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Aurelien Portuese

Aurelien Portuese is a research professor at George Washington University and an international associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. He was previously co-director of the Schumpeter Project on Competition Policy and an adjunct professor of competition law at the Global Antitrust Institute of George Mason University.

A doctor in law from the University of Paris II (Sorbonne), Portuese has graduated from the London School of Economics, Sciences Po Paris, and from the University of Hamburg. 

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The Road to Antitrust’s Least Glorious Hour

Aurelien Portuese Jul 29, 2022

Things are heating up in the antitrust world. There is considerable pressure to pass the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) before the congressional recess in August—a short legislative window before members of Congress shift their focus almost entirely to campaigning for the mid-term elections. While it would not be impossible to advance the ... The Road to Antitrust’s Least Glorious Hour

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The Antitrust Prohibition of Favoritism, or the Imposition of Corporate Selflessness

Aurelien Portuese Dec 16, 2020

It is my endeavor to scrutinize the questionable assessment articulated against default settings in the U.S. Justice Department’s lawsuit against Google. Default, I will argue, is no antitrust fault. Default in the Google case drastically differs from default referred to in the Microsoft case. In Part I, I argue the comparison is odious. Furthermore, in ... The Antitrust Prohibition of Favoritism, or the Imposition of Corporate Selflessness

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