AEP Response to the House Judiciary Republican Agenda for Taking on Big Tech
AEP’s President, Robert H. Bork, Jr.: July 7, 2021 What’s been needed all along is a way to protect conservative…
Read MoreLawrence Summers: Khan’s Antitrust Approach “the Way to American Failure” Stick with Policies that Best Benefit Consumers
June 29, 2021 Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers tells Bloomberg that FTC Chair Lina Khan’s approach to antitrust “is the…
Read MoreTim Wu Proves the Peter Principle “Authoritarian Proposals in the Language of ‘Freedom’ and ‘Openness'”
June 29, 2021 Elizabeth Nolan Brown has an insightful piece in Reason on Tim Wu, the “neo-Brandesian,” “big is bad” antitrust theorist now…
Read MoreJudge Boasberg Kicks Letitia James to the Curb
June 28, 2021 A federal judge granted Facebook’s request to dismiss the massive antitrust suit filed by the Federal Trade…
Read MoreSens. Mike Lee and Chuck Grassley: Team Act Centers Around Consumer Welfare Standard
June 23, 2021 While the House focuses on five antitrust, anti-Big Tech bills supported by Democrats – with the help…
Read MoreJordan and Meadows on the House Antitrust Tower of Wokeness
June 23, 2021 “The radical left sees antitrust law as its vehicle to fundamentally transform America,” declare Jim Jordan, ranking House…
Read MoreThe Antitrust Paradox: A Conversation with Sen. Mike Lee and Robert Bork, Jr. Hosted by the Federalist Society
May 5, 2021 On April 21, 2021, the Federalist Society’s Corporations, Securities, & Antitrust Practice Group hosted a teleforum titled “The Antitrust…
Read MoreIn The News: Republicans Should Continue to Champion the Consumer Welfare Standard
May 4, 2021 “The Left has long wanted to destroy the prevailing “consumer welfare standard,” a concept promulgated by conservative…
Read MoreFTC’s Action on Illumina Vertical Merger a Sign of Sea Change in Antitrust
April 29, 2021 Regulators and jurists alike have come to accept – for decades now – that vertical mergers are…
Read MoreWhat Antitrust Defendants Can Learn from Qualcomm’s Victory
April 27, 2021 In this era of antitrust overdrive, what strategies can overcome overzealous regulators and unsympathetic judges? Many of…
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