Professor Thom Lambert’s article, Mere Common Ownership and the Antitrust Laws, appears in the latest edition of the Boston College Law Review. Professor Lambert criticizes claims by prominent antitrust scholars and the leading antitrust treatise that institutional investors’ ownership of minority stakes in competing firms may violate the U.S. antitrust laws. The article follows up on an earlier common ownership article…
Category: Prof. Thom Lambert ⋅ Page 1
Professor Lambert interviewed by the Global Antitrust Institute
Professor Thom Lambert was recently interviewed about his paper, Rent-Seeking and Public Choice in Digital Markets. The paper will soon be published as a chapter in the Global Antitrust Institute’s forthcoming Report on the Digital Economy. The interview is on YouTube. Professor Lambert explains public choice theory and the concept of rent-seeking and then describes a number of recent instances of…
Professor Lambert Presents at Penn Law
On February 8, Professor Thom Lambert presented his paper “Mere Common Ownership and the Antitrust Laws” at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. The presentation was part of a symposium organized by Professor Herbert Hovenkamp and hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law. Professor Lambert’s paper follows up on his co-authored article with University of Missouri economist…
University of Chicago Law Review Publishes Lambert Response
The University of Chicago Law Review has published Professor Thom Lambert’s essay, Understanding How to Regulate. The essay responds to a critical review of Prof. Lambert’s book, How to Regulate: A Guide for Policymakers. The review, by Professor Lisa Heinzerling of Georgetown Law School, appeared in a recent issue of the University of Chicago Law Review. Professor Lambert’s book is the primary text for a current first-year…
SEC Commissioner Delivers Remarks at BETR Symposium
Commissioner Hester Peirce of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) delivered the keynote address at a law school symposium held on February 8. The symposium, Protecting the Public While Fostering Innovation and Entrepreneurship: First Principles for Effective Regulation, was organized by Mizzou Law’s Business, Entrepreneurship, & Tax Law Review. Drawing on Professor Thom Lambert’s recent book, How to Regulate: A…
Do Regulatory Reform Efforts Inevitably Entrench the Administrative State?: Teleforum Set for August 22
Professor Thom Lambert and J. Kennerly Davis, Jr., will be the speakers in a teleforum scheduled on August 22, “Do Regulatory Reform Efforts Inevitably Entrench the Administrative State?” The forum brings together two speakers well-versed in regulation and regulatory reforms. But they have differing approaches and perspectives on the fundamental assumptions of the current regulatory system.…
Professor Lambert Presents at Conference about Anti-Economics Trends in Policymaking
Professor Thom Lambert recently presented at a conference in Montreal on “The Anti-Economics Trend in Technology Regulation: Lessons for Economists and Legal Scholars.” He discussed the current push to jettison the antitrust’s consumer welfare standard in favor of a public interest standard as part of a panel “The Campaign against Economics in Antitrust, Telecom, and…
Professor Lambert Speaks at Show-Me Institute Forums
Professor Thom Lambert recently spoke at four Show-Me Institute Forums titled “Market Failure vs. Government Failure.” He shared insights from his book, How to Regulate: A Guide for Policymakers, and how regulatory efforts to correct market failures often make the problem worse. The best regulation maximizes the public good and minimizes public costs. Like a physician, policymakers should diagnose the underlying disease and…
Professor Lambert’s Institutional Investors Article Discussed in Bloomberg Opinion Piece
Matt Levine, an opinion columnist covering finance for Bloomberg, references an article written by Professor Thom Lambert of Mizzou Law and Professor Michael Sykuta of the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at Mizzou: “The Case for Doing Nothing About Institutional Investors’ Common Ownership of Small Stakes in Competing Firms.” Levine asks, “Should index funds be illegal?” The article written…
Professor Lambert Serves as Guest Columnist on Net Neutrality
Professor Thom Lambert wrote a guest column, “The FCC should abandon Title II and return to antitrust,” for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He argues that by repealing the rule that created net neutrality, internet service providers could become more innovative and it would incentivize them to expand broadband access in rural…