Digital Markets Act

The Digital Markets Act will regulate tech giants through a unique “gatekeeper” scheme. The Act imposes antitrust obligations only on the market’s largest actors – predominantly American companies. Is this fair? Will it work? In this special episode of Borderlines, listen to Margrethe Vestager, Europe’s top competition regulator and the policymaker Silicon Valley fears most, discuss the bill at the 2022 Riesenfeld Symposium at Berkeley Law School. Professor Anu Bradford of Columbia Law School, one of the nation’s leading antitrust experts, offers additional insight and perspective. Margrethe Vestager is the European Commissioner for Competition and the architect of the Digital Markets Act. She has led high-profile enforcement action against major tech companies for violating EU competition law. Professor Anu Bradford is an expert on EU law and global antitrust law. She is the author of The Brussels Effect. In her new book, The Battle for the Soul of the Digital Economy, she offers a comparative approach to internet regulation. For more insights from the Riesenfeld Symposium, including the Chinese angle on tech giants and competition law, from Professor Angela Zhang of Hong Kong University, visit the Berkeley Law YouTube Channel. For a transcript, please visit the episode page on the Berkeley Law podcast hub. Borderlines from Berkeley Law is a podcast about global problems in a world fragmented by national borders. Our host is Katerina Linos, Tragen Professor of International Law and co-director of the Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law. In each episode of Borderlines, Professor Linos invites three experts to discuss cutting edge issues in international law.