August 08, 2024
The American Express Decision and its Critics
The Supreme Court’s 2018 American Express (“Amex”) decision was its first involving two-sided platforms since the emergence of platform economics. As the Internet continues to facilitate the growth of two-sided...
May 31, 2024
AI, Pharmaceutical Sector, and EU Competition Law and Policy: What...
Artificial intelligence (“AI”) offers unprecedented opportunities to enhance the effectiveness of treatments and significantly reduce drug discovery and development timelines in the pharmaceutical industry. However, existing legal frameworks, including competition...
May 09, 2024
Mapping Antitrust onto Digital Ecosystems
The assessment of “ecosystem power” has come to occupy centerstage in antitrust cases involving large digital firms, as regulators are finding traditional market-by-market analysis increasingly inadequate to capture how competition...
March 19, 2024
Meta Urges Emergency Injunction Against FTC Privacy Hearing
Meta Platforms has sought an emergency injunction from a federal appeals court to halt an ongoing Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in-house hearing. The hearing, which could potentially lead to a...
February 22, 2024
Enhancing Social-Media Regulation Through Transparency? Examining the New Transparency Regime...
Social-media platforms have taken on an important role in public communication, yet the precise nature of their influence remains largely opaque. Specifically, their content recommendation and moderation systems have drawn...
February 22, 2024
Social Media Regulation Futures: Learning from International Policy Mixes
There has been a turn worldwide towards social media regulation in the context of concerns about online harms, including those arising from misinformation. Social media regulation largely involves nation-states –...
February 16, 2024
Not All E-Commerce Businesses are Born Equal: Implications for Privacy...
This paper discusses privacy concerns and privacy regulation under two different e-commerce business models: a pure marketplace and a hybrid marketplace. In previous papers we have found that the nature...
February 06, 2024
Google Settles Data Privacy Lawsuit
Tech giant Google has agreed to pay $350 million to settle a lawsuit brought by shareholders concerning a security flaw in its now-defunct social media platform, Google+. The preliminary settlement, filed late...
January 18, 2024
Sheryl Sandberg to Depart Meta Board
Sheryl Sandberg, the former Chief Operating Officer and lead architect of Facebook’s digital advertising-driven business model, has announced her departure from the board of Meta, Facebook’s parent company. This decision...