“Neo-Brandeisian” scholars contend that prevailing antitrust law fails to protect democratic values. They propose (1) to replace antitrust’s consumer welfare standard with a multi-goaled approach and (2) to embrace ex ante conduct rules over ex post liability standards. In tandem, those policies undermine Neo-Brandeisianism’s raison d’être, the promotion of democracy.

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Latin Antitrust Chronicles: October 2024 – February 2025

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Antitrust’s Forensic Tools

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Will the EU AI Act Shape Global Regulation?

The European Union’s AI Act is one of the first attempts to regulate artificial intelligence technologies. Given that previous European...

Reading suggestions – February 2025

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The Vestager Years: A Data-Driven Assessment

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Rising Market Power: Evidence from Industry Studies

The article reviews and evaluates results from several recently published industry studies that evaluate the evolution of market power over...

The Need for an Innovation Principle in Regulatory Impact Assessment

Many of Europe’s economies are hampered by a waning number of innovations, which in part is attributable to the European...

Reading suggestions – January 2025

Here are Thibault Schrepel's monthly reading suggestions: topics include competition amongst AI foundation models, computational antitrust in Egypt, the horizontal...

A Framework for Assessing the Competitiveness of AI Partnerships

The year 2024 marked a pivotal moment as antitrust agencies accelerated their efforts in generative AI (see our database). AI...

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