Jun 17 2024 Podcast The Freedom of Thought Podcast Open Minds with Andrew Ferguson and James Burnham James M. Burnham, Andrew N. Ferguson In this episode of Open Minds, Andrew Ferguson discusses his career, from judicial clerkships to...
Jun 15 2024 Topics Corporations, Securities & Antitrust • Federalism • Law & Economics Blog Post Is the Robinson-Patman Act Good for Competition and Consumers? Svetlana Gans The Robinson-Patman Act bans certain discriminatory discounts on price as well as the provision of or...
May 25 2024 Topics Administrative Law & Regulation • Corporations, Securities & Antitrust • Federal Courts Blog Post SEC Doesn’t Have Legal Authority for Climate Disclosure Rule Bernard Sharfman This post originally appeared at Law360. In response to multiple lawsuits in multiple federal courts...
May 15 2024 Topics Administrative Law & Regulation • Corporations, Securities & Antitrust • Supreme Court Blog Post Return of the National Nanny or Restoration of the Cop on the Beat: The FTC’s Impending Proposed Rule on Commercial Surveillance Kevin Frazier The FTC has adopted an expansive rulemaking agenda. A recently finalized rule banning noncompete agreements...
May 7 2024 Podcast The Freedom of Thought Podcast Open Minds: Concentrated Control, Acceptable Opinions, and Corporate Influence Part 2 Ryan Dean Newman In Part 2 of Open Minds with Ryan Newman, we discuss government and private coercion...
May 1 2024 Topics Corporations, Securities & Antitrust • Federal Courts • Law & Economics Blog Post The FTC’s Weak Case Against Amazon Lawrence J. Spiwak Late last year, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), joined by seventeen state attorneys general, filed...
Apr 29 2024 Topics Administrative Law & Regulation • Corporations, Securities & Antitrust • Federalism • Law & Economics Blog Post When Facts Bear Out Theory: How Do Firms Respond to Government Efforts to Block Acquisitions of Nascent Competitors in Digital Markets? Lawrence J. Spiwak Investors in tech start-ups are keenly attuned to their exit strategy when they obtain most...
Apr 25 2024 Podcast The Freedom of Thought Podcast Open Minds: A New Approach for Putting Conservativism into Practice Part 1 Ryan Dean Newman Part 1 of Open Minds with Ryan Newman covers how his upbringing in the American...
Mar 15 2024 Topics Administrative Law & Regulation • Corporations, Securities & Antitrust • Federalism Blog Post How to Reestablish the Authority of Corporate Law in the Shareholder Proposal Process Bernard Sharfman, James R. Copland This post originally appeared at Columbia Law School's Blue Sky Blog. The shareholder proposal process has...
Mar 4 2024 Topics Corporations, Securities & Antitrust • Federal Courts • Labor & Employment Law Blog Post Small Markets, Big Unions: Is the FTC Promoting Competition or Unions With Its Grocery Merger Complaint? Alexander Thomas MacDonald Last week, the FTC sued to block a merger between Kroger Co. and Albertsons. The...
Open Minds with Andrew Ferguson and James Burnham
James M. Burnham, Andrew N. Ferguson
In this episode of Open Minds, Andrew Ferguson discusses his career, from judicial clerkships to...
Topics
Is the Robinson-Patman Act Good for Competition and Consumers?
The Robinson-Patman Act bans certain discriminatory discounts on price as well as the provision of or...
Topics
SEC Doesn’t Have Legal Authority for Climate Disclosure Rule
This post originally appeared at Law360. In response to multiple lawsuits in multiple federal courts...
Topics
Return of the National Nanny or Restoration of the Cop on the Beat: The FTC’s Impending Proposed Rule on Commercial Surveillance
The FTC has adopted an expansive rulemaking agenda. A recently finalized rule banning noncompete agreements...
Open Minds: Concentrated Control, Acceptable Opinions, and Corporate Influence Part 2
Ryan Dean Newman
In Part 2 of Open Minds with Ryan Newman, we discuss government and private coercion...
Topics
The FTC’s Weak Case Against Amazon
Late last year, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), joined by seventeen state attorneys general, filed...
Topics
When Facts Bear Out Theory: How Do Firms Respond to Government Efforts to Block Acquisitions of Nascent Competitors in Digital Markets?
Investors in tech start-ups are keenly attuned to their exit strategy when they obtain most...
Open Minds: A New Approach for Putting Conservativism into Practice Part 1
Ryan Dean Newman
Part 1 of Open Minds with Ryan Newman covers how his upbringing in the American...
Topics
How to Reestablish the Authority of Corporate Law in the Shareholder Proposal Process
This post originally appeared at Columbia Law School's Blue Sky Blog. The shareholder proposal process has...
Topics
Small Markets, Big Unions: Is the FTC Promoting Competition or Unions With Its Grocery Merger Complaint?
Last week, the FTC sued to block a merger between Kroger Co. and Albertsons. The...