The GAI provides to foreign and domestic competition agencies recommendations on proposed legislation and enforcement guidelines. These recommendations are designed to facilitate the adoption of economically sound competition policy. To date, the GAI has submitted comments to Australia, Canada, China, the Dominican Republic, the European Union, India, Japan, Korea, the United States, and Vietnam. The comments concern draft proposals and on guidelines covering issues such as the comprehensive revisions to China’s Anti-Monopoly Law, the economics of multisided platforms, conduct involving standard-essential patents, patent-assertion entities, reverse payment settlement agreements, and so called “product hopping.”
In January 2018, Tad Lipsky began serving as the Director of the Competition Advocacy Program. He also serves as the Director of the GAI Legal Practicum, which is an opportunity for six to eight Scalia Law students to work with the GAI team to identify comment opportunities and provide recommendations on draft laws and policies.
Comment of the Global Antitrust Institute on the Australian Digital Platform Services Inquiry 2020-2025
August 22, 2024
Global Antitrust Institute Response to the ITA-USPTO-NIST Request for Information on Standards-Essential Patents
November 8, 2023
Radical New Burdens for Marginal Benefit: Comment of the Global Antitrust Institute on Proposed HSR Rule Amendments
September 21, 2023
Global Antitrust Institute Comment on the 2023 Draft Merger Guidelines’ Emphasis on Structural Antitrust
September 16, 2023
The DOJ/FTC’s Problematic Approach to Potential Competition: Global Antitrust Institute Comment on the Proposed Merger Guidelines
September 16, 2023
What’s Gone Up is Coming Down? Vertical Mergers in the 2023 DOJ-FTC Draft Merger Guidelines, Comment of the Global Antitrust Institute
September 16, 2023
Efficiencies in Merger Review: Global Antitrust Institute Comment on the DOJ-FTC Request for Information on Merger Enforcement
April 21, 2022
Presumptions in Merger Review: Global Antitrust Institute Comment on the DOJ-FTC Request for Information on Merger Enforcement
April 21, 2022
Comment to the Federal Trade Commission on Accountable Tech Petition for Rulemaking to Prohibit Tailored Advertising
January 26, 2022
Comment Before the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy “GWB Digitalization Act”
November 5, 2020
Comment on the European Commission’s Notice on the Definition of Relevant Market for the Purposes of Community Competition Law
October 9, 2020
Comment on the Noncompete Clauses Used in Employment Contracts
February 7, 2020
Comment on the DOJ/FTC Draft 2020 Vertical Merger Guidelines
February 7, 2020
Comment on the Swedish Competition Authority’s Proposed Market Study of Digital Platforms
November 30, 2019
Comment on the Federal Trade Commission Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century: Consumer Privacy
February 19, 2019
Comment on the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission’s Digital Platforms Inquiry, Preliminary Report
January 22, 2019
Comment on the U.S. FTC Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century, Privacy, Big Data, and Competition
November 5, 2018
Comment on the U.S. FTC Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century, Reverse-Payment Settlements
October 23, 2018
Comment on the U.S. FTC Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century, Innovation and Intellectual Property Policy
October 23, 2018
Comment on the U.S. FTC Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century, Platforms
October 15, 2018
Comment on the U.S. FTC Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century, Hearing on Concentration and Competitiveness in the U.S. Economy
September 13, 2018
Comment on the U.S. FTC Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century, Vertical Mergers
September 7, 2018
Comment on the U.S. FTC Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century, The Consumer Welfare Standard in Antitrust Law
September 6, 2018
Comment on the Japan Patent Office (JPO) Guide to Licensing Negotiations Involving Standard Essential Patents
April 9, 2018
Comment on the Dominican Republic’s Resolution on Cartel Leniency
Spanish Translation
February 28, 2018
Comment on the Procompetencia’s Regulations for the Processing of Commitment Proposals by Economic Agents
Spanish Translation
February 28, 2018
For more information on past programs, please visit our Competition Advocacy Program Archives.