Anticompetitive Barriers to E-Commerce A Symposium Presented by: the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, the George Mason University School of Law, & the Journal of Law, Economics, and Policy Featuring Keynote Speaker Kenneth Starr Dean, Pepperdine University School of Law Business-to-consumer e-commerce is one of the fastest growing business sectors in the American economy. As a result, industry-specific economic regulations, occupational licensing, franchising laws, and a variety of other practices are now under challenge from a new direction. High-profile lawsuits and policy battles involving e-commerce have occurred in industries as diverse as automobiles, wine, caskets, real estate, and contact lenses. In some cases, the bricks-and-mortar incumbents have responded by lobbying for laws or regulations that would protect them from Internet-based competition. Innovation in e-commerce is also calling into question many established policies that generally protect incumbents from new entrants - often in-state interests from out-of-state interests. In light of these developments, court cases and Federal Trade Commission hearings have revealed that there is a paucity of economic and legal analysis focused on legal and regulatory barriers to e-commerce. To explore these new issues, and to stimulate research in this area, the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, in collaboration with the George Mason University School of Law, is holding a day-long symposium to allow prominent legal and economic scholars to present papers on topics such as: the current status of legal and regulatory barriers, their impact on consumers, their implications for competitive federalism, and more... The papers from this symposium will be published in a special issue of the The Journal of Law, Economics & Policy. Music performed by Two Violins and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0.

[ Mon, 29 May 2006 22:39:48 -0400 ]

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