The FTC’s Bureau of Economics has scheduled a conference that looks very interesting and concerns a subject near and dear to my heart: antitrust in the supermarket!  Sadly, I will…

As you may know, this past Friday we (Geoff and Josh) organized the inaugural GMU/Microsoft Conference on the Law and Economics of Innovation. Overall, we were extremely pleased with our…

One nice thing about being a legal academic is that you can diversify your political portfolio. By that, I mean that you become somewhat indifferent to who’s in office. If…

Professor Sokol points to this paper by Ittai Paldor (an SJD student at U. Toronto) which Sokol points out qualifies as the rarely observed defense of the per se rule…

As David points out over at Antitrust Review, the FTC has redesigned its website.  It is much easier to use than the old version and includes much easier access to…

Not going anywhere?  The AMC Report is available.  All 500 plus pages of it (including the separate statements from the individual Commissioners).  There is a lot to digest and I…

As Danny Sokol already pointed out, On May 4 at George Mason Law School, Josh Wright and I will be putting on a conference.  This is the inaugural conference in…

I was on Spring Break last week and was too tied up to do much blogging on Leegin, which I’ve been following pretty closely. Fortunately, Josh and Keith were on…

Transcripts in Leegin are available here (HT: Antitrust Review where David Fischer points out some of the highlights of the oral argument).  I may add some additional thoughts later after…