Balancing Privacy and Public Health in the COVID-19 Era
Release Date: 05/15/2020
The Practical Utility of Public Choice Economics
The Marketplace of Ideas
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 Justice and across his career.
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Privacy, Antitrust, and Big Tech
The Marketplace of Ideas
Should privacy be a goal of antitrust? To what extent do firms compete over privacy? And how does privacy regulation impact competition?
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US Supreme Court Roundup of the 2019-2020 Term
The Marketplace of Ideas
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.
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EU vs. US: Competing Approaches to Antitrust and Innovation
The Marketplace of Ideas
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?
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A Conversation with FTC Commissioner Noah Phillips on Privacy, Remedies, and Rulemaking
The Marketplace of Ideas
Listen is as James Cooper and FTC Commissioner Noah 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.
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Tort Liability for Businesses During COVID-19
The Marketplace of Ideas
In our June 2020 webinar co-sponsored with Scalia Law’s C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State panelists delve into questions regarding tort liability for businesses during COVID-19.
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The Fundamentals of the Marijuana Economy
The Marketplace of Ideas
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.”
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The Future of Competition Enforcement: Keynote Remarks by Bernard Nigro
The Marketplace of Ideas
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.
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Balancing Privacy and Public Health in the COVID-19 Era
The Marketplace of Ideas
Listen in as experts from our May 14th webinar on “Balancing Privacy and Public Health in the COVID-19 Era” discuss the legitimate privacy concerns of contract tracing solutions, and offer guidance for policymakers.
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Is EU Privacy Regulation Being Exported to the US?
The Marketplace of Ideas
In this episode of The Marketplace of Ideas, hear Federal Trade Commissioner Noah Philips address this question and more in his keynote from our Program on Economics & Privacy briefing held in December 2019 in Washington, DC.
info_outlineAs 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 legitimate privacy concerns concerning these solutions and offer guidance for policymakers.