David Dinielli
David Carter Dinielli is a Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law at the Yale Law School and a Senior Policy Fellow at Yale’s Tobin Center for Economic Policy. At the Tobin Center, he works to develop antitrust and competition frameworks to address concentrated power in digital markets. At the law school, he teaches a clinical program that develops and deploys legal strategies to combat the diffuse social, societal, public health and other harms concentrated digital power enables. Prior to undertaking this work, Mr. Dinielli served for nearly seven years as Deputy Legal Director at the Southern Poverty Law Center, in Montgomery, Alabama, where he oversaw the Center’s anti-hate and extremism litigation as well as its LGBTQ rights work. For seventeen years prior to that, he was an associate, then partner, with Munger, Tolles & Olson, LLP, a national firm based in Los Angeles, where his practice focused on antitrust litigation and LGBTQ rights. Mr. Dinielli also served as Special Counsel to the Antitust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, working with the the team that successfully challenged the merger of AT&T and T-Mobile.
Antitrust and Competition
Why Congress Should Pass the American Innovation and Choice Online Act
The bill, which is the Senate is expected to vote on soon, would improve competition, increase innovation, benefit consumers, and provide the...
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Antitrust and Competition
Dark Money Dominates Spending by Special Interest Groups and Sways Elections
New research on undisclosed and unlimited political contributions, or dark money, exposes the increasing role that such funds play in U.S. elections.
Antitrust and Competition
The “Conspiracy” of Consumer Welfare Theory
Matt Stoller argues there was a conspiracy. It was more of an association with a singular purpose.
Antitrust and Competition
Researchers Find Reduced Competition After Pandemic
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Voters Still Believe Politics is About the Common Good, Not Just Rent-Seeking
Do voters still believe that politics can be a source for common-good policies and not just partisan bickering and rent-seeking? With political...
Antitrust and Competition
How to Design Data Protection Laws That Actually Work
More and more countries are passing data protection laws, yet empirical studies show that these laws rarely deliver on their promises. A...
Antitrust and Competition
Are Monopolists or Cartels the True Source of Anticompetitive US Political Power?
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Antitrust and Competition
The Uber Files Reveal The Risk of Private Interests Controlling Our Data
Researchers discovered that the introduction of Uber had negative impacts on transportation, findings that required cooperation with public authorities when Uber refused...