This publication contains my latest reading suggestions, i.e., the academic papers and articles I enjoyed reading in February 2023. You can follow me on Twitter (@ProfSchrepel) or LinkedIn (here) to be notified of similar articles on a more regular basis. The Network Law Review is also available on Twitter (@NetworkLawRev) and LinkedIn (here).
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Antitrust:
- Reviving the Robinson-Patman Act (Daniel A. Crane – Network Law Review)
- Regulating Big Tech: Factual Foundations and Policy Goals (Carl Shapiro – Network Law Review)
- The Making of An Antitrust API: Proof of Concept (Thibault Schrepel – Stanford Comp. Antitrust)
- Interlocks Analysis of Over 2,200 Life Science Companies (Mark A. Lemley et al. – SSRN)
- The AI Search Wars (All-In) 🎧
- Why I’m Resigning as an FTC Commissioner (Christine Wilson – WSJ)
- Testing Political Antitrust (Shahshahani & McCarty – SSRN)
- A Century of Technological Evolution at the Federal Trade Commission (Nguyen – FTC) (see also *this*)
- Cartel birth and death dynamics: Empirical evidence (Forsbacka, Le Coq, Marvão – Int. J. Ind. Organ.)
- A “poke” from the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (Stephen Dnes – Substack)
Blockchain:
- Justice in a Vacuum? (Sandy Pentland, Robert Mahari and Tobin South – Network Law Review)
- Computable Economy (Jason Potts – SSRN)
- Regulate Web3 Apps, Not Protocols (Miles Jennings & Brian Quintenz – a16z)
- There’s a wild theory that the price of Bitcoin is being propped up (Shawn Tully – Fortune)
- Bitcoin’s Future Depends on a Handful of Mysterious Coders (Paul Kiernan – WSJ)
- Crypto Has an Incest Problem (Jack Schickler – CoinDesk)
- Bitcoin “Ordinals”: From Magic Internet Money to Magic Internet JPEGs (Marc Baumann – Substack)
- Euro-backed stablecoin, Euro Coin set to trade on Coinbase (Jeremy Nation – The Block)
Artificial Inteligence:
- Competition Is One Prompt Away (Thibault Schrepel – Network Law Feview)
- A Judge Just Used ChatGPT to Make a Court Decision (Janus Rose – Vice)
- Theory of Mind May Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large Language Models (Michal Kosinski – Stanford)
- How ChatGPT Can Improve Education, Not Threaten it (John Villasenor – Scientific American)
- ChatGPT & Beyond: What’s Behind The AI Boom? (Shoshannah Buxbaum & Ira Flatow – ScienceFriday) 🎧
- Welcome to the oldest part of the metaverse (John-Clark Levin – MIT Tech Review)
- Using GitHub CoPilot is Like Having a Superpower (Jason Hong – ACM)
- law.MIT.edu IdeaFlow: Legal Prompt Engineering Examples and Tips (Greenwood & Riehl – YouTube) 🎥
- How should AI systems behave, and who should decide? (OpenAI)
- The US Copyright Office says an AI can’t copyright its art (Adi Robertson – The Verge)
Digital Economy + Digital Laws:
- Distinguishing Privacy Law: A Critique of Privacy as Social Taxonomy (María P. Angel & Ryan Calo)
- The Matrix of Privacy: Data Infrastructure in the AI-Powered Metaverse (Anidjar et al. – SSRN)
- The DSA’s Scope Briefly Explained (Martin Husovec – SSRN)
- Gonzalez v. Google LLC: Oral Argument (U.S. Supreme Court) 🎧
- Don’t leave developers behind in the Section 230 debate (Shelley McKinley – TechCrunch)
Economics:
- Economics in nouns and verbs (W. Brian Arthur – Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization)
- An interview with Russ Roberts (Petit, Schrepel & Roberts – YouTube) 🎥
Others:
- Complexity Explorer Lecture (David Krakauer – YouTube) 🎥
- Frontiers in Complex Systems (Maxi San Miguel – Front. Complex Syst.)
- On presentation software: Keynote and better (Larry Lessig – Medium)
- A quick and sobering guide to cloning yourself (Ethan Mollick – Substack)
- Elon Musk suggests Twitter could open source its algorithm ‘next week’ (Sarah Perez – TechCrunch)
- Stop the peer-review treadmill. I want to get off (Amber Dance – Nature)
- Early morning university classes = impaired academic performance (Yeo et al. – Nature)
Thibault Schrepel
@ProfSchrepel
