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A Framework for Assessing the Competitiveness of AI Partnerships

13 January 2025

The year 2024 marked a pivotal moment as antitrust agencies accelerated their efforts in generative AI (see our database). AI partnerships have drawn significant attention in the space, with the CMA, DOJ, European Commission, and other agencies launching investigations and issuing their first decisions. These agencies have been addressing AI partnerships on a case-by-case basis—a pragmatic approach for now. But legal certainty is critical in such a rapidly evolving ecosystem. This is why Sandy Pentland and I developed a framework...

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31 October 2024

Reading suggestions – October 2024

Here are the Network Law Review’s monthly reading suggestions: topics include innovation competition, how IP stimulates online competition, empirical work...

28 October 2024

From Theory to Practice: Computing ‘Innovation Competition’ in Antitrust

There is little consensus in the antitrust circles. Nonetheless, one of the fundamental points of agreement is that innovation fosters...

21 October 2024

Axel Gautier: “Big Tech Acquisitions And The Ghost Products”

Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Axel Gautier, Professor at...

18 October 2024

How IP Rights Create Competition in E-commerce

Welcome to “Tech Monopoly,” a series where University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School professor Herbert Hovenkamp engages with pressing issues...

14 October 2024

Antitrust Antidote: June-September 2024

Welcome to the Antitrust Antidote—a quarterly publication analyzing U.S. antitrust decisions from legal and economic perspectives. Authored by former Federal...

Latin Antitrust Chronicles: July – September 2024

Welcome to the Latin Antitrust Chronicles – a series covering some of the most relevant developments in competition law in...

New Insights into the Evolution of Judicial Standards in U.S. Merger Cases

John W. Mayo and his co-authors examine how judicial standards in U.S. merger trials have evolved over time. They challenge...

30 September 2024

Reading suggestions – September 2024

Here are the Network Law Review’s monthly reading suggestions: topics include digital refusals to deal, antitrust litigation against academic publishers,...

24 September 2024

Richard N. Langlois: “Memes and Myths of Antitrust”

Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Richard N. Langlois, Professor...

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15 August 2022
Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice E. Stucke: “The Darker Sides of Digital Platform Innovation”
Dear readers, I am delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Ariel Ezrachi, Slaughter and May Professor of...
21 October 2024
Axel Gautier: “Big Tech Acquisitions And The Ghost Products”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Axel Gautier, Professor at...
25 March 2024
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson: “The Urgent Need to Tax Digital Advertising”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor...
16 November 2020
Alison Jones (guest article): “Spotlight On Cartels: Bid Rigging Affecting Public Procurement”
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars every month...
21 November 2022
Ioannis Lianos: “Mind The (Institutional) Gap: Digital Economy, Competition Law and The Toolkit Approach”
Far from its depiction as a well-defined and linear techno-social phenomenon that developed incrementally over the last three decades following...
18 October 2021
Peter G. Klein: “Who Owns My Data?“
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Peter G. Klein, Professor of Entrepreneurship at Baylor...
21 July 2022
Jonathan M. Barnett and David J. Teece: “Is the West Giving Away the Game?”
Dear readers, I am delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Jonathan M. Barnett, Torrey H. Webb Professor...
17 May 2021
George L. Priest (guest article): “What to do about the Big Tech Monopolies?”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by George L. Priest, Edward J. Phelps Professor of Law...
15 June 2022
Lawrence J. White: “A Riff and a Half on the Delineation of Relevant Markets in Antitrust Cases”
Dear readers, I am delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Lawrence J. White, Robert Kavesh Professor of...
31 July 2021
Alexandre de Streel (guest article): “Why Legislators Want to Move Fast and Break Things in the Cyberspace?”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Alexandre de Streel, Professor of digital law at...
9 March 2020
William Kovacic (guest article): "Roads Not Taken: The Federal Trade Commission and Google"
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by several of the world’s most renowned antitrust...
15 November 2022
William H. Page & John E. Lopatka: “Parker v. Brown, Legislative Immunity, and Anticompetitive State Regulation”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by William H. Page, Marshall M....
30 August 2023
Luc Soete and Sven Van Kerckhoven: “Deglobalisation and competition policy: the challenge to European economic integration”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Luc Soete, Dean of...
17 January 2020
Herbert Hovenkamp (guest article): On The Meaning of Antitrust’s Consumer Welfare Principle
Dear readers, I am incredibly happy and honored to introduce a new series in which, every month of the year 2020, I...
27 January 2022
Richard J. Gilbert: “The American Innovation and Choice Online Act”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that thisbe month’s guest article is authored by Richard J. Gilbert, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at the...
6 September 2023
Anu Bradford: “What is at Stake if Antitrust Regulation Fails?”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Anu Bradford, Henry L. Moses Professor...
15 March 2023
Drew Fudenberg and David K. Levine: “Adjusting to Change in Complex Systems”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Drew Fudenberg, Professor of Economics...
8 February 2021
A. Douglas Melamed (guest article): “Acquisitions of Nascent Competitors under Section 2 of the Sherman Act”
Dear readers, In 2020, I started publishing monthly guest articles written by some of the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars. The series continues in 2021....
2 May 2022
Thomas B. Nachbar: “An America Fit for the Digital Age?”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Thomas B. Nachbar, Professor of Law at the...
4 May 2023
Joseph Farrell: “Looking at More Evidence in Antitrust”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Joseph Farrell, Professor of...
6 April 2020
Eleanor Fox (guest article): "POWER: Trust and Distrust"
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by several of the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars...
23 August 2021
Randal C. Picker: “Security Competition and App Stores”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Randal C. Picker, James Parker Hall Distinguished Service...
7 November 2023
Marina Lao: “FTC Rulemaking on Noncompetes”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Marina Lao, Edward S....
6 June 2022
Renato Nazzini: “Mergers in the Digital Economy”
Dear readers, I am delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Renato Nazzini, Professor of Law at King’s...
24 April 2023
Ramsi A. Woodcock: “Antimonopolism as a Misunderstanding of Power”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Ramsi A. Woodcock, Associate...
14 December 2023
Jason Potts: “Future Markets and the Social Discount Rate: A New Approach to Dynamic Competition Policy”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Jason Potts, Distinguished Professor...
8 February 2022
Richard Epstein: “The Unwise Extension of Antitrust Law to Labor Markets”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Richard Epstein, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at...
15 September 2022
Dennis W. Carlton: “How to make sensible merger policies?”
Dear readers, I am delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Dennis W. Carlton, Professor of Economics Emeritus...
17 December 2020
Joshua D. Wright & Alexander Krzepicki (guest article): “Rethinking Foreclosure Analysis in Antitrust Law: From Standard Stations to Google”
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars every month...
25 March 2022
Okeoghene Odudu: “Do competition agencies harm welfare?”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Okeoghene Odudu, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law; Fellow...
23 January 2021
Pablo Ibáñez Colomo (guest article): “Be Careful What You Wish For”
Dear readers, In 2020, I started publishing monthly guest articles written by some of the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars. The series continues in 2021....
3 November 2022
Daniel F. Spulber: “How Do Vertical Mergers Affect Innovation? Learning from Illumina”
"How Do Vertical Mergers Affect Innovation? Learning from Illumina", this month's guest contribution by Daniel F. Spulber, Professor of International...
11 May 2020
Richard Whish (guest article): "Do Competition Lawyers Harm Welfare?"
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by several of the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars...
24 September 2024
Richard N. Langlois: “Memes and Myths of Antitrust”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Richard N. Langlois, Professor...
27 October 2022
Thomas W. Hazlett: The FTC’s Rendition of the “Cellophane Fallacy”
In the pending case of FTC v. Facebook, the Government alleges price increases for the “free” service. In this zero-price...
26 August 2022
Jonathan B. Baker: “A Competitive Process Goal Won’t Strengthen Antitrust”
Dear readers, I am delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Jonathan B. Baker, Research Professor of Law...
2 November 2021
Diane Coyle: “Practical approaches to data in competition policy”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Diane Coyle, Bennett Professor of Public Policy at...
6 July 2020
Frédéric Jenny (guest article): “Market adjustments, Competition Law and the Covid-19 Pandemic”
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by several of the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars...
5 June 2023
The Limits of Antitrust Remedies: Brunswick v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat for the FTC
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by James C. Cooper, Professor...
15 February 2023
Carl Shapiro: “Regulating Big Tech: Factual Foundations and Policy Goals”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Carl Shapiro, Professor at...
4 April 2024
Herbert Hovenkamp: “Antitrust Market Definition: the Hypothetical Monopolist and Brown Shoe”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Herbert Hovenkamp, James B. Dinan...
15 December 2022
Alan J. Meese: “The Constitutional Moment That Wasn’t: 1912-1914 and the Meaning of the Sherman Act”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Alan J. Meese, Ball Professor...
11 September 2023
Justin (Gus) Hurwitz: “A Bad Merger of Process and Substance: Changing the Merger Guidelines and Premerger Review Form”
On June 27, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced proposed changes to Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (“HSR Act”) premerger notification form....
20 August 2020
Michael Carrier (guest article): “Why Do Courts Err in Pharmaceutical Antitrust Cases?”
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars every month...
2 April 2021
Douglas H. Ginsburg & Jacob Philipoom (guest article): “A Certain Harm Overlooked: The Case of Nascent Competitors Revisited”
Dear readers, In 2020, I started publishing monthly guest articles written by some of the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars. The series continues in 2021....
17 February 2020
Daniel Crane (guest article): Democracy and Monopoly in Governments, Markets, and Firms
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles authored by some of the world’s most renowned antitrust...
30 September 2020
Nicolas Petit (guest article): “Digital Markets and the Incipiency Attitude in EU Antitrust Law”
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars every month...
16 September 2021
Richard N. Langlois: “It’s Not Easy Being a Schumpeterian”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Richard N. Langlois, Professor of Economics at the...
16 June 2020
Scott Hemphill (guest article): “Uncertain Harms: The Case of Nascent Competitors”
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by several of the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars...
20 October 2020
Mark A. Lemley & Andrew McCreary (guest article): How Venture Capital’s “Exit Strategy” Drives Tech Industry Concentration
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars every month...

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