AAI’s Kathleen Bradish will join an expert panel about the merits and implications of the FTC’s challenge to Amazon. The panel, entitled “Assessing the FTC’s Complaint Against Amazon“, will be hosted by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation. From the panel description:
Since her famous law review article “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox,” now FTC Chair Lina Khan and the rest of the neo-Brandeisian movement have made Amazon the top target in their crusade to reshape antitrust policy and take on “Big Tech.” With the FTC having now filed its long-awaited complaint challenging several of the company’s business practices, FTC v. Amazon will no doubt prove to be one of the defining cases that determines not just Chair Khan’s legacy, but that of the broader antitrust reform movement. And yet, following a string of recent losses against large technology companies in FTC v. Qualcomm, and the Meta/Within and Microsoft/Activision merger reviews, is the Amazon case set to be the next big defeat for the FTC? Does the case against Amazon double down on the bold neo-Brandeisian theories in Chair Khan’s law review article, or take a more mainstream approach? Is the FTC out to win, or instead just bring cases that highlight the limitations with existing antitrust laws as a ploy to spur congressional action?
Kathleen W. Bradish, Acting President, American Antitrust Institute, Panelist
Joseph V. Coniglio, Director, Antitrust and Innovation Policy, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, Moderator
Herbert Hovenkamp, James G. Dinan University Professor, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Panelist
Steven C. Salop, Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University Law Center, Panelist
