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Network Law Review @networklawreview.bsky.social · 1d

New Antitrust Antidote: Apple case moves ahead; per se tying theory on Hermès doesn’t fly; alleged algorithmic/benchmarking collusion suits stumble on pleadings... All you need to know about recent U.S. antitrust cases is here: www.networklawreview.org/antidote-7/

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Network Law Review @networklawreview.bsky.social · 7d

Here are @profschrepel.bsky.social’s monthly reading suggestions: DMA & EU users, killer acquisitions, auditable AI, AI Act political economy, GenAI & democracy, AI agents in econ, adaptive regulation + a special issue on law, tech & econ of AI: www.networklawreview.org/september-20...

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Network Law Review @networklawreview.bsky.social · 7d

The EU says its AI rules are “future proof.” They’re not, @profschrepel.bsky.social argues. Without adaptive regulation (modular rules, real-time monitoring, plural triggers, institutional memory) Brussels (and others!) will always be behind the curve. www.networklawreview.org/schrepel-fut...

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Network Law Review @networklawreview.bsky.social · 12d

What if competition law had to be personalized, i.e., tailored to firms, sectors, even algorithms? Adrian Kuenzler (University of Hong Kong) argues AI forces us to abandon one-size-fits-all enforcement. The age of bespoke antitrust is here
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Personalized Competition Law: The New Frontier of AI Market Governance - Network Law Review

Artificial Intelligence technologies prompt several doctrinal shifts in competition law. For AI market governance, this means moving toward personalized enforcement. Rather than applying one-size-fits...

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Stanford Cyber Policy Center @stanfordcyber.bsky.social · 14d

How can regulatory frameworks keep up in the age of #AI?

New in @networklawreview.bsky.social, Visiting Professor @flogsell.bsky.social outlines how #GDPR provisions often fail to apply to AI systems, highlighting the need for more adaptive, flexible, and responsive regulatory approaches.

Statutory Obsolescence in the Age of Innovation: A Few Thoughts about GDPR - Network Law Review

This article examines the problem of statutory obsolescence in the regulation of rapidly evolving technologies, with a focus on GDPR and generative AI. It shows how core GDPR provisions on lawful proc...

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Network Law Review @networklawreview.bsky.social · 14d

How to implement the EU #AIAct without stifling innovation?
Daniel Schnurr highlights 5 key challenges: risk mitigation, trade-offs, adaptability, value-chain responsibility & coherence with sectoral rules.
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Network Law Review @networklawreview.bsky.social · 16d

NEW: Korea’s new AI regime shows both promise and peril of overlapping regulators, argues Yo Sop Choi. The 2023 Digital Bill of Rights aims for coherence, but real clarity will hinge on agency coordination: www.networklawreview.org/choi-ai/

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Network Law Review @networklawreview.bsky.social · 19d

New @networklawreview.bsky.social piece by Kyohei Yamamoto & Yasunori Tabei summarizing Japan’s emerging AI regulation: a soft-law AI Bill, a JFTC market study on generative AI, and the new MSCA for mobile software www.networklawreview.org/yamamoto-tab....

Japanese AI Regulation and Competition Law - Network Law Review

The Network Law Review is pleased to present a special issue entitled “The Law & Technology & Economics of AI.” This issue brings together multiple disciplines around a central question: What kind of ...

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Network Law Review @networklawreview.bsky.social · 21d

NEW article by Nuno Cunha Rodrigues, President of Portuguese Competition Authority.
He argues that AI disruption demands a new regulatory ecosystem where competition law works hand in hand with other public policies www.networklawreview.org/cunha-rodrig...

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Network Law Review @networklawreview.bsky.social · 23d

Generative AI exposes GDPR’s limits: consent at scale, accuracy of outputs, erasure in trained models. The fix isn’t more principles, says Florence G'sell (Stanford University), it’s adaptive institutions (EU AI Office, expert panels) and iterative rules. www.networklawreview.org/gsell-statut...

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Network Law Review @networklawreview.bsky.social · Sep 3

NEW: Jin, Wagman & Zhong show how privacy, security & cross-border data laws overlap with AI policies. These overlaps create trade-offs: innovation vs. protection, competition vs. compliance costs. They call for internationally coordinated AI/data gov www.networklawreview.org/jin-wagman-z...

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Network Law Review @networklawreview.bsky.social · Sep 2

NEW: @paulohm.bsky.social (Georgetown Law) argues that as AI drives the cost of compliance toward zero, debates on AI regulation should focus on its substance rather than its administrative burden www.networklawreview.org/ohm-ai-regul...

Toward Compliance Zero: AI and the Vanishing Costs of Regulatory Compliance - Network Law Review

AI systems now perform core compliance tasks once reserved for humans. Prof. Ohm argues that this will drive the marginal cost of regulatory compliance toward zero. The claim is grounded in the nature...

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Network Law Review @networklawreview.bsky.social · Sep 1

Here are my @profschrepel.bsky.social reading suggestions. Topics include AI openness, how AI improves itself, the unintended consequences of privacy regulation (it’s bad...), vertical integration and consumer choice, classical liberalism, and more. www.networklawreview.org/august-2025/

Reading suggestions – August 2025 - Network Law Review

Here are Thibault Schrepel’s monthly reading suggestions. Topics include AI openness, how AI improves itself, the unintended consequences of privacy regulation (it's bad), vertical integration and con...

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Network Law Review @networklawreview.bsky.social · Aug 29

The NLR is publishing a new special issue: “The Law & Technology & Economics of AI.” It brings law, economics, and computer science together to spark new ideas for AI governance. The introduction features all contributors and the titles of their pieces: networklawreview.org/law-tech-eco...

Network Law Review @networklawreview.bsky.social · Jun 2

Here are @profschrepel.bsky.social’s monthly reading suggestions. Topics include: the populist challenge to consumer welfare standards in antitrust, AI startup competition and technological sovereignty, Bitcoin reserve skepticism and internet culture shifts... www.networklawreview.org/may-2025/

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Network Law Review @networklawreview.bsky.social · May 2

Here are @profschrepel.bsky.social’s monthly reading suggestions. Topics include: concentration in AI agents, #computationalantitrust, Lina Khan 2.0, GDPR ineffectiveness, democracies & capitalism, the network science of philosophy, and more. www.networklawreview.org/april-2025/

Reading suggestions – April 2025 - Network Law Review

Here are Thibault Schrepel’s monthly reading suggestions. Topics include: concentration in AI agents, computational antitrust, Lina Khan 2.0, AI liability, AI 2027, GDPR ineffectiveness, technological...

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Network Law Review @networklawreview.bsky.social · May 1

In this new article, Raz Agranat and Michal Gal explore the competitive dynamics in emerging AI agent markets. They argue that positive feedback loops may enable dominant agents to outperform rivals by leveraging the advantages of scale & network effects www.networklawreview.org/ai-agents-ne....

Fueling Concentration: AI Agents and Network Effects - Network Law Review

Abstract: AI agents lie at the frontier of the evolving AI economy, functioning as applications that autonomously execute tasks on users’ behalf. While contemporary discourse on market concentration i...

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Network Law Review @networklawreview.bsky.social · Mar 5

The EU AI Act is one of the first attempts to regulate AI. Given that previous European digital regulations, such as the GDPR, have influenced laws all over the world, can we expect to see the AI Act as a global standard? @marcoalmada.com waves in www.networklawreview.org/almada-ai-act/.

Will the EU AI Act Shape Global Regulation? - Network Law Review

The European Union’s AI Act is one of the first attempts to regulate artificial intelligence technologies. Given that previous European digital regulations, such as the GDPR, have influenced laws all ...

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Network Law Review @networklawreview.bsky.social · Feb 13

NEW: "Rising Market Power: Evidence from Industry Studies" by Nathan Miller (Georgetown University McDonough School of Business)
Key message: rising market power in the U.S. is largely driven by technological advances rather than weak antitrust enforcement.
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Rising Market Power: Evidence from Industry Studies - Network Law Review

Rising market power in the U.S. is largely driven by technological advances rather than weak antitrust enforcement. Industry studies show that innovation has reduced costs, improved quality, and, in s...

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Network Law Review @networklawreview.bsky.social · Jan 2

Here are the world’s most downloaded #antitrust and competition law articles posted on
@ssrn.bsky.social during 2024: networklawreview.org/top-2024/.

The world’s most downloaded antitrust articles of 2024 - Network Law Review

As for previous years, here are the world’s most downloaded antitrust and competition law articles posted on SSRN during 2024.

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Network Law Review @networklawreview.bsky.social · Dec 27

NEW: Catch up on everything that happened in U.S. antitrust over the past few months here: www.networklawreview.org/antidote-4/

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Network Law Review @networklawreview.bsky.social · Dec 23

10. Assimakis Komninos: “Competition Stories: October 2022 – June 2023” www.networklawreview.org/stories-2023...

Competition Stories: October 2022 – June 2023 - Network Law Review

Welcome to the Competition Stories – an exploration of recent courts and competition law agencies’ decisions. Authored by Makis Komninos, a renowned expert in the field. This column aims to go through...

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Network Law Review @networklawreview.bsky.social · Dec 23

9. Orly Lobel (@orlylobel.bsky.social): “Do We Need to Know What Is Artificial? Unpacking Disclosure & Generating Trust in an Era of Algorithmic Action” www.networklawreview.org/lobel-genera...

Orly Lobel: “Do We Need to Know What Is Artificial? Unpacking Disclosure & Generating Trust in an Era of Algorithmic Action” - Network Law Review

The Network Law Review is pleased to present a symposium entitled “Dynamics of Generative AI,” where lawyers, economists, computer scientists, and social scientists gather their knowledge around a cen...

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Network Law Review @networklawreview.bsky.social · Dec 23

8. Thibault Schrepel (@profschrepel.bsky.social), Abdullah Yerebakan & Nikoletta Baladima: “A Database of Antitrust Initiatives Targeting Generative AI” www.networklawreview.org/antitrust-ge...

A Database of Antitrust Initiatives Targeting Generative AI - Network Law Review

Antitrust agencies are increasingly interested in generative AI. This can be good news. As Sandy Pentland and I wrote last year (here), the competitive dynamics in this space can be supported by a car...

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Network Law Review @networklawreview.bsky.social · Dec 23

7. Elżbieta Głowicka & Jan Málek: “Digital Empires Reinforced? Generative AI Value Chain” www.networklawreview.org/glowicka-mal...

Ela Głowicka & Jan Málek: “Digital Empires Reinforced? Generative AI Value Chain” - Network Law Review

The Network Law Review is pleased to present a symposium entitled “Dynamics of Generative AI,” where lawyers, economists, computer scientists, and social scientists gather their knowledge around a cen...

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