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This post features my latest reading suggestions based on the academic papers and press articles that I enjoyed reading in April 2022. As I tend to favor the active sharing of open-source publications, you can follow me on Twitter (@LeConcurrential) or LinkedIn (here) to access similar articles on a more regular basis.
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Antitrust:
- An America Fit for the Digital Age? (Thomas B. Nachbar – Concurrentialiste)
- Competition Stories: January & February 2022 (Makis Komninos – Concurrentialiste)
- The Impact of Apple’s App Tracking Transparency on App Monetization (Reinhold Kesler)
- The New Progressives Fight Against Consumer Welfare (Phil Gramm & Christine Wilson – WSJ)
- Antitrust Reform and the Nirvana Fallacy: The Case Against a New Sherman Act (Wright & Fauver – SSRN)
- Privacy and competition leaders sign emergency ICCL letter to fix the EU Digital Markets Act (Johnny Ryan – ICCL)
- A Posner-Stigler Smoking Gun? (Herbert Hovenkamp – ProMarket)
- Marxism and Critical Legal Studies Walk into the FTC (Christine Wilson – FTC)
Blockchain:
- A list of articles dealing with blockchain and the law (Thibault Schrepel – Twitter)
- Chris Dixon Thinks Web3 Is The Future of the Internet — Is It? (Nilay Patel – The Verge)
- How to Bridge from Ethereum to Layer 2 (Robert Stevens – Decrypt)
- Crypto Industry Can’t Hire Enough Lawyers (WSJ – Mengqi Sun)
- The Ownership Economy 2022 (Variant Team)
- NYC Mayor Eric Adams: ‘Listen to Those Within the Crypto Industry’ (Decrypt – Stephen Graves)
- A Novel Framework for Reputation-Based Systems (Jad Esber & Scott Kominers)
- A Self-Authenticating Social Protocol (Bluesky Team)
- Announcing a16z Crypto Research (Ali Yahya & Chris Dixon – a16z)
- The Future of NFTs in the World of Web 3.0 (Niccolo Conte & Athul Alexander – Visual Capitalist)
- Towards a participatory digital ethnography of blockchain governance (Rennie et al. – SSRN)
Artificial Intelligence:
- Dall-E 2 (OpenAI)
- Designing Decision-Making Algorithms in an Uncertain World (Katharine Miller – Stanford)
- Draft Report on the AI Act (European Parliament)
Digital Law:
- What to make of “business models eat law” (Thibault Schrepel – Concurrentialiste)
- Bridging the Computer Science–Law Divide (Georgetown & Boston Universities)
- The Scale and the Reactor (Ryan Calo – SSRN)
- Decentralized Speed: Advances in Zero Knowledge Proofs (Elena Burger — a16z)
- The winter, the summer and the summer dream of artificial intelligence in law (Francesconi – Artificial Intelligence and Law)
- The flaws of policies requiring human oversight of government algorithms (Ben Green – Computer Law & Security Review)
Other:
- Back to the Future of Twitter (Ben Thompson – Stratechery)
- Beyond Aggregation: Amazon as a Service (Ben Thompson – Stratechery)
- Questioning the Entrepreneurial State (Karl Wennberg & Christian Sandström – Springer)
- The Entrepreneurial State and the Platform Economy (Sinclair Davidson & Jason Potts – Springer)
- Why innovation prizes fail (Anton Howes – Works In Progress)
- The Free Energy Principle in Our Daily Life With Karl Friston (Rhys Lindmark – The Rhys Show)
Dr. Thibault Schrepel
(@LeConcurrential)
