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Randy Picker on Competition Law, Copyright, and Entertainment

University of Chicago Law School professor Randy Picker passed away this weekend. Saul Levmore, a colleague at the Law School, remembers Randy's contributions to law scholarship and the University.

The Dynamic Competition Framework Petit et al. Advocate Is Neither Pro-Enforcement nor Anti-Enforcement. It Doesn’t Exist

The dynamic competition school claims that competition authorities, by analyzing firms’ capabilities, can protect what this school calls dynamic competition.  Competition authorities, however, cannot adequately analyze firms’ capabilities. This school, therefore, lacks any framework which the authorities can use to analyze what they call dynamic competition. Any framework to protect dynamic competition, or what some call competition to innovate, must instead first identify the future products the competing firms are trying to make, writes Larry Landman.

Farewell, Randy

University of Chicago Law School professor Randy Picker passed away this weekend. Georgetown professor Filippo Lancieri pens a tribute to his colleague and former PhD advisor.

How To Preserve the Online Information Ecosystem in the Presence of Google AI Overviews

In new research, Saharsh Agarwal and Ananya Sen study how Google AI Overviews reduce traffic to content publishers, their impact on consumer experience, and the implications of these findings for platform regulation and copyright and competition law.

Anatomy of a Supervisory Failure

For its entire 15-year life as a regional bank, SVB held the same risky bet. The risks were visible the whole time, yet supervisors reacted only once losses had materialized. SVB's collapse is less a story of hidden danger than of a supervisory system that polices process rather than risk.

Abortion Bans May Have Changed How People Have Sex 

In new research, James Flynn, David Munro, and Caitlin Myers document how sexual behavior has changed in light of total abortion bans enacted after Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health. They find that abortion bans reduced sexual activity and increased contraceptive use, motivated by individuals having an increased awareness of state policy.

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