All Episodes

#399 Who Has the Inside Track on Litigation Risk? An In-House View From the Markets

#398 What's 340B? An Economist's View of the Recent Wave of 340B Litigation

#397 What’s Next for the ABA Antitrust Law Section? Stability, Balance, and Value

#396 Is EU Law on Abuse of Dominance Now Clear? The ECJ’s Judgment in Google Android

#395 Which Side of the V? Larry Buterman on Trying Antitrust Cases for the Government and Against It

#394 A Tribute to Randy Picker: Revisiting Episode #74 on the Implications of DOJ's Case Against IBM

#393 Who Gets To Say the Price Is Right? State Regulation of AI Pricing

#392 Do I Really Need To File? HSR Avoidance and the Edwards/Genesis Settlement

#391 Have States Found the Answer to Subscription Traps? Click-to-Cancel and Beyond

#390 Circuits, Cargos, and Cures: How Does Singapore Run Competition and Consumer Protection?

#389 What Should Directors Be Asking? Antitrust in the Boardroom

#388 Who's Minding the Money? The Role of Competition Authorities in Digital Finance

#387 Can Potential Vertical Integration Harm Be (Silver) Screened Horizontally?

#386 How Is AI Changing the Practice of Antitrust Law? A Discussion With Daniel Schwarz of CompetitionAI

#385 How Do We Level the AI Fluency Playing Field? The 21 Days of AI Grit and Growth Mindset Challenge

#384 What’s Up? Enforcement Updates From the Middle East and Africa

#383 What’s the Role of Communications Strategy in M&A? How Public Affairs Impacts Antitrust

#382 What’s Up? Enforcement Updates From Austria and Switzerland

#381 A New Era for EU and UK Deals? The EC’s Draft Merger Guidelines and the CMA’s Growth Approach

#380 What Is Happening at the OECD Competition Division? A Discussion With Ori Schwartz

#379 What's Up? Enforcement Updates from Ireland, Brazil, and Paraguay

#378 How Do Enforcers Approach Information Sharing and Benchmarking?

#377 What’s Up? Enforcement Updates From Australia and New Zealand

#376 Where Is Europe's Path Forward in AI? Mistral AI's Case for Rethinking Competition Policy

#375 What's Up? Competition Enforcement Updates From Italy and Portugal

#374 What if Robots Are Setting My Pay to Employees? Economic Tools To Avoid Compliance Pitfalls

#373 What’s Up? Competition Enforcement Updates From Malaysia and Hong Kong

#372 Can a Price Be Put on Harm? FTC Monetary Remedies and the Data-Driven Economy

#371 Who Does Your Doctor Work For? Vertical Integration in the Healthcare Provider Market

#370 Is Any Deal Safe From Review in the EU? Implications of the “Towercast” Judgment

#369 Back To Form or Back to the Drawing Board? How To Navigate the Decision Vacating the New HSR Rules

#368 Mother, May I? The Use of Prior Approval Requirements in Merger Settlements

#367 How Do States Make Independent Judgment in Merger Review? The Tunney Act and HPE–Juniper

#366 What’s the State of Mini-HSR Regimes? Perspectives from the Colorado & Washington State AGs

#365 What Roles Do Economists Play in Chinese Competition Law? Conversation With Dr. Vanessa Zhang

#364 Does Visual Generative AI Make Better Ads? Exploring AI Advertising Effectiveness

#363 The Antitrust Controversy Surrounding Brazil’s Soy Moratorium

#362 What’s Happening With AI and Data Privacy? An Update From the PRIS Committee

#361 All Change or More of the Same? UK Merger Control Developments

#360 How To Unshackle the Golden Chain? Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Markets

#359 What is Happening With Class Claims in the UK? The Competition Law Opt-Out Collective Actions Regime

#358 The Future of Enforcement and Compliance? How Computational Antitrust is Used

#357 Is Strong Competition in GenAI a Hallucination? Discussing Economic Insights in the Industry

#356 Can Pay Transparency Create Antitrust Risks--or Compliance Opportunities?

#355 What’s the Score, Your Honor? Conversation With Judge Richard Boulware

#354 What Do the Updated HSR Rules Really Mean for Your Next Deal? A Conversation With Zak Goodwin

#353 What’s Happening in Ukraine? A Conversation With Timur Bondaryev

#352 Is There a New Playbook for Merger Remedies? Evaluating the Current Stance of the U.S. Agencies

#351 How Should Intent Apply in Competition Law? A Discussion With Maya-Salomé Garnier

#350 What’s the Deal With Reverse Acquihires? Considering Antitrust and HSR Implications

#349 What’s the Price Tag on Privacy? Turning Data Leaks Into Dollar Figures

#348 Why Some Retail Deals Get Deeper Scrutiny? An Examination of Retail Merger Review and Analysis

#347 Where Do We Draw the Line? The Intersection of the First Amendment and Antitrust Under the Noerr-Pennington Doctrine

#346 Who Is Elizabeth Odette? Meet the Chair of NAAG's Multistate Antitrust Task Force

#345 Who Is Renata Hesse? Meet the 2025-26 Antitrust Law Section Chair

#344 What Happens When Antitrust Lawyers Form a Bar Band? Behind the Music of Side Hustle

#343 FTC v. DOJ: Who Wore It Better?

#342 Can Antitrust Be More Innovation-Centric? An Economic Conversation With Professor Richard Gilbert

#341 How Should Killer Acquisitions Be Assessed? A Discussion With Professor Nicolas Petit

#340 How Do You Win (and Not Lose) a Merger Trial?

#339 How Do Presidents Shape Antitrust? The Oval Office and the Enforcement Pendulum

#338 How Clean Are Your Claims? Understanding the New Anti-Greenwashing Amendments to Canada’s Competition Act

#337 What Are the Risks of a Minority Shareholding? The European Commission’s Decision in Delivery Hero/Glovo

#336 What Are the Risks of Serial Acquisitions? Empirical Evidence From the Dialysis Industry

#335 Are You Ready To Respond? Developments in Competition Law Dawn Raids

#334 What’s the Word on Wage-Fixing? Cracking Down on Collusion Among Employers

#333 Is Antitrust Fashionable This Season? Antitrust in the Fashion Industry

#332 What Is the Role of Behavioural Economics in Consumer Protection Enforcement? The UK’s New DMCC Act Regime

#331 Wait, We Have to Tell Who? What You Need to Know About State Premerger Notifications

#330 What's Happening in Paraguay and Costa Rica? Catching Up With International Enforcers at the 2025 Spring Meeting

#329 What's Happening in Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Japan? Catching Up With International Enforcers at the 2025 Spring Meeting

#328 What Should I Know About Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt and COMESA? Developments in Key African Regimes

#327 What's Happening in Germany and Portugal? Catching Up With International Enforcers at the 2025 Spring Meeting

#326 What's Happening in Italy and Greece? Catching Up With International Enforcers at the 2025 Spring Meeting

#325 What’s Your POV? A Conversation With Former Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti at the 2025 Spring Meeting

#324 Is Green the New Black? Greenwashing and Consumer Protection in the Fashion Industry

#323 What’s Happening in the EU? A Conversation With DG COMP Director-General Olivier Guersent at the 2025 Antitrust Spring Meeting

#322 Prices on Your Mind? Using Economics To Understand Inflation, Tariffs, and Junk Fees

#321 What Is Happening at the UK CMA? Impact of the Government’s New Approach

#320 What Can In-House Counsel Do To Tame the Premerger Notification Beast? Practical Suggestions for Complying With the New HSR Rules

#319 Can We Define Overlapping Markets? Understanding the Legal and Economic Arguments

#318 How Hot Is Cartel Enforcement Around the Globe? Checking the Forecast for 2025 and Beyond

#317 Is Artificial Intelligence Putting Data Privacy at Risk?: A New Wave of Investigations in Europe

#316 Does Taking Control of Your Health Mean Losing Control of Your Data? The Privacy Risks of Healthcare Apps

#315 Are You In or Are You Out? Using Economics to Identify and Quantify Potential Class Members

#314 A New Era for Private Antitrust Litigation in China? Impact of the June 2024 Judicial Interpretation of the Supreme People’s Court

#313 Who’s Blocking Me? Competition Law Issues With Healthcare Information Blocking

#312 What New Direction Will Europe Take? New Ideas and New Leadership at the European Commission

#311 What Will Happen to Competition Law Enforcement in Mexico? Implications of the November 2024 Reforms

#310 What Do Enforcers Say? A Global Perspective on Antitrust Issues Involving Cloud Computing & Infrastructure

#309 Can You Click, Cancel, and Comply? How the FTC Is Unsubscribing Businesses From Deceptive Practices

#308 What Makes a Compliance Program Effective? The DOJ’s Updated Corporate Antitrust Compliance Program Guidance

#307 Will the Past Be the Future? Looking Back at 2024 and Forward to 2025

#306 How Do I Make a Competition Law Complaint in India? A Practical Discussion About Approaching the CCI

#305 Is It Fair? The FTC’s Policies and Enforcement Actions on Unfair Methods of Competition Under Section 5

#304 Is Per Se Here to Stay? Criminal Antitrust Cases Beyond United States v. Brewbaker

#303 You’re Charging Me How Much? A Discussion of Personalized and Surveillance Pricing

#302 Are the Critics Wrong? How the Robinson-Patman Act Has Been Misunderstood by Its Detractors

#301 Are Airline Mergers Taking Off? Economic Analyses of the Recent U.S. Passenger Airline Transactions

#300 What’s on the Radar? Legal and Regulatory Analysis of Airline Mergers in the U.S.