CompetitionRegulation in Tech

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course equips students to identify and articulate the impacts of large tech firms and assess the best policy tool for regulation. The first section introduces American antitrust laws and examines the evolution of the application of these laws. The next section reviews the 116th United States Congress’s investigation of four major tech firms: Facebook, Google, Apple, and Amazon. The course ends with considering a series of issue areas as they intersect with antitrust to inform our understanding of the modern antitrust discourse. The issue areas will include both traditional and “nontraditional” topics of tech policy. Throughout this course, we will practice communicating complicated antitrust policies for non-expert audiences.