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The Antitrust Law Section is in Toronto for the 2025 ABA Annual Meeting! Have you registered for both CLE sessions and the networking reception? Join us tomorrow, August 7, for a dynamic morning of CLEs and networking:
9:00 AM – Northern Exposure: What Are the Neighbors Doing? A U.S.–Canada look at key reforms, enforcement trends, and cross-border lessons in competition and consumer protection.
10:00 AM – Still Friends? Competition, Innovation & AI Explore how trade, policy, and AI are shaping the future of cooperation between competition regimes. (Co-sponsored by YLD)
11:15 AM – Networking Reception Meet fellow attendees, build your cross-border network, and enjoy refreshments to close out the morning.
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Kick off the 2025–26 ABA year with us at The Hampton Social in Streeterville! Join us September 3 from 5:30 PM-7:30 PM CT. Connect with antitrust, consumer protection, and data privacy professionals over drinks and conversation. Free registration – all are welcome!
Mark your calendar for a full docket of dynamic programs this fall from the Antitrust Law Section—designed to connect, inform, and inspire practitioners across the competition, consumer protection, and data privacy spectrum:
Plaintiffs’ Roundtable October 7 – San Francisco, CA Dive into enforcement trends and trial strategies with plaintiffs’ counsel and federal judges.
Fall Forum November 6 – Washington, DC Spotlight on state enforcement and the evolving antitrust landscape. Early Bird Deadline: Oct. 16
Diverse Perspectives: Antitrust in a Changing World January 29 – New York, NY Candid conversations with top enforcers and decision-makers shaping the year ahead.
Antitrust Thought Leadership
Article | Media & Technology Committee
By Marine Zhou. A recent EU court ruling on Android Auto could redefine refusal to deal in the digital age—potentially forcing dominant platforms to open their systems and support third-party integration.
Article | Consumer Protection Committee
By Caiti Zeytoonian, Daniel Scott Savrin, and Rachel Raphael. With July designated as “Made in USA” Month, the FTC is ramping up enforcement—making now the perfect time to review key compliance rules and risks around origin claims.
Podcast | Trust & Trade
How is Brazil shaping AI regulation in the Global South? Our latest episode explores the Brazil AI Act, which if passed would become the first comprehensive federal AI regulation in the world to require AI companies to pay creators for using their work to train their systems. Pinheiro Neto Advogados's Raphael de Cunto joins host Anant Raut and co-hosts Rory Macmillan and Nina Jayne Carroll for a conversation on how Brazil’s approach could create a blueprint for global AI regulation, and its implications for innovation and enforcement. Listen on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube.
Podcast | Our Curious Amalgam
There is a growing interest in understanding the economics of serial acquisitions, particularly in the healthcare industries and markets, and whether such corporate strategies lead to changes in prices and quality causing antitrust concerns. What has been found in existing economic studies? Paul Eliason, Assistant Professor of Economics at Brigham Young University and co-author of a leading study on serial acquisitions focusing on the dialysis industry, discusses his observations and insights with Anora Wang and Derek Jackson. Listen to this episode to learn about the knowns and unknowns from the empirical evidence as well as implications for competition policy. Listen on Apple, Amazon, Spotify, Audible, or YouTube.
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