#272 What's Happening in the EU? A Conversation With DG COMP Director-General Olivier Guersent at the 2024 Spring Meeting
The 2024 Spring Meeting of the ABA Antitrust Law Section offered the Our Curious Amalgam team a chance to speak with competition law enforcers from around the world. In this episode, host Matthew Hall...
6 Maj 202446min
#271 What Does the UN Do For Consumers? UNCTAD's Role in Promoting Competition and Consumer Protection
The UN General Assembly has entrusted UNCTAD (now rebranded as UN Trade and Development) to be the focal point within the UN on competition and consumer protection issues. How does UN Trade and Develo...
29 Apr 202433min
#270 Want To Be an Antitrust Scholar? Meet the ABA's International Scholar-in-Residence
Many practitioners wonder what it would be like to be an academic, diving deeply into the leading international legal and policy issues at the forefront of antitrust and competition law. But what does...
22 Apr 202425min
#269 What's New in Antitrust and Tech? Unpacking United States v. Apple
On March 21, 2024, the United States Department of Justice and sixteen Attorneys General sued Apple, alleging that "Apple undermines apps, products, and services that would otherwise make users less r...
15 Apr 202430min
#268 Bringing Big Tech to Heel? Compliance Day Under the EU Digital Markets Act
The EU Digital Markets Act introduces a radical change to regulation of the digital sector in the EU. But what does it require and what have the designated "gatekeepers" been doing to ensure complianc...
8 Apr 202441min
#267 Dial L for Liability? Evolving Restrictions on Telemarketing to Consumers
Anyone with a phone number understands how annoying it is to receive unsolicited promotional voice calls and text messages. For that reason, telemarketing and telephone sales practices in the U.S. are...
1 Apr 202427min
#266 Is It Time To Burst the Bubble? Antitrust Law in the Age of the Polycrisis
The antitrust law bubble, particularly in the U.S., has in recent years focussed on the mantra of promoting efficiency above all else. In the age of the global polycrisis and increasing corporate conc...
25 Mars 202443min
#265 Can I Avoid Targeted Ads? The EU Rules on Pay or OK
Many companies already use or are introducing "pay or OK" models for targeted ads on the Internet. What legal issues does this raise in the EU? Frithjof Michaelsen, Digital Policy Officer at UFC-Que C...
18 Mars 202444min
