From the 2026 Antitrust Spring Meeting: Jonathan Barnett on How Competition Enforcers Are Undermining Competition

Joseph V. Coniglio joins guest Jonathan Barnett, Torrey H. Webb Professor of Law at the USC Gould School of Law, at the 2026 Antitrust Spring Meeting. They discuss Barnett’s new ITIF report, Europe’s innovation gap, and China’s mercantilist use of competition law. Publications MentionedBarnett, Jonathan M. The Big Steal: Ideology, Interest, and the Undoing of Intellectual Property. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.Barnett, Jonathan M. Antitrust Undone: How Competition Enforcers Are Undermining Competition. Washington, DC: Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), 2026.Barnett, Jonathan M. “Antitrust Mercantilism: Strategic Devaluation of Intellectual Property Rights and Wireless Markets.”U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission. Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property. 1995.