Conference | Ignited by Tech, The Next Merger (Guidelines) Wave

Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan speaks at the 3rd annual Antitrust & Tech Conference co-hosted by The George Washington University Competition Law Center and Crowell & Moring.

EventsSandeep VaheesanDecember 1, 2021May 2021, 2021, Barry Lynn, International Systems

ProMarket - Antitrust Law’s Unwritten Rules of Unfair Competition

Sandeep Vaheesan, legal director, argues that the Federal Trade Commission should use its expansive “unfair methods of competition” authority to codify and strengthen existing norms of fair competition under the Sherman Act.

Bloomberg - Gig-Economy Rise Prompts FTC Chief’s Call to Alter Antitrust Law

Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan comments on the power that states have to help push forward antitrust lawsuits to grant collective bargaining rights to misclassified or improperly classified workers.

ClippingsSandeep VaheesanNovember 2, 20212021, November 2021, Sandeep Vaheesan, Antitrust Law, Labor, FTC

LPE Project - Fair Competition Policy without a Fair Competition Philosophy

Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan describes the important difference between promoting fair competition versus just promoting competition.

The Nikkei - The Limits of Trustbusting Litigation

Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan writes in the Japanese news outlet, The Nikkei, about the limits of competition policy and law as it currently stands, and how to improve it.

Balls and Strikes - A Brief History of Stephen Breyer Enabling Corporate Power

Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan describes how Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has played a key role in the rise of monopoly and oligopoly across the economy.

William & Mary Law Review - The Morality of Monopolization Law

Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan writes a paper describing how the FTC can use its expansive “unfair methods of competition” powers to strengthen fair competition under the Sherman Act.

Testimony by Sandeep Vaheesan before D.C. Council in Support of Upholding and Strengthening the District’s Non-Compete Protections

Sandeep Vaheesan testified against carving out additional workers from D.C.’s “Non-Compete Conflict of Interest Clarification Amendment Act of 2021” and to instead amend the law to extend its protection to all workers in the District.

The Washington Monthly - Supreme Court Affirms Limited Win for College Athletes But Helps Monopolies

Sandeep Vaheesan publishes a piece about how the NCAA case set back antitrust law.

Op-EdsSandeep VaheesanJune 24, 20212021, June 2021, Sandeep Vaheesan, Sports, Antitrust Law, Secondary Feature

Democracy Journal - How Biden’s FTC Can Go After Google and Facebook

Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan writes about how the FTC can prohibit the harmful surveillance advertising business model used by Facebook, Google, and other platforms as an unfair method of competition, and force the corporations to develop benign methods of making money.

Washington Post - Antitrust law is the key to making the NCAA pay student-athletes

Sandeep Vaheesan of Open Markets Institute writes in The Washington Post about the NCAA’s Supreme Court case against football and basketball players over the antitrust aspects of player compensation.

Op-EdsSandeep VaheesanApril 5, 20212021, March 2021, Primary Feature, Racial Equity, Antitrust Law, Sports

The Atlantic - Ban All Big Mergers. Period.

Sandeep Vaheesan of Open Markets Institute writes in The Atlantic with Robert H. Lande of University of Baltimore School of Law about how a simple ban on all mega-mergers would stop the U.S. government from rubber-stamping corporate consolidation.

Op-EdsSandeep VaheesanFebruary 25, 20212021, February 2021, Mergers & Acquisitions, Politics, Primary Feature

Penn Law Students for Democratic Society - Disrupting Contract Law

Sandeep Vaheesan of Open Markets Institute, speaks at a Penn Law Students for Democratic Society lecture series on disrupting contract law.

Videos & AudioSandeep VaheesanFebruary 22, 20212021, February 2021, Competition Law & Philosophy, Law

Bloomberg Law - Biden Can Free Millions From Coercive Employment Contracts

Sandeep Vaheesan, legal director at the Open Markets Institute, writes in Bloomberg Law that President Joe Biden has the chance to make good on his past statements condemning the use of noncompete clauses for American workers by making good appointments to the Federal Trade Commission.

Op-EdsSandeep VaheesanFebruary 5, 2021Primary Feature, 2021, FCC, Sandeep Vaheesan, February 2021, Labor

Wired - Antitrust Litigation Isn't Enough. Biden Needs to Go Further

Sandeep Vaheesan, legal director for Open Markets Institute, writes in Wired about how antitrust suits, like the one filed against Facebook, are long, costly, and often ineffective. The next president can fix the system—without Congress.

LPE Project - The Functional Logic of Antitrust: Oligarchy vs. Democracy

Open Markets Institute Legal Director, Sandeep Vaheesan, writes in The Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project about how the present rules of antitrust law do not protect consumer welfare but instead promote oligarchy.

Slate - What the Next President Can Do About Big Tech’s Power

Open Markets Institute legal director Sandeep Vaheesan writes in Slate about how the Biden administration could crack down on Google, Apple, and other companies’ use of exclusionary contracts to kneecap competitors.

The Appeal - How Antitrust Perpetuates Structural Racism

Open Markets Institute Legal Director, Sandeep Vaheesan, writes about how antitrust, presently interpreted and applied, maintains the corporate domination of people of color on The Appeal.

Monopoly Matters