This Comment is submitted in relation to the Federal Trade Commission's (“FTC”) Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century. We submit this Comment based upon our extensive experience and expertise in antitrust law and economics. As an organization committed to...

This comment is submitted by the Global Antitrust Institute (GAI) at Scalia Law School at George Mason University to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission regarding platforms, as part of the Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century. The GAI Competition Advocacy Program...

The aim of this paper is to identify the specific limits of the EC competition policy model in addressing all consumer-related risks. In addition, this paper seeks to identify how consumer protection policy, namely unfair commercial practice rules, fills the “antitrust gaps”. Although, in...

Apple’s iOS 14 update represents an anti-competitive strategy disguised as a privacy-protecting measure. Apple now prohibits non-Apple apps from using information essential to providing relevant, personalized advertising, without explicit user opt-in. And users may opt-in only after they are...

Key PointsFollowing (price-increasing) competition law infringements, consumer harm is two-fold.Consumers are negatively impacted by (i) the overcharge (they pay more for the goods actually purchased during the infringement period) and (ii) a ‘lost consumption effect’ (they buy less because...

The proposed Digital Services Act (DSA) aims to place more responsibility on online platform operators to control information published by users on their websites. That is a welcome development in the light of scandals concerning fake news and the surreptitious influencing of voters through...

Since the adoption of «Parte Veneziana», a Venetian law of 1474 which made the first attempt to protect inventions through a form of patent, granting an exclusive right to an individual, and which is considered the root of the Intellectual Property system, IP has been developed as an...

Competition Law otherwise known as Anti-trust law can be rightly described as the main driver for building competitiveness, innovation, technological advancement and economic development in a free market economy. An essential and critical part of every market liberalization programme. Like most...

Given the immense social, economic and personal damage caused by the covering-up of crimes by Irish institutions, there is a remarkable reluctance in Irish society to provide systematic protection to whistle-blowers and persons willing to come forward to ensure offences are investigated by the...