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Oppenheim Professor of Law
The George Washington University Law School
Michael B. Abramowicz specializes in law and economics, spanning areas including intellectual property, civil procedure, corporate law, administrative law, and insurance law. His research has been published in the California Law Review,…
Michael B. Abramowicz specializes in law and economics, spanning areas including intellectual property, civil procedure, corporate law, administrative law, and insurance law. His research has been published in the California Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Harvard Law Review, Michigan Law Review, New York University Law Review, Stanford Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Yale Law Journal, and many others. He has also published a book, Predictocracy: Market Mechanisms for Public and Private Decision Making, with the Yale University Press. Before coming to GW, Professor Abramowicz served as an Assistant and then Associate Professor at George Mason University School of Law. Professor Abramowicz has also served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern University School of Law and as a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Professor Abramowicz graduated summa cum laude from Amherst College, where he majored in economics and served as Editor-in-Chief of the campus newspaper. After spending a year as a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Board, he attended Yale Law School, where he served as Executive Editor of the Yale Law Journal and as a Co-Director of the landlord tenant clinic. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Patrick E. Higginbotham of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
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Executive Director
Ian Adams is executive director of the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE). He is responsible for ICLE’s strategic planning, programmatic implementation, and organizational growth. Ian’s substantive policy work focuses…
Ian Adams is executive director of the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE). He is responsible for ICLE’s strategic planning, programmatic implementation, and organizational growth. Ian’s substantive policy work focuses on the disruptive impact of burgeoning technologies on law and regulation, with a particular concentration on automation and the future of work, privacy and insurance. Earlier in his career, Ian was vice president of policy at TechFreedom. Before that, he worked as associate vice president of government affairs at the R Street Institute and held staff roles in the California and Oregon state legislatures. Ian is also a public policy attorney at the international law firm of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. Ian is a graduate of Seattle University, with bachelor’s degrees in history and philosophy, and received his juris doctor from the University of Oregon. He is a member of the California, District of Columbia, and Illinois bars.
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Chief Economist
Brian Albrecht is Chief Economist of the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE), which he joined in February 2022. In his role, he is responsible for the application…
Brian Albrecht is Chief Economist of the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE), which he joined in February 2022. In his role, he is responsible for the application and integration of theoretical and empirical economic methodologies into ICLE’s research. He is also an assistant professor of economics in the Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University, where he has taught since 2020. Brian’s research focuses on price theory, information economics, competition and innovation, and political economy. He has published in both academic journals, such as Contemporary Economic Policy, Public Choice, PLoS ONE, Journal of Macroeconomics, and the Journal of Economic Methodology, as well as popular media like the Boston Globe, Star Tribune, The Hill, and City Journal. Brian also writes the Economic Forces newsletter for Substack. He earned his PhD in economics from the University of Minnesota in 2020. He previously earned his M.A. in economics, also from the University of Minnesota, and an M.Sc. in economics of public policy from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. He received his bachelor’s in physics and political science from St. Olaf College.
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Director of Research, Center for AI and Patent Analysis
Carnegie Mellon University
Dean Alderucci is the director of research for the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Patent Analysis at Carnegie Mellon University. His research involves extracting knowledge from the text of legal and…
Dean Alderucci is the director of research for the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Patent Analysis at Carnegie Mellon University. His research involves extracting knowledge from the text of legal and other documents, and automating complex tasks performed by knowledge-intensive workers such as lawyers, regulators, and medical professionals. He also advises organizations on best practices for implementing machine learning and natural language processing technologies, and on creating AI tools customized to various business areas. Dean speaks frequently on applying AI, especially in legal and regulatory domains. He has taught graduate courses in innovation strategy, natural language processing, and intellectual property at the University of Chicago, New York University, and Carnegie Mellon University. He was previously COO & Chief IP counsel for a global financial services firm, and before that chief counsel for a business incubator. He is also a registered patent attorney, an inventor on over 250 granted US patents across a variety of technical fields, and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
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Scholar in Residence
University of Colorado Leeds School of Business
Eric Alston’s research and teaching is centered in the field of institutional and organizational analysis, which draws primarily from the disciplines of economics, law, and political science as well as other…
Eric Alston’s research and teaching is centered in the field of institutional and organizational analysis, which draws primarily from the disciplines of economics, law, and political science as well as other behavioral sciences. Eric’s research projects include a co-authored institutional analysis textbook (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), constitutional design studies drawing from both specific country examples and empirical techniques, and archival historical research into development of property rights along legal frontiers. His contemporary work uses cross-sectional data from every constitution in force worldwide, as well as lessons from the implementation of Ecuador’s 2008 Constitution. His historical work focuses on the late 19th and early 20th centuries along the US frontier, with a specific emphasis on property law. Eric’s outreach and service activities include educational materials, instructional workshops, and comparative expertise to constitutional drafting processes worldwide. Eric is also working on developing implementation strategies and model legislation for the application of blockchain technology to property titling questions in developing nations
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Director of Competition Policy
Dirk Auer is director of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE), where he manages ICLE’s work on competition and antitrust issues in the United States, the…
Dirk Auer is director of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE), where he manages ICLE’s work on competition and antitrust issues in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and abroad. Dirk joined ICLE as a senior fellow in October 2018 and was promoted to his current position in January 2022. In addition to his work with ICLE, Dirk also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Liège, where he teaches European competition law and the economics of competition law, and at the Catholic University of Louvain, where he teaches American law. Before joining ICLE, he worked as a research fellow at the Liège Competition and Innovation Institute (LCII) in Liège, Belgium. He also worked in the competition practices of two international law firms. He earned his PhD in competition law and innovation from the University of Liège in 2019, writing his dissertation on the “innovation defense” in European and U.S. antitrust laws. His dissertation argued that competition enforcers should take steps to ensure that regulatory intervention does not chill firms’ incentives to innovate. He also completed LLMs at the University of Chicago Law School in 2014 and at the University of Liège in 2011. He received his law degree from the Catholic University of Louvain in 2010, specializing in European law.
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Senior Scholar
Mikołaj Barczentewicz joined ICLE as senior scholar in January 2022. Mikołaj is an associate professor of law and the research director of the Law and Technology Hub at the University of…
Mikołaj Barczentewicz joined ICLE as senior scholar in January 2022. Mikołaj is an associate professor of law and the research director of the Law and Technology Hub at the University of Surrey. He is also a research associate of the University of Oxford Programme for the Foundations of Law and Constitutional Government. Mikołaj graduated from the University of Oxford with a DPhil (PhD) in Law, as well as MPhil and MJur degrees in law. He also has a Polish law degree from the University of Warsaw.
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Director, Centre for Law and Economics
Australian National University College of Law
George is Director of the Centre for Law and Economics at the Australian National University, and President of the Australian Law and Economics Association. He was…
George is Director of the Centre for Law and Economics at the Australian National University, and President of the Australian Law and Economics Association. He was awarded the Olin Fellowship in Law and Economics at Cornell University in 2000, was Visiting Fellow at Oxford University Law School 2008, and is currently a visiting Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law London and Centre for Law and Economics, University College London. He was elected a Fellow of the Law and Economics Association of NZ 2009. He gained a DPhil in Economics from Oxford University 1992, and holds both a Bachelor of Laws and Master of Economics He has authored books, articles and given expert testimony on a wide range of matters involving the economic analysis of law, from the Effects of China joining the WTO (Cambridge University Press 2003), through competition law, intellectual property (Patent, Trade Mark & Copyright), tax law, public law and finance, financial and insurance market reform, the economics and regulation of network industries (including energy, water and communications), pharmaceutical, film, music, media and cultural industries, the criminal justice system and social policy (including education, health, welfare). He is the editor of Asia Pacific Law and Economics Review (ANU Electronic Press), and on the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Law and Economics. Dr Barker has testified in the Asia Pacific Region before Australian, US, Canadian, Hong Kong, Korean, Vietnamese, and New Zealand ministers, courts and regulatory agencies on market design, regulatory policy, competition policy and intellectual property. Dr Barker was a member of the Governing Board of Wolfson College, Oxford University from 1990 – 1992, and co-founder and board member of LECG Asia-Pacific Ltd, Celtic Pacific Ltd, and Upstart Investments Ltd, KEA Global and past Chairman of KEA Australia.
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Torrey H. Webb Professor of Law
USC Gould School of Law
Jonathan M. Barnett is the Torrey H. Webb Professor of Law and director of the Media, Entertainment and Technology Law Program at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.…
Jonathan M. Barnett is the Torrey H. Webb Professor of Law and director of the Media, Entertainment and Technology Law Program at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. He specializes in intellectual property, contracts, antitrust, and corporate law. He joined USC Law in fall 2006 and was a visiting professor at New York University School of Law in fall 2010. Prior to academia, Barnett practiced corporate law as a senior associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York, specializing in private equity and mergers and acquisitions transactions. He was also a visiting assistant professor at Fordham University School of Law in New York. A magna cum laude graduate of University of Pennsylvania, Barnett received an MPhil from Cambridge University and a JD from Yale Law School.
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Nonresident Scholar
Roger Bate researches international and domestic health policy, with a special interest in medicines. He has a PhD in applied economics from Cambridge University. His writings have appeared in, among others, the
Roger Bate researches international and domestic health policy, with a special interest in medicines. He has a PhD in applied economics from Cambridge University. His writings have appeared in, among others, the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Lancet, PLoS Medicine, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, the Malaria Journal, and the British Medical Journal. He has been an advisor to the South African Government. Dr Bate conducted extensive research in India and numerous Africa countries on the public health consequences of the counterfeit and substandard medicine trade. He has published over two dozen peer reviewed papers on the problem, especially with respect to antimalarial medicines and is author of Phake: The Deadly World of Falsified and Substandard Medicines (AEI Press, May 2012). He is the author or editor of 14 books and over 1,000 journal and newspaper articles (selected examples are listed below).His broader interests include aid policy in the developing world, evaluating the performance and effectiveness of both US Government agencies (especially FDA and USAID) and global agencies (especially World Bank and WHO). He was the co-founder with Julian Morris of the Frederic Bastiat Journalism Prize, co-founder with Richard Tren of Africa Fighting Malaria, where he remains on the board of directors. He is also a fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs in London.
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Nicholas J. Chabraja Professor
Northwestern University Law School
Bernard Black is Nicholas D. Chabraja Professor at Northwestern University, with positions in the Pritzker School of Law, the Kellogg School of Management, Department of Finance, and the Institute for Policy…
Bernard Black is Nicholas D. Chabraja Professor at Northwestern University, with positions in the Pritzker School of Law, the Kellogg School of Management, Department of Finance, and the Institute for Policy Research. His research areas include health policy and medical malpractice, empirical methods for causal inference, law and finance, and international corporate governance.
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Professor of Law
Pepperdine Caruso School of Law
Professor Babette Boliek joined the Pepperdine faculty in 2009 and conducts research in the fields of antitrust law, telecommunications, privacy law, and sports law. As an expert in the…
Professor Babette Boliek joined the Pepperdine faculty in 2009 and conducts research in the fields of antitrust law, telecommunications, privacy law, and sports law. As an expert in the fields of economics and communications law, Professor Boliek was selected and served as the Chief Economist of the Federal Communications Commission from 2018 to 2019. Her research has been published in academic publications and law reviews such as Boston College Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Fordham Law Review, Hastings Law Journal, and the Review of Industrial Organization. Professor Boliek earned her BA with distinction from California State University, Chico, her JD from Columbia University School of Law, and her PhD in Economics from the University of California, Davis. While at Columbia, she was both a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a John M. Olin Fellow for Law and Economics. Her doctoral, and much of her subsequent research, has focused on the theoretical and quantitative analysis of legal issues in the U.S. communications industry. Professor Boliek clerked for the Honorable Michael B. Mukasey of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and is admitted to practice law in the State of New York. Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Boliek served as a Senior Fellow at the Information Economy Project at George Mason University School of Law. In this position, she combined her background in law with her education in economics to analyze media, the Internet, and telecommunications issues. Professor Boliek’s work at George Mason drew upon, and extended, her prior work as a Fellow for the Center for Communication Law and Policy, a joint research venture of the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and the Annenberg School of Communication. In addition to her scholarly research at Pepperdine, Professor Boliek has been a Visiting Scholar for the American Enterprise Institute, regularly posting blogs for AEI.org on a variety of technology and telecommunications related issues.
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Dean and Chair of Economics, HKU Business School
University of Hong Kong
Hongbin Cai received his B.A. in Mathematics at Wuhan University, his M.A. in Economics at Peking University, and his Ph.D. in Economics at Stanford University. He is currently Professor in Economics…
Hongbin Cai received his B.A. in Mathematics at Wuhan University, his M.A. in Economics at Peking University, and his Ph.D. in Economics at Stanford University. He is currently Professor in Economics and Associate Dean at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. He taught at University of California, Los Angeles before moving to Peking University. He is director of J. Mirrlees Institute of Economic Policy Research (IEPR) at Peking University, and associate director of Center of Poverty Research at Peking University. He is a National Chang Jiang Scholar (awarded by Ministry of Education of China) and a National Outstanding Young Researcher (awarded by National Science Foundation of China). He has published many academic papers in top international journals in economics and finance, in a wide range of areas including game theory, Chinese economy, industrial organization and corporate finance.
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Jean Monnet Professor of EU Innovation Policy
University of Basilicata
Giuseppe Colangelo is the Jean Monnet Professor of EU Innovation Policy and an associate professor of law and economics at the University of Basilicata; adjunct professor of markets, regulations and law,…
Giuseppe Colangelo is the Jean Monnet Professor of EU Innovation Policy and an associate professor of law and economics at the University of Basilicata; adjunct professor of markets, regulations and law, and of competition and markets of innovation at the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali (LUISS); Transatlantic Technology Law Forum (TTL) Fellow at Stanford Law School and University of Vienna; and an academic affiliate with the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE).
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Herman F. Selvin Professor of Law
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Robert Cooter, a pioneer in the field of law and economics, was educated at Swarthmore College, Oxford University, and Harvard University. After receiving his Ph.D. in economics in 1975, he joined…
Robert Cooter, a pioneer in the field of law and economics, was educated at Swarthmore College, Oxford University, and Harvard University. After receiving his Ph.D. in economics in 1975, he joined the economics faculty at Berkeley. In 1980 he joined Berkeley’s law faculty, where he is currently the Herman F. Selvin Professor. Bob regularly teaches the economic analysis of law, and he has taught a variety of courses jointly with lawyers, including contracts, torts, corporations, financial services, the theory of adjudication, and law and anthropology. Bob has received various awards and fellowships, including Institute for Advanced Study, National Science Foundation, Guggenheim, Max Planck, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Humboldt Research Prize, and the European Law and Economics Association Distinction Award for 2011. He was a founding director of the American Law and Economics Association and its President in 1994-1995. He co-founded the Berkeley Electronic Press (BEPress) in 1999. In 1999 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received an honorary doctorate from Hamburg University in 2002 and Universidad de San Martin de Porres, Lima, Peru, in 2012. He co-founded the Latin American and Caribbean Law and Economics Association (ALACDE), and he served as its president in 2005. Besides numerous articles, he is co-author of Law and Economics (6th edition, 2011, with Tom Ulen; also translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Hungarian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Farsi), The Strategic Constitution (Princeton, 2000), and Solomon’s Knot: How Law Can End the Poverty of Nations (Princeton UP, 2012, with Hans Bernd Schäfer). Cooter has published a wide variety of articles applying economic analysis to private law, constitutional law, and law in developing countries.
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Professor of Economics
University of Bologna
Vincenzo Denicolò is a Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna, and a Research Fellow at CEPR. He works mainly in the field of industrial organisation and in particular on…
Vincenzo Denicolò is a Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna, and a Research Fellow at CEPR. He works mainly in the field of industrial organisation and in particular on the economics of innovation and competition policy. However, he also works on endogenous growth theory and maintains an interest in the theory of social choice, a field in which he published extensively in the past. He has published more than sixty articles in refereed journals and has served in various administrative and editorial roles. Currently he is a co-editor of the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, a member of the Academic Panel of the Competition and Market Authority (UK), and a member of the Economic Advisory Board for Competition Policy at the European Commission. Recent publications include “Exclusive Contracts and Market Dominance,” American Economic Review, 2015 and “Competition with Exclusive Contracts and Market-Share Discounts,” American Economic Review, 2013 (both with G. Calzolari).
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Robert C. Taylor Professor of Economics
University of Virginia
Kenneth Elzinga is the Robert C. Taylor Chair in Economics at the University of Virginia. His major research interest is antitrust economics, with a focus on pricing strategy and market definition.…
Kenneth Elzinga is the Robert C. Taylor Chair in Economics at the University of Virginia. His major research interest is antitrust economics, with a focus on pricing strategy and market definition. He has testified in numerous precedent setting antitrust cases. Additionally, he was the first recipient of the Cavaliers’ Distinguished Teaching Professorship at UVA, a recipient of the Alumni Association’s Distinguished Professor Award, the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Outstanding Faculty Award, and has earned awards in education from the Kenan and Templeton foundations. In 1992, he was given the Thomas Jefferson Award, the highest honor the University of Virginia accords its faculty. He has a B.A. and honorary doctorate from Kalamazoo College and a Ph.D. from Michigan State University and has been a member of the faculty at the University of Virginia since 1967. In addition to his scholarly work, he is also known for three mystery novels, co-authored with William Breit (under the pen name Marshall Jevons) where the protagonist employs economic analysis to solve the crime.
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Assistant Professor of Law
Elon University School of Law
Tammi Shimere Etheridge is an Assistant Professor of Law at Elon University School of Law. Etheridge graduated with honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before earning her…
Tammi Shimere Etheridge is an Assistant Professor of Law at Elon University School of Law. Etheridge graduated with honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before earning her Master of Public Policy from the University of Minnesota Humphrey School of Public Affairs, and her Juris Doctor from the University of Minnesota Law School. Etheridge clerked after law school for the Hon. Joseph R. Goodwin in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia before joining big law and practicing complex commercial litigation, multidistrict litigation, and product liability law. Her teaching experience includes an appointment as a visiting assistant professor at the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law. Etheridge is currently a Visiting Fellow with the Nebraska Governance and Technology Center at the University of Nebraska College of Law.
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Professor of Public Economics
University of Bologna
Luigi Franzoni is a Professor of Public Economics at the Faculty of Economics of Bologna. His research areas include the economic theory of settlements, law enforcement, tax amnesties, intellectual property and…
Luigi Franzoni is a Professor of Public Economics at the Faculty of Economics of Bologna. His research areas include the economic theory of settlements, law enforcement, tax amnesties, intellectual property and incomplete contracts. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Nuffield College, Oxford. He has published a well received book introducing law and economics to the Italian audience. Co-founder and member of the Steering Board of the Italian Association of Law and Economics. At the moment, he serves as co-director of the European Doctorate in Law and Economics.
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William C. Oehmig Chair in Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
Vanderbilt University
Luke Froeb is the William C. Oehmig Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management. In 2017, he was appointed and served a one-year…
Luke Froeb is the William C. Oehmig Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management. In 2017, he was appointed and served a one-year term as the assistant U.S. attorney general for economics in the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ). In that role, he oversaw economics analysis for the Antitrust Division’s investigations of mergers and anticompetitive conduct. Previously, he served a two-year term as director of the Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Economics. Froeb has also taught graduate-level courses in industrial organization and econometrics at Tulane University. In 1989, he spent a year as the Kramer Foundation Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin in 1983 and his bachelor’s from Stanford University in 1978.
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Senior Scholar
Eric Fruits is a senior scholar at the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE), an adjunct professor of economics at Portland State University, and the president and chief…
Eric Fruits is a senior scholar at the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE), an adjunct professor of economics at Portland State University, and the president and chief economist of Economics International Corp. Previously, he was the vice president of research with the Cascade Policy Institute and principal consultant with Nathan Associates. He has also held academic appointments at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, the Kelley School of Business, and the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Earlier in his career, he was a senior economist with ECONorthwest and LECG. Eric received his bachelor’s from Indiana University and his PhD from Claremont Graduate University.
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Herman F. Selvin Professor of Law
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Jonah B. Gelbach’s interests include civil procedure, evidence, statutory interpretation, law and economics, event study methodology, securities litigation, the economics of crime, applied statistical methodology, evaluation of public assistance programs, and general applied microeconomics. He has taught J.D.-level courses in civil procedure, legislation, and evidence, and economics, business, and public policy courses in Ph.D., masters, and undergraduate levels. Gelbach is currently a Director of the American Law and Economics Association and a co-editor of the Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization. He is currently serving as an informal pro bono consultant for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, related to the design of the District’s juror selection system. Gelbach’s published papers in the fields of law, economics, and law & economics include work in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Law & Economics, Stanford Law Review, Yale Law Journal, University of Chicago Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Texas Law Review, and many other journals. Gelbach joined the Berkeley Law faculty in 2019, having previously been untenured Associate Professor and then Professor of Law at Penn (2013-2019); tenured Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management (2007-2010); and Assistant and tenured Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland (1998-2007).
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Senior Scholar, Competition Policy
Daniel J. Gilman is a senior scholar of competition policy at ICLE. Before joining ICLE, Dan was an attorney advisor in the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Office of Policy Planning, where…
Daniel J. Gilman is a senior scholar of competition policy at ICLE. Before joining ICLE, Dan was an attorney advisor in the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Office of Policy Planning, where he worked on competition issues in health-care and technology markets and, more broadly, on the competitive impact of regulation, with a focus on privacy regulations, among others. During the 2014-15 academic year, while on leave from his FTC duties, he visited Harvard Law School as the Victor H. Kramer Foundation Fellow in antitrust law and economics. Prior to the FTC, Dan taught law and economics, as well as health and science law, at the University of Maryland. He has also taught at Penn State University and at Washington University in St. Louis, and has experience in private practice in the District of Columbia. Dan holds a JD degree from Georgetown University, a PhD from the University of Chicago, and an AB from Dartmouth College.
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Senior Circuit Judge
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Douglas H. Ginsburg is one of the most prominent scholars of law and economics currently on the bench. He has been a judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for…
Douglas H. Ginsburg is one of the most prominent scholars of law and economics currently on the bench. He has been a judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit since his appointment in November 1986. He served as chief judge from July 2001 until February 2008. After law school, he was law clerk to the Hon. Carl G. McGowan on the D.C. Circuit and to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. He then joined the Harvard Law School faculty from 1975 until 1983, before serving as deputy assistant U.S. attorney general for regulatory affairs in the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) Antitrust Division from 1983 to 1984; administrator of information and regulatory affairs with the Office of Management and Budget from 1984 to 1985; and assistant U.S. attorney general of the DOJ Antitrust Division from 1985 to 1986. Judge Ginsburg graduated from Cornell University and from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was the articles editor of the University of Chicago Law Review.
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Dean and Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law
USC Gould School of Law
Andrew T. Guzman joined the USC Gould School of Law as dean and Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law, and Professor of Law and Political Science on July 1, 2015. An…
Andrew T. Guzman joined the USC Gould School of Law as dean and Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law, and Professor of Law and Political Science on July 1, 2015. An authority on international law and economics, Guzman has written extensively on international trade, international regulatory matters, foreign direct investment and public international law. Guzman’s recent work has addressed international tribunals, soft law, the safety of imported products, and climate change. His interdisciplinary research addresses problems across the range of public and private international law, including international regulatory cooperation, foreign investment, international trade, theories of international law and rational choice approaches. Guzman is a member of the board of editors of six journals, including the Journal of International Economic Law. He has served as a member of the Academic Council of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration and as an international arbitrator. He is the author of Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change, How International Law Works and International Trade Law. Prior to joining USC Gould, he was the Jackson H. Ralston Professor of Law and associate dean of International and Advanced Programs at UC Berkeley, where he also served as director of the International and Executive Legal Education Program. In addition, he has taught as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, the University of Chicago Law School, the University of Virginia Law School, Vanderbilt Law School, the University of Hamburg, and the National University Law School in Bangalore, India. Guzman earned his JD and PhD (Economics) from Harvard University, where he was Books & Commentaries Editor for the Harvard Law Review.
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The John G. McCoy-Banc One Professor of Marketing
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Wesley R. Hartmann is the John G. McCoy-Banc One Corporation Professor of Marketing at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Professor Hartmann’s research empirically analyzes questions in marketing and economics. He studies…
Wesley R. Hartmann is the John G. McCoy-Banc One Corporation Professor of Marketing at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Professor Hartmann’s research empirically analyzes questions in marketing and economics. He studies advertising, pricing, reward programs, social interactions, switching costs and vertical integration. He worked for the Economic Analysis Corporation as a research associate. He earned his BA from UCI (1996), both his MA (2001) and his Ph.D. (2003) from UCLA.
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H.H. Macaulay Endowed Professor of Economics
Clemson University
Thomas W. Hazlett is the Hugh H. Macaulay Endowed Professor of Economics in the John E. Walker Department of Economics at Clemson University, where he also serves as director of the…
Thomas W. Hazlett is the Hugh H. Macaulay Endowed Professor of Economics in the John E. Walker Department of Economics at Clemson University, where he also serves as director of the Information Economy Project. He is also founder and managing director of Arlington Economics LLC and founder and partner of New Airwaves LLC. Hazlett was previously Professor of Law & Economics at George Mason University and was earlier a professor at the University of California at Davis. He has also held positions as visiting faculty at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania; senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research; resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute; and chief economist at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He received his PhD in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
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William F. Podlich Professor of Economics and George R. Roberts Fellow
Claremont McKenna College
Eric Helland is an adjunct economist at the RAND Corporation, in the Institute for Civil Justice, and the William F. Podlich Professor of Economics and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College. He is the author of over 50 books and articles on topics in law and economics ranging from bounty hunters to judicial elections. His current research focuses on pharmaceutical and patent litigation, securities litigation, auto safety, and medical malpractice. In 2002-2003 he was a visiting fellow at the Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. In 2003-04 he served as a senior economist on President George W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers. In 2008 he was a visiting professor of law at the University of California, Los Angeles and in 2011-12 a visiting scholar at the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at USC. He is a coeditor of the International Review of Law and Economics. His articles have appeared in such scholarly journals as the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Regulatory Economics, Journal of Legal Studies, American Law and Economics Review, Land Economics, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Contemporary Economic Policy, Journal of Law and Economics, Economic Inquiry, and Review of Economics and Statistics. Helland holds a Ph.D. in economics from Washington University in St. Louis.
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Michael J. Marks Professor of Law
University of Chicago Law School
M. Todd Henderson is the Michael J. Marks Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School,…
M. Todd Henderson is the Michael J. Marks Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, where his research interests include corporations, securities regulation, and law and economics. Henderson received an engineering degree cum laude from Princeton University in 1993. He worked for several years designing and building dams in California before matriculating at Chicago Law School. While at Chicago Law, he was an editor of the Law Review. He graduated magna cum laude in 1998 and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Following law school, Todd served as clerk to the Hon. Dennis Jacobs of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He then practiced appellate litigation at Kirkland & Ellis in Washington, D.C., and was an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company in Boston, where he specialized in counseling telecommunications and high-tech clients on business and regulatory strategy.
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Chair of the Department of Economics
University of Mississippi
Joshua R. Hendrickson is chair of the Department of Economics and an associate professor of economics at the University of Mississippi. His research interests are at the intersection of monetary economics,…
Joshua R. Hendrickson is chair of the Department of Economics and an associate professor of economics at the University of Mississippi. His research interests are at the intersection of monetary economics, public finance, political economy, and historical economic development. Within monetary economics, he studies everything from historical monetary institutions to modern monetary policy to Bitcoin. Within political economy, he has used the tools of economics to understand revolutions, the decision to go to war, and how the national defense motive shapes the state and its policies and institutions. Finally, he examines the role of institutions in shaping the progress or regress of the state and the economy.
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Emeritus Dean and Professor of Law
Lewis & Clark Law School
Professor Huffman joined the law school faculty in 1973, was appointed Acting Dean in 1993 and Dean in 1994, and returned to full time teaching in 2006. Born in Fort Benton,…
Professor Huffman joined the law school faculty in 1973, was appointed Acting Dean in 1993 and Dean in 1994, and returned to full time teaching in 2006. Born in Fort Benton, Montana, Jim graduated from Montana State University, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and the University of Chicago Law School. He has been a visiting professor at Auckland University in New Zealand, the University of Oregon, the University of Athens in Greece and Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala. He was also a fellow at the Humane Studies Institute and a Distinguished Bradley Scholar at the Heritage Foundation. Jim is a trustee of the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation, and serves on the board of the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC). He is a member and former Chair of the Executive Committee of the Environment and Property Rights Practice Group of the Federalist Society. He is admitted to practice before the Montana courts, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the United States Supreme Court. He is the author of three books and more than 100 articles and chapters on a wide array of legal topics.
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Director of Law & Economics Programs
Justin (Gus) Hurwitz is the director of law & economics programs at the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) and a senior fellow and academic director of the Center for…
Justin (Gus) Hurwitz is the director of law & economics programs at the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) and a senior fellow and academic director of the Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. He was previously a full professor and founding director of the Governance & Technology Center at the University of Nebraska. Prior to that he was the inaugural research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition (CTIC) and a visiting assistant professor at George Mason University Law School. From 2007–2010 he was a trial attorney with the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) Antitrust Division in the Telecommunications and Media Enforcement Section. Hurwitz has a background in technology. Prior to law school, he held undergraduate and graduate research positions at Los Alamos National Lab and interned at the Naval Research Lab. During this time, his work was recognized by organizations such as the Federal Laboratory Consortium, R&D Magazine, Los Alamos National Lab, IEEE & ACM, and the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California. Most importantly, while at Los Alamos, he was part of a team that held the Internet2 Land Speed World Record with the Guinness Book of World Records. Hurwitz received his JD from the University of Chicago Law School, where he received Olin and MVP2 law and economics scholarships, as well as a master’s in economics from George Mason University. He received his bachelor’s from St. John’s College.
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William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and Professor of Law
Boston University School of Law
Keith N. Hylton is the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of Boston University and professor of law at Boston University School of Law. He joined the BU Law faculty in 1995…
Keith N. Hylton is the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of Boston University and professor of law at Boston University School of Law. He joined the BU Law faculty in 1995 after teaching for six years and receiving tenure at Northwestern University School of Law. He serves as an associate editor of the International Review of Law and Economics, a contributing editor of the Antitrust Law Journal, co-editor of Competition Policy International, and editor of the Social Science Research Network’s Torts & Products Liability Law eJournal. He received his bachelor’s from Harvard College , where he won the Allyn Young Prize for the best undergraduate economics thesis, his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his JD from Harvard Law School.
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Principal
Evalusion
Kayvan Hazemi-Jebelli is principal at Evalusion, a consultancy firm focused on digital-competition policy. He is also the creator, producer, and co-host of the podcast Monopoly Attack. He previously served as…
Kayvan Hazemi-Jebelli is principal at Evalusion, a consultancy firm focused on digital-competition policy. He is also the creator, producer, and co-host of the podcast Monopoly Attack. He previously served as competition and regulatory counsel to the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA), managing CCIA’s European litigation and representing the association on competition-policy issues, and European regulatory-policy matters. In addition, Kay has over a decade’s experience working as a competition lawyer in private practice, in the European Commission Directorate-General for Competition, in academia, and as senior legal counsel at a leading UK media and communications company. Before that, he worked as a computer engineer. Kay received his B.Sc. in computer science and engineering from the University of California-Los Angeles; his J.D. from the University of the Pacific; and his LL.M. in competition law from King’s College London.
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Professor of LawDrake University Law School
Jeremy Kidd is a law and economics scholar who specializes in public choice theory. His primary research focus is on how special interests use the various mechanisms of government to achieve…
Jeremy Kidd is a law and economics scholar who specializes in public choice theory. His primary research focus is on how special interests use the various mechanisms of government to achieve their private ends. Applying theories of “rent seeking,” he has published and presented on the topics of hedge fund regulation, third-party legal funding, and the failure of government regulation to achieve its stated goals. His research has appeared in such publications as the University of California Davis Law Review and the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal. His teaching interests span a variety of commercial law and corporate law courses. Prof. Kidd received his J.D. with honors from the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University in 2007 and his Ph.D. in Economics from the John M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University in 2009. A member of the Utah Bar and the District of Columbia Bar, he has practiced as an Associate with Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll in Washington, DC, and with Strong & Hanni in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has filed a number of amicus briefs at the Supreme Court of the United States and was sworn in as a member of the United States Supreme Court Bar in February of 2017. Prior to entering academia, Prof. Kidd also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Ted Stewart, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Utah, and the Honorable Alice M. Batchelder, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Judicial Circuit.
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Stevenson Bernard Professor of Law
The George Washington University Law School
F. Scott Kieff is the Stevenson Bernard Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. He joined the faculty in 2009, after serving on the faculty at Washington University…
F. Scott Kieff is the Stevenson Bernard Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. He joined the faculty in 2009, after serving on the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis, where he was a professor in the School of Law with a secondary appointment in the School of Medicine’s Department of Neurological Surgery. He took a leave of absence from GWU in 2013, to become a commissioner of the U.S. International Trade Commission. In the summer of 2017, he retired early from his post at the Commission and returned to teaching again at the law school. Before starting at the USITC, he was the Ray & Louise Knowles Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, where he served as director and a member of the Research Team of the Hoover Project on Commercializing Innovation. He previously served as a faculty member of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center at Germany’s Max Planck Institute; a visiting professor in the law schools at Northwestern, Chicago, and Stanford; and a faculty fellow in the Olin Program on Law and Economics at Harvard. He practiced law as a trial lawyer and patent lawyer as an associate for Pennie & Edmonds in New York, an associate and counsel for Jenner & Block in Chicago, and as a Principal for McKool Smith in D.C., and as law clerk to U.S. Circuit Judge Giles S. Rich. Before attending law school at the University of Pennsylvania, he studied molecular biology and microeconomics at MIT and conducted research in molecular genetics at the Whitehead Institute.
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Research Professor
University of Colorado Denver
Lynne Kiesling is an economist focusing on regulation, market design, and the economics of digitization and smart grid technologies in the electricity industry. She is a Research Professor in the School…
Lynne Kiesling is an economist focusing on regulation, market design, and the economics of digitization and smart grid technologies in the electricity industry. She is a Research Professor in the School of Engineering, Design and Computing at the University of Colorado Denver, and Co-Director of the Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics. Lynne also provides advisory and analytical services as the President of Knowledge Problem LLC, and is an Adjunct Professor in the Masters of Science in Energy and Sustainability program in the Institute for Sustainability and Energy (ISEN) at Northwestern University. In addition to her academic research, she is currently a member of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Electricity Advisory Committee, has served as a member of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Smart Grid Advisory Committee, and is an emerita member of the GridWise Architecture Council. Her academic background includes a B.S. in Economics from Miami University (Ohio) and a Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University. Outside of work, Lynne rides her bikes, skis downhill and Nordic, knits, and reads a lot of books
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Law & Economics Programs Research Fellow
Aubrey Kirchhoff is a law & economics programs research fellow at the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE), which she joined in 2024. Prior to joining ICLE, Aubrey was a…
Aubrey Kirchhoff is a law & economics programs research fellow at the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE), which she joined in 2024. Prior to joining ICLE, Aubrey was a technology and innovation research manager at the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University. She attended Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky, and received a bachelor’s degree in political science. She is based in Northern Virginia.
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Mary and Daniel Loughran Professor of Law
University of Virginia Law School
Edmund Kitch joined the faculty of Virginia Law in 1982. His scholarly and teaching interests include agency, corporations, securities, antitrust, industrial and intellectual property, economic regulation and legal and economic history.…
Edmund Kitch joined the faculty of Virginia Law in 1982. His scholarly and teaching interests include agency, corporations, securities, antitrust, industrial and intellectual property, economic regulation and legal and economic history. In law school Kitch was comment editor for the University of Chicago Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. After spending one year as an assistant professor at Indiana University, he taught at the University of Chicago from 1965 until 1982. During that time he served as reporter of the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Pattern Jury Instructions, special assistant to the solicitor general of the United States, and executive director of the Civil Aeronautics Board Committee on Procedural Reform. He also has been a visiting professor of law at Stanford, Michigan, New York University, Brooklyn Law School and Georgetown University. In 1996 he was the Jack N. Pritzker Distinguished Visiting Professor at Northwestern University School of Law. After he came to Virginia, he became a member of the Committee on Public-Private Sector Interactions in Vaccine Innovation of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences (1983-85). He also was a member of UVA’s Center for Advanced Studies from 1982-85. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the American Law Institute.
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Professor Emeritus
UCLA Department of Economics
Benjamin Klein is internationally recognized as a powerful force in the area of antitrust economics. In addition to his role as a Professor of Economics at UCLA, he has also taught…
Benjamin Klein is internationally recognized as a powerful force in the area of antitrust economics. In addition to his role as a Professor of Economics at UCLA, he has also taught at the Economics Institute for Federal Judges, and has held visiting appointments at the University of Washington, the National Bureau of Economic Research and the University of Chicago Law School. He has further served as a consultant to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and has consulted widely on antitrust issues, making numerous presentations to state, federal and foreign regulatory agencies and courts. Professor Klein has published extensively on antitrust, contract and intellectual property issues and serves on the Board of Editors for five academic journals, including the Supreme Court Economic Review and the Antitrust Law Journal. He received his B.A. from the City University of New York (1964), and his M.A. (1966) and his Ph.D. (1970) from the University of Chicago.
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W. W. Caruth Endowed Chair
Hankamer School of Business
Peter G. Klein is W. W. Caruth Endowed Chair, Professor of Entrepreneurship, and Chair of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation at Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business. He also serves…
Peter G. Klein is W. W. Caruth Endowed Chair, Professor of Entrepreneurship, and Chair of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation at Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business. He also serves as Director of the Baugh Center’s Free Enterprise Initiative. He is Adjunct Professor of Strategy and Management at the Norwegian School of Economics and Carl Menger Research Fellow at the Mises Institute. Klein is Co-Editor of the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and Associate Editor of the Independent Review. He was previously Field Editor for the Journal of Business Venturing and Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Perspectives. He was Chair of the Academy of Management’s Entrepreneurship Division and also served as Chair of the Institutional and Behavioral Economics Section of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. His 2012 book Organizing Entrepreneurial Judgment (with Nicolai Foss, Cambridge University Press) won the Foundation for Economic Education Best Book Prize and has been translated into Chinese, Polish, and Persian. His 2010 book The Capitalist and the Entrepreneur (Mises Institute) has been translated into Chinese and Portuguese. His newest book, Why Managers Matter: The Perils of the Bossless Company (PublicAffairs/Hachette, with Nicolai Foss), appeared in 2022. He holds an Honorary Professorship at the Beijing University of Information Science and Technology. He received his PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA in economics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has held faculty positions at the University of Missouri, the Copenhagen Business School, the University of Georgia, and Washington University in St. Louis. He was a Senior Economist for the Council of Economic Advisers in 2000-01. Klein’s research focuses on the links between entrepreneurship, strategy, and organization, with application to innovation, diversification, and public policy. His work has appeared in Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, RAND Journal of Economics, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Industrial and Corporate Change, Managerial and Decision Economics, Journal of Industrial Economics, Sloan Management Review, and other outlets. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Kauffman Foundation, the Mises Institute, the Illinois-Missouri Biotechnology Alliance, and other organizations.
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Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. Professor of Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Jonathan Klick’s work focuses on identifying the causal effects of laws and regulations on individual behavior using cutting-edge econometric tools. Specific topics addressed by Klick’s work include the relationship between abortion…
Jonathan Klick’s work focuses on identifying the causal effects of laws and regulations on individual behavior using cutting-edge econometric tools. Specific topics addressed by Klick’s work include the relationship between abortion access and risky sex, the health behaviors of diabetics, the effect of police on crime, addiction as rational choice, how liability exposure affects the labor market for physicians, as well as a host of other issues. His scholarship has been published in numerous peer-reviewed economics journals, including The Journal of Economic Perspectives, The Journal of Law & Economics, The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, and The Journal of Legal Studies. He has also published papers in the Stanford Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, and the University of Chicago Law Review. His four sons think he is the funniest person in the world, while his wife will only commit to him being in the top five. He previously worked as a cashier at the Modell’s Sporting Goods store in the King of Prussia Mall.
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Paige V. and Henry N. Butler Chair in Law and Economics
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
Bruce H. Kobayashi is the Paige V. and Henry N. Butler Chair in Law and Economics at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School and an ICLE academic affiliate. He teaches…
Bruce H. Kobayashi is the Paige V. and Henry N. Butler Chair in Law and Economics at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School and an ICLE academic affiliate. He teaches litigation and dispute-resolution theory, quantitative forensics, and the legal and economic theory of intellectual property. Since coming to Scalia Law in 1992, he has been a frequent contributor to economics and law and economics journals. He previously served as a senior economist with the Federal Trade Commission, a senior research associate with the U.S. Sentencing Commission, and an economist with the U.S. Department of Justice. He recently served as the director of the FTC’s Bureau of Economics. Kobayashi was educated at the University of California, Los Angeles, earning his BS in economics and system science (1981), and his MA (1982) and PhD (1986) in economics.
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Wall Chair in Corporate Law and Governance
University of Missouri Law School
Thomas A. Lambert is the Wall Chair in Corporate Law and Governance and professor of law at the University of Missouri School of Law. In 2017, Professor Lambert received the University of Missouri’s Kemper Faculty Fellowship (awarded annually to five professors throughout the university for exemplary teaching). He has also received the law school’s Blackwell Sanders Award for Teaching Excellence and the university-wide Gold Chalk Award for excellence in graduate teaching. He is a three-time winner of the University of Missouri Law School’s Shook Hardy & Bacon Excellence in Research Award, which is awarded annually for most outstanding faculty scholarship. Before entering academia, Lambert practiced law in the Chicago office of Sidley Austin and was a John M. Olin Fellow at Northwestern University School of Law and the Center for the Study of American Business (now the Murray Weidenbaum Center) at Washington University. After graduating from law school, he clerked for Judge Jerry E. Smith of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Professor of Economics
University of Connecticut
Richard N. Langlois is a professor of economics at the University of Connecticut. Before coming to UConn in 1983, he was affiliated with the Center for Science and Technology Policy and…
Richard N. Langlois is a professor of economics at the University of Connecticut. Before coming to UConn in 1983, he was affiliated with the Center for Science and Technology Policy and the C. V. Starr Center for Applied Economics at New York University. Langlois’ principal research areas are the economics of organization, the economics of institutions, and business history. Another focus of Professor Langlois’s work has been the economic history of technology. He has written on such industries as computers, semiconductors, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and software. Recently, Professor Langlois has turned his attention to explaining the changes in corporate organization in the late twentieth century, a set of phenomena he refers to as the Vanishing Hand.
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Editor-in-Chief and Senior Fellow
R.J. Lehmann joined ICLE as editor-in-chief and senior fellow in November 2020. He is responsible for crafting and executing ICLE’s editorial and communications strategy, managing its publication calendar, and contributing research…
R.J. Lehmann joined ICLE as editor-in-chief and senior fellow in November 2020. He is responsible for crafting and executing ICLE’s editorial and communications strategy, managing its publication calendar, and contributing research to ICLE’s Financial Regulation & Corporate Governance program. R.J. was previously Director of Finance, Insurance, and Trade Policy for the R Street Institute, which he co-founded in June 2012. Earlier in his career, he was deputy director of the Heartland Institute’s Center on Finance, Insurance and Real Estate and public affairs director of the Independent Institute. As a journalist, he spent nearly a decade covering the insurance and financial services industries, first as manager of A.M. Best Co.’s Washington bureau and later as a senior industry editor with SNL Financial. He is a three-time award winner from the American Society of Business Publication Editors and was the youngest-ever winner of a first-place prize from the New Jersey Press Association. He studied journalism and public policy at Syracuse University.
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Ashbel Smith Professor of Economics
University of Texas at Dallas
Stan Liebowitz, an economist who has studied copyright issues since 1979, is one of the world’s authorities on the economic impact of piracy, downloads and file sharing in the digital domain.…
Stan Liebowitz, an economist who has studied copyright issues since 1979, is one of the world’s authorities on the economic impact of piracy, downloads and file sharing in the digital domain. His expertise reached the highest court in the land in 2005 when U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer cited Leibowitz’s paper on file-sharing entitled, “Will MP3 Downloads Annihilate the Record Industry? The Evidence So Far,” as part of a concurring opinion. “When you’re writing about a subject that has a policy implication, you want to see policy actually being affected by what you’re writing,” Liebowitz said. “It certainly makes you feel good to see that your work is having an impact.” Liebowitz, who has been at UT Dallas since 1991, serves as the head of the UT Dallas Center for the Analysis of Property Rights and Innovation. Established in 2004, the center was one of the first think tanks in the United States to study intellectual property rights and related issues in the digital arena. He has studied and testified about the federal monopoly case against Microsoft, including a co-authored and widely-acclaimed book entitled, Winners, Losers & Microsoft: Competition and Antitrust in High Technology. He has conducted research about the causes of the subprime mortgage crisis. His current research interests include file-sharing, the strength of the copyright monopoly and the role of bundling, a business strategy used to sell several items as part of a combined product. He has published more than 60 articles and five books. He is the former president of the Society for Research on Copyright Issues. He has served on 13 editorial and advisory boards and is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He is a fellow of the Independent Institute. Liebowitz earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from John Hopkins University, and both his master’s and doctoral degrees in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Professor of Law
Northwestern School of Law
Katherine Litvak’s areas of expertise include venture capital, private equity, corporate and securities law, and corporate finance. She has previously served as an assistant professor at the University of Texas School…
Katherine Litvak’s areas of expertise include venture capital, private equity, corporate and securities law, and corporate finance. She has previously served as an assistant professor at the University of Texas School of Law, a clerk for both the Hon. Ralph K. Winter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Hon. Frank H. Easterbrook of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, as well as a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics at Columbia Law School. She has presented at more than 50 national and international conferences, workshops, and seminars. Litvak received her BA from the University of California-Los Angeles, an MA in international relations from Harvard, her JD from Stanford Law School, and is commencing studies in Kellogg’s PhD program in finance.
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A. Robert Noll Distinguished Professor of Law
Penn State Law School
John E. Lopatka is the A. Robert Noll Distinguished Professor of Law at Penn State Law. He joined Penn State from the University of South Carolina School of Law, where he…
John E. Lopatka is the A. Robert Noll Distinguished Professor of Law at Penn State Law. He joined Penn State from the University of South Carolina School of Law, where he was the Solomon Blatt Professor of Law. Lopatka began his full-time teaching career at the University of Illinois College of Law, where he was an associate professor. Apart from his career in teaching, he served as assistant director for planning for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Bureau of Competition and practiced law with Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine in New York City and Isham, Lincoln & Beale in Chicago. He is a member of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Section leadership and is a contributing editor of the section’s Antitrust Law Journal. From 2001 until 2004, he was a consultant to the FTC’s Office of General Counsel. Lopatka earned his JD from the University of Chicago and his master of laws degree from Columbia University, where he also served as an associate in law and fellow in the Center for Law and Economic Studies.
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Associate Professor of Law
Notre Dame Law School
Maria Maciá is an economist whose research considers the regulation of corporations and valuation issues through an empirical approach. She considers the effects of regulations that…
Maria Maciá is an economist whose research considers the regulation of corporations and valuation issues through an empirical approach. She considers the effects of regulations that encourage corporate social responsibility and risk management, and she has a particular interest in disclosure requirements and the regulation of banks. Previously, she has written on the usefulness of well-being measures for tailoring compensation in the eminent domain context. She teaches corporate finance. Maciá holds a JD from the University of Chicago Law School, where she was an articles editor for the University of Chicago Law Review; a PhD in Economics, also from the University of Chicago; and a BA in Economics and Political Science from Swarthmore College. Before coming to Notre Dame, she served as a law clerk to Judge Andrew Hurwitz on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She worked as an economic consultant on antitrust matters and as a teacher at a Great Books high school prior to law school.
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President and Founder
Geoffrey A. Manne is the president and founder of the International Center for Law and Economics (ICLE), a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center based in Portland, Oregon. He is also…
Geoffrey A. Manne is the president and founder of the International Center for Law and Economics (ICLE), a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center based in Portland, Oregon. He is also a distinguished fellow at Northwestern University’s Center on Law, Business, and Economics and a visiting professor of law at IE University, Madrid. Geoff earned his JD and AB degrees from the University of Chicago and is an expert in the economic analysis of law, focusing particularly on antitrust, consumer protection, telecom, intellectual property, and technology regulation. Prior to founding ICLE, Manne was a law professor at Lewis & Clark Law School where he taught law & economics, corporations, international economic regulation, and other courses. In 2006, he decamped from Lewis & Clark to work in Microsoft’s legal department, heading up a program on law & economics academic engagement. He subsequently founded ICLE in 2009. Manne has also served as a Bigelow fellow and lecturer in law at the University of Chicago Law School and a faculty fellow at the University of Virginia School of Law. He practiced antitrust law and appellate litigation at Latham & Watkins, clerked for Hon. Morris S. Arnold on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and worked as a research assistant for Judge Richard Posner. He was also once (very briefly) employed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In 2017, he was appointed by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai to a two-year term on the FCC’s Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee, and before that he was appointed by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler to serve on the FCC’s Consumer Advisory Committee.
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Associate Professor of Law at IE University Law School.
Professor Francisco Marcos is an expert in economic analysis of law, commercial and competition law, he teaches law at IE Business School (Spain). He holds a law degree from Universidad de…
Professor Francisco Marcos is an expert in economic analysis of law, commercial and competition law, he teaches law at IE Business School (Spain). He holds a law degree from Universidad de Oviedo, an LLM form Berkeley [Fulbright scholar (1994-1995)] and a PhD from the University of Bologna. He is member of the Editorial Board of World Competition (Kluwer); the European Business Organization Law Review (TMC Asser) and of European Company Law (Kluwer). Author of numerous academic works, including four books, he also has written more than ninety contributions to collective books or law-review publications. He serves in the Boards of the Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA) and the Competition Law Scholars Forum (CLaSF) and he is vice-president of the Spanish Academic Network on Competition Law (Red Académica de Derecho de la Competencia- RADC). He has worked all over the world as an independent consultant for the Asian Development Bank, the Centroamerican Bank for Economic Integration, the European Commission and the World Bank, advising governments, companies and firms on different matters in the area of market regulation and antitrust law. He briefly practiced as a lawyer in PRICEWATERHOUSE (1993-1994), and he served as the Client and Users’ Ombusdman at SGAE (2010-2014) the main copyright collecting society for composers and music publishers in Spain. In October 2006 he was appointed General Director of Competition Policy at the Regional Antitrust Authority in Madrid, stepping down from that position on September 2009. Nowadays he is academic consultant of CCS ABOGADOS in Madrid.
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Professor of Economics
North Carolina State University
Stephen E. Margolis is a Research Fellow at The Independent Independent and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Economics, College of Management, North Carolina State University. Professor Margolis received his…
Stephen E. Margolis is a Research Fellow at The Independent Independent and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Economics, College of Management, North Carolina State University. Professor Margolis received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles, and he has taught at the University of Michigan, University of Western Ontario, University of Arizona, Harvard University and Duke University. Professor Margolis is the author (with Stan Liebowitz) of the widely acclaimed book, Winners, Losers & Microsoft: Competition and Antitrust in High Technology, and he is a contributor to numerous scholarly volumes. His scholarly articles and reviews have appeared in the American Economic Review, California Law Review, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Business, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Legal Studies, Land Economics, Research in Law and Economics, Resources Policy, and Review of Economics and Statistics. In addition, his articles for popular publications have appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, Dallas Morning News, Investor’s Business Daily, Orange County Register, Reason, Seattle Times, Upside, and The Wall Street Journal.
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Senior Managing Director
Ankura Consulting Group
Donald L. Martin, PhD, is a Senior Managing Director at Ankura Consulting Group based in Washington, DC. He has more than 30 years of experience serving as an economic consultant and…
Donald L. Martin, PhD, is a Senior Managing Director at Ankura Consulting Group based in Washington, DC. He has more than 30 years of experience serving as an economic consultant and testifying expert in antitrust, intellectual property and commercial contract disputes before federal and state courts, the Court of International trade, the U.S. Court of Claims, the International Trade Commission, and in arbitration proceedings. He has represented clients in presentations to the Staff at the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice and before the European Commission. Currently Dr. Martin serves as Adjunct Professor of Economics at Washington College. Prior to joining Ankura, Dr. Martin served as Chairman of CapAnalysis, the economic consulting arm of Howrey LLP, and before that as Executive Vice President of Glassman-Oliver Economic Consultants, Inc. Dr. Martin was a tenured member of the economics faculties at the University of Virginia and the University of Miami’s Law & Economics Center. Dr. Martin was earned his Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of California-Los Angeles in 1969. He received his Masters in Business Administration from the City University of New York in 1964. He received his Bachelor of Science from Boston University in 1961. Dr. Martin has been recognized as a “leading competition economist” by Global Competition Review in The International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers and Economists.
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Senior Research Fellow
French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Frédéric is a Senior Research Fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and affiliate researcher of the French Economic Observatory (OFCE – Sciences Po. Paris). He is a member…
Frédéric is a Senior Research Fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and affiliate researcher of the French Economic Observatory (OFCE – Sciences Po. Paris). He is a member of the EPPP Research Group of the Sorbonne Graduate Business School (IAE Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne). He graduated in economics and management from the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Cachan (Ph.D. in economics). He has been a member of the Group of Research in Law, Economics and Management (GREDEG), a joint laboratory of the CNRS and of the Université Côte d’Azur, since 2003. His publications and teachings deal with law and economics with a focus on procurement and competition policy. Frédéric also published a book on law and economics with Thierry Kirat (Economie du Droit et de la Réglementation, Gualino, 2007). His research fields encompass unilateral abuses of dominance, state aids’ regulation, and the history of competition policies.
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Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy
Ross School of Business University of Michigan
Scott E. Masten’s research focuses on issues at the intersection of law, economics and organization, and his work has made him a leading scholar in the area of transaction cost economics.…
Scott E. Masten’s research focuses on issues at the intersection of law, economics and organization, and his work has made him a leading scholar in the area of transaction cost economics. He has published numerous articles relating to contracting, vertical integration and antitrust and is currently working on a book on the organization and governance of higher education.
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Visiting Professor
Australian National University
Ian McEwin is an Australian lawyer with a Ph.D. in Economics, both from the Australian National University, who specialises in Southeast Asian competition law and economics. In 1985 he was appointed…
Ian McEwin is an Australian lawyer with a Ph.D. in Economics, both from the Australian National University, who specialises in Southeast Asian competition law and economics. In 1985 he was appointed to the Faculty of Business at the University of Chicago in Noble Prize-winning economist George Stigler’s Centre. He has been an expert witness in major competition law cases in Australia, New Zealand and Europe (such as the Superleague Case) and was the Foundation Director of the Centre for Law and Economics in the Law Faculty at the Australian National University in Canberra. In 2002 the Singapore Ministry of Trade & Industry recruited him to help with the drafting of the Singapore competition law and the setting up of the Singapore Competition Commission. After two years with the Ministry, he subsequently became the Commission’s first Chief Economist and then appointed a Member of the Singapore Copyright Tribunal. Following that he became a visiting Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore and then at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. He was appointed Khazanah Nasional Chair at the University of Malaya for two years. He has chaired many conferences etc in Southeast Asia including co-chairing (with Susan Ning) Global Competition Review’s Asian competition law conference in Singapore for four years. He has advised several governments in Southeast Asia on the introduction of competition law and was appointed to the Foundation Board of Advisors of the Global Antitrust Institute at the George Mason University School of Law in Washington. He teaches in their courses on economics for regulators and judges in Asia. He recently edited a special edition on Southeast Asian competition law for Competition Policy International Chronicle and is currently finalising a book Competition Law in Southeast Asia for Cambridge University Press.
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Lyle L. Jones Professor of Competition and Innovation Law
University of San Diego School of Law
Professor McGowan teaches and writes about intellectual property (IP), antitrust and legal ethics. He is particularly interested in the economic analysis of IP policy and the intersection of IP laws and…
Professor McGowan teaches and writes about intellectual property (IP), antitrust and legal ethics. He is particularly interested in the economic analysis of IP policy and the intersection of IP laws and competition policy. His IP scholarship addresses topics such as antitrust policy in software markets, the implications of network effects for IP policy, legal problems associated with standard-setting organizations, open-source software development, the Justice Department’s antitrust suit against Microsoft, rules governing website access, patent misuse, the scope of copyright law and the relationship between copyright and free speech policy. Professor McGowan received his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, in 1990. At Boalt he was a member of the Order of the Coif, recipient of the prize for best student publication, an associate editor of the California Law Review, and a member of the national moot court team. After graduation he served as a law clerk to the Hon. A. Raymond Randolph of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Professor McGowan then practiced in San Francisco with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin, where he was elected a director shortly before moving to academe. From 1998 to 2005 Professor McGowan taught at the University of Minnesota School of law, where he became a full professor in 2004.
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Ball Professor of Law
William & Mary Law School
Professor Meese graduated first in his class with high honors in Ancient Greek from the College of William and Mary, where he also earned a secondary concentration in Economics. He then…
Professor Meese graduated first in his class with high honors in Ancient Greek from the College of William and Mary, where he also earned a secondary concentration in Economics. He then attended the University of Chicago Law School from which he graduated with honors, served as a Comment Editor on the Law Review and was elected to Order of the Coif. After law school he clerked for Judge Frank H. Easterbrook of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was admitted to the Virginia Bar and practiced law at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom in Washington, D.C. Professor Meese joined the William and Mary faculty in 1995 and was a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Virginia in the 2001-2002 academic year. He was the Cabell Research Professor of Law in 2001-2002, 2011-2012, 2013-2014, and 2014-15, and 2018-19, and was the Tazewell Taylor Research Professor in 2016-17. Meese is the author or co-author of more than forty scholarly articles and essays appearing one or more times in The Green Bag, Antitrust Bulletin, Harvard Law Review Forum, Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, Hastings Law Journal, Antitrust Law Journal, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, the Georgetown Law Journal, Law and Contemporary Problems, the William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal, and the University of Pennsylvania, Creighton, Fordham, Michigan, George Mason, Illinois, Boston University, Cornell, Southern California, Iowa, UCLA, North Carolina, Minnesota, Florida State, NYU, Wake Forest, University of Chicago, and William and Mary law reviews. He is a frequent lecturer on antitrust issues and has served as a referee for the Journal of Legal Studies, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Journal of Competition Law and Economics, Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Yale Law Journal and William & Mary Policy Review. Professor Meese is an active participant in Faculty Governance and Leadership at the University Level. Most recently, he served for two years as the Faculty representative on the College’s Board of Visitors. He previously served as Vice President and then President of the Faculty Assembly, and he co-chaired the Committee on Religion in a Public University. He has twice chaired the College’s Procedural Review Committee, co-chaired the Faculty and University Priorities Committee and served for three years on the University Planning Steering Committee. He is a member of the Committee on Free Speech on Campus. Professor Meese received the Walter L. Williams Jr. Teaching Award in 2000 and received a Plumeri Fellowship for Faculty Excellence in 2010 and 2013. Meese serves on the Boards of the Bork Foundation and the Antitrust Education Project. Meese recently served on the Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Antitrust and Economic Regulation. In the summer of 2013, Professor Meese participated in a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on the History of Political Economy at Duke University. He also served as a Senior Advisor to the Antitrust Modernization Commission from 2004-2007. In April, 2007, the Virginia Bar Association included Meese on a list of 11 candidates it recommended for nomination to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. In 2017, Professor Meese received the William Small Award, conferred by the Society for the College.
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Charles Klein Professor of Law and Government
Temple University Beasley School of Law
Professor Salil Mehra joined the Temple Law faculty in 2000. His research focuses on antitrust/competition law and technology. A sample of Professor Mehra’s publications can be found below and on his…
Professor Salil Mehra joined the Temple Law faculty in 2000. His research focuses on antitrust/competition law and technology. A sample of Professor Mehra’s publications can be found below and on his publications page. Professor Mehra is a past Chair of the AALS Section on Antitrust and Economic Regulation, and is a nongovernmental advisor to the International Competition Network. He is a former Abe Fellow of Japan’s Center for Global Partnership and the Social Science Research Center. Prior to his career with Temple Law, Professor Mehra clerked for Chief Judge Juan R. Torruella of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and then worked at the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, and then subsequently at the New York law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where his practice included antitrust, first amendment, and takeover defense litigation. Professor Mehra graduated with honors, Order of the Coif, from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was on the law review and was named an Olin Student Fellow. In 2016, Professor Mehra won the University Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.
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Professor of Law
University of Wyoming College of Law
George Mocsary joined the University of Wyoming in July 2019. Prior to his appointment at Wyoming, he served as an Assistant Professor of Law at the Southern Illinois University School of…
George Mocsary joined the University of Wyoming in July 2019. Prior to his appointment at Wyoming, he served as an Assistant Professor of Law at the Southern Illinois University School of Law and spent two years as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law. He entered academia after practicing corporate and bankruptcy law at Cravath, Swaine and Moore in New York. Before that, he clerked for the Honorable Harris L. Hartz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Professor Mocsary holds a J.D. from Fordham Law School where he graduated first in his class and summa cum laude. He also served as Notes and Articles Editor of the Fordham Law Review and was the recipient of the Benjamin Finkel Prize for Excellence in Bankruptcy and Fordham Law Alumni Association Medal in Constitutional Law. Professor Mocsary earned his M.B.A. from the University of Rochester Simon School of Business and ran a successful management consulting practice. Professor Mocsary is a co-author of Firearms Law and the Second Amendment: Regulation, Rights, and Policy (3rd ed. 2021), the first casebook on its topic. He has also published in the George Washington Law Review, George Mason Law Review, Fordham Law Review, and other journals. His work has been cited by the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Professor
Texas A&M University Bush School of Government & Public Service
Andrew P. Morriss is the dean of the School of Innovation, vice president for entrepreneurship and economic development, professor at the Bush School of Government and Public Service, and professor at…
Andrew P. Morriss is the dean of the School of Innovation, vice president for entrepreneurship and economic development, professor at the Bush School of Government and Public Service, and professor at the School of Law at Texas A&M University. His primary areas of research are international financial centers, regulation of business and the environment, and empirical legal studies. Morriss earned his A.B. from Princeton University and a M.A. in Public Affairs and a J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After law school, Morriss clerked for U.S. District Judge Harold Barefoot Sanders Jr. in the Northern District of Texas and worked for two years at Texas Rural Legal Aid in Hereford and Plainview, Texas. He has also served as dean of the Texas A&M School of Law and held the D. Paul & Charlene A. Jones Chair in Law at the University of Alabama, the H. Ross & Helen Workman Professor of Law at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Galen J. Roush Professor of Business Law and Regulation at Case Western Reserve University.
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Professor of Law
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
Adam Mossoff is professor of law at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. He is a founder of the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property, and is now a…
Adam Mossoff is professor of law at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. He is a founder of the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property, and is now a director of academic programs and a senior scholar. He teaches a wide range of courses at the law school, including property, patent law, trade secrets, trademark law, remedies, and internet law. He has published extensively on the theory and history of how patents and other intellectual property rights are fundamental property rights that should be secured to their owners and legally protected as commercial assets in the marketplace. He is a member of the Public Policy Committee of the Licensing Executives Society, an appointed member of the Amicus Committee of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, and a member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Copyright Alliance. He has served as past chair and vice-chair of the Intellectual Property Committee of the IEEE-USA. Mossoff graduated with honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a research assistant to Richard A. Epstein and received a Bradley Governance Fellowship. Following law school, he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Visiting Lecturer at Northwestern University School of Law, and he clerked for the Hon. Jacques L. Wiener, Jr. of the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Before coming to Scalia Law, he taught at Michigan State University College of Law, the University of San Diego School of Law, and Washington & Lee University School of Law. He holds an MA in philosophy, specializing in legal and political philosophy, from Columbia University and a BA with High Distinction and High Honors in philosophy from the University of Michigan.
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Dean and McKenzie Professor
Florida State University College of Law
Erin O’Hara O’Connor is dean and Donald J. Weidner Chair at Florida State University College of Law. Prior to joining Florida State in 2016, O’Hara O’Connor taught at Vanderbilt Law School,…
Erin O’Hara O’Connor is dean and Donald J. Weidner Chair at Florida State University College of Law. Prior to joining Florida State in 2016, O’Hara O’Connor taught at Vanderbilt Law School, where she served as director of the Law and Human Behavior program from 2007 to 2010; associate dean for academic affairs from 2008 to 2010; and director of graduate studies for the Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics from 2011 to 2016. O’Hara O’Connor received her JD magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was a senior articles selection editor on the Georgetown Law Journal. Upon graduating from law school, she clerked for Chief Judge Dolores K. Sloviter of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. O’Hara O’Connor began her career in academia at the University of Chicago Law School and has taught at several other schools, including Clemson University, George Mason University, Georgetown University and Northwestern University.
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Senior Research Fellow
Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Liya Palagashvili is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. She is also a research fellow at the Classical Liberal Institute at NYU Law. Previously, Liya…
Liya Palagashvili is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. She is also a research fellow at the Classical Liberal Institute at NYU Law. Previously, Liya was an Assistant Professor of Economics at State University of New York-Purchase, where she also taught courses on econometrics, macroeconomics, entrepreneurship, and public policy.
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Distinguished Professor, School of Business and Department of Economics
National University of Singapore
Dr Png is Distinguished Professor in the School of Business and Department of Economics at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on the economics of innovation and productivity. He is the author of Managerial Economics, which has been published in multiple editions. He is the Principal Investigator of a $4.75 million project, SPIRE (Service Productivity and Innovation Research), funded by the Social Sciences Research Council, Singapore, 2017-22. For leisure, he exercises with his wife and plays tennis and the violin (both badly).
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Research Professor, George Washington University
Aurelien Portuese is a research professor at George Washington University, an international associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, and an ICLE academic affiliate. He was previously co-director of the Schumpeter Project on…
Aurelien Portuese is a research professor at George Washington University, an international associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, and an ICLE academic affiliate. He was previously co-director of the Schumpeter Project on Competition Policy and an adjunct professor of competition law at the Global Antitrust Institute of George Mason University. A doctor in law from the University of Paris II (Sorbonne), Portuese has graduated from the London School of Economics, Sciences Po Paris, and from the University of Hamburg.
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Executive Director
Alabama Center for Insurance Information and Research
Lawrence “Lars” Powell is director of the Alabama Center for Insurance Information and Research (ACIIR) at the University of Alabama. ACIIR identifies and solves risk and insurance problems with research and…
Lawrence “Lars” Powell is director of the Alabama Center for Insurance Information and Research (ACIIR) at the University of Alabama. ACIIR identifies and solves risk and insurance problems with research and education. Lars’ primary research interests include loss mitigation, insurer capitalization, and the effects of regulation on insurance markets. His work has appeared in several academic and practitioner journals and is past president of the Risk Theory Society, former editor of the Journal of Insurance Regulation, a founding board member emeritus of Arkansas Mutual Insurance Company, and a recipient of the National Association Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) Service Award. He earned undergraduate degrees from the University of South Carolina and a Ph.D. in Risk Management and Insurance from the University of Georgia.
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Professor of Law and Economics
Yale Law School
George L. Priest is the Edward J. Phelps Professor of Law and Economics and Kauffman Distinguished Research Scholar in Law, Economics, and Entrepreneurship at Yale Law School. An internationally recognized expert,…
George L. Priest is the Edward J. Phelps Professor of Law and Economics and Kauffman Distinguished Research Scholar in Law, Economics, and Entrepreneurship at Yale Law School. An internationally recognized expert, Professor Priest has focused his research over the past two decades on antitrust, the operation of private and public insurance, and the role of the legal system in promoting economic growth. He joined Yale Law School in 1981 and is co-director of the John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics and Public Policy, which facilitates the scholarly work of the Yale law and economics faculty and supports student interest and research in the field. Before coming to Yale, Professor Priest taught law at the University of Chicago, SUNY/Buffalo, and UCLA. His subject areas are antitrust; capitalism; regulated industries; torts; and insurance and public policy. Professor Priest holds a B.A. from Yale and a J.D. from the University of Chicago.
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Senior Scholar, Competition Policy
Lazar is Senior Scholar for Competition Policy at the International Center for Law & Economics, and Adjunct Professor of Law at IE University. Lazar is a qualified lawyer and has worked in…
Lazar is Senior Scholar for Competition Policy at the International Center for Law & Economics, and Adjunct Professor of Law at IE University. Lazar is a qualified lawyer and has worked in band one law firms in Spain and Serbia, both in the competition law department. He holds degrees in Law and Political Science from the University of Madrid, LL.Ms from the University of Amsterdam (EU and International Law, Cum Laude), and the European University Institute (Comparative and International Laws). Lazar’s PhD, also from the European University Institute, explored the intersection between political philosophy and competition law.
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Sterling Professor of Law
Yale Law School
Roberta Romano is Sterling Professor of Law and co-director of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law. Her research has focused on state competition for corporate charters,…
Roberta Romano is Sterling Professor of Law and co-director of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law. Her research has focused on state competition for corporate charters, the political economy of takeover regulation, shareholder litigation, institutional investor activism in corporate governance, and the regulation of securities markets and financial instruments and institutions. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the European Corporate Governance Institute, a research associate of the National Bureau for Economic Research, a past President of the American Law and Economics Association and theSociety for Empirical Legal Studies, and a past co-editor of the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization. She is the author of The Advantage of Competitive Federalism for Securities Regulation and The Genius of American Corporate Law and editor of Foundations of Corporate Law, 2d ed. Professor Romano received her B.A. from the University of Rochester (1973), her M.A. from the University of Chicago (1975), and her J.D. from Yale University (1980).
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Emeritus Professor
Emory University
Professor Rubin’s main area of research is Law and Economics. He has written on many aspects of this subject. Recent papers have examined the effects of tort reform on death rates…
Professor Rubin’s main area of research is Law and Economics. He has written on many aspects of this subject. Recent papers have examined the effects of tort reform on death rates (tort reform leads to fewer accidental deaths) and the deterrent effect of capital punishment (it is a significant deterrent). He has also completed a survey article on the economics of the Bill of Rights. (These papers have been coauthored with colleagues at Emory.) A few years ago he completed a book on the evolution of economic and political behavior. He also write on policy issues, and has had several op-eds in the Wall Street Journal and other newspapers. Two favored topics are the regulation of pharmaceuticals and the economics of privacy and information.
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Assistant Teaching Professor, Brandmeyer Center for Applied Economics
University of Kansas
Levi A. Russell is an associate teaching professor at the University of Kansas Brandmeyer Center for Applied Economics. He was previously the Gwartney Institute Professor of Economic Education and Research at Ottawa University and an assistant professor at the University of Georgia and Texas A&M University. Russell received his bachelor’s and PhD from Kansas State University.
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Associate Professor of Law
University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law
Christopher J. Ryan Jr. is an associate professor of law at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law and an affiliated scholar at the American Bar Foundation. Dr. Ryan teaches…
Christopher J. Ryan Jr. is an associate professor of law at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law and an affiliated scholar at the American Bar Foundation. Dr. Ryan teaches Decedents’ Estates & Trusts, Secured Transactions, and Law & Economics. He has previously taught Property, Tax, and Statistics for Lawyers. In addition to writing in the doctrinal areas in which he teaches, much of his research centers on corporate governance, the legal profession, the economics of higher education, and technology transfer. An interdisciplinary scholar, he has written more than 20 articles that have appeared in law reviews — such as the Alabama Law Review, Georgetown Law Review, Illinois Law Review, and SMU Law Review — specialty journals at NYU, Georgetown, and Notre Dame, and peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Legal Education and Research in Higher Education. He is a recognized expert in legal education, trust law, non-profit law, and the law surrounding student loans. His scholarship has been discussed in the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Above the Law, and Inside Higher Ed, among other media outlets. Dr. Ryan’s published and working papers can be found at his SSRN page. He received an A.B. from Dartmouth College, a M.Ed. from the University of Notre Dame, a J.D. from the University of Kentucky, and a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. When he is not teaching, researching, or spending time with his family, he enjoys running, cycling, hot yoga, live music, and college football.
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Associate Professor of Law, Vrije Universiteit
Dr. Thibault Schrepel, LL.M., is an Associate Professor of Law at VU Amsterdam University, and a Faculty Affiliate at Stanford University CodeX Center where he has created…
Dr. Thibault Schrepel, LL.M., is an Associate Professor of Law at VU Amsterdam University, and a Faculty Affiliate at Stanford University CodeX Center where he has created the “Computational Antitrust” project that brings together over 50 antitrust agencies. Thibault also holds research and teaching positions at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Sciences Po Paris. He is a Harvard University Berkman Center alumnus, a member of the French Superior Audiovisual Council’s scientific board, and a blockchain expert appointed to the World Economic Forum. In 2018, Thibault was granted the “Academic Excellence” Global Competition Review Award, which recognizes “an academic competition specialist who has made an outstanding contribution to competition policy.” He has published a first manuscript (Bruylant ed.) on the subject of “predatory innovation in antitrust law” and articles at Harvard University, Stanford, MIT, Oxford, NYU, Berkeley, and Georgetown, among others.
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Senior Scholar, Innovation Policy
Ben Sperry is senior scholar of innovation policy at the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on the intersection of civil liberties and government regulation, including in the…
Ben Sperry is senior scholar of innovation policy at the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on the intersection of civil liberties and government regulation, including in the areas of online speech, platform regulation, competition policy, payment-card regulation, telecommunications, and criminal-justice reform. Ben has also worked as an assistant public defender in the Crawford County (Pa.) Office of the Public Defender, a judicial law clerk in the Erie County (Pa.) Court of Common Pleas, a legal fellow at TechFreedom, and a research associate and Google Policy Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Ben is admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, and the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. He received his bachelor’s from Allegheny College and his JD from George Mason University Antonin Scalia School of Law.
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Director of Innovation Policy
Kristian Stout is director of innovation policy at the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE). He has also been a fellow at the Internet Law & Policy Foundry, as well…
Kristian Stout is director of innovation policy at the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE). He has also been a fellow at the Internet Law & Policy Foundry, as well as the Eagleton Institute of Politics. Before practicing law, Kristian worked as a technology entrepreneur and a lecturer in the Computer Science Department at Rutgers University. Kristian served on the board of the New Jersey Leadership Program, and was the chair of the Asset Forfeiture Working Group for the NJ State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He has previously served on the Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Kristian graduated magna cum laude from the Rutgers University School of law, and served on the editorial board of the Rutgers Journal of Law and Public Policy.
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Professor of Law
University of Munich
Professor Straus is a professor of law at the Universities of Munich and Ljubljana, and director of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich. He…
Professor Straus is a professor of law at the Universities of Munich and Ljubljana, and director of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich. He is also an honorary professor and honorary director of the Intellectual Property Institute at Tongji University in Shanghai and honorary professor and honorary director of the Chinese-German Institute of Intellectual Property at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan. Professor Straus has been associated with the Max Planck Institute since 1977, has taught European and German patent law at the University of Munich since 1990, and was a visiting faculty member at Cornell Law School between 1989 and 1998. He is author or co-author of numerous publications in the field of intellectual property law, especially in the field of the protection of biological invention. In 2000, he was the first non-scientist to win the Science Award of the Foundation for German Science. He has also been awarded two honorary doctorate degrees. Professor Straus teaches Chemical and Biotech Patent Law.
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Associate Professor, Division of Applied Sciences
University of Missouri
Michael E. Sykuta is an associate professor at the University of Missouri’s Division of Applied Social Sciences and executive director of the Financial Research Institute. Prior to joining the faculty at…
Michael E. Sykuta is an associate professor at the University of Missouri’s Division of Applied Social Sciences and executive director of the Financial Research Institute. Prior to joining the faculty at Missouri in 1998, he was on faculty at the University of Pittsburgh’s Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business. He is an affiliate scholar with the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) and is co-editor of the Social Science Research Network’s New Institutional Economics eJournal. He is co-founder and director of the Contracting and Organizations Research Institute (CORI), an interdisciplinary research program at the University of Missouri focused on the economics and law of contracting, organization, and corporate governance. He earned a PhD in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a bachelor’s in economics from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
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Thomas W. Tusher Professor in Global Business
Berkley Haas School of Business
David J. Teece is the Thomas W. Tusher Professor in Global Business and faculty director of the Tusher Center for The Management of Intellectual Capital at the University of California at…
David J. Teece is the Thomas W. Tusher Professor in Global Business and faculty director of the Tusher Center for The Management of Intellectual Capital at the University of California at Berkeley Haas School of Business. A member of the board of overseers for the faculty of arts and sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, Teece has a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and has held teaching and research positions at Stanford University and Oxford University. He is also is chairman and principal executive officer of Berkeley Research Group and was chairman and co-founder of LECG from 1988-2007 and vice chairman from 2007 to 2009.
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John and Mae Calamos Dean Endowed Chair, Stuart School of Business at Illinois Tech
Liad Wagman is the John and Mae Calamos Dean Endowed Chair and professor of economics at the Stuart School of Business at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Wagman is a competition…
Liad Wagman is the John and Mae Calamos Dean Endowed Chair and professor of economics at the Stuart School of Business at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Wagman is a competition fellow at the Data Catalyst Institute, and was senior economic and technology advisor of the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Policy Planning, a visiting associate professor of executive education and managerial economics & decision sciences at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, a visiting scholar at the Duke University Economics Department, a research fellow at the Duke University Computer Science Department, a research fellow at the Duke University Social Sciences Research Institute, and worked at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University. He is a recipient of the Program for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences Fellowship, a recipient of the Education and Research Initiative Award, a recipient of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Best Paper Award, and a recipient of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Outstanding Paper Award.
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Professor of Politics and Government
University of Puget Sound
Seth Weinberger is Professor of Politics and Government at the University of Puget Sound. He received his B.A. (1993) in political philosophy from the University of Chicago, an M.A. (1995) in…
Seth Weinberger is Professor of Politics and Government at the University of Puget Sound. He received his B.A. (1993) in political philosophy from the University of Chicago, an M.A. (1995) in Security Studies from Georgetown University, and an M.A. (2000) and Ph.D. (2005) in political science from Duke University. He teaches courses on international relations, U.S. foreign policy, international security, terrorism, constitutional law, and political philosophy. His book, Restoring the Balance: War Powers in an Age of Terror was published by Praeger Press in 2009. His recently published articles include “Enemies Among Us: The Targeted Killing of American Members of al Qaeda and the Need for Congressional Leadership” in the Georgetown Global Security Studies Review (Spring 2013) and “Institutional Signals: The Political Dimension of International Competition Law Harmonization” (with Geoffrey A. Manne) in The Anti-Trust Bulletin (57, no. 3). His current research focuses on congressional-executive war powers in the on-going armed conflict against al Qaeda. In 2011 and 2016, Professor Weinberger received the Thomas A. Davis Teaching Excellence Award.
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Professor of Economics
The University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
Jonathan W. Williams received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Virginia in 2009. Before joining UNC, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia’s Terry…
Jonathan W. Williams received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Virginia in 2009. Before joining UNC, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business. Most of Jonathan’s research is in empirical industrial organization. His current interests include economic and regulatory issues in the telecom, airline, and pharmaceutical industries.
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Associate Professor of Finance
National School of Development, Peking University
Dr. Zhaofeng Xue is Research Fellow and Co-Director of the Institute for Law and Economics, National School of Development, Peking University. Dr. Xue received his Ph.D. in economics from George Mason…
Dr. Zhaofeng Xue is Research Fellow and Co-Director of the Institute for Law and Economics, National School of Development, Peking University. Dr. Xue received his Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University School of Law. His major fields of interest are antitrust law, law and economics, and political economy. Dr. Xue is author of numerous articles and two books, Controversies in Economics and Commerce without Frontiers: The Economics Revolution in Antitrust.
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John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Christopher Yoo has emerged as one of the nation’s leading authorities on law and technology. His research focuses on how economic theories of imperfect competition are transforming the regulation of the Internet and other forms of electronic communications. He has been a leading voice in the “network neutrality” debate that has dominated Internet policy over the past several years. He is also pursuing research on copyright theory as well as the history of presidential power. He is the author (with Daniel F. Spulber) of Networks in Telecommunications: Economics and Law (Cambridge, 2009) and (with Steven G. Calabresi) of The Unitary Executive: Presidential Power from Washington to Bush (Yale, 2008). Yoo testifies frequently before Congress, the Federal Communications Commission, and the Federal Trade Commission.
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Associate Professor of Law
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
John M. Yun is an associate professor of law at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School and the deputy executive director of the Global Antitrust Institute (GAI). He was previously…
John M. Yun is an associate professor of law at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School and the deputy executive director of the Global Antitrust Institute (GAI). He was previously the acting deputy assistant director in the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Bureau of Economics, Antitrust Division. He has also taught economics at Georgetown University, Emory University, and Georgia Tech. He received his BA in economics at UCLA and his PhD in economics at Emory University.
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Senior Scholar, Competition Policy
Mario Zúñiga is a senior scholar of competition policy at ICLE, which he joined in February 2024. He is also a professor of economic analysis of law at the University of…
Mario Zúñiga is a senior scholar of competition policy at ICLE, which he joined in February 2024. He is also a professor of economic analysis of law at the University of Lima and at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and serves as a nongovernmental advisor for Perú at the International Competition Network (ICN). Previously, Mario was a commissioner of Peru’s Commission for the Defense of Free Competition (INDECOPI); an advisor in the Cabinet of Advisors of the Peruvian Ministry of Economy and Finance; director of research at Taxpayers for Respect; and a researcher at Hernando de Soto’s Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD). He received his JD from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, as well as an LLM from the George Washington University Law School.
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Foundation Professor of Law
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
Todd J. Zywicki is George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law at George Mason’s Antonin Scalia School of Law and a senior scholar and senior fellow with the F. A. Hayek…
Todd J. Zywicki is George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law at George Mason’s Antonin Scalia School of Law and a senior scholar and senior fellow with the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center. Previously, Zywicki was director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and taught at Vanderbilt University Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, Boston College Law School, and Mississippi College School of Law. He served as chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Law & Economics in 2019 and, in 2009, was the recipient of the Institute for Humane Studies 2009 Charles G. Koch Outstanding IHS Alum Award. Zywicki received his JD from the University of Virginia, his master’s in economics from Clemson University, and his bachelor’s in economics from Dartmouth College.
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