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Antitrust Chronicle® – (Geo)Political Antitrust

Antitrust Chronicle® May 2026 Volume 2

Dear Readers,   For much of its modern history, antitrust has presented itself as a technocratic exercise: a discipline of market definition, competitive effects, and carefully calibrated interventions designed to preserve the competitive process. Yet the assumptions underlying that world increasingly appear unsettled. Competition authorities now operate amid strategic rivalry,...

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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.




April

This Chronicle explores the rapidly evolving intersection of foreign direct investment and technology, a space where traditional assumptions about openness, control, and market integration are being fundamentally reworked.


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