LATEST ARTICLE: “Computing ‘Innovation Competition’”
BOOK: “Blockchain + Antitrust: The Decentralization Formula”
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I am an Associate Professor of Law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute), and a Faculty Affiliate at Stanford University (CodeX Center), where I founded the “Computational Antitrust” project that brings together over 65 antitrust agencies. I am also the founder of the Network Law Review and the host of the Scaling Theory podcast.
I hold research and teaching positions at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Sciences Po Paris; I am an alumnus of the Berkman Center at Harvard University, a member of the scientific board of the French Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication, and a blockchain expert appointed to the World Economic Forum and the World Bank.
In 2018, I received the “Academic Excellence” Global Competition Review Award, which recognizes “an academic competition specialist who has made an outstanding contribution to competition policy.” I have published a first book (Bruylant ed.) on “predatory innovation in antitrust law” and articles at Harvard University, Stanford, MIT, Oxford, NYU, Berkeley, and Georgetown, among others.
In recent years, I have focused most of my research on blockchain antitrust, computational antitrust, and complexity science. I have written the world’s most downloaded antitrust articles (see rankings) in 2018 (“The Blockchain Antitrust Paradox”), 2019 (“Collusion by Blockchain and Smart Contracts”), 2020 (“Blockchain Code as Antitrust”), 2021 (“Computational Antitrust: An Introduction and Research Agenda”), 2022 (“Complexity-Minded Antitrust”), and 2024 (“Measuring the Openness of AI Foundation Models: Competition and Policy Implications”) My most recent book, “Blockchain + Antitrust”, was published in September 2021.
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In a word, my research gravitates around the complexity of digital markets and their regulation. I spend most of my research time exploring related issues in/on these four initiatives:
