Geoffrey Manne is the founder of ICLE. Professor Manne is also a Lecturer in Law at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, OR and an academic affiliate of LECG. Prior to founding ICLE, Professor Manne was Director, Global Public Policy at LECG and directed Microsoft’s legal and economics academic outreach program. Prior to joining Microsoft, Professor Manne was a law professor specializing in antitrust, law and economics, corporate governance and international economic regulation, all topics on which he has written. He is an expert in the economic analysis of law, drawing on degrees from the University of Chicago as well as work for Judge Richard Posner, private practice, and a brief stint at the FTC. Professor Manne has practiced antitrust law at Latham & Watkins, served as a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School and an Olin Fellow at the University of Virginia School of Law, and he clerked for Judge Morris S. Arnold on the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. Professor Manne is a co-founder of the Microsoft / George Mason Annual Conference on the Law and Economics of Innovation and he is the co-editor (with Joshua Wright) of a forthcoming volume from Cambridge University Press, Regulating Innovation: Competition Policy and Patent Law Under Uncertainty. He blogs at Truth on the Market.
Academic home page: http://www.lclark.edu/law/faculty/geoffrey_manne/
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Blog: www.truthonthemarket.com
Joshua Wright is the Director of Research of ICLE. Professor Wright is an Assistant Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law. Professor Wright was recently appointed as the inaugural Scholar in Residence at the Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Competition, where he served until Fall 2008. Professor Wright was a Visiting Professor at the University of Texas School of Law and was a Visiting Fellow at the Searle Center at the Northwestern University School of Law during the 2008-09 academic year. Prior to joining the faculty at George Mason, Professor Wright clerked for the Honorable James V. Selna of the Central District of California and taught law and economics at the Pepperdine University Graduate School of Public Policy. Professor Wright received his J.D. from the UCLA School of Law, where he was managing editor of the UCLA Law Review. Professor Wright also earned his Ph.D. in economics from UCLA, where he studied under Armen Alchian, Harold Demsetz and Benjamin Klein. Professor Wright received a B.A. in economics with highest departmental honors at the University of California, San Diego.
Professor Wright's areas of expertise include antitrust law and economics, consumer protection, empirical law and economics, intellectual property and the law and economics of contracts. His publications have appeared in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Law and Economics, Antitrust Law Journal, Competition Policy International, Supreme Court Economic Review, Yale Journal on Regulation, Journal of Competition Law and Economics, Review of Law and Economics, and the UCLA Law Review. Professor Wright is also the co-editor of Pioneers of Law and Economics (Elgar Publishing, 2009) and Competition Policy and Patent Law under Uncertainty: Regulating Innovation (Cambridge Press).
Professor Wright has also testified at the joint Department of Justice/ Federal Trade Commission Hearings on Section 2 of the Sherman Act, the Federal Trade Commission’s FTC at 100 Conference, the Federal Trade Commission Resale Price Maintenance Workshop, and the Horizontal Merger Guidelines Workshops. Professor Wright is on the editorial board of the Antitrust Law Journal, Global Competition Policy, Supreme Court Economic Review and Competition Policy International.
He is a co-founder of the Microsoft / George Mason Annual Conference on the Law and Economics of Innovation, a member of the National Science Foundation Advisory Panel for Law and Social Sciences, and a regular contributor to Truth on the Market, a weblog dedicated to academic commentary on law, business, and economics.
Academic home page: http://www.law.gmu.edu/faculty/directory/fulltime/wright_joshua
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Blog: www.truthonthemarket.com
Todd Zywicki, Senior Fellow (
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Todd Zywicki is Foundation Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law. He teaches in the areas of bankruptcy and contracts. He came to the law school from the Mississippi College School of Law, where he had held a faculty position since 1996. Professor Zywicki was a Visiting Professor of Law at the Georgetown Law Center for the 2004-05 academic year. During the 2003-04 academic year, he served as the Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission. Professor Zywicki clerked for Judge Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and worked as an associate at Alston & Bird in Atlanta, Georgia, where he practiced bankruptcy law. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia (1993), where he was executive editor of the Virginia Tax Review and John M. Olin Scholar in Law and Economics. Professor Zywicki received an M.A. in economics from Clemson University (1990) and an A.B. with high honors from Dartmouth College (1988). Professor Zywicki is the author of more than 30 articles in leading law reviews and economics journals. He has testified before Congress on bankruptcy reform issues and is a frequent commentator in the print and broadcast media.
Academic home page: http://www.law.gmu.edu/faculty/directory/fulltime/zywicki_todd
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Blog: www.volokh.com
Judd Stone, Research Fellow (
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Judd Stone is a Class of 2010 graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law. Stone graduated from Northwestern magna cum laude, and while there was an Associate Editor of the Law Review and active in the Federalist Society. In Fall 2010, Stone will be clerking for Justice Daniel E. Winfree of the Alaska Supreme Court. Stone's research at ICLE focuses on antitrust, industrial organization, and regulation in the banking, consumer protection, and financial services sectors.
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