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Geoffrey A. Manne

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 a distinguished fellow at Northwestern University Center on Law, Business, and Economics. In April 2017 he was appointed by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to the FCC’s Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee, and he recently served for two years on the FCC’s Consumer Advisory Committee.

Mr. Manne earned his JD and AB degrees from the University of Chicago and is an expert in the economic analysis of law, specializing in competition, telecommunications, consumer protection, intellectual property, and technology policy.

Prior to founding ICLE, Manne was a law professor at Lewis & Clark Law School. From 2006-2009, he took a leave from teaching to develop Microsoft’s law and economics academic outreach program. Manne has also served as a lecturer in law at the University of Chicago Law School and 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 Circuit Court of Appeals, and worked as a research assistant for Judge Richard Posner. He was also once (very briefly) employed by the FTC.

Mr. Manne’s publications have appeared in numerous journals including the Journal of Competition Law and Economics, the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, the Supreme Court Economic Review, and the Arizona Law Review, among others. With former FTC Commissioner, Joshua Wright, Manne is the editor of a volume from Cambridge University Press entitled, Competition Policy and Intellectual Property Law Under Uncertainty: Regulating Innovation. Manne has also testified on several occasions before Congress and at the FCC and FTC, and he regularly files written comments and amicus briefs on key antitrust, IP, and telecommunications issues. His analysis is frequently published in popular print and broadcasting outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Wired, Foreign Affairs, NPR, and Bloomberg, among others.

Manne is a member of the American Law and Economics Association, the Canadian Law and Economics Association, and the Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics. He blogs at Truth on the Market (www.truthonthemarket.com) (of which he is also the co-founder), is a contributor at WIRED, and tweets at @geoffmanne. His scholarly publications are available at http://ssrn.com/author=175541.

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Scholarship

November 30, 2020

Adding a Warning Label to Rewheel’s International Price Comparison and Competitiveness Rankings

Geoffrey A. Manne & Gus Hurwitz & Eric Fruits
The Internet is a fabulous means of communication. However, the Digital Fuel Monitor by Rewheel/research is a prime example of misinformation on the Internet
Antitrust & Consumer Protection
September 10, 2020

Data Portability and Interoperability

Geoffrey A. Manne & Samuel Bowman
While data portability may seem like an attractive option in certain markets, experience suggests it is not simple to impose even in cases where the trade-offs seem small.
Data Security & Privacy
August 11, 2020

The Deterioration of Appropriate Remedies in Patent Disputes

Geoffrey A. Manne & Kristian Stout & Julian Morris & Dirk Auer
Property rights are an essential economic institution. As the great UCLA economist Harold Demsetz famously argued, property rights spur specialization, investment, and competition, which in turn increase productivity, innovation, and wealth throughout the economy.
Intellectual Property
June 22, 2020

The Fatal Economic Flaws of the Contemporary Campaign Against Vertical Integration

Geoffrey A. Manne & Kristian Stout & Eric Fruits
Geoffrey A. Manne, Kristian Stout, Eric Fruits, "The Fatal Economic Flaws of the Contemporary Campaign Against Vertical Integration", Kansas Law Review, Kansas Law Review Inc. 2019 vol. 68(5)
Antitrust & Consumer Protection
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December 2, 2020

Comments to Senator Tillis, Request for Recommendations on Reforms to Section 512 of the Copyright Act

November 30, 2020

Adding a Warning Label to Rewheel’s International Price Comparison and Competitiveness Rankings

November 10, 2020

tl;dr - Congressman Buck’s Third Way

October 22, 2020

tl;dr - The DOJ's Antitrust Case Against Google

October 13, 2020

Brief of Amici Curiae Scholars of Economics and Antitrust in Support of Petitioners in COMCAST CORPORATION, ET AL. v. VIAMEDIA, INC.

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