John E. Lopatka
A. Robert Noll Distinguished Professor of Law, Emeritus
Penn State Law School
John E. Lopatka is the A. Robert Noll Distinguished Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Penn State Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.
His research focuses on antitrust, regulated industries, and law & economics.
Lopatka joined Penn State from the University of South Carolina School of Law, where he held the Solomon Blatt Professorship. He began his academic career as an associate professor at the University of Illinois College of Law.
Alongside his academic work, he served as assistant director for planning in the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition and later as a consultant to the FTC’s Office of General Counsel. Earlier in his career, he practiced law with Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine in New York and Isham, Lincoln & Beale in Chicago.
He is a member of the leadership of the American Bar Association Antitrust Section and a contributing editor of the section’s Antitrust Law Journal. He co-authored the multi-volume treatise “Federal Antitrust Law” and the book “The Microsoft Case: Antitrust, High Technology, and Consumer Welfare.”
He earned an LL.M. from Columbia University, where he also served as an associate in law and a fellow in the Center for Law and Economic Studies, a J.D. from the University of Chicago, and a bachelor’s from Loyola University Chicago.
