Meta, TikTok, and Snapchat are all facing lawsuits, alleging that their platforms deliberately target young users with addictive technologies. Simultaneously, states are passing laws to limit social media addiction and…

By Aurelien Portuese1   Federal agencies are getting ready for possible shake-ups as the presidential election draws near. The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) is one of the organizations that demands…

By Niall E. Lynch & Sydney Kirlan-Stout*   I. Introduction Dating to 1907, California’s Cartwright Act1 is the primary state law through which private plaintiffs and state agencies challenge allegedly…

By Giuseppe Colangelo*   Over the past decade, the intersection of privacy and antitrust has become a significant focus in the literature on data’s role in digital markets.1 In a…

By Kristof Zetenyi and Tom Beckford*   The logit model has recently come under scrutiny due to an order issued by Judge Donato in In re: Google Play Store Antitrust…

Until very recently, the European Commission (“EC”) has not been so active in labor-related antitrust issues. This is likely to change given the EC published in May 2024 a policy…

Information exchange has always been a sensitive area in EU and international competition law, with a chapter on the subject always featuring in the EU’s horizontal cooperation guidelines. However, the…

The Supreme Court’s 2018 American Express (“Amex”) decision was its first involving two-sided platforms since the emergence of platform economics. As the Internet continues to facilitate the growth of two-sided…

Popular music and the antitrust laws governing mergers may seem like strange bedfellows. But the same tides that affect our attitudes towards popular music wash over antitrust merger law. When society is in a restrictive…

The Australian competition landscape has been dominated this year by two proposed major policy changes by the Labor government. First, the government aspires to a stronger and better merger law…

By Jay Ezrielev1   I. Introduction According to recent reports,2 the U.S. Justice Department (“DOJ”) is planning to bring an antitrust suit against RealPage, Inc. (“RealPage”) for allegedly orchestrating collusion…

 To celebrate the 16th anniversary of China’s Anti-Monopoly Law (AML), which took effect in August 2008, Dr. Elizabeth Wang, an Economist at Compass Lexecon, interviewed Professor Huang Yong, a…