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…

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Lawrence 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…

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Tim 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…

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Judge 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…

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Sens. 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…

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Jordan 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…

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The 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…

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In 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…

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FTC’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…

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What 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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