Publications
Keep up with what matters in competition and consumer law through the Institute’s website:
Working papers from the faculty and members of our Advisory Board
News and Views from the student fellows on what’s hot in the antitrust and consumer world
Consumer guides to antitrust and consumer protection law
Research and recommendations to U.S. and international competition and consumer protection agencies and legislatures
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 website 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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March 2025
Streaming Wars: The Mouse Strikes Back
Elliot Schochet and Alec Brownlee
Student Fellows
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
CANCELLED: How the FTC’s Click to Cancel Policy Impacts Predatory Subscriptions
Johannes Alvarez-Rivero and Kevin Du
Student Fellows Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Competing Perspectives: How the FTC’s Noncompete Ban is Under Attack
Olivia Bartell & Zahrah Khan
Student Fellows Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies Loyola University Chicago School of Law
January 2025
Fast-Food No-Poach Agreements Are Increasingly Being Put in the Antitrust Fryer
Alex Budka
Student Fellow Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies Loyola University Chicago School of Law
May 2024
Discretionary Justice
Spencer Weber Waller
John Paul Stevens Chair in Competition Law
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Using Consumer Protection Law to Achieve Competition Policy Goals
Spencer Weber Waller
John Paul Stevens Chair in Competition Law
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
April 2024
TurboTax’s Dance with Anti-Consumer Conduct
Michael Polkoff
Student Fellow
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
The CFPB’s Inaction on Artificial Intelligence
Emma Wallace
Student Fellow
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
March 2024
Antitrust Implications in the Consolidated Landscape of the U.S. Aviation Industry
Alex Budka
Student Fellow
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
One Buyer to Rule Them All: The 2023 Merger Guidelines on Monopoly
Chris Silveri & Brady Sweet
Student Fellows
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Tossing Out Junk Fees: The FTC’s Proposed Rule to Promote Clarity and Competition in Price Advertising
Corinne Stratton, Student Fellow
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
November 2023
The Labor Turn in United States Merger Law
Spencer Weber Waller
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Antitrust and Pop Culture: The Sequel
Spencer Weber Waller
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
April 2023
Don’t Compete with the FTC
Danielle Feingold & Yoan Hernandez
Student Fellows
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: A Decision That Raises New Questions About the Constitutionality of Independent Agencies
Erin Foster, Emma Goff & Josh Neumann
Student Fellows
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Potential Entrants and the Case Against Steris
Leah Cable & Chris Silveri
Student Fellows
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
November 2022
From the Conference Room to the Courtroom: Consumer Protection and Antitrust Law under the FAIR Act
Corinne Stratton, Brady Sweet & Puja Valera
Student Fellows
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
May 2022
Preventing Greenwashing from Becoming Mainstream: 2022 Revisions to the FTC’s Green Guides
Emily Binger
Student Fellow
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Increased Risk of Unwinding as Result of Extended Agency Review
Danielle Feingold and Josh Neumann
Antitrust Fellows
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
The Open App Markets Act: Reining in a Duopoly
Leah Cable & Sean Linehan
Student Fellows
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Prescription Drug Importation: A Politically Feasible Solution to an Economically Challenging Problem
Scott Hulver
Student Fellow
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
January 2022
NCAA v. Alston: The Future of Student-Athletes
Erin Foster, Rory Svoboda, & Reilly Dougherty
Student Fellows
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
December 2021
Alleging Monopoly Power in the Meta-Verse
Yoan Hernandez, Anna Kenneally & Puja Valera
Student Fellows
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
November 2021
(I Can’t Get No) Restitution: The Supreme Court’s Attack on the FTC’s Equitable Enforcement Powers
Patrick Gilsenan
Student Fellow, Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
May 2021
Facebook v. Duguid: A 21st Century Question for a 20th Century Statute
Rory Svoboda, Anna Kenneally, & Blake Kolesa
Student Fellows
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
April 2021
Institute Newsletter, Issue 21
What Are the Limits of the FTC’s Authority under Section 13(b)? The High Stakes of AMG Capital Management, LLC v. FTC
Jacob Morse
Student Fellow
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Preserving the Telephone Consumer Protection Act: The Underlying Disconnect on Severability
Sean Linehan & Reilly Dougherty
Student Fellows
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Working Papers
2023
Priority Setting as the blind spot of administrative law enforcement: Theoretical, Conceptual, and Empirical Study of Competition Authorities in Europe
Or Brook
Associate Professor of Competition Law and Policy, Centre for Business Law and Practice (CBLP), University of Leeds, 2022 Non-Resident Senior Research Fellowship Program
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies - Loyola University Chicago
Katalin J. Cseres
Associate Professor of Law, Amsterdam Centre for European Law & Governance
(ACELG), University of Amsterdam, 2022 Non-Resident Senior Research Fellowship Program
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies - Loyola University Chicago
Lasting Change in Competition Law and Policy
Spencer Weber Waller
Loyola University Chicago
Bespoke Antitrust
Harry First
New York University School of Law
Spencer Weber Waller
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
2022
A Pop Culture Guide to Antitrust
Spencer Weber Waller
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Competition law enforcement in European post-socialist countries: authoritarian legal culture legacy, semantic dissonance and skewed agencification
Jasminka Pecotić Kaufman
2021 Non-Resident Senior Research Fellowship Program
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies - Loyola University of Chicago
2021
Addressing high prescription drug price increases in EU and U.S. pharmaceutical markets: which role for antitrust policy?
Margherita Colangelo
2021 Non-Resident Senior Research Fellowship Program
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies - Loyola University of Chicago
Online Casebooks
COMPETITION POLICY IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
An On-Line Case Book
Spencer Weber Waller
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
25 E. Pearson Suite 1341
Chicago, IL 60611
312-915-8598
This on-line casebook examines the fields of international antitrust and international trade law. In general, it examines how the United States and other jurisdictions regulate competition among firms which do business abroad. This will include how competition policy regulates individuals and firms located outside the United States in their competition with United States firms as well as the rules governing United States firms.
These materials are intended for use in a U.S. style law school class or seminar and designed to provide the base knowledge necessary to engage in sophisticated research in the field and to produce a research based paper of 20-25 pages in length. By necessity, these materials are in English and have primarily a United States focus. The value of an on-line casebook in this field goes beyond the merely the cost savings and convenience. It is also an opportunity for a collaborative exercise that will allow for the creation of a more in-depth and creative set of materials that can be done in traditional hard cover format. Use of the casebook for educational purposes with attribution is available on a royalty-free basis under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License, available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/. For all other uses please contact Professor Waller at the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies at Loyola University Chicago School of Law or swalle1@luc.edu.
I therefore invite any competition law teacher or scholar to submit additional chapters on other competition law topics or jurisdictions not covered in these materials for inclusion in future iterations of these materials. Materials must be original or accompanied with proof of permission/license to use for this purpose and be in English and in either Word or Word Perfect. Submission of materials constitutes your permission to include the material in future editions of the on-line casebook for educational purposes with attribution available on a royalty-free basis under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License, available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/.
Submission of materials also constitutes permission to edit the submitted material for style, content, and compatibility with the existing text, although every reasonable effort will be made to allow you to review edited material before posting on-line. I look forward to working with the global competition law and policy community to make this the most effective and interesting teaching tool possible.
Chapter One - Extraterritoriality: The U.S. Perspective
Chapter Two - Extraterritoriality: Foreign Perspectives and Commentary
Chapter Three - Jurisdiction Over Export Conduct
Chapter Four - International Litigation Issues
Chapter Five - Unsolvable Conflicts
Chapter Six - The Role of Foreign Governments
Chapter Seven - Antitrust and Trade Issues
Chapter Eight - International Mergers and Joint Ventures
Chapter Nine - International Antitrust I: Enforcement Cooperation
Chapter Ten - International Antitrust II: Harmonization and Convergence
Highlighted Publications
Keep up with what matters in competition and consumer law through the Institute’s website:
Working papers from the faculty and members of our Advisory Board
News and Views from the student fellows on what’s hot in the antitrust and consumer world
Consumer guides to antitrust and consumer protection law
Research and recommendations to U.S. and international competition and consumer protection agencies and legislatures