Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Breaking (Up) Bad: The Opportunities and Limits of Antitrust for Online Platforms

7:00–8:00 p.m.

This is a virtual event

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Over the past five years, an explosion of scholars, legal advocates, and lawmakers have called for major changes to U.S. antitrust law to better address the platform economy. Come hear speakers from academia, government, and the nonprofit space discuss different avenues for protecting consumers, workers, and small businesses from abuses of power by Big Tech, and the opportunities and limits posed by existing antitrust law.

Featuring:

Michael Jo, Assistant Attorney General, New York State Office of the Attorney General - Antitrust Bureau

Alex Petros, Competition Policy Counsel, Public Knowledge

Salomé Viljoen, Associate Research Scholar, Columbia Law

Nikolas Guggenberger, Executive Director, Yale Information Society Project

Moderated by Amy McFarlane, Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law at NYU Law and Deputy Bureau Chief at New York State Office of the Attorney General - Antitrust Bureau.

This event will be held over Zoom, with live captioning from AI Media.

Registration required: https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_i_S4g_Q1SFKM-XG0C-FeEA

Sponsored by NYU Law ACS and Law Students for Economic Justice.

CLE Credit Available: No

Event Contact(s): Annie Goodman , annie.goodman@nyu.edu