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…
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…
Read MoreRepublican Senators Must Choose Lee Over Hawley
April 22, 2021 This morning, several Republican senators in the Senate Commerce Committee hearing sounded sympathetic to Lina Khan’s nomination…
Read MoreSen. Hawley’s Big Government Power Grab
April 13, 2021 Is Sen. Josh Hawley’s extreme lurch to the left the first sign that the Republican Party is…
Read MoreFour Reasons Why Neo-Brandeis Is Not Ready for Prime Time
April 6, 2021 Alden Abbott, senior research fellow of the Mercatus Center, advances four reasons in a detailed study on “neo-Brandeisian” legislation,…
Read MoreAbbott and Miller on Antitrust in National Review
April 2, 2021 It shouldn’t be news that The National Review came out in favor of the Consumer Welfare Standard in antitrust…
Read MoreTim Wu’s Doubts About Free Speech
March 29, 2021 Hat tip to Matt Taibbi for pointing out that Columbia law professor Timothy Wu, now appointed to the National…
Read MoreAntitrust Investigator: Deep Pockets Gobble with Impunity
March 27, 2021 Kathleen S. O’Neill, senior director of investigations and litigation for the Antitrust Division, told Law 360 that merger filings…
Read MoreSen. Hawley and the Urge to Merge
March 16, 2021 Sen. Amy Klobuchar, chair of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust, is honing legislation to recast antitrust…
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