Mandates to restrict the flow of data across national boundaries have taken hold in a growing number of jurisdictions, including India. Spearheaded by nations like China, Iran, and Russia, the idea has vocal proponents among those who claim it will forward the goal of “digital sovereignty.”

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ICLE Academic Affiliate Adam Mossoff was a guest on the Patently Strategic podcast to discuss options for patent reform. Audio of the full episode is embedded below.

Self-preferencing by a powerful service provider is usually analyzed as constituting an exclusionary abuse of market power. Examples of this kind of abuse might include the provider manipulating search and recommendation rankings to favor its own goods over close competitors (Google Shopping case) or integrating its own applications into an operating system that artificially worsens the performance of competing software (Microsoft case; Android case). This focus stands in line with the practice of competition authorities and courts on both sides of the Atlantic, and we are not denying that it represents an important avenue of competition policy enforcement.

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The dumbest economics discussion over the past few years — and that’s a high bar — has to go to “greedflation.” The White House tried to blame the greed of meat packers and gas companies for rising prices. I would have blamed the Fed for inflation, but I’m no political strategist. According to this theory, inflation rose in the first half of 2022 because, all of a sudden, people became greedy. I guess. They must have become less greedy when inflation fell in the second half of 2022. I don’t know how this theory is supposed to work. Someone write down a model!

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International Center for Law & Economics President & Founder Geoffrey A. Manne and Santiago Martinez Lage, president of Ayala de la Torre Abogados, offer closing remarks at ICLE’s March 24, 2023 event “Exploring the Outer Boundaries of Antitrust: Democracy, Sustainability, & Industrial Policy” in Madrid, Spain. The full video is embedded below.

Video from the International Center for Law & Economics’ (ICLE) March 24, 2023 event “Exploring the Outer Boundaries of Antitrust: Democracy, Sustainability, & Industrial Policy” in Madrid, Spain. This session features a debate, moderated by ICLE Academic Affiliate Thibault Schrepel of Vrije Universiteit, between Giorgio Monti, professor of competition law at Tilburg Law School, and Nicolas Petit, joint chair in competition law at the European University Institute’s Department of Law and at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, on the topic “Should Antitrust Pursue Broader Social Goals?” The full video is embedded below.

Video from the International Center for Law & Economics’ (ICLE) March 24, 2023 event “Exploring the Outer Boundaries of Antitrust: Democracy, Sustainability, & Industrial Policy” in Madrid, Spain. In a panel moderated by ICLE Senior Scholar Lazar Radic, panelists Frederic Jenny, chairman of the OECD Competition Committee; Wendy Ng, associate professor of law at Melbourne Law School; Don Rosenberg, resident fellow at the University of California-San Diego; and Angela Wigger, associate professor of international relations at Radboud University discuss the topic: “Antitrust and Industrial Policy, or Antitrust as Industrial Policy?” The full video is embedded below.

Video from the International Center for Law & Economics’ (ICLE) March 24, 2023 event “Exploring the Outer Boundaries of Antitrust: Democracy, Sustainability, & Industrial Policy” in Madrid, Spain. Moderated by Ainhoa Veiga, a partner with the firm Araoz & Rueda, “Can & Should Policymakers use Competition Enforcement to Promote Sustainability Goals?” features panelists Maurits Dolmans, a partner with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP; Julian Nowag, an associate professor of EU law at Lund University; Cento Veljanovski, founder and managing partner of Case Associates; and ICLE Senior Scholar Julian Morris. The full video is embedded below.

Video from the International Center for Law & Economics’ (ICLE) March 24, 2023 event “Exploring the Outer Boundaries of Antitrust: Democracy, Sustainability, & Industrial Policy” in Madrid, Spain. Panelists Filippo Lancieri of Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich; Francisco Marcos of IE University Law School; Barak Orbach of the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law; and ICLE President & Founder Geoffrey A. Manne discuss the topic” Is Political Power an Antitrust Problem?” Jenine Hulsmann, a partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, moderates. The full video is embedded below.