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July 10, 2019

Economic Calculation in the Public Defender’s Office

Ben Sperry

After spending a few years away from ICLE and directly engaging in the day to day grind of indigent criminal defense as a public defender, I now have a new appreciation for the ways economic tools can explain behavior that I had not before studied.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

July 1, 2019

10 Reasons Why the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Is Going to Be a Dumpster Fire

Alec Stapp

Last year, real estate developer Alastair Mactaggart spent nearly $3.5 million to put a privacy law on the ballot in California’s November election. He then negotiated a deal with state lawmakers to withdraw the ballot initiative if they passed their own privacy bill. That law — the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) — was enacted after only seven days of drafting and amending.

Data Security & Privacy

June 20, 2019

New Paper Reveals “Stealth” Consolidation But Competitive Effects Remain Hidden

Alec Stapp

ICLE Research Fellow Alec Stapp responds to a new paper by Thomas Wollman in the American Economic Review regarding “stealth” consolidation and its allegedly anticompetitive effects.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

June 18, 2019

Response to McGeveran’s The Duty of Data Security: Not the Objective Duty He Wants, Maybe the Subjective Duty We Need

Gus Hurwitz

This response argues that in his efforts to locate a clear duty in existing data security law he has identified a standard that, in all meaningful ways, is one of subjective (not objective) reasonableness – and therefore offers no clarity at all.

Data Security & Privacy

May 15, 2019

A Bargaining Model v. Reality in FTC v. Qualcomm: A Reply to Kattan & Muris

Joshua Wright & Douglas Ginsburg

In a recent article[1] Joe Kattan and Tim Muris (K&M) criticize our article[2] on the predictive power of bargaining models in antitrust, in which we used two recent applications to explore implications for uses of bargaining models in courts and antitrust agencies moving forward.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

May 13, 2019

An Evidentiary Cornerstone of the FTC’s Antitrust Case Against Qualcomm May Have Rested on Manipulated Data

Geoffrey A. Manne

The courtroom trial in the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) antitrust case against Qualcomm ended in January with a promise from the judge in the case, Judge Lucy Koh, to issue a ruling as quickly as possible — caveated by her acknowledgement that the case is complicated and the evidence voluminous.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

May 13, 2019

In Apple v Pepper, SCOTUS leaves home without its Amex

Geoffrey A. Manne & Kristian Stout

It might surprise some readers to learn that we think the Court’s decision today in Apple v. Pepper reaches — superficially — the correct result. But, we hasten to add, the Court’s reasoning (and, for that matter, the dissent’s) is completely wrongheaded.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

May 7, 2019

Is Amazon Guilty of Predatory Pricing?

Kristian Stout & Alec Stapp

Predatory pricing is a rather rare anticompetitive practice because the “predator” runs the risk of bankrupting itself in the process of trying to drive rivals out of business with below-cost pricing.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

May 2, 2019

The ICANN Board’s Important Test of Independence: .Amazon

Kristian Stout

One of the main concerns I had during the IANA transition was the extent to which the newly independent organization would be able to behave impartially, implementing its own policies and bylaws…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

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