Antitrust

Professor Prasad Krishnamurthy weighs in on the ruling from the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia that Google violated antitrust law.

Professor Prasad Krishnamurthy weighs in on Trump’s plan to close two of the DOJ’s Antitrust Division offices.

The trial will test the boundaries of the U.S.’s antitrust laws pertaining to corporate acquisitions, said Prasad Krishnamurthy, a law professor at U.C. Berkeley Law. The FTC will have to prove that not only did Meta monopolize the social media market but that its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp actively “harmed competition.”

Professor Tejas Narechania comments on the FTC’s lawsuit against Amazon.