Antitrust Chronicle® 2026
July 2026 - 2
As firms increasingly rely on algorithms, artificial intelligence, and digital platforms to make commercial decisions, compliance programs face a new challenge: ensuring that competition law considerations are embedded not only in employee conduct, but also in the systems, products, and organizational structures that shape that conduct.
July 2026 - 1
This Chronicle explores how antitrust frameworks may need to evolve as markets become populated not only by human decision-makers but also by increasingly sophisticated autonomous agents.
June 2026 - 2
Due process in antitrust enforcement has long been treated as both a foundational principle and an aspirational goal. In this Chronicle we address the increasingly urgent question of how those commitments are operationalized in practice across jurisdictions.
June 2026 - 1
Merger remedies occupy a unique place in competition law. They sit at the intersection of enforcement and pragmatism, seeking to preserve the benefits of transactions while eliminating competitive harm. Yet as markets become more complex, transactions more global, and theories of harm more expansive, the design and implementation of effective remedies has become increasingly contested.
May 2026 - 2
Questions once viewed as external to antitrust — national security, economic resilience, strategic autonomy, and state power — increasingly shape the context in which competition policy is designed and enforced.
May 2026 - 1
Healthcare remains one of the most complex and consequential frontiers for competition policy. The contributions in this issue reflect a field in flux: where traditional antitrust tools are being tested against new forms of market power, and where global policy interventions reverberate across jurisdictions.
April 2026 - 2
This Chronicle examines an area of merger analysis that continues to evolve rapidly: the assessment of unilateral effects and the economic frameworks used to evaluate them.
April 2026 - 1
This Chronicle examines the increasingly tight interconnection between AI infrastructure, energy systems, and competition law. As data centers scale at unprecedented speed, the competitive questions they raise are no longer confined to digital markets alone, but extend deep into physical infrastructure, procurement, and regulatory frameworks.
March 2026 - 2
This Chronicle examines how competition authorities are increasingly confronting collaboration between market participants in areas shaped by technological change, shifting policy priorities, and evolving enforcement strategies.
March 2026 - 1
This Chronicle focuses on data-driven competition and its implications for enforcement, merger control, and digital regulation.
February 2026 - 2
This edition of the CPI Antitrust Chronicle focuses on behavioral economics and its growing influence on competition law, enforcement practice, and institutional design.
February 2026 - 1
This edition of the CPI Antitrust Chronicle explores how antitrust law is being retooled to confront the governance, labor, & contractual challenges posed by the platform-driven gig economy.
January 2026 - 2
Hub-and-spoke theories have long occupied an uneasy middle ground in antitrust law.
January 2026 - 1
Recidivism has an intuitive moral pull in antitrust: if competition law is meant to deter, repeat offending feels like the clearest evidence that deterrence has failed. Yet, as this edition’s contributions show, recidivism is also a concept riddled with definitional, institutional, and jurisdictional complexity.