Nine former heads of the Department of Justice’s antitrust division have urged the Senate to quickly confirm the Biden administration’s nomination of Jonathan Kanter as assistant attorney general.
Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan has told career staff and her fellow commissioners that she intends to broaden the scope of the agency’s mission far beyond that of previous administrations.
The State of California has ordered Providence Group and Plum Holdings to divest assets to address the alleged anticompetitive effects of their proposed tie-up, signalling that the state is prepared to flex …
Federal Trade Commission member Christine Wilson has claimed that her agency’s apparent lack of interest in transparency could affect its influence worldwide.
The Department of Justice and several state enforcers have asked a federal court in Boston to block American Airlines and JetBlue from carrying out a partnership that pools operations at four airports.
Gwendolyn Cooley, Wisconsin’s top antitrust enforcer, will soon have an additional 55 state competition offices under her purview. GCR USA spoke to Cooley about what she hopes to accomplish as she takes over as the next chair of the antitrust task force for the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) on 26 October.
University of California professor Carl Shapiro argues in a new paper that antitrust is broken. One of the US antitrust agencies’ go-to experts over the past decade, Shapiro says a better appreciation of economics is the cure but acknowledges Congress might be needed to deliver it.
In a new paper, University of Miami School of Law professor John Newman says the most common critique of the “Chicago School of Antitrust” is all wrong. The former Department of Justice attorney argues the likes of Robert Bork and Richard Posner focused too heavily on defining antitrust harm as a reduction in output, rather than as an increase in prices. Newman spoke to GCR USA about how he sees …
Gail Levine – the last of the antitrust holdovers from the Joseph Simons-era at the Federal Trade Commission – departed earlier this month after helping the next administration get situated. The former deputy director of the FTC’s bureau of competition spoke with GCR USA about the need for additional funding and her experience overseeing the agency’s technology and pharmaceutical shops during a pandemic.
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