Our Curious Amalgam
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Our Curious Amalgam
Our Curious Amalgam explores topics in antitrust, competition, consumer protection, data protection, and privacy law around the world with leading experts in those areas. It is an amalgam because it is a group of diverse topics all in one place. It is curious because it gets the experts and asks the...
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#347 Where Do We Draw the Line? The Intersection of the First Amendment and Antitrust Under the Noerr-Pennington Doctrine
The Noerr-Pennington doctrine is rooted in the First Amendment, and exempts certain activities involving petitioning the government from the normal ru...
#346 Who Is Elizabeth Odette? Meet the Chair of NAAG's Multistate Antitrust Task Force
State attorneys general are playing an increasingly important role in investigating and challenging antitrust violations that affect their constituent...
#345 Who Is Renata Hesse? Meet the 2025-26 Antitrust Law Section Chair
August marks the beginning of a new ABA Antitrust Law Section year under the leadership of a new Chair. In this episode, co-hosts Anora Wang and Alici...
#344 What Happens When Antitrust Lawyers Form a Bar Band? Behind the Music of Side Hustle
Antitrust lawyers by day, rock stars by night. Who are the members of Side Hustle, the Antitrust Law Section’s unofficial house band? They include pro...
#343 FTC v. DOJ: Who Wore It Better?
Why does the U.S. have two antitrust enforcement agencies—and how do they really differ in practice? In this episode, Puja Patel and Barry Nigro are j...
#342 Can Antitrust Be More Innovation-Centric? An Economic Conversation With Professor Richard Gilbert
Innovation is central to long-term economic welfare and deserves greater emphasis in antitrust policy. But can U.S. antitrust law be reshaped to be mo...
#341 How Should Killer Acquisitions Be Assessed? A Discussion With Professor Nicolas Petit
Merger control regulators in the EU and around the world continue to focus on killer acquisitions. But is this concern justified in the digital sector...
#340 How Do You Win (and Not Lose) a Merger Trial?
Merger litigation is fast, high-stakes, and often unpredictable. So what does it take to win—or avoid losing—when the government challenges a deal? In...
#339 How Do Presidents Shape Antitrust? The Oval Office and the Enforcement Pendulum
Antitrust enforcement can change dramatically between Presidential administrations. What makes the political winds flip between more and less enforcem...
#338 How Clean Are Your Claims? Understanding the New Anti-Greenwashing Amendments to Canada’s Competition Act
Among the recent amendments to Canada's Competition Act are new provisions targeting so-called “greenwashing,” i.e., misleading claims in advertising...
#337 What Are the Risks of a Minority Shareholding? The European Commission’s Decision in Delivery Hero/Glovo
In June 2025, the European Commission announced a decision under which it fined two competing online food delivery companies a combined total of €329...
#336 What Are the Risks of Serial Acquisitions? Empirical Evidence From the Dialysis Industry
There is a growing interest in understanding the economics of serial acquisitions, particularly in the healthcare industries and markets, and whether...
#335 Are You Ready To Respond? Developments in Competition Law Dawn Raids
The "dawn raid" is one of the rare moments of high drama in the work of many competition lawyers. How can you be prepared when that early-morning phon...
#334 What’s the Word on Wage-Fixing? Cracking Down on Collusion Among Employers
The U.S. Department of Justice has made it clear that some agreements among competing employers regarding workers’ salaries or other terms of compensa...
#333 Is Antitrust Fashionable This Season? Antitrust in the Fashion Industry
What happens when antitrust law meets high fashion? In this episode, experienced fashion and luxury industry counsel Andowah Newton, joins Jeny Maier...
#332 What Is the Role of Behavioural Economics in Consumer Protection Enforcement? The UK’s New DMCC Act Regime
The UK's consumer protection regime changed early in 2025. How will behavioural economics be used by the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in...
#331 Wait, We Have to Tell Who? What You Need to Know About State Premerger Notifications
State legislatures around United States have passed or are on track to pass legislation that requires parties to submit notice to the state attorney g...
#330 What's Happening in Paraguay and Costa Rica? Catching Up With International Enforcers at the 2025 Spring Meeting
While on site at the 2025 Spring Meeting of the ABA Antitrust Law Section, the Our Curious Amalgam team recorded interviews with senior competition ag...
#329 What's Happening in Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Japan? Catching Up With International Enforcers at the 2025 Spring Meeting
While on site at the 2025 Spring Meeting of the ABA Antitrust Law Section, the Our Curious Amalgam team recorded interviews with senior competition ag...
#328 What Should I Know About Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt and COMESA? Developments in Key African Regimes
Merger control and antitrust enforcement continues to develop rapidly in Africa. What is happening in the key jurisdictions of Egypt, South Africa, Ni...
#327 What's Happening in Germany and Portugal? Catching Up With International Enforcers at the 2025 Spring Meeting
While on site at the 2025 Spring Meeting of the ABA Antitrust Law Section, the Our Curious Amalgam team recorded interviews with senior competition ag...
#326 What's Happening in Italy and Greece? Catching Up With International Enforcers at the 2025 Spring Meeting
While on site at the 2025 Spring Meeting of the ABA Antitrust Law Section, the Our Curious Amalgam team recorded interviews with senior competition ag...
#325 What’s Your POV? A Conversation With Former Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti at the 2025 Spring Meeting
While on site at the Antitrust Law Section's 2025 Spring Meeting in Washington, D.C., Section Chair-Elect Renata Hesse interviewed Mario Monti, former...
#324 Is Green the New Black? Greenwashing and Consumer Protection in the Fashion Industry
Sustainability claims are everywhere in the fashion industry — but how can consumers tell what’s real and what’s greenwashing? Baker McKenzie attorney...
#323 What’s Happening in the EU? A Conversation With DG COMP Director-General Olivier Guersent at the 2025 Antitrust Spring Meeting
The 2025 Spring Meeting of the ABA Antitrust Law Section offered the Our Curious Amalgam team a chance to speak with competition law enforcers from ar...
#322 Prices on Your Mind? Using Economics To Understand Inflation, Tariffs, and Junk Fees
We are seeing some swirling changes to the marketplace and international trade that affect prices of goods and services in our daily lives. How can ec...
#321 What Is Happening at the UK CMA? Impact of the Government’s New Approach
The UK government elected in 2024 has a "growth" agenda and is pushing regulators including the UK Competition and Markets Authority to support this....
#320 What Can In-House Counsel Do To Tame the Premerger Notification Beast? Practical Suggestions for Complying With the New HSR Rules
New disclosure requirements for U.S. premerger notifications under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act were announced in the fall of 2024 and became effective i...
#319 Can We Define Overlapping Markets? Understanding the Legal and Economic Arguments
Market definition plays a central role in antitrust analysis. Is it appropriate for the U.S. antitrust agencies to identify "overlapping markets" and...
#318 How Hot Is Cartel Enforcement Around the Globe? Checking the Forecast for 2025 and Beyond
Cartel enforcement remains a priority for agencies around the world, but in recent years enforcers have continued to focus on domestic cases. With pol...
#317 Is Artificial Intelligence Putting Data Privacy at Risk?: A New Wave of Investigations in Europe
The AI revolution has arrived, with the recent debut of Chinese AI bot DeepSeek confirming that this is a global market. But what are the data privacy...
#316 Does Taking Control of Your Health Mean Losing Control of Your Data? The Privacy Risks of Healthcare Apps
Millions of us use mobile apps to help manage our physical and mental health and wellbeing. How well does existing law protect the private health data...
#315 Are You In or Are You Out? Using Economics to Identify and Quantify Potential Class Members
Private class action lawsuits play a significant role in the vindication and development of U.S. antitrust law. But what are attorneys and courts to d...
#314 A New Era for Private Antitrust Litigation in China? Impact of the June 2024 Judicial Interpretation of the Supreme People’s Court
Private antitrust litigation has long been part of the landscape in China. What will be the impact of the Supreme People's Court latest judicial inter...
#313 Who’s Blocking Me? Competition Law Issues With Healthcare Information Blocking
When it comes to your health, having digitized information available for seamless sharing across multiple healthcare providers and other stakeholders...
#312 What New Direction Will Europe Take? New Ideas and New Leadership at the European Commission
How is the European Commission rethinking its approach to competition policy and enforcement as new leadership takes the helm, including the appointme...
#311 What Will Happen to Competition Law Enforcement in Mexico? Implications of the November 2024 Reforms
The independent Mexican competition law regulator, COFECE, has been abolished and absorbed into the Ministry of Economics. What does this mean for mer...
#310 What Do Enforcers Say? A Global Perspective on Antitrust Issues Involving Cloud Computing & Infrastructure
Regulators around the world have raised antitrust concerns over concentrated control of key inputs into AI development and deployment, with access to...
#309 Can You Click, Cancel, and Comply? How the FTC Is Unsubscribing Businesses From Deceptive Practices
The FTC’s new “Click-to-Cancel” rule is reshaping consumer protection and compliance in the subscription economy. But what challenges and opportunitie...
#308 What Makes a Compliance Program Effective? The DOJ’s Updated Corporate Antitrust Compliance Program Guidance
The U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division recently updated its guidance regarding the division’s “Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs...