Antitrust Chronicle®

Dear Readers,  This annual edition of the Chronicle once again gathers contributions from leading voices within the state attorneys general community. If last year's edition reflected on the states' enforcement...

In this month’s edition of CPI Talks, we speak with Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti about the states’ landmark verdict against Live Nation and Ticketmaster, the independent role of state...

This article examines an overlooked aspect of the Live Nation trial: Judge Subramanian's instructions to the jury on California's Unfair Competition Law. Because UCL claims are ordinarily tried to the...

This article traces the past, present, and possible future of the Tunney Act, from the backroom settlements of the 1950s and the Nixon-era ITT Affair that prompted its enactment, through...

In these times of uncertainty, the states have stepped into a more meaningful role in competition policy in the United States. But effective competition policy would best aim to build...

Dear Readers,   Competition policy has never existed in isolation from politics, economics, or institutional change. But the relationship between those forces is becoming more explicit, more contested, and more...

In this paper, Diana L. Moss reflects on the legacy of the Biden Administration's "Anti-Monopoly" agenda and its implications for the future of U.S. antitrust enforcement. While recognizing the movement's...

The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) brought an antitrust lawsuit against Meta in 2021, claiming that Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp had allowed it to monopolize a relevant market for...

This paper examines Advocate General Rantos's July 2026 opinion in Groupama Asigurări v. Consiliul Concurenței, a reference arising from the Romanian Competition Council's finding that nine motor insurers coordinated premium...

Unusually, new administrations and governments in the U.S., EU, and UK came into office within a few months of each other at the end of 2024 and start of 2025....

This article explores one of the quieter, but potentially most consequential, innovations contained in the European Commission's draft Merger Guidelines: the evolving treatment of the merger counterfactual. The authors argue...

This article provides a comprehensive survey of recent developments in Australian competition law, highlighting the country's most significant merger reforms in decades. The author examines the transition to a mandatory...