This piece critically analyses extraterritorial application of competition law by the European Union. The EU is a key global player in competition law and policy. Its competition law is actively and assertively applied to foreign activities of foreign entities affecting EU market. In the recent...

I present the following proposal: information revealed during non-cartel investigations by competition law enforcement authorities, such as evaluation of M&As or investigation of monopolization (dominance) conduct, should be directly used to investigate and prosecute cartels. Currently, in...

For decades, the NCAA has trumpeted "amateurism" and "student-athletes." But what if this is all a façade? What if these are empty phrases the NCAA hides behind in its embrace of commercialism on the backs of athletes?These are the questions at the heart of Joe Nocera and Ben Strauss's gripping...

This article examines the recent developments concerning the treatment of internal sales (intra-group or captive sales) in the process of setting fines for violations of EU Competition Law. In particular, it looks into Guardian Industries, LG Display and InnoLux, in which the Court of Justice...

Spanish Abstract: En ocasiones las conductas anticompetitivas de los operadores en el mercado vienen precedidas o acompañadas de intervenciones de los poderes públicos que las incitan, promueven o patrocinan. En otros casos las restricciones de la competencia se derivan directamente de una...

In a 2015 article co-authored with three Yelp employees, Professor Wu purports to examine evidence from one experiment allegedly relevant to the question whether Google's display of local search results in a defined space on the search results page violates the antitrust laws. The authors rely...

Edge providers have alleged that dominant tech platforms exploit their platform power to gain an artificial advantage in some ancillary, edge market. In May 2018, Yelp filed a complaint at the European Commission, alleging that Google abused its dominance in local search by giving preferred...

This comment is submitted by the Global Antitrust Institute (GAI) at the Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University to the Swedish Competition Authority regarding its proposed market study of digital platforms. The GAI Competition Advocacy Program provides a wide range of recommendations...

Antitrust populists increasingly call on the government to “break up big tech.” But antitrust enforcers would face heavy evidentiary burdens if they sought to break a company up on the premise that a long-consummated merger was unlawful from the outset and should have been blocked years ago....

Antitrust regulation harms both consumers, competition, and innovation and therefore should be repealed. From a legislative standpoint, this would involve repealing the Sherman Act of 1890, the Clayton Act of 1914, and the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914, as amended, including the...