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July 13, 2022

Dead End Road: National Petroleum Refiners Association and FTC ‘Unfair Methods of Competition’ Rulemaking

[On Monday, June 27, Concurrences hosted a conference on the Rulemaking Authority of the Federal Trade Commission. This conference featured the work of contributors to a new book on the subject edited by Professor Dan…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

July 11, 2022

Privacy, Crypto, and EU Financial Surveillance

Mikołaj Barczentewicz

European Union lawmakers appear close to finalizing a number of legislative proposals that aim to reform the EU’s financial-regulation framework in response to the rise of cryptocurrencies. Prominent within the package are new…

Data Security & Privacy

July 11, 2022

The Cracked Mirror of Monopoly-Monopsony Symmetry

Brian Albrecht

Slow wage growth and rising inequality over the past few decades have pushed economists more and more toward the study of monopsony power—particularly firms’ monopsony power over workers. Antitrust policy…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

July 7, 2022

Pushing the Limits? A Primer on FTC Competition Rulemaking

Maureen K. Ohlhausen & James F. Rill

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

July 6, 2022

Patent Eligibility, Competition, Innovation, Congress, and the Supreme Court

Alden Abbott

A highly competitive economy is characterized by strong, legally respected property rights. A failure to afford legal protection to certain types of property will reduce individual incentives to participate in…

Intellectual Property

July 6, 2022

tl;dr – AB 2408: California’s Effort to Combat Social Media ‘Addiction’

Kristian Stout & Spencer Kahn

Background… California’s state Assembly earlier this year passed A.B. 2408, which would impose a duty of care on social-media platforms for “any design, feature, or affordance that causes a child…

Innovation & The New Economy

July 5, 2022

Why FTC Competition Rulemaking Likely Will Fail

Alden Abbott

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

June 22, 2022

DMA Update: It’s Still a Privacy Danger

Mikołaj Barczentewicz

The European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) has been finalized in principle, although some legislative details are still being negotiated. Alas, our earlier worries about user privacy still have not been addressed…

Data Security & Privacy

June 22, 2022

ADPPA Mimics GDPR’s Flaws, and Goes Further Still

Mikołaj Barczentewicz

Just three weeks after a draft version of the legislation was unveiled by congressional negotiators, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) is heading to its first legislative markup, set for tomorrow…

Data Security & Privacy

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