John Newman: Neo-Brandeisian Movement Today | U.S. Antitrust: Major Developments | Big Digital Cases

Prof. John Newman is Professor of Law and Herff Chair of Excellence at the University of Memphis, specialising in US antitrust and competition law. He previously served as Deputy Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Bureau of Competition, where he worked on major antitrust matters involving digital platforms and BigTech. 01:30 Neo-Brandeisian movement today 02:10 Difference between the Neo-Brandeisian and the New Anti-Monopoly movements 07:40 Should new schools be normatively and methodologically as coherent as the traditional antitrust schools? And indeed were the stablished schools really coherent? 11:35 Main challenges of the FTC when John Newman served as Deputy Director for Antitrust Enforcement 14:55 Rationale for having two federal antitrust agencies in the USA 16:00 Core differences between DOJ & FTC 18:40 US anti-monopolisation actions in the area of digital markets 19:10 Overview of major digital cases in the US 22:45 (In)effectiveness of remedies 23:00 US v Microsoft consent decree… consequences 23:55 US v Google (Search) remedies 24:30 Unfortunate tendency of US judges to look at the world through … 26:43 How the agencies are improving 29:30 How John Newman sees the perfect-world outcome of these trials 33:00 Is feeding our own big guys better than feeding foreign ones? 35:47 Will smaller US companies-challengers really benefit from putting the pressure on BigTech? 38:25 How is EU’s digital industrial ambition perceived in the US? 41:37 Can an agency get (at least) anything via the regulatory dialogue? 43:43 How is it going in other jurisdictions? 45:20 Transition from academia to enforcement (and back) 48:59 Recommendations for enforcers 51:00 Recommendations for students Previous episode (№ 172): Interview with Damian Collins, former UK Minister for Tech and the Digital Economy in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport:    • Damian Collins OBE: UK Digital Markets Reg...   Next episode (№ 174): Interview with Nicholas Frey, Partner at Freshfields, heading their London mass claims team and global litigation innovation teams, and co-heading the global antitrust litigation team; honorary associate professor at the University of Exeter. The Digital Markets Research Hub is an independent academic initiative aiming at scrutinising the functioning of competition/regulation in digital markets. We host one-to-one interviews with leading policymakers, regulators and practitioners. We also organise online mini-workshops inviting high-profile experts and academics in various fields of digital competition law & policy to discuss the most vibrant issues of the ongoing regulatory reforms in digital markets. While having our clear normative stand on the matters discussed within the hub, we value different views and invite relevant stakeholders and thinkers representing the whole spectrum of reasonable positions on how to regulate competition in digital markets. All our materials are available at YouTube channel, which you are very welcome to subscribe to. This interview is co-organised & conducted by Prof. Oles Andriychuk (School of Law, University of Exeter).