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Blogging and Tenure
I had my post-decision debriefing meeting with our Reappointment, Tenure and Promotion (RP&T) Committee this week (I got promoted to associate). This was my first RP&T meeting since I started blogging so I was interested in getting the committee’s take on it. Without a doubt it is favorable. In fact, to my surprise the committee ... Blogging and Tenure
Searle Center Call for Antitrust Papers
Northwestern University School of Law’s Searle Center on Law, Regulation and Economic Growth will be holding a conference on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy on September 26-27th. From the Call for Papers: The goal of this Research Symposium is to provide a forum where leading scholars from across the country can gather together with Northwestern’s ... Searle Center Call for Antitrust Papers
Commissioner Rosch on the (Smaller?) Role of Economists in Antitrust Litigation
From FTC Commissioner Rosch: Personally, I think simulation analyses and indeed any kind of economic analyses that require the use of mathematical formulae are of little persuasive value in the courtroom setting. When I see an economic formula my eyes start to glaze over, and if the formula uses Greek letters I tend to think ... Commissioner Rosch on the (Smaller?) Role of Economists in Antitrust Litigation
Antitrust in Tech Industries
Two stories about Google indicate the dangers of antitrust in fast moving tech industries. Microsoft is urging the EU antitrust authorities to sue Google. (Microsoft was itself the victim of a massive antitrust action. I guess it is true that abusers are likely to have been themselves abused.) At the same time Google is ... Antitrust in Tech Industries
Does Interdisciplinary Education in Law Schools Work?
The value of interdisciplinary legal education is coming up once again. This time, Brian Tamahana argues that the interdisciplinary movement is a bad idea: the notion that interdisciplinary studies within law schools promises to improve the practice of law is an old idea backed up by little evidence. Non-elite law schools might not be serving ... Does Interdisciplinary Education in Law Schools Work?
Business Continuity Programs and Fiduciary Duties
This CFO.com article describes a new Deloitte & Touche/CPM Group survey on business continuity management programs. The survey finds that “[m]ore than 83 percent of companies have developed business continuity management programs, compared with only 30 percent of companies just six years ago.� Deloitte and CPM attribute the increase to the fact “that executive management ... Business Continuity Programs and Fiduciary Duties
Presidential Candidates and Antitrust
We’ve been following presidential statements on antitrust here at TOTM — mostly through press releases to the AAI (e.g. our analysis of statements from Obama and Edwards). I’ve been largely disappointed at the lack of attention to antitrust thus far from the candidates, with virtually no statements at all from the Republican side and only ... Presidential Candidates and Antitrust
Cuomo Goes After Intel (to Get AMD Plant for NY?)
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has issued a subpoena to Intel Corp. as part of an investigation into whether Intel’s discounting practices violate federal or state antitrust laws. According to Cuomo’s press release, the subpoena seeks documents and information concerning Intel’s pricing practices and possible attempt to exclude competitors through its market domination. The ... Cuomo Goes After Intel (to Get AMD Plant for NY?)
Teaching RPM After Leegin
Back in the olden days (i.e., before this past summer), a manufacturer automatically violated the antitrust laws — no ifs, ands, or buts — if he agreed with a retailer that the latter would charge at least a minimum price for the manufacturer’s products. For reasons we elaborated ad nauseum (click and scroll down), that ... Teaching RPM After Leegin
New Antitrust Source Available Online
The December 2007 of the Antitrust Source is now available online and features a symposium on the recent Supreme Court activity along with several interesting articles, interviews, book reviews, and my favorite regular feature — the Working Papers and Recent Scholarship review by Bill Page and John Woodbury (which this month features scholarship by George ... New Antitrust Source Available Online
Merger Retrospective
Several years ago, the DOJ cleared a merger between Whirlpool and Maytag. The primary defense was that post-merger prices could not rise because of intense competition from foreign competitors like LG and Samsung. Apparently the actual competition was more than Whirlpool wanted to bear. Guess What? Mr. Laissez-Faire Antitrust, meet Dr. Public Choice. The Wall ... Merger Retrospective
Two on SCOTUS Antitrust Cases
Courtesy of Larry Solum’s Legal Theory Blog, the following two papers have been posted on SSRN and may be of interest to our readers. First is Keith Hylton’s analysis of the Weyerhaueser decision, Weyerhaeuser, Predatory Bidding, and Error Costs. Here is the abstract: In Weyerhaeuser v. Ross-Simmons the Supreme Court held that the predatory pricing ... Two on SCOTUS Antitrust Cases
