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April 1, 2022

In Apple v Epic, 9th Circuit Should Remember that Antitrust Forbids Enhancing, not Exercising, Market Power

[The following is adapted from an amicus brief filed by the author and other professors of law & economics to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Epic Games…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

April 1, 2022

Assessing Less Restrictive Alternatives and Interbrand Competition in Epic v Apple

Geoffrey A. Manne & Lazar Radic & Dirk Auer

The International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) filed an amicus brief on behalf of itself and 26 distinguished law & economics scholars with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

March 30, 2022

Suggested Redline Edits to the DOJ’s Letter to Judiciary Committee Leadership

Alden Abbott

The Biden administration finally has taken a public position on parallel House (H.R. 3816) and Senate (S. 2992) bills that would impose new welfare-reducing regulatory constraints on the ability of…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

March 29, 2022

Coalition Letter to House and Senate Commerce Committees on 5.9 GHz Band

ICLE

The Honorable Maria Cantwell Chairwoman Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation United States Senate The Honorable Roger Wicker Ranking Member Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation United States Senate The…

Telecommunications

March 29, 2022

US-EU Agreement Hopes to Keep Transatlantic Data Flowing

Kristian Stout

Though details remain scant (and thus, any final judgment would be premature), initial word on the new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework agreed to, in principle, by the White House and the European…

Telecommunications

March 28, 2022

ICLE Brief for D.C. Circuit in State of New York v Facebook

Henry N. Butler & Richard Epstein & Thomas Hazlett & Gus Hurwitz & Jonathan Klick & Thomas Lambert & Dan Lyons & Geoffrey A. Manne & Alan J. Meese & Paul Rubin & Michael Sykuta & John M. Yun

In this amicus brief for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, ICLE and a dozen scholars of law & economics address the broad consensus disfavoring how New York and other states seek to apply the “unilateral refusal to deal” doctrine in an antitrust case against Facebook.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

March 25, 2022

Final DMA: Now We Know Where We’re Going, but We Still Don’t Know Why

Lazar Radic

After years of debate and negotiations, European Lawmakers have agreed upon what will most likely be the final iteration of the Digital Markets Act (“DMA”), following the March 24 final round of “trilogue”…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

March 25, 2022

Senate Bill Looks to Rebalance ‘Internet Freedom’ and Creators’ Rights

Kristian Stout

All too frequently, vocal advocates for “Internet Freedom” imagine it exists along just a single dimension: the extent to which it permits individuals and firms to interact in new and…

Intellectual Property

March 24, 2022

Toward a Dynamic Consumer Welfare Standard for Contemporary U.S. Antitrust Enforcement

Alden Abbott

For decades, consumer-welfare enhancement appeared to be a key enforcement goal of competition policy (antitrust, in the U.S. usage) in most jurisdictions: The U.S. Supreme Court famously proclaimed American antitrust…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection