@KevinCoates at https://teapaw.org/t.co/oezGz21Ouc and https://teapaw.org/t.co/2186XJMH35 Competition lawyer PhD candidate at @KCL_Law Lawyer @CovingtonLLP ex @EU_Competition All views personal
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First (but definitely not last!) piece I co-author with my @UofGLaw colleague @davidmreader.
"Taking aim at innovation-crushing mergers: a killer instinct unleashed?" now available in early access in Yearbook of European Law.
New article | @MagaliEben and I take stock of recent developments in the EU's enforcement efforts against killer acquisitions, incl. a primer on innovation harms + #merger control, and jurisdictional changes under the EUMR, DMA + TFEU (via @OxfordJournals) doi.org/10.1093/yel/yead013
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Any competition / antitrust folk out there who’d like an invite to the other social network where the skies are bluer, let me know. I have some invite codes. For followers only; dm me.
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The publisher has announced my forthcoming book, Tech Monopoly -- and priced reasonably. penguinrandomhouse.com/books…
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Amidst all the confected outrage, a key point seems to have got lost: McDonald told colleagues how he had voted as a reminder "that their personal feelings were beside the professional point".
This was an *assertion" of civil service impartiality, not a breach of it.
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We tax them more with “student loans”, put property out of their reach, denied them the chance to live and work across Europe, whatever will we do to do in the youth vote back?
Ah, yes CONSCRIPTION
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My @OUPAcademic book on parental antitrust liability has arrived. At 320,000 words, this book is the most challenging thing that I've done to date in academia. I am simply delighted to add it to my collection at last. global.oup.com/academic/prod…
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Should the UK withdraw from the ECHR? Lawyers are well placed to identify some of the consequences of membership and of leaving but ultimately it’s a political question. Not, though, a very difficult one IMO.
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Economists rally behind Scott Morton and push back at the French & MEP criticism of her U.S. nationality and past work for tech companies.
39 economists sign up to the letter supporting @ProfFionasm appointment by @vestager. Includes @haucap & @jcremer.
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Big win for the European Commission in the Court of Justice in the CK Telecoms case. The General Court has to look again at its annulment of the prohibition of the UK 4 to 3 mobile merger. 1/n
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''EU merger-control powers reinvigorated by CK Hutchison-O2 court reversal'', excellent analysis (as usual) by top antitrust journalists @NatMcNelis & @crofts - @EU_Competition must be celebrating today! content.mlex.com/#/content/1…
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.@ProfFionasm appointed new Chief Economist at @EU_Competition
Yale School of Management announces the move. @EU_Commission still silent.
som.yale.edu/story/2023/prof…
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Today, we publish a new article by Wolfgang Kerber (@uni_mr). He explores the expected impact of the Data Act on dynamic competition. Unique; a must read. networklawreview.org/kerber-…
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The Court has now published the English version too: curia.europa.eu/juris/docume…
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Please. No more media pearl-clutching about Twitter. Media should be writing their mea culpas instead. Musk was alt-right then and he's alt-right now. We knew he'd destroy a platform that helped governments, civil society and journalists do their jobs.
Elon Musk is terrible for Twitter. My comment for @ZNConsulting's #EUinfluencer 2022.
youtu.be/sANOf7t7oe4
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Important to keep the complementary nature of the DMA and the antitrust rules (EU & nat’l) in mind! Next stop: Luxembourg?
My take on complementarity as discussed with the European Parliament: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
Amazon plead its case before Germany's Federal Supreme Court @bgh_bund against @kartellamt's designation under its special digital abuse regime. Amazon argued that 19a contradicts the DMA, per @zeit.
zeit.de/news/2023-06/27/bgh-…
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In perfect timing for Reg 1/2003's 2️⃣0️⃣th anniversary, our new article on the relationship between EU competition law and national (competition & other) laws is finally out in the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement (@OUPLaw, w/@MagaliEben)!
#OpenAccess: academic.oup.com/antitrust/a…
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Section 5's incipiency standard has been interpreted strictly previously, but the new
@FTC's seems to want to expand to a much broader unfair competition standard distinct (separate?) from section 2.
In a chapter with @or_brook, we discuss this briefly: e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/researc…
1. @FTC has taken action against @amazon for tricking users into signing up for Prime subscriptions—and then deliberately making it hard to cancel. We charge that these deceptive tactics violate the FTC Act and the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act. ftc.gov/news-events/news/pre…
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Telcos say they need to merge to be able to finance infrastructure but their claims “do not stand up to scrutiny” according to our ongoing research with @j2bryson @lasergabi and @backovskydavid that's been cited by @nickshaxson in @guardian.
theguardian.com/commentisfre… – at Elsene, België