Seminars and Talks

Book Launch

Lecture on Giovanna Massarotto’s new book titled “Antitrust settlements: How a Simple Agreement Can Drive the Economy” in London at University College London (UCL), on November 26. Check-Out! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/antitrust-settlements-how-a-simple-agreement-can-drive-the-economy-tickets-74320732311

Stanford, Penn and Northwestern Eighth Junior Faculty Forum for Law and STEM, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in Chicago, September 26-27, 2025

Presented my article “Detecting Algorithmic Collusion, Ohio State Law Journal, forthcoming in Vol. 86, 2025,” available at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5191297

Information about the Forum is available at: https://www.law.northwestern.edu/research-faculty/events/conferences/law-stem-forum/

UBRI Connect Conference, University of Zurich (UZH), September 10, 2024

Blockchain and Antitrust Regulation

Program of the conference available at: https://www.ubriconnect.com/#agenda

Panelist, EUI-OECD, The disruptive market effect of generative AI, Florence Digitalization Summer Conference, Jun 17-18, 2024

Panelist in the Big Tech Preferential Access to Data to Train Generative AI Panel with
Pier Luigi Parcu (EUI), Richard May (OECD), Elżbieta Głowicka (E.CA Economics), Nicolas de Bouville (META).

Program available at: https://apps.eui.eu/EUI_API/EVENTSV2/Attachments/Index?id=28540

Recording available at: https://apps.eui.eu/EUI_API/EVENTSV2/Attachments/Index?id=28540

Speaker, 2024 Stigler Antitrust and Competition Conference – Antitrust, Regulation and the Diffusion of Innovation, “Case Studies: AT&T & IBM” (Apr. 18, 2023), University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Recording available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VNivXjrU3A

My article on the AT&T and IBM cases, Driving Innovation with Antitrust, ProMarket (Apri. 10, 2024) is available at: https://www.promarket.org/2024/04/10/driving-innovation-with-antitrust/

Co-organizer and Moderator, JLI 7th Annual Symposium “Antitrust at a Crossroads: The Challenge of Digital Platforms” (Feb. 2, 2024), Penn Carey Law

Recording available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT6DbJZNBtY

Moderator, Structural Antitrust Relief against Digital Platforms Panel with Prof. Herbert Hovenkamp (Penn), and Prof. Daniel Rubinfeld (NYU).

Lecture at the Global Antitrust Institute, Washington DC (U.S.A), Feb. 26, 2020

Grasping the Meaning of Big Tech Antitrust Consent

ABSTRACT: Big-tech has put antitrust in the spotlight. Data-driven markets are increasingly dynamic and unpredictable, making the enforcement of antitrust challenging. Some scholars suggested that antitrust should simply be abolished as historically it has done more harm than good. Paradoxically, a globally enforced consent solution (antitrust settlement) that exploits the same big-tech ingenuity has enormous potential to secure economic democracy by delivering innovation through a technologically managed solution.

Lecture at University of Oxford, Centre for Competition Law and Policy, Feb. 7 2020

Is the Antitrust Consent the Solution to Tackle Today’s Data-Driven Markets?

ABSTRACT: Since the origin of antitrust law, academic lawyers and economists have criticized antitrust enforcers for their inactivity or alternatively their excessive zeal. Today the situation has not actually changed. In the U.S., some antitrust scholars called it a ‘paradox’ as the enforcement of antitrust principles seem to be ever more challenging. Data-driven markets are increasingly dynamic and unpredictable, and ‘no action’ seems an all too common solution. Could the Antitrust Consent be the key? This alternative approach will be presented and debated.

For more information https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/events/antitrust-consent-solution-tackle-todays-data-driven-markets

Seminar at Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), London, Feb. 6, 2020

Could (or Should) the Antitrust Consent Govern Data-Driven Markets?

ABSTRACT: Today, Bork’s antitrust paradox is even more heartfelt as increasingly dynamic data-driven markets are challenging the antitrust principles and antitrust law is all about this type of paradox. Could the Antitrust Consent hold the key to drive today’s data economy? This will be explored and debated

IT Law Certificate Program – H-FARM

Taught 3 Days intensive course in IT Law (from software to blockchain) to economists, legal professions and engineers to increase their ability to manage legal issues related to IT and to be proactive with daily IT challenges in their current or future profession.

Conference Organizer: Chair

Law & Innovative Technologies (Diritto e Tecnologie Innovative), H-FARM, Roncade (TV) Italy, Sept. 24, 2019

Program available in Italian at https://hforhuman.org/2019/08/05/diritto-e-tecnologie-innovative/

Program available at https://www.sanmarinoinnovation.com/eventi/tecnologie-blockchain-distributed-ledger-cosa-bisogna-sapere-sulla-governance-dei-progetti-e-sul-quadro-normativo