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It was a pleasure to visit Texas A&M School of Law for the conference of the American Society of Comparative Law. I discussed my forthcoming paper on the dilemmas of US-EU digital regulation research, and the methodological specificity of the online market as a field of comparative study.

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I thoroughly enjoyed this discussion at The Information Society Project. Thank you once again for inviting me! The paper on speech commodification and the consumption of social media services is on the way. Yale Law School @TulaneLaw

Martin Husovec regulation is not just empowering the state as some people always interpret it. Depending on how it's designed, it can also empower individuals, and I think this is one of the key designs of the #DSA. techpolicy.press/unpacking-the-… Fundacja Panoptykon Mateusz Grochowski Krzysztof Izdebski @ZWarso

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A bitterly realistic account of inherent weakness of (any? conventional?) digital market regulation. EU to Apple: “Let Users Choose Their Software”; Apple: “Nah” eff.org/deeplinks/2024… przez @eff

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Last week, I spent a truly enjoyable day at the Civil Law Roundtable at Loyola NOLA Law. Thank you for the thorough feedback on platform liability and its expansion into speech regulation. The paper is coming soon. @TulaneLaw The Information Society Project #platformliability #consumer #speechregulation

Continuing my journey with “post-consumer consumer law,” I delved into the vulnerability side of the story. The paper “Digital Vulnerability in a Post-Consumer Society: Subverting Paradigms?” is out. Thanks frankpasquale.bsky.social or [email protected] for the endorsement! @TulaneLaw nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/978374…

dire dire times for consumer law clpblog.citizen.org/whither-consum…

Thank you The University of Alabama School of Law for organizing the symposium where I discussed my paper on the fairness benchmark in algorithmic pricing. Deeply grateful to Jessica L. Roberts and Nate Oman for their thorough feedback, and to many others who contributed with their comments and ideas.

It was a pleasure to participate in a Max Planck Law panel on career paths in US legal academia. I joined great scholars and colleagues Claudia Haupt Russell Miller and Yvonne Tew in sharing experience on the academic job market and career opportunities. law.mpg.de/event/academic…

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Firms that lure customers by advertising a deceptively low price that isn't really available are violating the law. FTC & Anthony G. Brown charged Lindsay Auto Group with deceiving & overcharging car-buyers, costing people millions of dollars in junk fees. ftc.gov/news-events/ne…

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This was my final week as FTC Chair so I wanted to say thank you.

With Katarzyna Łakomiec we write on social media regulation, censorship (and its misconceptions), and the changing landscape in the US digital market. All of this in the context of Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji proposal for a new model of online content review in Poland.

Some academic journals apparently edit their content so poorly that they allow clear ChatGPT language to slip through. (‘as an AI language model’ - seriously??). This does not absolve authors who engage in AI ghostwriting. Yet still... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…