Independent contractors can form unions and insist on bargaining with the companies that use their services (“platform companies”) without violating federal (or state) antitrust laws. Whether they are properly classified as independent contractors or not for purposes of labor and employment...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a key component in the field of antitrust, as it is utilized to analyze vast quantities of data with the aim of detecting indications of unjust business practices. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of the issue of algorithmic biases in computational...

Competition authorities have started to benefit from the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for enforcing competition law. This leads to Automated Decision-Making (ADM) systems supporting and replacing human decisions in specific phases of competition law enforcement, from the initiation...

On April 12, 2023, the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) condemned its first case in which the hub-and-spoke theory served as the central and decisive element. Previous investigations conducted by CADE that touched upon this theory were never the central focus and decisive...

In the field of merger control, under the SIEC test, the European Commission doesn’t explicitly examine the effects of the merger on the labour market, and therefore its effects on worker welfare. This paper examines which econometric tests used to determine the effects of a merger on the...

The rise of Big Tech companies like Meta, Google and Amazon has shed light on the failure of competition or antitrust law to address the challenges posed by the rising digitalised markets. Over the last two decades, which saw the rapid digitalisation of economies, competition regulators have...

Advocates of vigorous antitrust enforcement should not fear the rise of textualism. The Sherman Act, Clayton Act and FTC Act were all enacted as a result of the progressive movement. These laws were written in large part to protect the interests of consumers against possible exploitation by...

Addressing growing income inequality in the United States should begin with the plight of low-skilled workers, many subject to below subsistence income and stressful and dangerous working conditions. Antitrust cannot offer a comprehensive solution to this problem. It can, however, meaningfully...

At first glance, it may appear that arbitration and antitrust issues are incompatible. After all, antitrust laws are designed to promote competition and protect the public good, while arbitration is a private process in which parties choose arbitrators to resolve their disputes outside of the...