics at a . . .

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About: The International Center for Law and Economics and Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Rio de Janeiro hosted an Aug. 25 webinar on the licensing of . . .

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About: This conference revolved around a central question: How do regulation, industrial policy, and antitrust law shape technological change—and how, in turn, are they shaped . . .

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What potential lessons can competition policymakers in Latin America take from the U.S. Justice Department’s (DOJ) Google Search case? The International Center for Law and Economics (ICLE) convened scholars and experts from across the region to explore that question at a recent event in Lima, Peru, held in collaboration with the law faculty of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.

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ICLE’s invitation-only Big Ideas Workshop series brings together early- and mid-career scholars to discuss important ideas in law & economics. Presented by ICLE Academic Affiliates, . . .

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About: This seminar explored the role of economic evidence in competition-law litigation and enforcement. It brought together two perspectives: one focused on the admissibility and . . .

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A diverse group of competition enforcers, scholars, and legal experts gathered by the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) for a recent roundtable event in Edinburgh, Scotland, explored competition in the digital realm and the challenges inherent in implementing ex-ante regulatory regimes like the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) in highly differentiated and rapidly evolving markets that demand deep sector-specific expertise.

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Recent competition enforcement actions spearheaded by the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC), including The SmartPhone Act and Transparency Act, represent a growing trend of nations . . .

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ICLE’s invitation-only Big Ideas Workshop series brings together early- and mid-career scholars to discuss important ideas in law & economics. Most people believe that neoliberalism, . . .

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About: The Turkish Competition Authority (TCA) has moved aggressively in recent months toward a stricter enforcement regime, particularly in its oversight of labor markets and . . .

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About: Politicized arguments have dominated competition-law discourse around the globe in recent years. Too often, legal and economic substance is lost in popular rhetoric that . . .

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ICLE hosted a virtual roundtable discussion on policy issues surrounding the corporate practice of medicine (CPOM). This roundtable brought together a small group of academics . . .

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ICLE’s invitation-only Big Ideas Workshop series brings together early- and mid-career scholars to discuss important ideas in law & economics. In this workshop, participants looked . . .

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ICLE’s invitation-only Big Ideas Workshop series brings together early- and mid-career scholars to discuss important ideas in law & economics. The energy sector has been . . .

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ICLE President Geoffrey A. Manne and Senior Scholar Lazar Radic took part in the European Law Students Association’s European Union Law Conference at IE University . . .

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ICLE hosted a one-day Public Choice Bootcamp preceding the 61st Annual Meeting of the Public Choice Society. Our group consisted of law professors, economists, and . . .

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To much fanfare and even more controversy, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) Antitrust Division jointly released new draft merger guidelines . . .

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ICLE’s invitation-only Big Ideas Workshop series brings together early- and mid-career scholars to discuss important ideas in law & economics. In this workshop, participants explored . . .

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The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are considering significant revisions both to the merger guidelines used to inform judicial decision making and to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR)...

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In March 2023, the Commission announced new guidelines on exclusionary abuses and amended its 2008 Guidance on enforcement priorities concerning exclusionary abuses. According to the . . .

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ICLE’s invitation-only Big Ideas Workshop series brings together early- and mid-career scholars to discuss important ideas in law & economics. This workshop explored some of . . .

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been at the center of many significant legal and public policy debates over the past century. Over the past year, it has assumed a...

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ICLE’s invitation-only Big Ideas Workshop series brings together early- and mid-career scholars to discuss important ideas in law & economics. In antitrust and competition law, . . .

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Agenda: Friday, March 24, 2023     09:00 Registration & Breakfast 10:00 Introduction by the Organizers Lazar Radic, Senior Scholar for Competition Policy, International Center . . .

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ICLE’s invitation-only Big Ideas Workshop series brings together early- and mid-career scholars to discuss important ideas in law & economics. Back by popular demand, this . . .

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The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) directs the Federal Communications Commission to prevent discrimination in broadband access. In addition to preventing racial, ethnic, or . . .

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ICLE’s invitation-only Big Ideas Workshop series brings together early- and mid-career scholars to discuss important ideas in law & economics. The “Theory of the Firm” . . .

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Senators Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) and Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) recently introduced the Credit Card Competition Act, which would effectively enable merchants to route credit card transactions . . .

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The International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) hosted an Oct. 20, 2022 webinar on the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking . . .

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Congress has been considering legislation in recent months that would mark the most significant change to antitrust law in a generation. At issue is whether . . .

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On March 6, 2021 ICLE and the Oxford Union will welcome a distinguished group of scholars to discuss what economists have to learn from the . . .

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Join us for our third annual international competition policy conference on December 4th, 2019.

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This annual international competition law conference is co-hosted by ICLE and the Centre for Business Law and Practice at the University of Leeds, UK. The purpose of the event is to provide a platform for scholars, regulators, and practitioners from both sides of the Atlantic to exchange views and develop their thinking on important aspects of competition law.

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On Tuesday, August 28, 2018, Truth on the Market and the International Center for Law and Economics presented a blog symposium — Is Amazon’s Appetite Bottomless? The Whole Foods Merger After One Year — that looked at the concerns surrounding the closing of the Amazon-Whole Foods merger, and how those concerns had played out over the last year.

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During a half-day seminar, scholars and policy experts will discuss how the backlash against the use of economics in policymaking is increasing. A keynote address and two mixed panels of academics and policy analysts will discuss how this anti-economics trend affects the commercialization of technology and what, if anything, academics and other scholars can do about it.

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A growing number of companies operate on a global scale attracting the scrutiny of multiple competition law authorities around the world. As some of the . . .

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Truth on the Market and the International Center for Law and Economics presented a blog symposium discussing three proposed agricultural/biotech industry mergers awaiting judgment by antitrust authorities around the globe.

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The Apple E-Books Antitrust Case: Implications for Antitrust Law and for the Economy February 15, 2016 truthonthemarket.com The appellate court’s 2015 decision affirming the district . . .

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Josh Wright’s term as an FTC Commissioner ended on Monday, August 24, 2015.  Truth on the Market hosted a symposium —  a collection of commentaries . . .

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FTC Commissioner Joshua Wright will be the keynote speaker at TechFreedom and ICLE’s latest installment in their year-long project “FTC: Technology and Reform,” launched in . . .

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The FTC: Technology & Reform Project’s launch conference has begun! Not here in person? Check out C-SPAN’s coverage of the event (including FTC Commissioner Wright’s keynote address and our fireside chat with . . .

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Last month, FTC Commissioner Josh Wright began a much-needed conversation on the FTC’s UMC authority by issuing a proposed policy statement attempting to provide some meaningful guidance . . .

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Join TechFreedom , the International Center for Law & Economics , and the Competitive Enterprise Institute on December 13 at 3pm for “CopyRIGHT: Can Free . . .

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Coinciding with the release of the paper, ICLE, in conjunction with George Mason University’s Mercatus Center, will be hosting a conference in Washington, DC, next . . .

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Truth on the Market is planning an online symposium that will take place over two days, SEPTEMBER 19 and 20, covering these issues, and building . . .

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Free to Choose? A Symposium on Behavioral Law and Economics December 6-7, 2010 Truthonthemarket.com Thirty years ago, Milton Friedman launched the PBS television series “Free . . .

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For the uninitiated, the interchange fee is the fee charged (usually) by the credit card issuing bank (the cardholder’s bank) to the credit card acquiring . . .

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In light of the DOJ/FTC announcement of workshops to explore possible revisions to the Merger Guidelines in December 2009 and January 2010, TOTM is organizing . . .

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We are pleased to announce the next Truth on the Market online symposium: Section 2 and the Section 2 Report: Perspectives and Evidence We have . . .

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Innovation for the 21st Century (by Michael Carrier) Symposium March 30 – April 1, 2009 I’d like to formally thank Mike Carrier, Geoff Manne, Phil Weiser, . . .

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