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Antisocial Innovation, Christopher Buccafusco, Samuel N. Weinstein
Antisocial Innovation, Christopher Buccafusco, Samuel N. Weinstein
Georgia Law Review
Innovation is a form of civic religion in the United States. In the popular imagination, innovators are heroic figures. Thomas Edison, Steve Jobs, and (for a while) Elizabeth Holmes were lauded for their vision and drive and seen to embody the American spirit of invention and improvement. For their part, politicians rarely miss a chance to trumpet their vision for boosting innovative activity. Popular and political culture alike treat innovation as an unalloyed good. And the law is deeply committed to fostering innovation, spending billions of dollars a year to make sure society has enough of it. But this sunny …
Anticompetitive Merger Review, Samuel N. Weinstein
Anticompetitive Merger Review, Samuel N. Weinstein
Georgia Law Review
U.S. antitrust law empowers enforcers to review pending mergers that might undermine competition. But there is growing evidence that the merger-review regime is failing to perform its core procompetitive function. Industry concentration and the power of dominant firms are increasing across key sectors of the economy. In response, progressive advocates of more aggressive antitrust interventions have critiqued the substantive merger-review standard, arguing that it is too friendly to merging firms. This Article traces the problem to a different source: the merger-review process itself. The growing length of reviews, the competitive restrictions merger agreements place on acquisition targets during review, and …
The European Company, Pieter Sanders
The European Company, Pieter Sanders
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
Regulating Angels, Heidi M. Schooner
Regulating Angels, Heidi M. Schooner
Georgia Law Review
Since the Financial Crisis, a common narrative casts the largest, too-big-to-fail (TBTF) banks as villains1 and community banks as darlings. On the one hand is the image of the infamous mega banks that brought the economy to its knees and continue to profit while the rest of society sputters, and on the other hand is the angelic community banker (think Jimmy Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life) working tirelessly to provide the last bastion of hope for small, job-creating, businesses and other worthy borrowers. Advocates for these innocent small banks point to the crushing regulatory burden imposed on institutions that …
"Honey I Blew Up The World!"? One Small Step Towards Filling The Regulatory "Black Hole" At The Intersection Of High-Energy Particle Colliders And International Law, Samuel J. Adams
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
Regulating Weaponized Nanotechnology: How The International Criminal Court Offers A Way Forward, Lucas D. Bradley
Regulating Weaponized Nanotechnology: How The International Criminal Court Offers A Way Forward, Lucas D. Bradley
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.