NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Ari Ezra Waldman, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC), has been awarded two research grants by the Anti-Monopoly Fund of the Economic Security Project (ESP). Waldman’s projects were among only 26 proposals selected to receive investment from the fund, which ESP launched in 2019 in recognition of the critical role of academic scholarship in informing paradigm and policy shifts, specially in the antimonopoly field. He is the only researcher to receive funding for two projects. “To rein in concentrated private power, we need a clear, empirical understanding of the mechanisms that monopolies use to maintain their dominance,” wrote Becky Chao, ESP’s director of antimonopoly in a piece for Medium. “There is no better time to invest in antimonopoly scholarship. “I am deeply honored to be the only researcher to receive two grants from the Anti-Monopoly Fund of the Economic Security Project,” said Waldman. “The two projects are both about creating a more democratic, equitable and emancipatory approach to the information economy. In one project, I will work with Georgetown Professor Julie Cohen to create a new paradigm for what privacy law should look like. There is such a need for that because all of our laws and new proposals do nothing to rein in corporate power.