The regulation of crypto assets in the United States is at a critical juncture. Although there is no shortage of crypto-related bills pending in the U.S. Congress, including the Lummis-Gillibrand Responsible Financial Innovation Act, to date not one of them has actually become law. In the...

Technological advances in data collection and information processing makes it possible to tailor legal norms to specific individuals and achieve an unprecedented degree of regulatory precision. However, the benefits of such a “personalized law” must not be confounded with the false promise...

It is well understood that the exchange of information between horizontal competitors can violate competition law provisions in both the European Union and the United States; namely, Art 101 TFEU and Section 1 of the Sherman Act. However, despite ostensible similarities between EU and U.S....

With its tremendous popularity among Millennials and Generation Z, esports represents one of the fastest growing segments of the U.S. sports and entertainment market. It is the source of massive amounts of venture capital inflow, unprecedented marketing and media dollars, and altogether new...

Do financial regulation advisors help their clients become more profitable? In this paper, we present a model where financial service firms may add to their own compliance teams or hire outside compliance advisors. We derive the conditions under which a financial services firm will want to hire...

On May 14, 2018, the United States Supreme Court struck down the federal prohibition on sports gambling. The sweeping opinion, authored by Justice Alito, ended more than a quarter-century old policy that kept states from offering sports gambling and therefore, sports betting was confined almost...

Regulation of football in Europe is, absent some piecemeal interventions (like sharing of TV rights) largely non-existent. This is the case, because the de facto regulator (UEFA, Union Européenne of Football Associations) has no mandate to comprehensively address on its own competitive balance,...

This article is based on the text of a speech delivered by Oliver Bethell on 13 November 2019 at the Econolex Beesley lecture series, held in partnership with the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Centre for Competition and Regulatory Policy at City, University of London