Written Testimonies & Filings Archives - International Center for Law & Economics

June 30, 2021

Written Comments for July 1, 2021 FTC Open Meeting

The following comments were submitted to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for consideration in the commission's scheduled July 1 vote on whether to rescind the 2015 Statement of Enforcement Principles…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

May 18, 2021

Testimony of R.J. Lehmann to the Senate Banking Committee: The Case to Reform the NFIP

R.J. Lehmann

Introduction Chairman Brown, Ranking Member Toomey, and Members of the Committee, My name is R.J. Lehmann, and I am a Senior Fellow with and Editor-in-Chief of the International Center for…

Financial Regulation

April 14, 2021

Open Letter by Public Interest Organizations in Favor of Direct EV Sales and Service

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The signatories of this letter represent a broad range of public interest organizations who urge that any state laws still prohibiting car companies from selling their cars directly to consumers, or opening service centers for those vehicles, be amended to permit direct sales and service of EVs

Innovation & The New Economy

April 14, 2021

Open Letter by Academics in Favor of Direct EV Sales and Service

Geoffrey A. Manne & Gus Hurwitz & Joshua Wright & Benjamin Klein & Kenneth Elzinga & Thomas Hazlett & Thomas Lambert & Scott Masten & Salil K. Mehra & Michael Sykuta

The signatories of this letter, active or emeritus professors employed at public or private universities in the United States, come from across the political spectrum, and have a wide variety of views on regulation, environmental and consumer protection, and free enterprise as a general matter, but find common ground on the important issue of automotive direct sales.

Innovation & The New Economy

March 24, 2021

Re: The Federal Communications Commission’s Bipartisan 5.9 GHz Order

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Dear Secretary Buttigieg, Secretary Raimondo, and Director Deese: The International Center for Law & Economics, New America’s Open Technology Institute, Public Knowledge and the R Street Institute represent organizations that…

Telecommunications

February 1, 2021

Comments to FTC: ANPR Concerning Future Amendments to the HSR Rules

Dirk Auer & Geoffrey A. Manne & Samuel Bowman

ICLE comments filed Feb. 1, 2021, to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in response to the FTC's Advance Notice of Public Rulemaking concerning future amendments to the premerger notification rules under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

December 2, 2020

Comments to Senator Tillis, Request for Recommendations on Reforms to Section 512 of the Copyright Act

Neil Fried & Geoffrey A. Manne & Kristian Stout

We believe that Section 512 revisions should create greater incentives for online service providers to prevent unauthorized dissemination in the first place. Ideally, service providers should license the content so that copyright holders, Internet users, and OSPs themselves can all benefit from a healthier online ecosystem.

Intellectual Property

November 19, 2020

Pandemic Risk Insurance Act Hearing

R.J. Lehmann

"It is profoundly more important that Congress do its job to get assistance to the businesses, workers and communities who need that help right now that it is to pretend to have the answers in 2020 to a crisis of unknown and unknowable dimensions that may befall us in 2025 or 2050 or 2100."

Financial Regulation

September 2, 2020

ICLE Pole Attachment Comments

Kristian Stout & Ian Adams

The central question presented by this docket is: How does the FCC properly incentivize the economically efficient rollout of broadband on existing infrastructure in order to optimize the process to ensure deployment as quickly as possible?

Telecommunications

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