Barry Lynn, executive director, testifies before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on “Competition Policy for the Twenty-First Century: The Case for Antitrust Reform.”
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Barry Lynn urges Congress to take swift, bright-line action to protect our democracy from private corporate power.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we discuss Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn’s congressional testimony concerning competition policy in the 21st century, the filling of our most recent amici curiae brief supporting student-athletes against the NCAA, and Australia’s battle against Big Tech.
Barry Lynn, executive director of Open Markets Institute, provides testimony at the “Competition Policy for the Twenty-First Century: The Case for Antitrust Reform” hearing for the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights, chaired by Sen. Amy Klobuchar.
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Read our full amici curiae brief in support of current and former college basketball and football players in their antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA.
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Groups and scholars join to file brief supporting players in their fight against the NCAA cartel.
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Open Markets Institute announces three new hires including Managing Editor, Finance Associate and a new position, Chief Economist.
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Daniel Hanley, senior legal analyst, details the definition, history, and importance of clear bright-line rules when it comes to antitrust law.
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Sally Hubbard, director of enforcement strategy, appeared on C-SPAN’s “The Communicators” to discuss competition in digital technology markets, potential regulatory actions, and consumer rights.
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Open Markets Institute’s legal director, Sandeep Vaheesan, submits written testimony lauding Connecticut’s SB 906 – An Act Concerning Non-Compete Agreements and encouraging the state to strengthen its action against non-competes by enacting a full ban.
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In a Washington Monthly piece co-authored with Eric Cortellessa, Philip Longman of Open Markets Institute urges Congress to address disinformation by enforcing policies that protect our free and competitive media markets.
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Sally Hubbard of Open Markets Institute interviews with Andy Fitch of Los Angeles Review of Books about her book, “Monopolies Suck.”
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Open Markets Institute responds to the Biden administration’s directive for a 100-day review of the country’s supply chain.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we discuss President Biden’s executive orders addressing the resiliency of U.S. supply chains and the spinning off of Maryland newspapers to the Sunlight for All Institute.
Sandeep Vaheesan of Open Markets Institute writes in The Atlantic with Robert H. Lande of University of Baltimore School of Law about how a simple ban on all mega-mergers would stop the U.S. government from rubber-stamping corporate consolidation.
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Program manager for food and agriculture systems, Claire Kelloway, discusses why the meat industry is bad for farmers, workers, consumers, animals, and the environment.
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Sandeep Vaheesan of Open Markets Institute, speaks at a Penn Law Students for Democratic Society lecture series on disrupting contract law.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we discuss how efforts by the European Union to regulate Big Tech are failing, Senator Klobuchar’s newly proposed antitrust law, and how a new bill amending Section 230 strikes a careful balance in the regulation of online speech.