Thibault Schrepel
@ProfSchrepel
Associate Prof @VU_Law • Faculty Affiliate @CodeXStanford • Founder Stanford #ComputationalAntitrust project | @NetworkLawRev | Scaling Theory podcast • 🎾 🏃
🎙️ NEW PODCAST 🎙️ Where should I start? I am launching a new academic podcast called “Scaling Theory”. I am of course incredibly excited, but more importantly, I hope you’ll find it interesting. I want to explore the power laws behind the growth of businesses, technologies, legal…
I read here and there that the GENIUS Act blocks big tech companies from dominating stablecoins. I’m sorry, but no. The #GENIUSAct regulates who can issue stablecoins. It does *not* require ‘Federal qualified nonbank payment stablecoin issuers’ (one type of eligible issuer that…
Here's another way open-source creates competitive pressure: by triggering the departure of top talent when a company opts not to embrace it.
Ah, but I thought another company was dominating to the point of locking up the entire cloud market?! 😅
Recent EU regulations in the digital sector. 640 pages. Good luck complying with it.
First principle: speed. The AI Act add GDPR need drastic surgery (ideas in this and previous posts). We need to move to replace pre-emptive regulation with ex-post review. Add sunset clauses everywhere. The precautionary (zero risk!) principle is killing us. 4/10
NEW piece: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 “𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞” Author: @Sherman1890 (@pennlaw) Link: networklawreview.org/hovenkamp-effi…
My new piece in Network L.Rev. A trivial % of mergers are motivated by price. Nearly all are efforts to improve production by scale or uniting complements. So a merger “efficiency defense” is wrongheaded, and the Supreme Court has not embraced it. networklawreview.org/hovenkamp-effi…
Let’s ban AI in education. 🥶 Let’s tell others how to teach. What to learn.
[warning: this is ironical] In this piece, inspired by Huxley’s Brave New World, I argue that we must abandon AI research to preserve the current world order. Science is too dangerous. We must follow the leadership of World Controllers and their Great Friends (@FLI_org and…
Superb analysis by @benthompson stratechery.com/2025/tech-phil…
New mandatory episode for my students just dropped. So good, seriously. open.spotify.com/episode/64V71y… @AcquiredFM @gilbert @djrosent
🏆 ANNOUNCEMENT 📕 The International Center for Law & Economics (@LawEconCenter) is launching the first edition of the Competition Law Master’s Thesis Award. The jury comprises Mariateresa Maggiolino (@Unibocconi), Alison Jones (@KingsCollegeLon), Anna Tzanaki (@universityleeds),…
The campus is gradually quieting as July progresses. Perfect time for (more) research!
An overview of how antitrust agencies rely on #computationalantitrust to tackle big-rigging. More on the subject at papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
I couldn’t be happier to have @MelMitchell1 (@sfiscience) as the 20th guest on #ScalingTheory. In this episode, Melanie unpacks common misconceptions about AI, including the seductive illusion of language fluency, and explores concepts like “jagged intelligence” and the limits of…