Part of BKC's Spring Speaker Series:
State Attorneys General have been increasing active in antitrust enforcement – both in focusing on the impact of challenges to competition in their own states and in nationwide efforts in cases typically brought jointly with either the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. Antitrust expert Jon Sallet will discuss how litigation such as the Google Search case, where 38 AGs filed their own case alongside the DOJ case, has established important principles that support future antitrust enforcement. In this respect, Sallet will make a case for why State AGs should be seen as leader who bring additional experience and expertise to the cause of antitrust enforcement.
Speaker
Jonathan Sallet currently serves as a special assistant attorney general for the State of Colorado. Prior governmental service includes an appointment as general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission, deputy assistant attorney general for litigation in the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and director of the Office of Policy & Strategic Planning for the U.S. Department of Commerce. His publications concentrate on antitrust issues, including Louis Brandeis: A Man for This Season, 16 Colo. Tech. L.J. 365 (2018), and, with Professor Nancy Rose, The Dichotomous Treatment of Efficiencies in Horizontal Mergers: Too Much? Too Little? Getting it Right, 168 U Penn L. Rev. 1941 (2020), which has been named a winner of the 2021 Jerry S. Cohen Award for Antitrust Scholarship. Jonathan Sallet is a Senior Research Fellow at M-RCBG where he will contribute to a seminar series on Big Tech, global tech policy and tech regulation, while collaborating on a paper on related topics.
