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May 31, 2011

Sprint’s (Ironic?) Campaign for Competition

Sprint, perhaps the most vigorous opponent of the proposed AT&T/T-Mobile merger, has been extolling the values of competition lately. Last Thursday and again today, the company ran full-page ads in the Wall Street…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

March 24, 2011

The Antitrust (and Business) Risk of a Concerted Response to the U.S. News Rankings

Thomas Lambert

I’ve been in a blue funk since last Tuesday, when my home institution, the University of Missouri Law School, fell into the third tier in the U.S. News & World…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

March 15, 2011

March 15: Kick-Off for The Law School Hiring Cartel

Thomas Lambert

If you’re currently a law professor and you’re thinking you might want to change schools (because, for example, your school continued its precipitous slide in the law school rankings .…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

March 11, 2011

Appropriate Liability Rules for Tying and Bundled Discounting: A Response to Professor Elhauge

Thomas Lambert

In recent years, antitrust scholars have largely agreed on a couple of propositions involving tying and bundled discounting. With respect to tying (selling one’s monopoly “tying” product only on the…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

January 29, 2011

Epstein on Obama at U of C

Thomas Lambert

It’s pretty hard to cycle through the University of Chicago Law School (or at least it used to be back when I was a student) without gaining an appreciation for…

January 20, 2011

Jonathan Macey for SEC Commissioner

Thomas Lambert

In a must-read op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal, Yale Law’s Jonathan Macey weighs in on Goldman Sachs’s decision to allow only foreign gazillionaires — no Americans, regardless of their wealth or sophistication — to…

Financial Regulation

January 15, 2011

Planet Money on Kittens, Keynes, and the Stock Market

Thomas Lambert

Prompted by this post at Cafe Hayek, I recently participated in a web experiment sponsored by NPR’s Planet Money. I was asked to watch three short animal videos and vote for the animal I found cutest.…

December 17, 2010

Securities Regulation Events at the AALS Annual Meeting

Thomas Lambert

Tulane Law’s Elizabeth Nowicki, a former TOTM guest, asked me to post the following notice: The AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco is fast approaching, and the AALS Section on Securities…

Financial Regulation

December 6, 2010

Thom Lambert on Behavioral Law and Economics and the Conflicting Quirks Problem: A “Realist” Critique

Thomas Lambert

Thom Lambert is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Missouri Behavioralism is mesmerizing. Ever since I took Cass Sunstein’s outstanding Elements of the Law course as a 1L at…

Financial Regulation

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