Antitrust Chronicle® – Hub-&-Spoke Conspiracies
Dear Readers, Hub-and-spoke theories have long occupied an uneasy middle ground in antitrust law. They sit somewhere between the relative comfort of bilateral vertical agreements and the more demanding...
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Chronicles
January 2026 - 2
Hub-and-spoke theories have long occupied an uneasy middle ground in antitrust law.
January 2026 - 1
Recidivism has an intuitive moral pull in antitrust: if competition law is meant to deter, repeat offending feels like the clearest evidence that deterrence has failed. Yet, as this edition’s contributions show, recidivism is also a concept riddled with definitional, institutional, and jurisdictional complexity.
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