About Me
I am a senior legal analyst at the Open Markets Institute. My research focuses on antitrust law, political economy, and how the law structures power in our society.
My scholarship has been published in various law journals and news outlets, including Temple Law Review, Dickinson Law Review, the Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal, The Washington Monthly, The American Prospect, Slate, The Hill, ProMarket, Wired, Newsweek, and other notable outlets. I have also published multiple research reports for the Open Markets Institute and the Center for Journalism and Liberty.
In 2017, I gave a TEDx Talk at the University of Connecticut to raise awareness of antitrust issues. In it, I detailed systemic industry consolidation in the United States, the economic consequences of market concentration, and what ordinary citizens can do to fight back. In 2021, my work was profiled by the UConn Magazine.
I earned a B.S. in Management from the University of Connecticut in 2012 and a J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 2019. Feel free to email me at dhanley.usa[at]gmail.com and follow me on Mastodon at @danielahanley, X at @danielahanley, and BlueSky at @danielahanley, and connect with me on LinkedIn. All of my links can be found on my Linktree page.
Publications
Research Papers & Law Review Articles
Audrey Stienon & Daniel A. Hanley, Coordinating Market Actors for the Public Good: Competition Policy as the Industrial Policy of Democratic Economic Governance, Competition Policy International: Antitrust Chronicle (May 2025).
Brian Callaci & Daniel A. Hanley, A Roadmap to Sectoral Bargaining Through Parker Immunity (2025).
Basel J. Musharbash & Daniel A. Hanley, Toward a Merger Enforcement Policy That Enforces the Law: The Original Meaning and Purpose of Section 7 of the Clayton Act, 63 Duquesne Law Review 1 (2025).
Brian Callaci, Daniel A. Hanley, & Sandeep Vaheesan, The Robinson-Patman Act as a Fair Competition Measure, 97 Temple Law Review 185 (2025).
Tara Pincock & Daniel A. Hanley, Rules of the Game: Sports as a Lens for Understanding Fair Competition (2025).
Daniel A. Hanley, Redefining the Relevant Market: Abandonment or Return to Brown Shoe, 129 Dickinson Law Review 571 (2025).
Max von Thun & Daniel A. Hanley, Stopping Big Tech from Becoming Big AI: A Roadmap for Using Competition Policy to Keep Artificial Intelligence Open for All, Open Markets Institute (October 2024).
Daniel A. Hanley, Illuminating the Anti-Coercion Foundations of Refusals to Deal, Competition Policy International: Antitrust Chronicle (September 2024).
Daniel A. Hanley, Controlling Buyer and Seller Power: Reviving Enforcement of the Robinson-Patman Act, 52 Hofstra Law Review 313 (2024).
Daniel A. Hanley, Writing Law: Minimum Requirements for Enacting Robust Antitrust Legislation, Open Markets Institute (February 2024).
Daniel A. Hanley, In Praise of Rules-Based Antitrust, Competition Policy International: Antitrust Chronicle (January 2024).
Daniel A. Hanley, America’s Fourth Estate: History and Law, Center for Journalism & Liberty (November 2023).
Daniel A. Hanley, Structuring Competition to Foster Socially Beneficial Innovation, Competition Policy International: Antitrust Chronicle (September 2023).
Daniel A. Hanley, Per Se Illegality of Exclusive Deals and Tyings as Fair Competition, 37 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 1057 (2022).
Daniel A. Hanley & Karina Montoya, Privacy Protections Through Antitrust Enforcement, Competition Policy International: Antitrust Chronicle (December 2022).
Daniel A. Hanley, Administrative Antimonopoly, Open Markets Institute (February 2022).
Daniel A. Hanley, Eyes Everywhere: Amazon’s Surveillance Infrastructure and Revitalizing Worker Power - An Update, Open Markets Institute (September 2021).
Daniel A. Hanley, Eyes Everywhere: Amazon’s Surveillance Infrastructure and Revitalizing a Fair Marketplace, Open Markets Institute (July 2021)
Daniel A. Hanley, How Self-Preferencing Can Violate Section 2 of the Sherman Act, Competition Policy International: Antitrust Chronicle (June 2021).
Daniel A. Hanley et al., Financing Free Speech: A Typology of Government Competition Policies in Media and Communications Markets, Center for Journalism & Liberty (September 2020).
Daniel A. Hanley & Sally Hubbard, Eyes Everywhere: Amazon’s Surveillance Infrastructure and Revitalizing Worker Power, Open Markets Institute (September 2020).
Daniel A. Hanley, A Topology of Multisided Digital Platforms, 19 Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal 271 (2020).
Daniel A. Hanley et al., Fixing America: Breaking Manufacturers’ Aftermarket Monopoly and Restoring Consumers’ Right to Repair, Open Markets Institute (April 2020).
Op-eds and Other Publications
Daniel A. Hanley, State Antimonopoly Enforcement Must Be a Guardian of American Democracy. Here’s How., The Sling (April 10, 2025).
Max von Thun & Daniel A. Hanley, It’s Not Too Late to Stop the Monopolization of AI, Inequality.org (November 12, 2024).
Daniel A. Hanley, State Law Provides an Untapped Route to Combat TRAPs and Other Coercive Contracts, Student Borrower Protection Center (July 24, 2024).
Karina Montoya & Daniel A. Hanley, The Global Benefits of Reining in Live Nation-Ticketmaster’s Power, Project Syndicate (July 3, 2024).
Sandeep Vaheesan & Daniel Hanley, The Death of the Non-Compete Clause May Be Imminent, OnLabor (February 26, 2024).
Daniel A. Hanley, Epic's Win Against Google: Reason for Optimism, But Uncertainty Remains, Tech Policy Press (Dec. 15, 2023).
Daniel A. Hanley, Enforce the Robinson-Patman Act for a Fairer Economy, American Conservative (Dec. 14, 2023).
Daniel A. Hanley, More States Should Take Advantage of an Antitrust Doctrine to Make Our Economy Fairer and More Democratic, The Sling (Oct. 20, 2023).
Daniel A. Hanley, How the Supreme Court is Attacking Democracy, Democracy Journal (July 5, 2023).
Daniel A. Hanley, De-Economizing Antitrust Law Starts With Market Definition, The Sling (April 28, 2023).
Daniel A. Hanley, Putting Antitrust to Work, Commonweal Magazine (April 13, 2023) (PDF Archive).
Daniel A. Hanley, The Taylor Swift/Bad Bunny Debacles Illustrate a Big Monopoly Problem (And How To Fix It), The Sling (Jan. 11, 2023).
Daniel A. Hanley & Claire Kelloway, Capper-Volstead Turns 100; It’s Time We Expand Its Goals, Within Agriculture and Beyond, Food & Power (Mar. 3, 2022).
Daniel A. Hanley, Ending Corporate America’s Coercive Contracts, Democracy Journal (Dec. 21, 2021).
Daniel A. Hanley, Does America Need Tougher Antitrust Enforcement? – Pro, CQ Press (Dec. 2, 2021) (PDF Archive).
Daniel A. Hanley & Chris Hicks, The Nation’s Top Consumer Watchdog Can End Predatory Practices Trapping Workers in Employer-Driven Debt, Student Borrower Protection Center (Dec. 1, 2021)
Daniel A. Hanley, The Climate Movement’s Secret Weapon, Noema Magazine (Nov. 30, 2021) (PDF Archive).
Daniel A. Hanley, The FTC Created Facebook—It Has the Power to Take it Down, Common Dreams (Nov. 8, 2021).
Daniel A. Hanley, Pass Corporate Chartering Power to Washington, Democracy Journal (Sept. 8, 2021).
Daniel A. Hanley, Federal Communications Commission Must Block Verizon’s Acquisition of TracFone, Broadband Breakfast (Aug. 6, 2021).
Daniel A. Hanley, Amazon's Relentless Surveillance Must Be Stopped, Common Dreams (July 24, 2021).
Daniel A. Hanley, Let’s Make Google Share Some Secrets, Washington Monthly (July 20, 2021).
Daniel A. Hanley, American History Provides a Valuable Lesson on How Monopolists Use Exclusive Deals to Fortify Their Market Power, ProMarket (July 4, 2021).
Daniel Hanley, The State Anti-Monopoly Machine is Waking Up; Even More Can Be Done, Open Markets Institute (May 20, 2021).
Daniel A. Hanley, Reining In Big Tech: Should the U.S. government break up the four tech giants? – Pro, CQ Press (May 7, 2021) (PDF Archive).
Daniel A. Hanley, The Supreme Court Gutted the FTC’s Power to Make Cheating Corporations Pay for Their Crimes, Open Markets Institute (May 4, 2021).
Daniel A. Hanley, How Antitrust Lost Its Bite, Slate (Apr. 6, 2021).
Daniel A. Hanley, The Case for Rethinking Section 230 and Bloated Tech Monopolies, The Reboot (Mar. 29, 2021) (PDF Archive).
Beth Brodsky & Daniel A. Hanley, The FCC Seeks to Hinder Female and Minority Broadcast Ownership for Policies Favoring Concentrated Corporate Ownership, Common Dreams (Jan. 28, 2021).
Daniel A. Hanley, The FTC’s Strong Case Against Facebook, Washington Monthly (Dec. 11, 2020).
Garphil Julien & Daniel A. Hanley, Visa-Plaid Deal Highlights Need for More Scrutiny of M&A, American Banker (Dec. 4, 2020).
Daniel A. Hanley, The First Thing a Biden FTC Should Tackle: We Need the Right to Repair Our Products, Slate (Nov. 18, 2020).
Daniel A. Hanley, Three Steps the Biden Administration Should Take to Tackle America’s Monopoly Problem, ProMarket (Nov. 13, 2020).
Daniel A. Hanley, The Justice Department Should Pursue a Breakup of Google’s Monopoly, Newsweek (Oct. 23, 2020).
Daniel A. Hanley, The FCC Has Untapped Powers. The Next Administration Needs to Use Them, Washington Monthly (Oct. 9, 2020).
Daniel A. Hanley, Universal Broadband, Now More Than Ever, American Prospect (Oct. 2, 2020).
Daniel A. Hanley, Ad Mergers Won’t Save Journalism. Strict Merger Rules Would, Wired (Sept. 10, 2020).
Daniel A. Hanley, Google and Facebook Are Essential, Let’s Regulate Them That Way, Broadband Breakfast (July 31, 2020).
Daniel A. Hanley, Another Trump Legacy: Spreading Price Discrimination on the Internet, Washington Monthly (July 30, 2020).
Daniel A. Hanley, Fixing Facebook Would Take More Than Collective Action – It Requires Structural Change, ProMarket (July 17, 2020).
Claire Kelloway & Daniel A. Hanley, How Enforcing Antitrust Rules Can Help Our E-waste Crisis, The Hill (May 14, 2020).
Daniel Hanley & Claire Kelloway, Coronavirus Reveals Consequences of Restricted Repair, The American Prospect (May 12, 2020).
Daniel Hanley, Zoom, Netflix, Slack: Amazon Is Behind All the Services We Use to Work From Home (and That’s a Problem), ProMarket (April 9, 2020).
Daniel A. Hanley, The States Must Appeal the Decision to Allow the Sprint/T-Mobile Deal, ProMarket (Feb. 20, 2020).
Presentations and Other Media
Duquesne Law Review, DLR Highlights 2025: Precedent as a Lens for the Present, Spring Symposium (Guest Speaker, March 28, 2025) (discussing Musharbash & Hanley, Toward a Merger Enforcement Policy That Enforces the Law).
Quinnipiac University School of Law, Unlocking the Potential of Parker Immunity (Guest Lecturer for Antitrust Law, March 19, 2025).
Kent State University, Structuring Speech: How Policy Has Shaped American Media and Communications (Guest Lecturer for the Washington Program on National Issues [POL 40981], March 6, 2025).
Second Request (Capitol Forum), Talking Big Tech, Antitrust, and Refusals to Deal with Daniel Hanley (November 15, 2024).
Student Borrowers Protection Center, How Cities and States Can Unlock Workers Across the Country from TRAPs (Panelist discussing state attorneys generals’ powers to ban TRAPs and other coercive contracts using their unfair methods of competition rulemaking powers, July 31, 2024).
The Checkout, Episode 178: Robinson-Patman Act 101 with Daniel Hanley (April 23, 2024).
National Association of Attorneys General Antitrust & Labor Issues Working Group, Monthly Speaking Series (Guest Speaker on Training Repayment Agreement Provisions [TRAPs], March 20, 2023).
University of Connecticut School of Law, The Robinson-Patman Act: Background and Justifications for Revived Enforcement (Guest Lecturer for Antitrust Law, February 29, 2024).
Student Borrowers Protection Center, Towards Justice, UC Student Loan Law Initiative, & Governing for Impact, Convening on Workers, TRAPs, and the Economy (Panelist, December 5, 2023).
Virginia Law & Business Review Symposium at the University of Virginia School of Law, Antitrust and Innovation in the Digital Age (Panelist on Modernizing the Merger Guidelines, April 7, 2023) (video link).
University of Connecticut School of Law, The Robinson-Patman Act: Advancing Fair Competition and Securing Economic Democracy (Guest Lecturer for Antitrust Law, March 7, 2023).
NPR Marketplace, COVID Vaccine Conundrums (Guest, November 29, 2022) (discussing Apple’s market power and their App Store).
R Street Institute, Antitrust Law and Big Tech: Present and Future (Panelist, May 16, 2022).
Minnesota State Bar Association, 2022 Agricultural and Rural Law Institute: Fostering Repair as Fair Competition (Speaker, May 10, 2022).
Berkeley Center for Law & Technology & The Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology and the Arts at Case Western Reserve University, 26th Annual BCLT/BTLJ Symposium: The Emergent Right to Repair (Panelist, April 22, 2022) (discussing Hanley, Per Se Illegality of Exclusive Deals and Tyings as Fair Competition).
Yale Law School, Public Utility and Corporate Regulation (Guest Lecturer for Fighting 21st Century Monopoly Power: Legal Tools and Applications, February 21, 2022).
Open Markets Institute, Fixing America: A Discussion on Monopolies and Fragile Repair Systems in a Time of Crisis (Speaker, April 23, 2020).
Broadband Breakfast, Broadband and the Coronavirus (Guest Speaker, April 22, 2020).
Alpha Kappa Psi – Psi Rho Chapter Alumni Conference, Network Effects and Antitrust (Speaker, March 2018).
TEDx talk at the University of Connecticut, Market Consolidation: Its Presence, Consequences, and Recourse (Speaker, April 2017).
Supportive Research
Barry Lynn, Max von Thun, & Karina Montoya, AI in the Public Interest: Confronting the Monopoly Threat, Open Markets Institute (Nov. 2023) (Contributor)
Claire Kelloway, Justice Department Challenges Information-Sharing Scheme Between Meat Processors, Food & Power (Oct. 5, 2023) (providing research assistance).
Democracy, Journalism, and Monopoly: How to Fund Independent News Media in the 21st Century, Center for Journalism & Liberty (Sept. 2023) (Primary researcher).
