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Antitrust Chronicle® 2026




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.