Our Curious Amalgam

Our Curious Amalgam explores topics in antitrust, competition, consumer protection, data protection, and privacy law around the world with leading experts in those areas. It is an amalgam because it is a group of diverse topics all in one place. It is curious because it gets the experts and asks them in-depth questions.

#352 Is There a New Playbook for Merger Remedies? Evaluating the Current Stance of the U.S. Agencies 11/17/2025

#351 How Should Intent Apply in Competition Law? A Discussion With Maya-Salomé Garnier 11/10/2025

#350 What’s the Deal With Reverse Acquihires? Considering Antitrust and HSR Implications 11/03/2025

#349 What’s the Price Tag on Privacy? Turning Data Leaks Into Dollar Figures 10/27/2025

#348 Why Some Retail Deals Get Deeper Scrutiny? An Examination of Retail Merger Review and Analysis 10/20/2025

#347 Where Do We Draw the Line? The Intersection of the First Amendment and Antitrust Under the Noerr-Pennington Doctrine 10/13/2025

#346 Who Is Elizabeth Odette? Meet the Chair of NAAG's Multistate Antitrust Task Force 10/06/2025

#345 Who Is Renata Hesse? Meet the 2025-26 Antitrust Law Section Chair 09/29/2025

#344 What Happens When Antitrust Lawyers Form a Bar Band? Behind the Music of Side Hustle 09/22/2025

#343 FTC v. DOJ: Who Wore It Better? 09/15/2025

#342 Can Antitrust Be More Innovation-Centric? An Economic Conversation With Professor Richard Gilbert 09/08/2025

#341 How Should Killer Acquisitions Be Assessed? A Discussion With Professor Nicolas Petit 09/01/2025

#340 How Do You Win (and Not Lose) a Merger Trial? 08/25/2025

#339 How Do Presidents Shape Antitrust? The Oval Office and the Enforcement Pendulum 08/18/2025

#338 How Clean Are Your Claims? Understanding the New Anti-Greenwashing Amendments to Canada’s Competition Act 08/11/2025

#337 What Are the Risks of a Minority Shareholding? The European Commission’s Decision in Delivery Hero/Glovo 08/04/2025

#336 What Are the Risks of Serial Acquisitions? Empirical Evidence From the Dialysis Industry 07/28/2025

#335 Are You Ready To Respond? Developments in Competition Law Dawn Raids 07/21/2025

#334 What’s the Word on Wage-Fixing? Cracking Down on Collusion Among Employers 07/14/2025

#333 Is Antitrust Fashionable This Season? Antitrust in the Fashion Industry 07/07/2025

#332 What Is the Role of Behavioural Economics in Consumer Protection Enforcement? The UK’s New DMCC Act Regime 06/30/2025

#331 Wait, We Have to Tell Who? What You Need to Know About State Premerger Notifications 06/23/2025

#330 What's Happening in Paraguay and Costa Rica? Catching Up With International Enforcers at the 2025 Spring Meeting 06/16/2025

#329 What's Happening in Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Japan? Catching Up With International Enforcers at the 2025 Spring Meeting 06/09/2025

#328 What Should I Know About Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt and COMESA? Developments in Key African Regimes 06/02/2025

#327 What's Happening in Germany and Portugal? Catching Up With International Enforcers at the 2025 Spring Meeting 05/26/2025

#326 What's Happening in Italy and Greece? Catching Up With International Enforcers at the 2025 Spring Meeting 05/19/2025

#325 What’s Your POV? A Conversation With Former Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti at the 2025 Spring Meeting 05/12/2025

#324 Is Green the New Black? Greenwashing and Consumer Protection in the Fashion Industry 05/05/2025

#323 What’s Happening in the EU? A Conversation With DG COMP Director-General Olivier Guersent at the 2025 Antitrust Spring Meeting 04/28/2025