Chris Sagers, the James A. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Law, appeared on “Air Talk,” a current affairs program on the Southern California public radio station KPCC, to discuss a new bill proposed by the newspaper industry. The law would exempt them from antitrust for the purpose of bargaining collectively with Google, Facebook, and like firms over online ad revenue.

Chris Sagers, the James A. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Law, wrote in today’s Slate magazine about antitrust components contained in the congressional minority leadership’s mid-term election blueprint, which they’ve called “A Better Deal.” You can read his piece here.

Professor Deborah A. Geier has published “A Tribute to Professor Erik Jensen” at 67 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 649 (2017). Professor Geier was a tax student of Professor Jensen at Case Western Reserve School of Law, and she wrote this piece as part of a Festschrift published in his honor by CWRU’s law review to celebrate him upon his retirement. You can access a pdf copy of the piece here: http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2017/07/tribute-to-erik-jensen.html.

Chris Sagers, the James A. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Law, wrote in Slate this week on Amazon’s proposed acquisition of the grocery chain Whole Foods. He discusses antitrust aspects of the deal, and asks whether the Trump administration could or should challenge it. You can read the article here.

Professor Deborah Geier participated in the WCPN/90.3 morning show, “The Sound of Ideas,” on June 19, to discuss Ohio tax policy.  The program is available here.

Professor Kevin O’Neill was quoted in the June 2017 issue of the ABA Journal on new legislative efforts to restrict public protest.  The article, entitled “Paying for Free Speech: Proposed laws would regulate public protests,” is available here.

On the eve of the May 23rd hearing by a Senate subcommittee about the relevance of the Outer Space Treaty, Prof. Mark Sundahl published an editorial in SPACE NEWS preemptively addressing issues that were likely to arise during the hearing.  A draft Senate bill issued recently calls for consideration of the U.S. withdrawal from the Outer Space Treaty, the 1967 “Magna Carta” of international space law.  In the op-ed, Prof. Sundahl clarifies how it is only because of the Outer Space Treaty that U.S. companies are able to operate freely in a peaceful and orderly space environment.  He concludes that U.S. withdrawal would be a catastrophic for law and order in space.  The editorial can be found here.

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio participated in a panel discussion on the topic of “A New Foreign Policy? – ISIS, Middle East Peace, and the Trump Trip Abroad” on June 6.  The panel discussion was part of the “Happy Dog Takes on the World Series,” which is organized by the City Club of Cleveland and co-sponsored by the Cleveland Council on World Affairs.  More information about the event is available here.