Alden F. Abbott
George Mason University (Fairfax)
Senior Research Fellow
Alden Abbott is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center of George Mason University, focusing on antitrust issues. Before joining Mercatus, Mr. Abbott served as the Federal Trade Commission’s General Counsel from 2018 to early 2021, where he represented the Commission in court and provided legal advice to its representatives. Prior to working at the FTC, Mr. Abbott worked at the Heritage Foundation and BlackBerry Ltd. He also served as an adjunct professor at Mason’s Antonin Scalia Law School from 1991 to 2018. Mr. Abbott has a J.D. from Harvard Law School and an M.A. in economics from Georgetown University.
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The Supreme Court Misses the Big Consumer Welfare Picture in NCAA v. Alston* In its June 21 opinion in NCAA v. Alston, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and thereby upheld a district court injunction finding unlawful certain National Collegiate (...)
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Ce dossier Concurrences se concentre sur l’antitrust et ses possibles développements à la suite des élections présidentielles américaines. Il s’interroge sur les changements et défis attendus pour 2021 sous la nouvelle administration Biden, et leurs impacts sur la législation et la politique de la (...)
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Il y a du changement dans l’air aux Etats-Unis, et ce changement va impacter la politique antitrust et celle de la concurrence. L’élection inattendue du nouveau président-élu Donald J. Trump a ouvert la porte à des spéculations et à l’inconnue de ce que sera la politique de concurrence envisagée par (...)
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“Anticompetitive market distortions,” or “ACMDs,” involve government actions that empower certain private interests to obtain or retain artificial competitive advantages over their rivals be they foreign or domestic, to the detriment of consumer welfare. This article assesses the nature of ACMDs, (...)
Livres
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Douglas H. Ginsburg Liber Amicorum : An Antitrust Professor on the Bench Vol. I
This first volume of Douglas H. Ginsburg Liber Amicorum gathers original essays that pay tribute to the exceptional career of Judge Ginsburg. Known in the legal community as a “giant in antitrust (...)
Date
1er mars 2018
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240€00
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180€00
William E. Kovacic : An Antitrust Tribute Liber Amicorum Vol. I
Les États-Unis ne semblent pas avoir développé la tradition du liber amicorum dans le cercle des juristes. Le présent ouvrage est donc un coup d’essai extrêmement réussi, pour ne pas dire “un coup de (...)
Date
12 décembre 2012
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180€00
