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April 15, 2022

Lina Khan’s Privacy Proposals Are at Odds with Market Principles and Consumer Welfare

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is at it again, threatening new sorts of regulatory interventions in the legitimate welfare-enhancing activities of businesses—this time in the realm of data collection by…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

April 12, 2022

Attention Markets: They Know Them When they See Them

Dirk Auer

A raft of progressive scholars in recent years have argued that antitrust law remains blind to the emergence of so-called “attention markets,” in which firms compete by converting user attention into advertising…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

April 5, 2022

FTC UMC Rulemakings Would Prove Legal Failures

Alden Abbott

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) competition rulemakings, like spring, are in the air. But do they make policy or legal sense? In two commentaries last summer (see here and here), I argued that FTC…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

April 1, 2022

ICLE Brief for 9th Circuit in Epic Games v Apple

Alden Abbott & Thomas C. Arthur & Dirk Auer & Jonathan Barnett & Donald Boudreaux & Giuseppe Colangelo & Anthony Dukes & Richard Epstein & Vivek Ghosal & Janice Hauge & Gus Hurwitz & Michael S. Jacobs & Mark Jamison & Benjamin Klein & Peter Klein & Jonathan Klick & Dan Lyons & Geoffrey A. Manne & Francisco Marcos & Scott Masten & Alan J. Meese & Igor Nikolic & Paul Rubin & Vernon L. Smith & Michael Sykuta & Alexander "Sasha" Volokh

In this brief for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, ICLE and 26 distinguished scholars of law & economics argue that the district court in a suit brought by Epic Games rightly found that Apple’s procompetitive justifications outweigh any purported anticompetitive effects in the market for mobile-gaming transactions.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

April 1, 2022

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

Thomas Lambert

[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