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#299 Who Is Lesley Fair? A Conversation With a Consumer Protection Law Legend

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#298 What Has Happened to Merger Control in India? The Impact of the September 2024 Changes

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#297 HSR You Kidding Me? Unpacking the New Requirements for Merging Parties in the U.S.

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#296 How Should Competition Law Be Dealing With AI and Climate Change?

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#295 More or (Even) Less Certainty in EU Merger Control? The European Court of Justice Judgment in Illumina/GRAIL

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#294 Acquisitions or Not? Big Tech's Big Problems Investing in Artificial Intelligence

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#293 Is the EU Position Now Clear? The European Commission’s Draft Guidelines on Exclusionary Abuses of Dominance

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#292 Thinking About Going Small? Starting Up a Solo or Small Firm Antitrust Practice

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#291 How Was Your Life In Antitrust? A Conversation With Jon Jacobson

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#290 Who Is Aviva Will? Antitrust Lawyer and Litigation Financing Entrepreneur

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#289 Is the Failing Firm Defense Thriving? Assessing When a Failing Firm Can Make a Deal Succeed

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#288 Who Is Steve Cernak? Meet the 2024-25 Chair of the ABA Antitrust Law Section

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#287 How Should We Protect Children’s Online Privacy? Revisiting the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)

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#286 What Are the Perils of Privacy Law? Evolutions of the Children's Online Privacy and Protection Act (COPPA)

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#285 Is It All Connected? Exploring Cross-Market Theories of Harm in Healthcare Mergers

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#284 How Do We Measure Innovation? The Economic Analysis of the Impact of M&A on Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry

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#283 Who Should Competition Law Work For? Enforcement Against Restrictive Labour Market Agreements in the EU

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#282 Has the Scrutiny Reached a Fever Pitch? Taking the Temperature of Private Equity in Healthcare

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#281 What Are the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s Plans for Enforcement? Breaking It Down From A To Triple C

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#280 Does the FTC Ban Get It Right or Go Too Far? Economists Debate the FTC Non-Compete Rule

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#279 How Does U.S. Law Promote Competition in Agricultural Markets?

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#278 Who Is Krisztian Katona? Meet an International Competition Lawyer

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#277 Still Going Strong at 20? A Conversation With the Architect of the EU Merger Regulation 2004

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#276 Does a Year Make a Difference? The Regulation of Influencers Under the 2023 Revised FTC Endorsement Guides

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#275 What's Happening in New Zealand, Israel, and Norway? Catching Up With International Enforcers at the 2024 Spring Meeting

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#274 What's Happening in Hong Kong and Japan? Catching Up With International Enforcers at the 2024 Spring Meeting

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#273 What’s Happening in France, Portugal, and Poland? Catching Up With International Enforcers at the 2024 Spring Meeting

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#272 What’s Happening in the EU? A Conversation With DG COMP Director-General Olivier Guersent at the 2024 Spring Meeting

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#271 What Does the UN Do For Consumers? UNCTAD’s Role in Promoting Competition and Consumer Protection

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#270 Want To Be an Antitrust Scholar? Meet the ABA’s International Scholar-in-Residence

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#269 What’s New in Antitrust and Tech? Unpacking United States v. Apple

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#268 Bringing Big Tech to Heel? Compliance Day Under the EU Digital Markets Act

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#267 Dial L for Liability? Evolving Restrictions on Telemarketing to Consumers

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#266 Is It Time To Burst the Bubble? Antitrust Law in the Age of the Polycrisis

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#265 Can I Avoid Targeted Ads? The EU Rules on Pay or OK

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#264 What’s Wrong With Having Lots of Patents? Patent Thickets and Antitrust Law

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#263 What’s the Role of a Magistrate Judge? Conversation With Judge Lindsey Vaala

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#262 What’s Up With U.S. Merger Remedies?

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#261 Can Demanding Price Parity Harm Competition? The MFN Paradox

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#260 What’s The (Data Protection) Difference? An EU/U.S. Comparison of Personal Data Protection Issues In Merger and Behavioural Investigations

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#259 Is Competition in Canada in Decline?

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#258 Will the UK CMA Find Out About My Deal? The Operation of the CMA’s Mergers Intelligence Committee in Practice

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#257 Throwing the Book at Orange Book Listings? The FTC’s Views on the Antitrust Implications of Listing Patents in the Orange Book

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#256 Is Crypto a Giant Pump-and-Dump Scheme? The Art of Selling Nothing for Something

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#255 Can Self-Preferencing Algorithms Be Procompetitive? A Review of the Economic Literature

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#254 How Did Antitrust Law Help Defeat the Ku Klux Klan? The Vietnamese Fisherman's Association Case

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#253 Ready, Player One? Antitrust and Online Gaming

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#252 Has A New Ecosystem Been Discovered? The European Commission Blocks Booking’s Proposed Acquisition of eTraveli

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#251 How Is Gender Relevant to Competition Law? The OECD’s Gender Inclusive Competition Toolkit

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#250 How Are We Celebrating Our 250th Episode? A Look Back at the Top Episodes of All Time

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#249 What Happens When Competition and Geopolitical Issues Intertwine? Surveying the Landscape of the Global Semiconductor Sector

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#248 Are You on Board With Section 8? A New Era of Enforcement Against Interlocking Directorates

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#247 Has the System Derailed? The State of Competition in the US Freight Rail Sector

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#246 What’s New in Antitrust and Tech? Unpacking FTC v. Amazon

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#245 Unspoken Truths: Sexual Harassment in the Legal Profession

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#244 Levelling the Playing Field (Part 2)? The European Union’s Regulation on Foreign Subsidies Distorting the Internal Market is Now in Force

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#243 When Is Personalized Pricing Unlawful? Personalized Pricing Litigation in China

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#242 What’s in the Black Box? Knowns and Unknowns About Pricing Algorithm From the Latest Academic Research