Lloyd Constantine
Hopelessly Liberal
Lloyd is a litigator and author whose work in antitrust and civil liberties law and poor people’s advocacy in and opposed to government involves many important, controversial and heavily reported legal, political and business trends in America from the 1970s to the present.
LLoyd Constantine
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Recent Posts
HL 163 – Professional Soccer Will Not Be a Commercial Success in America Unless/Until End-Game Rules Change
We watched with joy and amazement, along with billions of others last Sunday as Argentina clobbered France for most of the match, that instantly was crowned the “greatest” (men’s) World Cup final. And if that’s plausible – “greatest” – it’s also an almost perfect...
HL 162 – Conventional Math Doesn’t Work in the Brittney Griner for Viktor Bout Swap
The math we constantly hear used in commentary of the Brittney Griner for Viktor Bout prisoner trade is wrongheaded. The erroneous and inapposite calculus does not involve the very dangerous threshold decision about whether or not to make these trades, with...
HL 161 – Should South Carolina Hold The First Democratic Presidential Primary in 2024?
“South Carolina is too small for a republic, but too large for an insane asylum” AND too red and nutty to hold the first blue primary in 2024. The former was pronounced in 1860 by James Petigru, South Carolina jurist and Attorney General, when his state became the...
Media
Lloyd’s Remarks on New York’s Antitrust Bill
LLoyd addresses how public and private antitrust enforcement would change if New York enacts its transformative antitrust bill.
Books
Priceless: The Case that Brought Down the Visa/MasterCard Bank Cartel
Lloyd Constantine began his career in legal services, representing impoverished clients in civil rights and constitutional cases. Decades later, he would make headlines for representing retailers…
Journal of the Plague Year: An Insider’s Chronicle of Eliot Spitzer’s Short and Tragic Reign
In November 2006, Eliot Spitzer was on top of the political world, having won the New York Governorship by the greatest margin everfar outdistancing his predecessors Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt.