In-person | Prof. Eleanor Fox on the Big Platform Debate

The Big Platform Debate: Do we need new rules to rein in Big Tech, and do we need new modes to rein in divergent rules?

About this in-person event

This lecture will take a comparative look at transatlantic treatment of the Big Tech platforms. It will highlight US developments and the US landscape for reform, compare the US law with emerging more aggressive controls in Europe, and reflect on what this means for the international order (or disorder) - and whether “disorder” matters.

About the speaker

Eleanor M. Fox is the Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation Emerita at New York University School of Law. She is an expert in antitrust and competition policy, and teaches, writes, and advises on competition policy in nations around the world and in international organizations. She has a special interest in developing countries, poverty, and inequality, and explores how opening markets and attacking privilege, corruption, and cronyism can alleviate marginalization and open paths to economic opportunity and inclusive development. Fox received her law degree from NYU School of Law in 1961; she received an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Paris-Dauphine in 2009. She was awarded an inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011 by the Global Competition Review for “substantial, lasting, and transformational impact on competition policy and practice.” She received the inaugural award for outstanding contributions to the international competition law community in 2015 by ASCOLA, the Academic Society for Competition Law. She is co-author with Mor Bakhoum, Making Markets Work for Africa (Oxford 2019), with Daniel Crane, Global Issues in Antitrust and Competition Law (2d ed. West 2017), and with Damien Gerard of EU Competition Law casebook (Elgar, 2nd ed. forthcoming 2023), and, with Daniel Crane, the casebook US Antitrust Law in Global Context (4th ed. West 2020).

Discussants:  Todd Davies (UCL Laws), Gönenç Gürkaynak (ELIG Gürkaynak Attorneys-at-Law) and Andrew McLean (UCL Laws)

Chair: Deni Mantzari (UCL Laws)

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