Antitrust Agency Turf War Over Big Tech Investigations

Temple Law alumnus Carl Hittinger discusses the positions of the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice as calls for antitrust investigations into “Big Tech” companies escalate. The agencies, which share civil antitrust enforcement authority, reportedly are tussling over the right to investigate social media, online retail, search engine, and app store companies, raising the possibility of wasted resources, duplicative investigations, inconsistent positions, and confusion.

A Conversation with Jon Smollen, Temple Law Practice Professor and Director, Temple Center for Compliance and Ethics

This is the first in what we hope will become a regular series of interviews with members of the Temple business law community about their work, the business law community, and business law practice generally.  Jon Smollen directs Temple’s Center for Compliance and Ethics (CCE), and recently sat down with The 10-Q’s editors to talk