Antitrust Chronicle® – Acqui-hiring
Antitrust Chronicle® December 2025 Volume 1
Dear Readers, This Chronicle arrives at a moment when the lines between labor mobility, merger control, and AI-driven innovation have begun to blur in ways that challenge every familiar analytical frame. As talent becomes both the decisive input and the locus of competitive concern, agencies worldwide wrestle with whether hiring...
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July
The contributions in this Chronicle explore whether existing privacy frameworks remain fit for purpose in an environment characterized by large-scale data collection, increasingly sophisticated identification technologies, and evolving theories of harm.

June
“Buy Now, Pay Later” (“BNPL”) has moved from fintech curiosity to embedded infrastructure in modern consumer markets, quietly reshaping how credit is extended, priced, and experienced. What began as a frictionless alternative to traditional lending now sits at the intersection of payments, consumer protection, and competition policy.

May
As health systems evolve beyond purely clinical data toward richer, more contextualized information environments, the integration of SDoH into AI systems raises a central tension: the same data that can improve equity and care delivery can also encode and obscure discrimination. The contributions in this issue begin to map that terrain.
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