Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies: News and Views
Because the antitrust world is so fast paced, the Institute wanted to create a vehicle to comment on current events while they were still fresh. This section of the Institute web site will feature regular news summaries and commentaries from the Institute Director, student fellows, members of the United States and International advisory boards, and friends of the Institute which are shorter and more journalistic than the scholarly works in the working paper section. If you have an item that you would like to submit for consideration please email it to antitrust@luc.edu or swalle1@luc.edu.
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FEBRUARY 2012
by Spencer Weber Waller
Professor and Director
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
November 2011
Passing the Buck: A Look Into the Durbin Amendment to the Dodd-Frank Act
by Daniel B. Heidtke
Student Fellow
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of LawAdvisory Board Member Avishalom Tor has an interesting new article on a behavioral economics approach to resale price maintenance just published in the University of Illinois Law Review entitled Behavioral Antitrust: A New Approach to the Rule of Reason After Leegin.
October 2011
Do Not Track: Privacy In An Internet Age (PDF)
by J. Thomas Rosch
Commissioner
Federal Trade CommissionAn Analysis of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Part II (PDF)
by Sarah Riddell
Research Associate
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
September 2011
by Spencer Weber Waller
Professor and Director
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
August 2011
Online Search: "Antitrust": There Is Still A Long Way To Go In Satisfying Antitrust Concerns (PDF)
by Dr. Philip Marsden
Senior Research Fellow
British Institute of International and Comparative Law
Member International Advisory Board
Institute for Consumer Antitrust StudiesHardly Settled: The Google Books Settlement (PDF)
by Danny Heidtke
Student Fellow
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
July 2011
Kabletown? Overview of the Comcast-NBC Universal Merger (PDF)
by Noelle Croley
Student Fellow
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago School of LawJUNE 2011
REVIEW: Daniel A. Crane, The Institutional Structure of Antitrust Enforcement (PDF) (Oxford University Press 2011)
by Spencer Weber Waller
Professor and Director
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
MAY 2011
To listen to Professor Spencer Weber Waller's Bloomberg Radio interview on the FTC's continuing antitrust investigation of Google click here.MARCH 2011
FEBRUARY 2011
China Updates Its Anti-Monopoly Law: National and Foreign Businesses, Beware
by Caroline Erol
Student Fellow
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago School of Lawby Emily L. Hussey
Student Fellow
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
JANUARY 2011
REVIEW: The International Handbook on Private Enforcement of Competition Law (Albert A. Foer & Jonathan W. Cuneo editors 2010)
by Spencer Weber Waller
Professor and Director
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of LawInstitute Comments on Compliance Issues to the UK Office of Fair Trading (PDF)
DECEMBER 2010
New Frontiers of Antitrust
Concurrences 2nd Annual International ConferenceCondemning Air Cargo Cartels on World Competition Day
by Pradeep S. Mehta
Secretary General of CUTS International and
Chairman of INCSOC
NOVEMBER 2010
An Overview of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act - Part 1
by Sarah Riddell
Student Fellow
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
OCTOBER 2010
REVIEW: ABA Section of Antitrust Law, Proof of Conspiracy Under Federal Laws (2010)
by Spencer Weber Waller
Professor and Director
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of LawClear the Runways: The United-Continental Merger is Finally Landing
by Craig Beaker
Student Fellow
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of LawA Needle In The Eye Of A Joint Venture Of The NFL
by James Morsch
Partner, Butler Rubin Saltarelli & Boyd LLP
SEPTEMBER 2010
Final Judicial Scorecard (PDF)
AUGUST 2010
JULY 2010
"Twas Three Years After Twombly and All Through the Bar, Not a Plaintiff was Troubled From Near of From Far" - The Unremarkable Effect of the U.S. Supreme Court's Re-Expressed Pleading Standard in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly
Daniel R. Karon
Adjunct Professor of Law
Cleveland-Marshall College of LawMichael J. Patterson
Student Fellow
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of LawMichael J. Patterson
J.D. Candidate, May 2011
Loyola University Chicago
School of LawNetwork Neutrality Generates A Contentious Debate Among Experts: Should Consumers Be Worried?
Cody Vitello
J.D. Candidate, May 2011
Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
JUNE 2010
Making Health Care Competition Work: How to Ensure Health Insurance
Reform is Transparent and Effective
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/06/health_competition.htmlDavid Balto
Center for American Progress
May 2010
REVIEW: ABA Section of Antitrust Law, Antitrust Class Action Handbook (2010)
Spencer Weber Waller
Professor and Director
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of LawREVIEW: ABA Section of Antitrust Law, Competition as Public Policy (2010)
Spencer Weber Waller
Professor and Director
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
April 2010
Anna Hamburg-Gal
Student Fellow
Institute for Consumer Antitrust StudiesCan Commercials Combat Childhood Obesity? Congress Hopes So.
Sarah Riddell
Student Fellow
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
March 2010
The CUTS Centre for Competition, Investment & Economic Regulation has posted an excellent new Discussion Paper:
Dimensions of Competition Policy and Law in Emerging Economies (PDF)
A Merger Remedy With Concertgoers in Mind: United States v. Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc. and Live Nation, Inc.
Thomas Weber
Student Fellow
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
February 2010
Congressional Efforts to Mend the Hatch-Waxman Act: H.R. 1706 and S. 369
Jennifer Woods
Student Fellow
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
January 2010
Professor Waller's interview on First Business on December 22, 2009.
http://mms.tveyes.com/MediaCenter/53443/401575.2702/KTVK_12-22-2009_04.10.20.wmv
December 2009
Spencer Weber Waller
Professor and Director
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of LawCompetition and Consumer Papers: http://www.oft.gov.uk/news/speeches/2009/1209
"First Business" Interview with Professor Waller on Comcast-GE merger
November 2009
Conference Announcement: New Frontiers of Antitrust, February 2010, Paris
Brazilian Legal Newspaper Interview with Professor Waller
October 2009
Concurring Opinions: Do We Need A Law of the Brand?
Patrick Polcari
Research Associate
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
September 2009
Audio of September 11th Loyola-ABA Program
Complete audio of the September program with the Antitrust Section of the ABA on Designing Better Institutions for Deciding Antitrust Issues is now available at http://www.abanet.org/antitrust/at-programs/symp-09/audio.html.
August 2009
Recent Antitrust Stories on National Public Radio
NPR recently featured two different antitrust-related stories in its Story of the Day. In its detailed story on competition and antitrust policy in the dairy sector, NPR features an interview with Peter Carstensen of the Wisconsin Law School who is also a member of the Institute Advisory Board. In a later story, NPR focuses on the fate of the Toyota plant in Fremont California which was the subject of the Toyota-GM joint venture that drew such close FTC antitrust scrutiny in the 1980s. These stories in both print and audio form are available at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112002639 and http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112118267.
New English Language Journal on Polish Competition and Regulatory Law
The Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies at the University of Warsaw has just published the first volume of the Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies. This is a first-rate English language resource for developments in Polish competition law. The first volume contains article on parallel trade in the EU; the goals of Polish antitrust law, private antitrust enforcement in Poland; telecommunications law; state-owned infrasturcture; copyright collectives, and a variety of legislative, case comments, and book reviews. For now, this appears to be a hard-copy only publication with a web site under construction at http://www.wz.uw.edu.pl/csair
Spencer Weber Waller
Professor and Director
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
July 2009
Professor Christopher Leslie of the University of California-Irvine School of Law has just published the first major critique of judgment sharing agreements in antitrust litigation. A copy of his thorough and excellent article is available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1400968.
June 2009
William Schubert
Student Fellow
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of LawREVIEW: ABA Section of Antitrust Law, Issues in Competition Law and Policy (2008)
Spencer Weber Waller
Professor and Director
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of LawSpencer Weber Waller
Professor and Director
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of LawREVIEW: ABA Section of Antitrust Law, Antitrust and Associations Handbook (2009)
Spencer Weber Waller
Professor and Director
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
May 2009
Thomas Weber
Student Fellow
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of LawSee Professor Waller's interview on First Business on antitrust in the Obama Administration with a hot link to http://www.firstbusinessx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1337&Itemid=76
April 2009
Registration Open for AAI's Annual National Conference
On June 18, the American Antitrust Institute will host its 10th annual conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. This year's conference is titled "International Antitrust in a World without a Center" and will focus on international challenges facing the antitrust community.
The AAI is honored to host Mario Monti, former European commissioner for competition and now president of the Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi in Milan, and John Fingleton, the chief executive officer of the U.K. Office of Fair Trading, as speakers on the June 18 program.
Click here for complete agenda and to register today. http://www.antitrustinstitute.org/Events/EventDetails.aspx?eventId=32.
The Congressional Agenda in Antitrust (PDF)
Matt Showel
Student Fellow
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of LawThe Melbourne Law School in Australia has launched a new Cartel Project. The web site can be found at http://www.cartel.law.unimelb.edu.au.
March 2009
Twenty Top Consumer Complaints of 2008
Comments on Draft Canadian Competition Guidelines (PDF)
February 2009
The EC Commission Article 82 Guidance
Femi Alese
Senior Research Fellow
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of LawBroadening Tobacco Litigation: A Look at Altria Group, Inc. v. Good (PDF)
Patrick Polcari
Student Fellow
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
January 2009
Justice Department's Section 2 Report Sparks a Heated Debate in the Antitrust Community (PDF)
by Dawn Goulet
(as published in 21 Loy. Cons. L. Rev. 268 (2008))
Spencer Weber Waller
Professor and Director
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of LawSpencer Weber Waller
Professor and Director
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
November 2008
European Commission Publishes Guidance on Abuse of a Dominant Position (PDF)
New Book on Competition Policy and Merger Analysis in Deregulated and Newly Competitive Industries (PDF)
Discounting, Bicycles, and the Supreme Court (PDF)
Spencer Weber Waller
Professor and Director
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of LawNew York Times Editorial on DOJ Monopoly Report
October 2008
Detroit's Big Three: Purge the Urge to Merge
James Brock
Professor of Economics
Miami University - OhioHearing But Not Listening: Comparative Competition Law and the DOJ Monopoly Report (PDF)
Forthcoming in Global Competition Policy (2008), www.globalcompetitionpolicy.orgSpencer Weber Waller
Professor and Director
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
September 2008
Proposed Amendment to Illinois Antitrust Act Confirms Attorney General Parens Patriae Standing (PDF)
Peter Bergan
Student Fellow, Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago School of LawDepartment of Justice Releases Report on Monopoly
August 2008
Reviews of Recent Antitrust Books (2006-2008)
July 2008
Call for Papers for the 2009 Symposium
June 2008
REVIEW: Handbook of Antitrust Economics
Spencer Weber Waller
Professor and Director
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of LawREVIEW: New Antitrust Casebooks
Spencer Weber Waller
Professor and Director
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago
School of LawNew Leniency Policy for South Africa
MAY 2008
Law Professor Letter Regarding Connecticut Legal Finance Legislation (PDF)
A New Antitrust Law for Hong Kong (PDF)
The European Union's New Antitrust Law Reforms
APRIL 2008
Recent Competition Issues at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (PDF)
Matt Showel
Student Fellow
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago School of LawEuropean Commission Issues White Paper on Private Rights of Action
CADE Practical Guide: The Defense of Competition in Brazil (PDF)
MARCH 2008
New Research Fellowship (PDF)
6th Annual Symposium on Recent Developments in Competition Law
Erciyes University Faculty of Law & Turkish Competition Authority
April 4-5, 2008
Erciyes University IIBF Conference Hall
Kayseri, Turkey
FEBRUARY 2008
INCSOC BRIEFING: Consumers Demand Action Against Abusive Monopolies (PDF)
JANUARY 2008
Georgetown Law Podcast on the Effects of Conservative Economic Analysis on US Antitrust
Robert Pitofsky hosted a conference last year on Conservative Economic Influence on US Antitrust Policy. The papers are terrific and will be published in a book by Oxford University Press. For those who can't wait, the podcast of the conference is available at http://www.law.georgetown.edu/webcast/eventDetail.cfm?eventID=342
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