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Randy Picker

Randy C. Picker is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.
Antitrust and Competition

Reviewing Facebook’s Mergers Could Have Negative Ripple Effects

Randy Picker
How the pre-merger notification regime came about and why we should be careful about discouraging useful mergers. December 2020 was an extraordinary period in US...
Antitrust and Competition

Kicking Around Section 230: Don’t Confuse Politics and Policymaking

Randy Picker
Congressional hearings may make for good TV and viral social media posts, but reforming Section 230 would be more difficult than it seems.    “Change...
Antitrust and Competition

Structural Separation and Self-Preferencing: What are the Right Lessons of History?

Randy Picker
IBM’s entry into the PC market can teach us a lot about the risks involved with the sort of structural separations recommended this week...
Antitrust and Competition

The House’s Big Tech Hearing: Break Ups Large and Small?

Randy Picker
Last week’s epic House hearing on online platforms raised many issues, chief among which was the question who gets to operate at scale. Last week’s...
Antitrust and Competition

At the Heart of the European Commission’s Investigations of Apple Is a Basic Question: How Should Apple Make Money?

Randy Picker
Just like Spotify, Apple has amassed an installed base of users. Spotify sells its users to advertisers while Apple sells its users to app...
Antitrust and Competition

The European Commission Picks a Fight with Google Android over Business Models

Randy Picker
UChicago Law’s Randy Picker puzzles over the rationale behind last week’s multibillion-euro fine on Google by the European Commission. While the decision makes a...
Antitrust and Competition

With Amex Ruling, Modern IO Theory Makes Important Inroads with SCOTUS

Randy Picker
SCOTUS Forum. In this second post in our roundtable of op-eds on the Supreme Court’s June 25 Amex decision, UChicago’s Randy Picker looks at...
Antitrust and Competition

AT&T Shellacs the Government in Time Warner Merger Case

Randy Picker
Professor Randy Picker of the University of Chicago Law School offers an early take on yesterday’s AT&T-Time Warner decision.     The US government got its clock...
Antitrust and Competition

Platforms and Adjacent Market Competition: A Look at Recent History

Randy Picker
Chapter 7 of our Digital Platforms and Concentration conference ebook looks at some critical junctures in the history of competition between Big Tech companies...
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