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…
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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…
Professor Myers Speaks at Free Speech Discussion Forum in Hungary
Professor Gary Myers served as a speaker on “Local Media Coverage in the Modern Age: Modifying Antitrust and Competition Policy” at the Free Speech Discussion Forum held in Budapest, Hungary in June 2019. The forum was sponsored by Pázmány Péter Catholic University Faculty of Law (Hungary), the University of Luxembourg’s Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance, the University of Paris…
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 Lietzan testifies before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee
Professor Erika Lietzan testified before the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on July 27, 2017 in a hearing addressing Antitrust Concerns and the FDA Approval Process. Testimony to House of Representatives Judiciary Committee –…