The Marketplace of Ideas

Listen to today's episode of The Marketplace of Ideas to hear Robert Jerry , Floyd R. Gibson Missouri Endowed Professor Emeritus of Law at University of Missouri School of Law, and David Hyman , Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Health Law & Policy at Georgetown University Law Center, discuss Professor Jerry's  recent article on " COVID-19: Responsibility and Accountability in a World of Rationing "...

Listen in to the second panel of the LEC's Civil Justice Fest, a webinar series held throughout the month of November aimed to help make sense of America's rapidly changing civil justice environment. This panel discussion featured: Drew LaFramboise, Partner, Ashcraft & Gerel, LLP Victor E. Schwartz, Co-Chair, Public Policy Practice Group, Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP   Moderator: William C. Mims, Just...

Listen in to the first panel of the LEC's Civil Justice Fest, a webinar series held throughout the month of November aimed to help make sense of America's rapidly changing civil justice environment. This panel discussion featured: John M. Barkett , Partner, Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP Caitlin G. Coslett , Shareholder, Berger Montague Leslie M. Kroeger , Partner, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC Nic...

On September 17, the LEC held a co-sponsored webinar with Indiana University Bloomington's Maurer School of Law on two new books that critically examine new ideas about migration, secession, and political freedom. Professor of Law at George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, Ilya Somin, argues for the expansion of people's ability to "vote with their feet" across domestic and internationa...

Digital educational technology ("edtech") has grown to become a core component of education. Most students use computers or tablets during school, and teachers routinely incorporate videos, apps, and other web-based content into their lesson plans. Listen in to today's episode to hear a panel discussion on the findings of a new report by James Cooper, Associate Professor of Law and Director of the...

Listen in to a new episode of The Marketplace of Ideas to hear a view from the Department of Justice with Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Bossert Clark. In today's episode, Deputy Executive Director of the Law & Economics Center, Donald Kochan, sits down with Jeffrey Bossert Clark to discuss the role that law and economics, including public choice, has had in his role at the Department of Justi...

Should privacy be a goal of antitrust? To what extent do firms compete over privacy? And how does privacy regulation impact competition? Tune in to today's episode from a co-sponsored event from July 22, 2020 with the Global Antitrust Institute at Scalia Law to hear panelists address these questions.

On Thursday, July 23 the Law & Economics Center hosted a panel discussion titled, "US Supreme Court Roundup: Civil Justice and Other Economics-Related Issues from the 2019-2020 Term." Listen in as our panel of experts provide analysis on some of the most important decisions released by the Court across its past term from the LEC's recent "US Supreme Court Roundup" webinar. Our panel focused partic...

In the face of new digital technologies, including the cloud and mobile devices, are the EU and the US so different in their competition laws? Whose influence has reached farther across other foreign jurisdictions, and how high are the stakes? Listen in to hear the lively discussion between Cristina Cafarra, Vice President and Head of European Competition Practice at Charles River Associates; Jame...

On July 2nd, James Cooper, Director of the LEC's Program on Economics and Privacy interviewed FTC Commissioner Noah Phillips. Listen is as Cooper and Phillips discuss a range of issues currently facing the Federal Trade Commission, including the FTC's response to the COVID-19 pandemic to the intersection between privacy and antitrust.

As states begin to reopen, both businesses and consumers face uncertainty about the spread of COVID-19 and its effect on daily life. In this new era, should laws be drafted that limit or expand rules of tort liability in order to address the unique risks of operating business during a public health crisis?  In our June 2020 webinar co-sponsored with Scalia Law's C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study...

Join us for this episode of The Marketplace of Ideas as we take you back to our October Symposium on the Law & Economics of Marijuana Legalization to hear George Mason University Professor of Law Sean O'Connor discuss the "Fundamentals of the Marijuana Economy." Listen in as O'Connor lays a technical framework for the Symposium, reviews the current state of cannabis regulation, and delves into the...

This past February, panelists at the George Mason Law Review's Twenty-Third Annual Antitrust Symposium explored the robust debate surrounding the direction of antitrust law. Bernard Nigro, Jr, Deputy Assistant General for the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice delivered the opening remarks for the Symposium. Tune in to today's episode to hear his remarks, and learn how the words of...

As states re-open and the desire to resume 'normal life' grows, the issues surrounding privacy in a COVID-19 world have become increasingly salient. Most experts agree that some form of contact tracing will be necessary to safely reopen the economy, in the absence of a vaccine. Listen in as experts from our May 14th webinar on "Balancing Privacy and Public Health in the COVID-19 Era" discuss the l...

Is European Union privacy regulation being exported to the United States? How is data a commercial good? And what lessons should US policymakers draw from the EU experience? In this episode of The Marketplace of Ideas, hear Federal Trade Commissioner Noah Philips address these questions and more in his keynote from our Program on Economics & Privacy briefing held in December 2019 in Washington, DC...

In our last episode you heard panelists from our 2019 Symposium on the Law & Economics of Marijuana Legalization discuss the challenges of an industry that is decriminalized within a state, but not at the federal level. This episode of The Marketplace of Ideas brings you a mock oral argument from the same 2019 Symposium. Listen in as David A. Lopez, former Deputy Solicitor General for the Office o...

On November 6, 2012 Colorado Amendment 64 passed and the Constitution of the state of Colorado was subsequently amended to outline a statewide drug policy for cannabis. Over the past two decades, more than thirty states have legalized though the drug remains classified as a Schedule 1 drug under federal law. Join us for this episode of The Marketplace of Ideas taken from the Law & Economics Center...

With no uniform federal policy in place, some states have begun searching for their own solutions to the common threat data breaches pose. On January 1, 2020 California passed the Consumer Privacy Act to provide statutory damages for individuals whose information has been compromised. Listen in as Andrew Friedman, Elizabeth Canter, and Peter Davidson discuss the impact of this new California law o...

Episode 4 of The Marketplace of Ideas features a discussion between FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra and Scalia Law Professor Joshua D. Wright during the George Mason Law Review's Twenty-Third Annual Antitrust Symposium in February 2020.   From the FTC's Facebook settlement, to how the FTC 'missed' the 2008 mortgage crisis, Chopra and Wright delve into the broad range of complex issues facing the FTC...

From our December Congressional Civil Justice Academy briefing on big tech, antitrust and privacy, Episode Three of "The Marketplace of Ideas" will answer the question: how big is too big?   The largest online communication, entertainment, and social media platforms have come under increasing regulatory scrutiny for intruding too much into user privacy, skewing the content viewers see, and wieldin...

Scalia Law's Journal of Law, Economics and Policy sponsored its 16th Annual Symposium on November 8, 2019.  Ardine Williams, Vice President of Workforce Development for Amazon delivered the keynote address. Williams will lead the company's hiring of almost 25,000 new employees to staff Amazon's new HQ2 -- soon to be located in Arlington, Virginia. Listen in as she shares Amazon's vision for the fu...

At a September 2019 symposium on consumer protection, the Law & Economics Center hosted a panel of leading experts who discussed and debated the Federal Trade Commission's approach to privacy regulation. Has the Commission taken the right approach on privacy regulation? Should it take a stricter approach, as the European Union has done? Or would more flexibility be better? Listen in as the panelis...