Antitrust Webinar Series: Focus on Conduct

Event Description

Antitrust conduct claims seek to challenge business practices that are anticompetitive.  Setting aside cartel conduct, businesses routinely make decisions to give their business a strategic advantage in the market.  Those decisions are by design intended to make it harder for other companies to compete.  Aggressive competition is good for consumers as it leads to better products and services, as well as lower prices.  For this reason, antitrust has placed very limited responsibility on a business to consider the impact its conduct has on other competitors.

This session will examine how conduct is evaluated under the antitrust laws, where antitrust has determined business conduct can become anticompetitive, and what the consequences would be if the law adopted a different approach.   

Details

Thursday, May 6, 2021
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Panelists

Christine Wilson
Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission

Alec Stapp
Director of Technology Policy, Progressive Policy Institute

Thomas Hazlett 
Professor of Economics, Clemson University

Moderator

Daniel Sokol
Professor of Law, University of Florida