Professor Lorenzo Luisetto has published two new articles examining mobility-restricting covenants, including noncompete agreements, across different contractual contexts. Noncompete agreements and other mobility-restricting covenants have mainly been studied at the level of the employment relationship, but other contractual contexts can be just as important in disciplining their use.

In “Mobility-Restricting Covenants in Business Contracts: The Case of Franchising,” published in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Professor Luisetto, together with Francine Lafontaine and J.J. Prescott, examines the use of several types of covenants, including noncompetes, but also confidentiality and non-recruitment clauses, in franchise contracts.

In “Collective Bargaining and Monopsony: The Regulation of Noncompetes in France,” published in Industrial Relations, Professor Luisetto, together with Tito Boeri, Tommaso Crescioli, and Andrea Garnero, studies what happens when unions regulate the use of noncompetes through collective bargaining.

Both articles are now available online in open access:

(JELS): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jels.70033

(IREL): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/irel.70036