BY ROGER D. BLAIR & WENCHE WANG,* 69 U. Miami L. Rev. Caveat 7 (2015). In response to John B. Kirkwood, Collusion to Control a Powerful Customer: Amazon, E-Books, and Antitrust Policy, 69 U. Miami L. Rev. 1 (2014). I. Introduction Professor Kirkwood has gone well beyond providing an analytically coherent account of the “E-books Conspiracy.”[1] Amazon purchased e-books […]
BY TOM CAMPBELL,* 69 U. Miami L. Rev. Caveat 1 (2015). In response to John B. Kirkwood, Collusion to Control a Powerful Customer: Amazon, E-Books, and Antitrust Policy, 69 U. Miami L. Rev. 1 (2014). The first part of Professor John Kirkwood’s article, Collusion to Control a Powerful Customer: Amazon, E-Books, and Antitrust Policy, could stand alone as an […]
BY CAITLIN GILES — Many are familiar with Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin (Fisher I), the lawsuit that challenged the University of Texas (“UT”) at Austin’s use of racial preferences in its admissions system. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court in 2013 before being remanded back to the Fifth Circuit. […]
Vice President Joe Biden announced the Obama Administration’s appointment of Caroline Bettinger-López as the new White House Advisor on Violence Against Women on Tuesday, March 4, 2015. Bettinger-López will act as advisor to the President and Vice President on issues of domestic and sexual violence and is the second person to hold this role. Bettinger-López is […]
BY PAT MCBRIDE — On February 4, 2015, Ross Ulbricht was convicted on seven federal charges ranging from money laundering and hacking to trafficking forged identities and distribution of narcotics. These charges could carry a sentence of up to life in prison. Ulbricht was convicted of being the founder and kingpin of the Silk Road Bazaar—a […]
