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Oppenheim Professor of Law
George Washington University Law School
Michael Abramowicz is the Oppenheim Professor of Law and associate dean for strategy and innovation at The George Washington University Law School and an academic affiliate of the International…
Michael Abramowicz is the Oppenheim Professor of Law and associate dean for strategy and innovation at The George Washington University Law School and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on law & economics across a wide range of fields, including intellectual property, civil procedure, corporate law, administrative law, and insurance law. He is the author of “Predictocracy: Market Mechanisms for Public and Private Decision Making.” Before joining George Washington University, Abramowicz served as an associate professor and assistant professor at George Mason University School of Law. He also held visiting appointments as a visiting associate professor at the University of Chicago Law School and as a visiting assistant professor at Northwestern University School of Law. Earlier in his career, he clerked for Judge Patrick E. Higginbotham of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and worked as a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Board. Abramowicz earned a J.D. from Yale Law School and a bachelor’s, summa cum laude, from Amherst College.
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Executive Director
Ian Adams serves as executive director of the International Center for Law & Economics. He leads ICLE’s strategic planning, program development, and organizational growth. His policy work…
Ian Adams serves as executive director of the International Center for Law & Economics. He leads ICLE’s strategic planning, program development, and organizational growth. His policy work focuses on how emerging technologies disrupt law and regulation, with particular emphasis on automation and the future of work, privacy, and insurance. Earlier, he spent nearly a decade as an attorney at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. He also held leadership roles at public-policy think tanks, worked on staff in the California and Oregon state legislatures, and served as a judge advocate in the California State Guard. He is admitted to practice law in California, the District of Columbia, and Illinois. Adams earned bachelor’s degrees in history and philosophy from Seattle University and a J.D. from the University of Oregon.
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Sharswood Fellow
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Gerald Adams is a nonresident scholar at the International Center for Law & Economics and a Sharswood fellow and resident scholar with the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition…
Gerald Adams is a nonresident scholar at the International Center for Law & Economics and a Sharswood fellow and resident scholar with the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. His research focuses on law and technology, with particular emphasis on telecommunications and emerging-network regulation. Before joining the University of Pennsylvania, Adams advised on domestic and international regulatory matters for a global satellite-communications constellation, focusing on deployment and spectrum policy. He also worked as a summer associate at Hogan Lovells, counseling on Federal Communications Commission proceedings, spectrum disputes, and trade-related telecommunications restrictions. During law school, he interned at the Federal Communications Commission in the Office of Commissioner Geoffrey Starks and served as a research assistant on technology-policy and blockchain-regulation issues. Earlier, he worked as a patent engineer at Holland & Hart and as a research fellow at the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, studying quantum-computing networking systems. Adams has received several academic distinctions. He was a Levy Scholar and received the Herbert F. Schwartz Award for distinguished achievement in law and technology. He earned a J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and a bachelor’s from the University of Utah.
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Chief Economist
Brian Albrecht serves as chief economist of the International Center for Law & Economics. He leads the application and integration of theoretical and empirical economic methodologies across the organization’s…
Brian Albrecht serves as chief economist of the International Center for Law & Economics. He leads the application and integration of theoretical and empirical economic methodologies across the organization’s research agenda. He also writes the Economic Forces newsletter for Substack. Before joining ICLE in 2022, he was an assistant professor of economics at the Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University. Earlier, he held research and academic appointments, including visiting dissertation fellow and fellowships at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and the Institute for Humane Studies, as well as graduate research roles at the University of Minnesota. Albrecht has received numerous academic and professional distinctions. These include the Oskar Morgenstern Fellowship at the Mercatus Center, the Adam Smith Fellowship, the Humane Studies Fellowship, the John S. Chipman Fellowship in the University of Minnesota Department of Economics, and a Distinguished Teaching Assistant award from the University of Minnesota, which he received twice. He also earned a Thank a Teacher certificate from the University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts and a Presidential Academic Scholarship from St. Olaf College. He earned a master’s and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota, a master’s in the economics of public policy from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, and a bachelor of arts 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 director of research for the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Patent Analysis at Carnegie Mellon University and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law…
Dean Alderucci is director of research for the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Patent Analysis at Carnegie Mellon University and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. He is currently on leave from Carnegie Mellon while serving as a senior advisor on artificial intelligence to the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. His research focuses on using artificial intelligence and natural-language processing to extract knowledge from legal and regulatory texts and to automate complex, knowledge-intensive work performed by lawyers, regulators, and medical professionals. He studies how software systems can interpret patent documents, adapt the patent system to AI technologies, and improve decision-making in legal and administrative processes. He also advises organizations on implementing machine-learning systems and designing customized AI tools for business and regulatory applications. Alderucci also serves on the U.S. General Services Administration Acquisition Policy Federal Advisory Committee and is a visiting professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. Earlier in his career, he worked as a principal consultant advising public- and private-sector organizations on deploying AI systems and operational strategies. He previously taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and at New York University. Before entering academia, he was vice president and chief operating officer of the Innovation Division at Cantor Fitzgerald. He is an inventor on more than 250 granted U.S. patents across a range of technical fields and is a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. Alderucci earned a Ph.D. in machine learning and public policy from Carnegie Mellon University. He also holds an LL.M. from New York University School of Law and master’s degrees in applied mathematics, operations research, and computer science from Columbia University.
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Scholar in Residence
University of Colorado Leeds School of Business
Eric Alston is a scholar in residence and faculty director of the Hernando de Soto Capital Markets Program in the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado…
Eric Alston is a scholar in residence and faculty director of the Hernando de Soto Capital Markets Program in the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research centers on institutional and organizational analysis and law & economics, drawing on economics, law, and political science to study constitutional design, property rights, frontier economic development, and digital governance, including cryptocurrencies and blockchain networks. He is also a research associate with the Comparative Constitutions Project. Before joining the University of Colorado Boulder, Alston served as a senior policy and research analyst focused on criminal-justice reform at Stand Together. He also worked with international organizations on constitutional design and governance, including roles as a human-rights research fellow, Yemen research fellow, and dialogue contributor with International IDEA; a research associate with the United Nations Development Programme; and a constitution-reform associate with the International Development Law Organization. His distinctions include a National Science Foundation co–principal-investigator research grant, a Templeton World Charity Foundation project leadership award, the Melvin Roberts Teaching Award, and an Ethereum Foundation Academic Award. Alston earned a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, a master’s in economics from the University of Maryland, and a bachelor’s from the University of Illinois.
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William Alfred Rose Professor of Law
University of Alabama School of Law
Yonathan Arbel is the William Alfred Rose Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law &…
Yonathan Arbel is the William Alfred Rose Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on contracts, commercial and consumer law, artificial intelligence and the law, and law & economics, using doctrinal, empirical, and socio-legal methods to study private legal obligations and market institutions. At Alabama, he also directs AI-studies initiatives and co-founded the Center for Law & AI Risk. Before joining the University of Alabama faculty, Arbel was a postdoctoral fellow in private law at Harvard Law School and a visiting assistant professor of law at Villanova University. He also taught economic analysis of contract law in the Harvard University economics department and served as a research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. Earlier in his career, he clerked at the Supreme Court of Israel and founded an international consulting firm, where he advised governments, law firms, and trade organizations on contract design and commercial arrangements. His distinctions include the American College of Consumer Financial Services’ writing-competition award and selection as a “Rising Stars in Legal Academia” honoree. He was also an Olin fellow and a Byse fellow at Harvard Law School. Arbel earned a doctoral degree in law (S.J.D.) from Harvard Law School, a master’s in law (J.S.M.) from Stanford Law School, and a joint law-and-humanities degree, summa cum laude, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Director of Competition Policy
Dirk Auer serves as director of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics. He leads the organization’s work on competition and antitrust issues in the United…
Dirk Auer serves as director of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics. He leads the organization’s work on competition and antitrust issues in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and other jurisdictions. He joined ICLE as a senior fellow in 2018 and assumed his current role in 2022. His research focuses on competition law, antitrust enforcement, innovation incentives, and the economic analysis of regulatory intervention. Alongside his work at ICLE, Auer has held several academic appointments. He serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Liège, where he teaches European competition law and the economic aspects of competition law. He previously taught American law at the Catholic University of Louvain and advanced competition-law courses at EDHEC Business School. Earlier in his career, Auer worked as a research fellow at the Liège Competition and Innovation Institute. He also trained and practiced in competition-law roles at international law firms, including internships and trainee positions focused on European competition, trade, and intellectual-property law. He graduated with great distinction from the Master of Laws program in European competition and intellectual-property law at the University of Liège. Auer earned a Ph.D. in competition law and innovation from the University of Liège. He also earned an LL.M. from the University of Chicago Law School, an LL.M. from the University of Liège, and an LL.M. in European law from the Catholic University of Louvain.
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Brechner Eminent Scholar
University of Florida
Jane Bambauer is the Brechner Eminent Scholar at the University of Florida Levin College of Law and the College of Journalism and Communications and an academic affiliate of the…
Jane Bambauer is the Brechner Eminent Scholar at the University of Florida Levin College of Law and the College of Journalism and Communications and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. Her research examines the social costs and benefits of big data, artificial intelligence, and predictive algorithms. She studies how regulation of emerging information technologies affects free speech, privacy, law enforcement, health and safety, competitive markets, and government accountability. Before joining the University of Florida, Bambauer served as a professor of law at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. Earlier, she was a visiting assistant professor at Brooklyn Law School. She also serves as chair of the National AI Advisory Committee Subcommittee on Law Enforcement and previously served as deputy director for societal impact at the National Science Foundation–funded Center for Quantum Networks. Bambauer co-authored “Dobbs Advanced Torts: Economic and Dignitary Torts.” She earned a J.D. from Yale Law School and a bachelor’s, with distinction, from Yale University.
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Irving Cypen Professor of Law
University of Florida Levin College of Law
Derek Bambauer is the Irving Cypen Professor of Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law &…
Derek Bambauer is the Irving Cypen Professor of Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE). His research focuses on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, internet censorship, and intellectual property, and he teaches internet law, cybersecurity, and intellectual property. Before joining the University of Florida, Bambauer served as a professor of law at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. He previously taught at Brooklyn Law School and Wayne State University Law School and has been a visiting professor at Swinburne Law School in Australia. Earlier in his career, he was a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, where he worked with the OpenNet Initiative studying internet censorship worldwide. Before entering academia, he worked as a principal systems engineer at Lotus Development Corp. and has maintained an active pro bono practice representing innovators, entrepreneurs, and security researchers. He co-authored the book “Cybersecurity: An Interdisciplinary Problem.” Bambauer graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor’s from Harvard College and earned a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School.
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Senior Scholar, Innovation Policy
Mikołaj Barczentewicz serves as a senior scholar of innovation policy at the International Center for Law & Economics. His work focuses on technology law and policy, including the regulation…
Mikołaj Barczentewicz serves as a senior scholar of innovation policy at the International Center for Law & Economics. His work focuses on technology law and policy, including the regulation of decentralized technologies, digital privacy and security, and online platforms. His research also covers crypto and Web3 regulation, legal technology, and computational legal research, including the use of programming to support legal analysis and the teaching of technical skills to lawyers. In public law, he studies United Kingdom and European Union constitutional and administrative law, and in legal philosophy, he works on general jurisprudence and constitutional theory. He is also an associate professor in law at the University of Surrey in Guildford, England, where he serves as research director of the Law and Technology Hub. Earlier at Surrey, he taught public law and legal theory as a senior lecturer and lecturer. In addition, Barczentewicz serves as a research associate with the University of Oxford Programme for the Foundations of Law and Constitutional Government. He previously held a research associate appointment at Oxford’s Centre for Technology and Global Affairs and was a fellow at Stanford Law School from 2021 to 2023, where he examined the privacy-and-security implications of digital-services regulation in Europe and the United States. Earlier in his academic career, he served as a lecturer in law at Jesus College, Oxford. Before entering academia, Barczentewicz practiced law in Warsaw as an associate and trainee lawyer at Domański Zakrzewski Palinka, working on European Union law, competition law, pharmaceutical law, and constitutional law. He also served as an expert at the Civic Development Forum Foundation, contributing to government-transparency and legislative-reform projects. Earlier, he worked as a web developer and information architect. He graduated with distinction from multiple postgraduate law programs at the University of Oxford. Barczentewicz earned a Ph.D. in law, a master of philosophy in law, and a magister juris degree in law from the University of Oxford. He also holds an LL.M. in Polish law from the University of Warsaw.
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Honorary Associate Professor
Australian National University
George Robert Barker is an honorary associate professor at the Australian National University and a member of Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and an…
George Robert Barker is an honorary associate professor at the Australian National University and a member of Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on law & economics, finance, competition law, trade law, intellectual property, taxation, and industry regulation, including communications and digital-economy markets. His work also addresses public policy, public finance, and the economic role of government. Barker previously served as director of the Centre for Law and Economics at the Australian National University. He has also been a visiting fellow at Oxford University Law School, the London School of Economics, and the Centre for Law and Economics at University College London. Earlier in his career, he served as chief analyst and economic advisor at the New Zealand Treasury and has provided expert economic testimony to courts, regulatory agencies, and governments in multiple jurisdictions. He is a past president of the Australian Law and Economics Association and an elected fellow of the Law and Economics Association of New Zealand. He also received the Olin Fellowship in Law and Economics at Cornell University. Barker earned a Ph.D. in economics from Oxford University.
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Torrey H. Webb Professor of Law
USC Gould School of Law
Jonathan 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…
Jonathan 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 and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on intellectual property, antitrust, contracts, and corporate law, with particular attention to innovation policy and competitive strategy in technology markets. He has also served as a visiting professor at New York University School of Law and earlier as a visiting assistant professor and adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law. Before entering academia, he practiced corporate law as a senior associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York, where he worked on private equity and mergers-and-acquisitions transactions. He is the author of “The Big Steal: Ideology, Interest, and the Undoing of Intellectual Property” and “Innovators, Firms, and Markets: The Organizational Logic of Intellectual Property.” Barnett earned a J.D. from Yale Law School, a master’s from Cambridge University, and a bachelor’s, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Nonresident Scholar
International Center for Law & Economics
Roger Bate is a nonresident scholar at the International Center for Law & Economics. His research examines international and domestic health policy, with a particular focus on medicines, public-health…
Roger Bate is a nonresident scholar at the International Center for Law & Economics. His research examines international and domestic health policy, with a particular focus on medicines, public-health risks from substandard and counterfeit drugs, and aid policy in developing countries. He has held a range of policy and research positions at market-oriented research organizations. He served as a fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs in London and as a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He also advised the South African government on health-policy matters and serves on the board of Africa Fighting Malaria, which he co-founded. Earlier, he founded the European Science and Environment Forum and directed research initiatives on environmental and public-health policy. He also co-founded the Frederic Bastiat Journalism Prize with Julian Morris. He earned a Ph.D. in applied economics from the University of Cambridge. He also earned a master’s in environmental resource management from University College London and a master of philosophy in land economy from the University of Cambridge. He holds a bachelor’s from Thames Valley University.
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Nicholas J. Chabraja Professor
Northwestern University
Bernard S. Black is the Nicholas D. Chabraja Professor at Northwestern University and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. At Northwestern, he holds appointments…
Bernard S. Black is the Nicholas D. Chabraja Professor at Northwestern University and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. At Northwestern, he holds appointments in the Pritzker School of Law, the Kellogg School of Management’s finance department, and the Institute for Policy Research. His research focuses on health policy and medical malpractice, empirical methods for causal inference, law & economics, law and finance, and international corporate governance. Black previously held the Hayden W. Head Regents Chair for Faculty Excellence at the University of Texas School of Law and served as professor of finance in the McCombs School of Business and director of the Center for Law, Business, and Economics. Before that, he was a professor of law at Stanford Law School and earlier a professor of law at Columbia Law School. Earlier in his career, he served as senior policy adviser to the Harvard Institute for International Development’s Russia Legal Reform Project, counsel to a commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, practiced corporate and securities law at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and clerked for Judge Patricia M. Wald of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He is co-author of “Medical Malpractice Litigation: How It Works; Why Tort Reform Hasn’t Helped,” and co-author of “The Law and Finance of Corporate Acquisitions.” He also co-authored “A Guide to the Russian Law on Joint Stock Companies,” “Negotiating and Drafting the Acquisition Agreement,” and “(Some of) the Essentials of Finance and Investment.” Black founded the annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies and is a founding editor of the Journal of Law, Finance and Accounting. He earned a J.D. from Stanford Law School, a master’s in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a bachelor’s, magna cum laude, from Princeton University.
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Professor of Law
Pepperdine Caruso School of Law
Babette Boliek is a professor of law at Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE).…
Babette Boliek is a professor of law at Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE). Her research focuses on antitrust law, telecommunications law and policy, privacy law, sports law, and the economic analysis of communications regulation. Boliek previously served as deputy assistant U.S. attorney general for economic analysis in the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division and as chief economist of the Federal Communications Commission. Before entering government service, she was a senior fellow at the Information Economy Project at George Mason University School of Law and a fellow of the Center for Communication Law and Policy, a joint program of the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and the Annenberg School of Communication. Earlier in her career, she clerked for Judge Michael B. Mukasey of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She has also held visiting and research appointments, including as a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Boliek was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics while in law school. She earned a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Davis, and a bachelor’s, with distinction, from California State University, Chico.
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Henry G. Manne Chair in Law and Economics
George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School
Henry N. Butler is the Henry G. Manne Chair in Law and Economics and executive director of the Law & Economics Center at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on antitrust, corporate governance, consumer protection, health-care policy, federalism, environmental policy, and law & economics. At George Mason University, Butler has held appointments as professor, associate professor, and assistant professor of law and served as associate dean and director of the Law & Economics Center, and previously as dean of the law school. He previously served as executive director of the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth at Northwestern University School of Law. He also held faculty and research appointments at the University of Kansas, Chapman University, and Texas A&M University and served as a visiting fellow in law & economics at the University of Chicago. In addition, he directed judicial-education programs at the Brookings Institution and the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, developing training programs in economics, finance, accounting, and statistics for federal and state judges. Butler is the author or co-author of several books, including “Economic Analysis for Lawyers,” “The Corporation and the Constitution” (with Larry E. Ribstein), and “The Sarbanes-Oxley Debacle: What We’ve Learned, How to Fix It” (with Larry E. Ribstein). He was inducted into the Virginia Tech College of Science Hall of Distinction. Butler earned a J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law, a Ph.D. and a master’s in economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and a bachelor’s from the University of Richmond.
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Dean and Chair of Economics
Hong Kong University Business School
Hongbin Cai is dean of the Hong Kong University Business School and chair of economics at the University of Hong Kong and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE). His research focuses on game theory, the Chinese economy, industrial organization, and corporate finance. At the University of Hong Kong, Cai leads the business school and the economics faculty. Before joining Hong Kong University, he served as dean, associate dean, and professor at the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University. Earlier in his career, he taught economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and held a visiting appointment at Yale University. Cai has served in public and professional roles, including as a member of the National People’s Congress, a member of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League, and founding president of the Chinese Finance Association. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and has received the National Chang Jiang Scholar honor from China’s Ministry of Education and the National Outstanding Young Researcher award from the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Cai earned a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University, a master’s in economics from Peking University, and a bachelor’s from Wuhan University.
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Professor of Law
Antonin Scalia Law School
James C. Cooper is professor of law and director of the Program on Economics & Privacy at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE). His research focuses on the law & economics of privacy, data security, and consumer protection, as well as competition policy and antitrust enforcement. He also served as director of research and policy at the Law & Economics Center, where he led empirical-policy projects and educational programs for judges, regulators, and attorneys general. Before entering academia, Cooper held multiple senior roles at the Federal Trade Commission. He served as deputy director for economic analysis in the Bureau of Consumer Protection and earlier as acting director and deputy director of the Office of Policy Planning, as well as advisor to Commissioner William Kovacic. He also practiced antitrust law as an associate at Crowell & Moring LLP. Cooper received the Federal Trade Commission Outstanding Scholarship Award. He earned a J.D., magna cum laude, from the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, a Ph.D. in economics from Emory University, and a bachelor’s from the University of South Carolina.
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Professor of Economics
University of Bologna
Vincenzo Denicolò is professor of economics at the University of Bologna and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. He is also a research fellow…
Vincenzo Denicolò is professor of economics at the University of Bologna and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. He is also a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. His research focuses on industrial organization, particularly the economics of innovation and competition policy. He also works on endogenous-growth theory and social-choice theory. At the University of Bologna, Denicolò has served as professor of economics and previously as associate professor and assistant professor. He also served as professor of economics at the University of Parma and later at the University of Leicester, where he held research-leadership responsibilities. Within the University of Bologna, he has directed graduate and doctoral programs in economics and led the Bologna Centre for Law & Economics. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Cambridge, the European University Institute, the University of Paris II, and the University of California, Berkeley. Denicolò has contributed to competition-policy practice as a member of the United Kingdom Competition and Markets Authority academic panel and as a member of the European Commission’s Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy. He has also served as co-editor of the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy and previously co-edited the International Journal of Industrial Organization. Denicolò earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Bologna.
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Professor of Law
George Mason University Antonin Scalia School of Law
J. Shahar Dillbary is professor of law and associate dean for faculty research at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International…
J. Shahar Dillbary is professor of law and associate dean for faculty research at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE). His research spans torts, antitrust, trademarks, and anti-discrimination law, as well as the intersection of law & economics with social norms, psychology, and empirical and experimental methods. At George Mason University, Dillbary teaches torts, antitrust, and economics for lawyers. Before joining the Scalia Law faculty, he held an endowed professorship as the James M. Kidd Sr. Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law, where he also founded and directed the Cross-Disciplinary Legal Studies Program and held a joint appointment with the business school. Prior to entering academia, Dillbary practiced antitrust and intellectual-property law at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in New York and practiced commercial litigation in Israel at Meitar, Liquornik, Geva & Co. and S. Horowitz & Co. He is also admitted to the Israeli Bar and has served as a mediator in civil disputes. Dillbary is the co-author, with William Landes, of the book “Law and Economics: Theory, Cases and Other Materials.” He received the Dukeminier Award for outstanding legal scholarship, the Dean Thomas W. Christopher Award for scholarly achievement and service, the Commitment to Academic Excellence Award, and the Outstanding Faculty Member Award. He was also a Fulbright Scholar and a John M. Olin Scholar in Law & Economics. Dillbary earned a Ph.D. in law and economics and a master’s from the University of Chicago, as well as a law degree and a bachelor’s in economics from Bar-Ilan University.
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Assistant Professor of Law
University of Mississippi
Martin Edwards is assistant professor of law at the University of Mississippi School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE). His research focuses on business-entity law, corporate governance, antitrust, financial and commercial technology regulation, firearms regulation, and law & economics, with particular attention to the economic analysis of public policy affecting business organizations. At the University of Mississippi, Edwards teaches contracts, business associations, mergers and acquisitions, securities regulation, and professional responsibility. Before joining Ole Miss, he served as assistant professor of law at Belmont University College of Law and earlier as assistant professor of law at Mississippi College School of Law. He also held a Forrester Fellowship at Tulane University Law School, where he taught legal research and writing. Prior to entering academia, Edwards practiced at Phelps Dunbar LLP and served as a special assistant attorney general in the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office. He also clerked for Judge Leslie H. Southwick of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Edwards earned a J.D. from Duke University School of Law, where he served as managing editor of Law & Contemporary Problems and was a member of the moot court board. He also holds a bachelor’s from the University of Mississippi.
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Robert C. Taylor Chair Economics
University of Virginia
Kenneth G. Elzinga is the Robert C. Taylor Chair in Economics at the University of Virginia and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.
Kenneth G. Elzinga is the Robert C. Taylor Chair in Economics at the University of Virginia and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on antitrust economics, particularly market definition and pricing strategy, as well as the relationship between economics and public policy. Elzinga has spent his academic career at the University of Virginia, where he has served as professor, associate professor, and assistant professor of economics. He has also held visiting appointments at Pepperdine University and Trinity University and served as a fellow in law & economics at the University of Chicago. Earlier in his career, he worked as a special economic adviser to the assistant attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division and as a research economist for the U.S. Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee. He is the co-author, under the pseudonym Marshall Jevons with William L. Breit, of the mystery novels “Murder at the Margin,” “The Fatal Equilibrium,” and “A Deadly Indifference.” He also co-authored “The Antitrust Casebook: Milestones in Economic Regulation.” Elzinga received the University of Virginia’s Thomas Jefferson Award, the institution’s highest faculty honor, along with the Cavaliers’ Distinguished Teaching Professorship, the University of Virginia Alumni Association Distinguished Professor Award, and the Commonwealth of Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award. He has also received teaching honors from the Kenan and Templeton foundations. Elzinga earned a Ph.D. and a master’s in economics from Michigan State University and a bachelor’s from Kalamazoo College, which later awarded him an honorary doctorate.
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Assistant Professor of Law
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Tammi S. Etheridge is associate professor of law at Washington and Lee University School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.
Tammi S. Etheridge is associate professor of law at Washington and Lee University School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. Her research focuses on food and drug law, public-health law, administrative law, and law & economics, with particular attention to the regulation of food and agriculture, consumer protection, and the interaction between tort law and government intervention in markets. At Washington and Lee, Etheridge teaches torts, administrative law, public-health law, and law & economics. Before joining the faculty, she taught at the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, Howard University School of Law, and Elon University School of Law. Earlier in her career, she practiced complex commercial litigation, multidistrict litigation, and product-liability law at Barnes & Thornburg LLP in Minneapolis. She also clerked for Judge Joseph R. Goodwin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, where she worked on multidistrict medical-device litigation. Etheridge earned a J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School, a master’s in public policy from the University of Minnesota Humphrey School of Public Affairs, and a bachelor’s from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Professor of Public Economics
University of Bologna
Luigi A. Franzoni is professor of public economics at the University of Bologna and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE). His…
Luigi A. Franzoni is professor of public economics at the University of Bologna and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE). His research applies law & economics to settlements and litigation, law enforcement, tax amnesties, intellectual property, liability, and incomplete contracts. At the University of Bologna, Franzoni has served as professor of public economics and director of academic programs in economics and law. He previously served as president of the European Association of Law and Economics and co-founded the Italian Association of Law and Economics. He has held visiting appointments and academic collaborations at institutions in Europe, the United States, and Asia. Franzoni is the co-author, with Daniela Marchesi, of an introductory law & economics book for Italian readers. He received the Distinguished Article Prize from the American Law and Economics Review and a doctoral-thesis prize from Rivista il Fisco. He was also awarded a Fulbright scholarship. Franzoni earned a Ph.D. in economics from Nuffield College, University of Oxford, a master’s in economics from the University of Warwick, and a bachelor’s from the University of Bologna.
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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 and an academic affiliate of the International…
Luke Froeb is the William C. Oehmig Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on industrial organization, antitrust economics, and applied econometrics, particularly merger analysis and competition-policy enforcement. His work develops economic models used by enforcement agencies to evaluate mergers and anticompetitive conduct. At Vanderbilt University, Froeb teaches managerial economics in the M.B.A. and executive-education programs. Earlier in his career, he served as assistant U.S. attorney general for economics in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, where he oversaw economic analysis of merger and conduct investigations. He also served as director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics. Previously, Froeb worked as an economist in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and held a fellowship at the University of Chicago Law School. He began his academic career as an assistant professor of economics at Tulane University. Froeb is the co-author of the textbook “Managerial Economics: A Problem-Solving Approach.” He has received honors including the Federal Trade Commission Award for Distinguished Service and multiple teaching awards at Vanderbilt University, including the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence and executive-M.B.A. outstanding-professor awards. Froeb earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin and a bachelor’s from Stanford University.
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Director of Economic Research
Eric Fruits serves as director of economic research at the International Center for Law & Economics. He leads data-driven economic analysis on antitrust, competition policy, and the regulation of…
Eric Fruits serves as director of economic research at the International Center for Law & Economics. He leads data-driven economic analysis on antitrust, competition policy, and the regulation of technology and telecommunications. Alongside his ICLE role, Fruits is president and chief economist of Economics International Corp., where he provides economic, finance, and statistical analysis and serves as an expert witness in state, federal, and international courts. He has also held long-running academic appointments. Fruits serves as an adjunct professor at Portland State University, teaching courses in urban economics, real estate finance, and state-and-local public finance. He previously served as an adjunct professor at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and as editor of the Center for Real Estate Quarterly. Earlier in his career, Fruits worked in senior economic and consulting roles, including vice president of research at the Cascade Policy Institute, principal consultant at Nathan Associates, senior economist at ECONorthwest and LECG, and economist at Econ One. He began his academic career as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business and the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from Claremont Graduate University and a bachelor’s from Indiana University.
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Herman F. Selvin Professor of Law
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Jonah B. Gelbach is the Herman F. Selvin Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for…
Jonah B. Gelbach is the Herman F. Selvin Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE). His research spans civil procedure, evidence, statutory interpretation, and law & economics. He also studies event-study methodology, securities litigation, the economics of crime, applied statistical methods, public-assistance evaluation, and applied microeconomics. At Berkeley Law, Gelbach has served as professor of law and previously taught as a visiting professor at New York University School of Law. Before joining Berkeley, he was professor of law and associate professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Earlier, he held tenured economics appointments as associate professor at the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management and as associate professor and assistant professor of economics at the University of Maryland. He has served as a director of the American Law and Economics Association and as co-editor of the Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization. He also worked as a pro bono consultant to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on the design of its juror-selection system and served as a consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States on federal-court administrative appeals. Gelbach earned a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a bachelor’s from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Senior Scholar, Competition Policy
International Center for Law & Economics
Daniel J. Gilman serves as a senior scholar of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics. Before joining ICLE, he spent more than 16…
Daniel J. Gilman serves as a senior scholar of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics. Before joining ICLE, he spent more than 16 years as an attorney advisor in the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Policy Planning. There, he worked on competition issues in health care and technology markets and on the competitive effects of regulation, with particular attention to privacy and data-related rules. During the 2014–15 academic year, Gilman took leave from the FTC to serve as the Victor H. Kramer Foundation Fellow in antitrust law and economics at Harvard Law School. Earlier, he taught law and economics and health and science law as a visiting professor at the University of Maryland School of Law. He also taught at Penn State University and Washington University in St. Louis. Earlier in his career, Gilman practiced law in Washington, D.C., as an associate at Hogan & Hartson. He also held research and teaching roles in academia, including appointments in medical humanities, neuroscience, philosophy of science, and cognition. Gilman has received several professional distinctions. These include the Victor H. Kramer Foundation Fellowship, the Federal Trade Commission’s Paul Rand Dixon Award, multiple Janet D. Steiger Awards, and the John M. Olin Prize in Law and Economics. He earned a J.D. from Georgetown University, a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago, and a bachelor’s from Dartmouth College.
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Associate Professor
University of Warwick School of Law
David Gindis is an associate professor at Warwick Law School and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on institutional…
David Gindis is an associate professor at Warwick Law School and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on institutional economics and law & economics, with particular emphasis on corporate governance, company law, business ethics, and the legal theory of the firm. His work also examines the corporate-personality debate, legal institutionalism, and the history of economic ideas. At the University of Warwick, Gindis teaches company law, corporate governance, and the economic analysis of law. Before joining Warwick, he served as associate professor, senior lecturer, and lecturer in economics at the University of Hertfordshire, where he also taught microeconomics and political economy. He was also a research associate at the London Centre for Corporate Governance and Ethics at Birkbeck, University of London. Earlier in his career, Gindis held academic appointments in Lyon, France, including lecturer and teaching-and-research fellow at INSA Lyon and teaching assistant in economics at Université Lumière Lyon 2. He is the author and editor of several books, including the forthcoming “The Nexus and the Mask: A Legal Institutionalist Theory of the Firm” and the edited volume “Governing Corporate Knowledge Commons.” He received the Herbert Simon Young Scholar Prize from the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy and the History of Economic Analysis Award from the European Society for the History of Economic Thought. Gindis earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Hertfordshire and a master’s in economics and a bachelor’s from Université Lumière Lyon 2.
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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. He is also an ICLE academic affiliate and a member of ICLE’s Board of Academic Advisors. 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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Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
University of Southern California
Andrew T. Guzman is provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Southern California and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE). His research focuses on international law and economics, including international trade, foreign direct investment, international regulatory cooperation, public international law, and climate-change governance. His work also examines international tribunals, soft law, and product-safety regulation. At the University of Southern California, Guzman previously served as dean and Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law at the USC Gould School of Law and as professor of law and political science. Before joining USC, he was the Jackson H. Ralston Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also served as associate dean for international and advanced-degree programs and director of the International Legal Studies Program. He has taught as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, the University of Chicago Law School, the University of Virginia School of Law, Vanderbilt Law School, the University of Hamburg, and the National Law School of India University in Bangalore. He has also served as an international arbitrator. Earlier in his career, Guzman clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit. Guzman is the author of several books, including “Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change,” “How International Law Works,” and “International Trade Law” (with Joost Pauwelyn). He earned a J.D. and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
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Professor Emeritus
Northwestern University
David D. Haddock is professor emeritus of law & economics at Northwestern University and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE). His research applies law & economics to property rights, natural-resource regulation, and federal Indian law, including the economic analysis of tribal governance and reservation development. Haddock spent most of his academic career at Northwestern University, where he taught law & economics and federal Indian law. He also taught at Emory University, Ohio State University, and the University of California, Los Angeles. He held visiting-scholar appointments at Yale University, the University of Chicago, and the International Center for Economic Research in Torino, Italy, and has lectured widely in the United States and Europe. Earlier in his career, he served in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia. Haddock earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s from Oklahoma State University.
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Tomson Family Chair and Associate Professor
St. Olaf College
Colin Harris is the Tomson Family Chair and associate professor of law and economics at St. Olaf College, book-review editor at Public Choice, and an academic affiliate…
Colin Harris is the Tomson Family Chair and associate professor of law and economics at St. Olaf College, book-review editor at Public Choice, and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE). His research focuses on law & economics, property rights, and political economy, including the governance of institutions and collective-action problems. At St. Olaf College, Harris has served as associate professor and previously as assistant professor of law and economics. Earlier, he was a graduate lecturer at George Mason University, where he taught economics and law & economics courses. Harris is the co-author of the book “The Origins and Consequences of Property Rights” (with Meina Cai, Ilia Murtazashvili, and Jennifer Murtazashvili). He received the Elinor Ostrom Prize for the best full-length article in the Journal of Institutional Economics and held a dissertation fellowship and multiple graduate fellowships through the Mercatus Center’s F.A. Hayek Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. He also received a Humane Studies Fellowship from the Institute for Humane Studies. Harris earned a Ph.D. in economics and a master’s in economics from George Mason University and a bachelor’s from Florida State University.
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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 directs the Information Economy…
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 directs the Information Economy Project, and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE). He is also founder and managing director of Arlington Economics LLC and a founding partner of New Airwaves LLC. His research applies law & economics and public-choice analysis to communications and technology policy, with particular emphasis on telecommunications, media, wireless spectrum allocation, and internet regulation. At Clemson University, Hazlett leads the Information Economy Project and teaches courses on regulation and information markets. He previously served as professor of law & economics at George Mason University and earlier held faculty appointments at the University of California, Davis. He has also taught as visiting faculty at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Beyond academia, Hazlett has held several policy and research positions. He served as a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Earlier, he served as chief economist of the Federal Communications Commission. Hazlett is the author or co-author of several books, including “The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone,” “Public Policy Toward Cable Television: The Economics of Rate Controls” (with Matthew Spitzer), and “Telecommunications Meltdown: Did American Communications Policy Fail?” (with Eli Noam, Lawrence Lessig, and Richard Epstein). He has received honors including the Citicorp/Wriston Fellowship at the Manhattan Institute and an Outstanding Lecturer award from the University of California, Davis managerial-economics program. Hazlett earned a Ph.D. in economics and a bachelor’s from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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William F. Podlich Professor of Economics and George R. Roberts Fellow
Claremont McKenna College
Eric Helland is the William F. Podlich Professor of Economics and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College and an adjunct economist in the Institute for Civil Justice at the RAND Corporation. He is also an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE). His research examines litigation and regulation using law & economics methods, with a focus on pharmaceutical and patent litigation, securities litigation, auto safety, and medical malpractice. At Claremont McKenna College, Helland has served in a range of academic roles, including professor, associate professor, and assistant professor of economics, as well as chair of the faculty in the Robert Day School of Economics and Finance. He is also affiliated faculty at Claremont Graduate University. He concurrently works as an economist at the RAND Corporation’s Institute for Civil Justice and has held research leadership roles there. He previously served as a senior staff economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. Helland has held several visiting appointments, including visiting scholar at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics and visiting professor of law at the University of California, Los Angeles. He also served as a visiting fellow at the Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State at the University of Chicago. Earlier in his career, he taught at Ball State University and held instructional appointments at the University of Missouri–St. Louis and Washington University in St. Louis. He also worked as a health-policy analyst in the private sector. He has received the Robert H. Durr Award from the Midwest Political Science Association and multiple teaching awards, including the G. David Huntoon Senior Teaching Award and the Dean’s Teaching Award at Ball State University. He is a Roberts Fellow and a Lowe Fellow of the Lowe Institute of Political Economy. Helland earned a Ph.D. in economics and a master’s in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a bachelor’s from the University of Missouri.
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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, an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics, and a member of the ICLE board of directors. His research focuses on corporate law, securities regulation, and law & economics, with particular attention to corporate governance and financial regulation. At the University of Chicago Law School, Henderson has held multiple academic appointments, including Michael Caster Mamolen Research Scholar, Aaron Director Teaching Scholar, professor of law, and assistant professor. He has also served as a visiting professor at the University of Bergen, the University of California, Berkeley, and Université Paris Nanterre and held the Fresco Chair in corporate law at the University of Genoa. Before entering academia, Henderson worked as an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company, advising telecommunications and high-tech firms on business and regulatory strategy. He previously practiced appellate litigation and regulatory law at Kirkland & Ellis in Washington, D.C. He also clerked for Judge Dennis Jacobs of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Earlier in his career, he worked as an engineer, designing and constructing dams in California. Henderson has authored or co-authored several books, including “Securities Regulation” (with Jack Coffee and Hillary Sale), “Limited Liability: A Legal and Economic Analysis” (with Stephen Bainbridge), and “Hacking Trust: How Technology Is Revolutionizing Our Politics.” He also wrote the novel “Mental State.” Henderson earned a J.D., with high honors, from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. He also holds a bachelor’s in engineering from Princeton University.
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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 and an academic affiliate of the International Center…
Joshua R. Hendrickson is chair of the Department of Economics and an associate professor of economics at the University of Mississippi and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE). He is also co-author, with Brian Albrecht, of the Substack newsletter Economic Forces. His research sits at the intersection of monetary economics, public finance, political economy, and historical economic development. In monetary economics, he studies historical monetary institutions, modern monetary policy, and Bitcoin. His political-economy research applies economic analysis to revolutions, decisions to go to war, and how national-defense motives shape state institutions and public policy. He also examines how institutional design influences economic development and state capacity. At the University of Mississippi, Hendrickson has served as department chair and previously held positions as professor, associate professor, and assistant professor of economics. Beyond the university, he serves as a senior fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research’s Sound Money Project, a senior fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute, and a senior affiliate scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He also serves as a board member of the Mississippi Council on Economic Education. He received the New Scholar Award from the University of Mississippi’s College of Liberal Arts. Hendrickson earned a Ph.D. in economics from Wayne State University and a master’s in economics and a bachelor’s from the University of Toledo.
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Dean & Professor of Economic Law
Sogang University
Dae-Sik Hong is dean and professor of economic law at Sogang University Law School and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. He also serves as founding director of Sogang University’s ICT Law & Economy Institute and chair of the Association of Korean Law Schools. His research focuses on competition law, consumer law, regulatory law in the information and communications technology (ICT) sectors, personal data-protection law, and law & economics. He regularly advises government agencies, the National Assembly, research institutes, and industry organizations on competition and technology-regulation policy. He has also been a visiting scholar at University College London and the University of California, Berkeley. Before entering academia, Hong practiced as a partner at Yulchon law firm. Earlier, he served for a decade as a judge in the Korean court system, including the Seoul District Court. In addition to his academic work, he has held numerous public-service and professional leadership roles. He serves as a member of the Online Platform Policy Forum and the AI Legislation Improvement Committee of the Ministry of Science and ICT, and as an advisory committee member to the Korea Fair Trade Commission. He is vice president of both the Korea Economic Law Association and the Korea Personal Information Protection Law Association and previously served as president of the Korea Competition Law Association. He has also served on the Business Reorganization Plan Review Committee of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy; the Digital Finance Council of the Financial Services Commission; and the Personal Information Protection Commission as a non-standing member. Additional roles include expert member of the National Intellectual Property Committee; chairman of the Internet Coexistence Development Council of the Korea Communications Commission; member of the Broadcasting Market Competition Assessment Committee and the Broadcasting Dispute Mediation Committee; and expert member of the Broadcasting and Communication Convergence Promotion Committee in the Prime Minister’s Office. Hong earned a Ph.D., an LL.M., and a bachelor’s from Seoul National University.
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Emeritus Dean and Professor of Law
Lewis & Clark Law School
James L. Huffman is dean emeritus and professor of law at Lewis & Clark Law School and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.
James L. Huffman is dean emeritus and professor of law at Lewis & Clark Law School and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research and teaching focus on constitutional law, natural-resources law, water law, environmental law, property rights, jurisprudence, and constitutional history. Huffman spent his academic career at Lewis & Clark, where he served as dean from 1993 to 2006 and later returned to full-time teaching. He has also been a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and a visiting professor at the University of Auckland, the University of Oregon, the University of Athens, and Universidad Francisco Marroquín. He has also been active in public service and professional organizations, serving as a trustee of the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation and on the board of the Property and Environment Research Center. He chaired the Executive Committee of the Federalist Society’s Environment and Property Rights Practice Group and is admitted to practice before the Montana courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Huffman is the author of several books, including “Private Property and State Power,” “Private Property and the Constitution,” and “Government Liability and Disaster Mitigation: A Comparative Study.” He earned a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, a master’s from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a bachelor’s from Montana State University.
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Director of Law & Economics Programs
Justin (Gus) Hurwitz serves as director of law & economics programs at the International Center for Law & Economics. He oversees ICLE’s law & economics programming and research initiatives.…
Justin (Gus) Hurwitz serves as director of law & economics programs at the International Center for Law & Economics. He oversees ICLE’s law & economics programming and research initiatives. He is also a senior fellow and academic director of the Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. His academic research sits at the intersection of antitrust, administrative, and regulatory law, drawing on the principles of engineering, industrial organization, jurisprudence, political philosophy, and technology ethics. Previously, Hurwitz was a full professor of law and founding director of the Governance & Technology Center at the University of Nebraska College of Law. Earlier, he served as an associate professor and assistant professor of law at Nebraska and held leadership roles in technology, space, cyber, and telecommunications programs. He has also served as a visiting assistant professor at George Mason University Law School. Before entering academia, Hurwitz worked as a trial attorney in the Telecommunications and Media Enforcement Section of the U.S. Justice Department’s Antitrust Division. Earlier in his career, Hurwitz held graduate and undergraduate research positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory and interned at the Naval Research Laboratory, focusing on computer and computational sciences. 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 has received several individual honors and distinctions. These include the Ray H. Bunger Memorial Award for Excellence from the University of Nebraska College of Law, recognition as a Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Trailblazer by the National Law Journal, a Jones Day Swope Antitrust Writing Competition award, and recognition from U.S. Justice Department libraries for contributions to legal scholarship. He earned a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, a master’s in economics from George Mason University, and a 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 at Boston University and professor of law at Boston University School of Law, and an academic affiliate of the…
Keith N. Hylton is the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor at Boston University and professor of law at Boston University School of Law, and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research spans law & economics, with particular focus on tort law, antitrust, labor law, intellectual property, litigation theory, corporate law, and empirical legal analysis. At Boston University, he has held multiple chaired professorships and has also served as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. Before joining Boston University, he taught at Northwestern University School of Law, where he received tenure. Earlier in his career, he was a research fellow at the American Bar Foundation. Hylton has played significant leadership roles in the profession. He served as president of the American Law and Economics Association and is a member of the American Law Institute. He has also held editorial positions with the International Review of Law and Economics, Competition Policy International, and the Antitrust Law Journal. His honors include the Trailblazer’s Award from the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association and the Allyn Young Prize for best undergraduate economics thesis at Harvard College. He is the author or co-author of several books, including “Tort Law: A Modern Perspective,” “Laws of Creation: Property Rights in the World of Ideas” (with Ron Cass), “Research Handbook on the Economics of Criminal Law” (co-edited with Alon Harel), “Antitrust Law and Economics,” and “Antitrust Law: Economic Theory and Common Law Evolution.” Hylton earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also holds a bachelor’s from Harvard College.
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Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics
University of Maryland, College Park
Ginger Zhe Jin is the Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park, and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.…
Ginger Zhe Jin is the Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park, and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. Her research focuses on information asymmetry among economic agents and the design of disclosure and information systems to mitigate market failures. Her work examines consumer protection, industrial organization, and the economics of data and reputation systems. Jin serves as managing editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization, sits on the advisory council of the Journal of Industrial Economics, and is a board member of the Industrial Organization Society. She is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and co-founded Hazel Analytics, a company that uses open government data to improve public-health information. She has held several public- and private-sector appointments. She served as an Amazon Scholar and senior principal economist at Amazon.com. Earlier, she took leave from academia to serve at the Federal Trade Commission, first as a visiting staff economist and then as director of the Bureau of Economics. At the University of Maryland, she has served as professor, associate professor, and assistant professor of economics. She has also held a visiting professorship at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management. Jin has received a best-paper award at the Workshop on Health IT and Economics and multiple graduate teaching awards from the University of Maryland. She earned a Ph.D. in economics and a master’s in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, as well as a master’s from the Graduate School of the People’s Bank of China. She also holds a bachelor’s from the University of Science and Technology of China.
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Associate Professor of Law
University of Florida Levin College of Law
Ben Johnson is an associate professor of law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.…
Ben Johnson is an associate professor of law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research examines federal courts, judicial behavior, and corporate law, using formal theory and quantitative methods. He also studies judicial politics, machine learning, and the relationship between courts and public opinion. Before joining the University of Florida, Johnson served as an associate professor and assistant professor at Penn State Law. Earlier in his career, he worked as a litigation associate at Haynes and Boone LLP and as an equity-research associate at the investment bank Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Inc. His research has received national awards from the Association of American Law Schools and the American Political Science Association. Johnson earned a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a master’s in economics from Boston University. He also holds a bachelor’s from Baylor University.
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Blaine T. Phillips Distinguished Professor in Environmental Law
University of Virginia School of Law
Jason Scott Johnston is the Blaine T. Phillips Distinguished Professor in Environmental Law and director of the John M. Olin Program in Law & Economics at the University of Virginia School of Law, and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research applies law & economics to environmental regulation, natural-resources law, torts, contracts, consumer protection, and regulatory science. Before his current role, Johnston served as the Nicholas E. Chimicles Research Professor in Business Law and Regulation at the University of Virginia School of Law. He previously held the Robert G. Fuller Jr. Professorship of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he also directed the Program on Law, Environment, and Economy. Earlier, he taught at Vanderbilt Law School and Vermont Law School. He also held visiting or fellowship appointments at Yale Law School, the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, the American Academy in Berlin, and the Property and Environment Research Center. At the start of his legal career, Johnston clerked for Judge Gilbert S. Merritt of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He has served on the board of directors of the American Law and Economics Association, on the National Science Foundation’s law-and-social-science grant-review panel, and on the board of the Searle Civil Justice Institute. He also received the Robert A. Gorman Award for Teaching Excellence. Johnston earned a J.D. and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. He also holds a bachelor’s from Dartmouth College.
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Professor of LawDrake University Law School
Jeremy Kidd is a professor of law at Drake University Law School and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research applies…
Jeremy Kidd is a professor of law at Drake University Law School and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research applies law & economics and public-choice theory to regulation and institutional design. He focuses on rent-seeking behavior and the ways special interests use government processes to secure private benefits. His work addresses topics such as hedge-fund regulation, third-party litigation funding, and regulatory failure. He teaches corporate, securities, commercial, and administrative law. Before joining Drake, Kidd served as a visiting professor of law and director of the Securities Law Program at The Catholic University of America. He was previously an associate professor of law at Mercer University’s Walter F. George School of Law and a visiting professor at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. Earlier in his career, he practiced law with Ballard Spahr in Washington, D.C., and Strong & Hanni in Salt Lake City. He clerked for Chief Judge Alice M. Batchelder of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and Chief Judge Ted Stewart of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. He is a member of the Utah Bar and the District of Columbia Bar and has filed amicus briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court. Kidd received the Stevens Faculty Scholar of the Year award at Drake University Law School and serves as a research scholar with the Law & Economics Center at George Mason University. He earned a J.D., with honors, from George Mason University and a Ph.D. in economics from Utah State University. He also holds a bachelor’s degree from Utah State University, magna cum laude.
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Stevenson Bernard Professor of Law
George Washington University Law School
F. Scott Kieff is the Stevenson Bernard Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research and teaching examine the law & economics and political economy of innovation, including intellectual property, antitrust, trade, finance, entrepreneurship, corporate governance, technology policy, and economic development. Kieff also serves as faculty director of the law school’s technology and innovation initiatives. He previously served as a commissioner of the U.S. International Trade Commission before returning to teaching. Earlier, he was a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, where he worked on projects addressing the commercialization of innovation and property rights. He was previously a professor at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, with a secondary appointment in the School of Medicine’s Department of Neurological Surgery. He also held visiting and research appointments at Northwestern, Chicago, Stanford, and Harvard law schools, and was affiliated with the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center at the Max Planck Institute. Before entering academia, Kieff practiced as a trial and patent lawyer at Pennie & Edmonds in New York, Jenner & Block in Chicago, and McKool Smith in Washington, D.C. He clerked for Judge Giles S. Rich of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He has been elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Academia Europaea, and was named one of the nation’s “Top 50 Under 45” by IP Law & Business. Kieff earned a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He also completed undergraduate study in molecular biology, with training in microeconomics, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Director, Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
L. Lynne Kiesling is director of the Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for…
L. Lynne Kiesling is director of the Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. Her research focuses on the economics of regulation, market design, and technological change in the electricity industry, including digitization, smart-grid technologies, and transactive-energy systems. She also studies how institutions and price signals shape innovation in complex network industries. Kiesling is also a research professor in the School of Engineering, Design and Computing at the University of Colorado Denver and an adjunct professor in the Master of Science in Energy and Sustainability program at Northwestern University. She also serves as president of Knowledge Problem LLC, where she provides regulatory and market-design analysis. Earlier in her career, she was co-director of the Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics at Carnegie Mellon University and a visiting associate professor and associate director of the Purdue University Research Center in Economics. She previously taught economics at Northwestern University and held a faculty position at the College of William & Mary. She also worked as director of economic policy at the Reason Foundation, a research fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science at George Mason University, and a manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Her professional service includes membership on the U.S. Department of Energy’s Electricity Advisory Committee, prior service on the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Smart Grid Advisory Committee, and emerita membership on the GridWise Architecture Council. Kiesling earned a Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s from Miami University (Ohio).
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Associate Professor
Hofstra University Maurice A. Deane School of Law
Yunsieg P. Kim is an associate professor of law at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University and an academic affiliate of the International Center for…
Yunsieg P. Kim is an associate professor of law at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research examines the law & economics of technological innovation and regulation, with a particular focus on antitrust and competition law, as well as civil procedure and the role of information asymmetries in corporate misconduct. Before joining Hofstra, Kim served as a visiting assistant professor of law at the University of Missouri School of Law. He previously clerked for Judge Mark J. Bennett of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and worked as a litigation associate at King & Spalding LLP in Washington, D.C. Kim earned a J.D. from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan. He also holds a master’s in cyber security from New York University, a master’s in economics from the University of Missouri, and a bachelor’s from Dartmouth College.
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Mary and Daniel Loughran Professor of Law
University of Virginia School of Law
Edmund W. Kitch is the Mary and Daniel Loughran Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His teaching and research address agency, corporations, securities, antitrust, industrial and intellectual property, economic regulation, and legal & economic history. Before joining the Virginia faculty, Kitch taught at the University of Chicago, following an earlier appointment as an assistant professor at Indiana University. He has also served as a visiting professor at Stanford University, the University of Michigan, New York University, Brooklyn Law School, Georgetown University, and as the Jack N. Pritzker Distinguished Visiting Professor at Northwestern University School of Law. Alongside his academic work, he served as reporter for 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. After arriving at Virginia, he was a member of the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Public-Private Sector Interactions in Vaccine Innovation and participated in the University of Virginia’s Center for Advanced Studies. Kitch earned a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and a bachelor’s from Yale University.
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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
Baylor University Hankamer School of Business
Peter G. Klein is the 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…
Peter G. Klein is the 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, and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. He also directs the Baugh Center’s Free Enterprise Initiative, serves as an adjunct professor of strategy and management at the Norwegian School of Economics, and is a Carl Menger Research Fellow at the Mises Institute. Klein’s research examines the links among entrepreneurship, strategy, and organization, with applications to innovation, diversification, and public policy. His work focuses particularly on organizational economics and the theory of the firm. He has held faculty appointments at the University of Missouri, the University of Georgia, Copenhagen Business School, and Washington University in St. Louis, and earlier taught at the University of California, Berkeley. He also served as a senior economist with the Council of Economic Advisers. Klein is the author or co-author of several books, including “Why Managers Matter: The Perils of the Bossless Company” (with Nicolai Foss), “Organizing Entrepreneurial Judgment,” and “The Capitalist and the Entrepreneur.” He has also edited or co-edited volumes including “Entrepreneurship and the Firm” and “The Elgar Companion to Transaction Cost Economics.” His distinctions include the Foundation for Economic Education Best Book Prize for “Organizing Entrepreneurial Judgment,” multiple best-paper awards in management and entrepreneurship research, and an honorary professorship at the Beijing University of Information Science and Technology. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a bachelor’s from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. Professor of Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Jonathan Klick is the Charles A. Heimbold Jr. Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law…
Jonathan Klick is the Charles A. Heimbold Jr. Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research applies advanced econometric methods to identify the causal effects of laws and regulation on individual behavior. His work addresses topics including abortion access and risky behavior, addiction as rational choice, the effects of policing on crime, physician labor markets and liability exposure, and health behaviors. Klick has spent most of his academic career at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has served as professor of law and previously as a visiting professor. He also holds the Erasmus Chair of Empirical Legal Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam and has served as a visiting professor at numerous institutions. Earlier, he was a senior economist at the RAND Corporation’s Institute for Civil Justice and a senior economist and visiting scholar affiliated with Northwestern University’s Searle Center. He previously taught at Florida State University College of Law, where he served as assistant professor, associate professor, and the Jeffrey A. Stoops Professor of Law, and as a courtesy professor of economics. Before entering the legal academy, he taught at Prince George’s County Community College. His professional honors include serving as editor of the International Review of Law and Economics, chair of the scientific committee of the European Association of Law and Economics, and designation as an honorary professor at City University of Hong Kong. He earned a J.D. cum laude and a Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University, a master’s in economics from the University of Maryland, and a bachelor’s from Villanova University.
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Paige V. and Henry N. Butler Chair in Law and Economics
George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School
Bruce H. Kobayashi is the Paige V. and Henry N. Butler Chair in Law & Economics at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School and an academic affiliate of…
Bruce H. Kobayashi is the Paige V. and Henry N. Butler Chair in Law & Economics at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research and teaching focus on litigation and dispute-resolution theory, quantitative forensics, and the legal and economic theory of intellectual property. He co-authored the book “Economics of Federalism.” Kobayashi has spent his academic career at George Mason University, where he has served as professor of law and in several leadership roles, including associate dean for academic affairs and associate dean for research and faculty development. He also founded the Global Antitrust Institute and serves as a senior scholar with that institute. He previously served as director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics. Earlier, he was 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 Antitrust Division. He earned a Ph.D. in economics, a master’s in economics, and a bachelor’s from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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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 a professor of law at the University of Missouri School of Law, and an academic affiliate…
Thomas A. Lambert is the Wall Chair in Corporate Law and Governance and a professor of law at the University of Missouri School of Law, and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on antitrust, corporate governance, and regulation. He is the author of “How to Regulate: A Guide for Policymakers” and the co-author of “Antitrust Law: Interpretation and Implementation.” Before entering academia, he practiced law with Sidley Austin in Chicago. He also served as a John M. Olin Fellow at Northwestern University School of Law and at the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington University in St. Louis. After law school, he clerked for Judge Jerry E. Smith of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. His honors include the University of Missouri’s Kemper Faculty Fellowship, the Blackwell Sanders Award for Teaching Excellence, the university-wide Gold Chalk Award for graduate teaching, and multiple Shook Hardy & Bacon Excellence in Research awards. He earned a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and a bachelor’s from Wheaton College.
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Professor of Economics
University of Connecticut
Richard N. Langlois is a professor of economics at the University of Connecticut and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research…
Richard N. Langlois is a professor of economics at the University of Connecticut and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on the economics of organization, institutional economics, business history, and the economic history of technology. He has written extensively on industries such as computers, semiconductors, and software, and is known for his “Vanishing Hand” account of late-twentieth-century corporate organization. At the University of Connecticut, Langlois has served as department head and previously as associate professor and assistant professor. Before joining UConn, he held research and teaching appointments at New York University, including affiliations with the Center for Science and Technology Policy and the C. V. Starr Center for Applied Economics. He has authored or edited numerous books, including “The Corporation and the Twentieth Century,” “The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism: Schumpeter, Chandler, and the New Economy,” and (with Paul L. Robertson) “Firms, Markets, and Economic Change: A Dynamic Theory of Business Institutions.” His honors include the Schumpeter Prize of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society, the Alice Hanson Jones Prize of the Economic History Association, and the Newcomen Award in business history. He has also received multiple research and teaching awards at the University of Connecticut. He earned a Ph.D. in engineering-economic systems and a master’s in engineering-economic systems from Stanford University, a master’s in astronomy from Yale University, and a bachelor’s from Williams College.
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Editor-in-Chief and Senior Fellow
R.J. Lehmann serves as editor-in-chief and senior fellow at the International Center for Law & Economics. He leads ICLE’s editorial strategy, manages the center’s publication calendar, and contributes research…
R.J. Lehmann serves as editor-in-chief and senior fellow at the International Center for Law & Economics. He leads ICLE’s editorial strategy, manages the center’s publication calendar, and contributes research to the Financial Regulation and Corporate Governance program. Before joining ICLE, Lehmann was director of finance, insurance, and trade policy at the R Street Institute, which he co-founded. He previously served there as editor-in-chief and as public affairs director. Earlier, he was deputy director of the Center on Finance, Insurance and Real Estate at the Heartland Institute and director of public affairs at the Independent Institute. Earlier in his career, Lehmann worked as a journalist covering insurance and financial services. He managed the Washington bureau of A.M. Best Co. and later served as a senior industry editor at SNL Financial. He also held editorial roles at Travel Weekly, the Palm Beach Jewish News, Ocean County’s Observer, and the Springfield Leader, and worked as a media-relations specialist at Lockheed Martin IMS. Lehmann has received multiple professional honors. He is a three-time winner of awards from the American Society of Business Publication Editors and was the youngest-ever recipient of a first-place prize from the New Jersey Press Association. He attended Syracuse University, where he studied journalism and public policy.
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Ashbel Smith Professor of Economics
University of Texas at Dallas
Stan J. Liebowitz is the Ashbel Smith Professor of Managerial Economics at the University of Texas at Dallas and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law &…
Stan J. Liebowitz is the Ashbel Smith Professor of Managerial Economics at the University of Texas at Dallas and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. He also directs the Center for the Economic Analysis of Property Rights and Innovation. His research focuses on copyright, intellectual property, digital piracy, file-sharing, antitrust in high-technology markets, and business strategies such as bundling. His work on file-sharing and the recording industry was cited in a concurring opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court. Before holding the Ashbel Smith chair, Liebowitz served as academic associate dean and professor of managerial economics at the University of Texas at Dallas and earlier as an associate professor there. Prior to that, he was an associate professor of economics at North Carolina State University and a John M. Olin Faculty Fellow in Law & Economics at the University of Chicago. He began his academic career as an assistant professor at the University of Rochester and at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author or co-author of several books, including “Winners, Losers & Microsoft: Competition and Antitrust in High Technology,” “Rethinking the Network Economy: The Real Forces that Drive the Digital Marketplace,” and “The Economics of Qwerty.” Liebowitz is a past president of the Society for Research on Copyright Issues and a fellow of the Independent Institute. He earned a Ph.D. and a master’s in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a bachelor’s from Johns Hopkins University.
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Professor of Law
Northwestern School of Law
Katherine Litvak is a professor of law at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. Her…
Katherine Litvak is a professor of law at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. Her research focuses on venture capital, private equity, corporate and securities law, and corporate finance. She has also held the Benjamin Mazur Summer Research Professorship of Law at Northwestern University. Before joining Northwestern, Litvak served as an assistant professor at the University of Texas School of Law. She was previously a John M. Olin Fellow in Law & Economics at Columbia Law School. Earlier in her career, she clerked for Judge Frank H. Easterbrook of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Ralph K. Winter of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Litvak earned a J.D. from Stanford Law School, a master’s in international relations from Harvard University, and a bachelor’s from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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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.
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Dean's Distinguished Scholar
Boston College Law School
Daniel Lyons is a professor of law, associate dean for academic affairs, and the Dean’s Distinguished Scholar at Boston College Law School, and an academic affiliate of the International…
Daniel Lyons is a professor of law, associate dean for academic affairs, and the Dean’s Distinguished Scholar at Boston College Law School, and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. His research focuses on property, telecommunications and internet law, and administrative law. Before joining the Boston College faculty, Lyons practiced law in Los Angeles at Munger, Tolles & Olson and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Earlier in his career, he worked as an associate consultant at Bain & Company and clerked for Judge Cynthia Holcomb Hall of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He earned a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, and a bachelor’s from Harvard College.
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Professor of Law
Yale Law School
Joshua Macey is a professor of law at Yale Law School and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research and teaching…
Joshua Macey is a professor of law at Yale Law School and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research and teaching focus on bankruptcy, environmental law, energy law, and financial regulation. His recent work examines the fragility of the electric grid and policies to improve grid reliability while accelerating the transition to new energy sources. He is a co-author of the casebook “Energy, Economics, and the Environment.” Before joining Yale, Macey served as an assistant professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School and as a visiting assistant professor of law at Cornell Law School. Earlier in his career, he clerked for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and worked at Morgan Stanley. Macey received the American Bankruptcy Institute’s 40 Under 40 Emerging Leaders in Insolvency Practice recognition and won the Morrison Prize for the most impactful sustainability-related legal academic paper in North America in three consecutive years. He earned a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, a master’s in political theory from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a bachelor’s from Yale College.
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Associate Professor
Notre Dame Law School
Maria Maciá is an associate professor of law at Notre Dame Law School and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. Her research applies an empirical approach to corporate regulation and valuation. She studies corporate social-responsibility regulation, risk-management requirements, disclosure mandates, and bank regulation, and has also examined compensation and well-being measures in the eminent-domain context. She teaches corporate finance and law & economics. At Notre Dame, Maciá previously served as a visiting assistant professor of law and is a fellow of the Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate’s Research Program on Law and Market Behavior. Before entering academia, she clerked for Judge Andrew Hurwitz of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. She also worked as an antitrust economic consultant, taught at a Great Books high school, and held research and legal positions, including work with the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division and private law firms. Maciá received several academic fellowships and scholarships, including the Rubenstein Scholarship, the Rosen Memorial Fellowship, the Bradley Fellowship, the Division Fellowship, and the Humane Studies Fellowship. She earned a Ph.D. in economics and a J.D., with honors, from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s from Swarthmore College.
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David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law
University of Virginia School of Law
Paul G. Mahoney is the David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on securities regulation, law & economic development, corporate finance, financial derivatives, and contracts. He is the author of “Wasting a Crisis: Why Securities Regulation Fails.” Mahoney has spent his academic career at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he also served as dean and as academic associate dean and held the Albert C. BeVier Research Chair and the Brokaw Chair in Corporate Law. He also served as interim president of the University of Virginia. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School, the University of Southern California Law School, and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Earlier in his career, he practiced law at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York and clerked for Judge Ralph K. Winter Jr. of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. Mahoney is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investor Advisory Committee and previously served as an associate editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives and a director of the American Law and Economics Association. He received the All-University Outstanding Teacher Award and the law school’s Traynor Award for excellence in faculty scholarship. He earned a bachelor’s from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
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John S. Battle Professor of Law
University of Virginia School of Law
Julia D. Mahoney is the John S. Battle…
Julia D. Mahoney is the John S. Battle Professor of Law and the Joseph C. Carter Jr. Research Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. Her research focuses on property law, eminent domain, land preservation, health-care reform, nonprofit organizations, and property rights in human biological materials. Mahoney has also taught at the University of Southern California Law School and the University of Chicago Law School. Before entering academia, she practiced law at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute, serves as an adviser to the Restatement of Property, is a founding member of the Academic Freedom Alliance, and serves on the board of advisers of the New Civil Liberties Alliance. Mahoney earned a J.D. from Yale Law School and a bachelor’s from Barnard College.
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President and Founder
International Center for Law & Economics
Geoffrey A. Manne serves as president of the International Center for Law & Economics, where he leads the organization’s research agenda and strategic direction. He…
Geoffrey A. Manne serves as president of the International Center for Law & Economics, where he leads the organization’s research agenda and strategic direction. He founded ICLE in 2009 and has served as its president since 2018, following nearly a decade as executive director. His work focuses on the economic analysis of law, with particular emphasis on antitrust, consumer protection, telecommunications, intellectual property, and technology regulation. In addition to his role at ICLE, Manne is a distinguished fellow at Northwestern University’s Center on Law, Business, and Economics and a visiting professor of law at IE University in Madrid, where he teaches antitrust law. Previously, Manne was a law professor at Lewis & Clark Law School, where he taught law & economics, corporations, and international economic regulation. He later joined Microsoft’s legal department as academic-relations director for law & economics and subsequently served as director of global public policy at LECG. Earlier in his career, Manne held academic appointments as a Bigelow fellow and lecturer in law at the University of Chicago Law School and as an Olin fellow at the University of Virginia School of Law. He practiced antitrust and appellate law at Latham & Watkins, clerked for Judge Morris S. Arnold on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and worked as a research assistant to Judge Richard Posner. He also briefly served at the Federal Trade Commission. Manne has received several professional distinctions and public-service appointments. He served two terms on Federal Communications Commission advisory bodies, including the Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee and the Consumer Advisory Committee. He earned a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and a bachelor’s from the University of Chicago.
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Professor of Business Law
IE University Law School
Francisco Marcos is professor of business law at IE Law School in Madrid and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research…
Francisco Marcos is professor of business law at IE Law School in Madrid and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on competition law, economic regulation, and the economic analysis of law. He has advised governments, firms, and international organizations on antitrust and market-regulation issues. Marcos has served as academic consultant at CCS Abogados. He previously was client and users’ ombudsman at SGAE, Spain’s primary copyright-collecting society, and earlier general director of competition policy at the Regional Antitrust Authority in Madrid. Before entering public service, he worked as an independent consultant for the World Bank, the European Commission, the Asian Development Bank, and the Central American Bank for Economic Integration, and practiced law with PriceWaterhouse. In academia, he previously taught at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, and Universidad de Cantabria, and served as a visiting professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Earlier in his career, he worked as a research assistant at Harvard Law School and at the University of California, Berkeley. He received the Avvocato Mario Jacchia Award from the University of Bologna for the best doctoral thesis in commercial law. His doctoral dissertation was later published as “Las ‘Depositary Receipts’: La Negociación Cruzada de Valores en los Mercados Extranjeros” (“Depositary Receipts: Cross-Trading of Securities in Foreign Markets”). Marcos earned a J.D.-equivalent law degree from the Universidad de Oviedo, an LL.M. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in law from the University of Bologna.
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Senior Managing Director
Ankura Consulting Group
Donald L. Martin is senior managing director at Ankura Consulting Group and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His work focuses on…
Donald L. Martin is senior managing director at Ankura Consulting Group and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His work focuses on antitrust, intellectual property, and commercial-contract disputes. He has more than three decades of experience as an economic consultant and testifying expert in matters before federal and state courts, the U.S. Court of International Trade, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the International Trade Commission, and arbitration tribunals. Martin also serves as adjunct professor of economics at Washington College. Previously, he was chairman of CapAnalysis, the economic-consulting arm of Howrey LLP, and earlier executive vice president of Glassman-Oliver Economic Consultants. He earlier held tenured faculty appointments in economics at the University of Virginia and at the University of Miami Law & Economics Center. Martin earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, an M.B.A. in financial economics from the City University of New York, and a bachelor’s from Boston University.
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Senior Research Fellow
French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Frédéric Marty is a senior research fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.
Frédéric Marty is a senior research fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research applies law & economics to public procurement and competition policy. His work addresses unilateral abuses of dominance, state-aid regulation, and the historical development of competition policy. Marty is a member of the GREDEG research laboratory at Université Côte d’Azur and an affiliate researcher of the French Economic Observatory (OFCE) at Sciences Po Paris. He is also affiliated with the Sorbonne Graduate Business School (IAE Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne) and has taught in law and economics programs at Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, Aix-Marseille Université, and Université Paris-Dauphine, as well as in international training programs organized with the International Labour Organization in Turin. Before joining CNRS, he served as a lecturer at Sciences Po Paris and as an economic-studies officer at the French Ministry of Defense’s Economic Observatory of Defense. He is the co-author, with Thierry Kirat, of “Economie du Droit et de la Réglementation” (“Economics of Law and Regulation”). Marty earned a Ph.D. in economics from the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan and completed his advanced research qualification in economics at Université Nice Sophia Antipolis.
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Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy
University of Michigan Ross School of Business
Scott E. Masten is a professor of business economics and public policy at the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research examines the intersection of law & economics and organizational economics, with particular emphasis on transaction-cost economics. He studies contracting, vertical integration, antitrust, and the economic organization of institutions, and is currently working on a book on the governance and organization of higher education. Masten has been a longtime member of the University of Michigan faculty, where he has also taught in the law school and served as a research fellow at the Law & Economics Center at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. Before joining Michigan, he served on the economics faculty at the University of Virginia. He has held the Louis and Myrtle Moskowitz Research Professorship in Business and Law and served as president of the International Society for New Institutional Economics. He has also chaired the University of Michigan Faculty Senate and its Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs. His books include “Case Studies in Contracting and Organization,” “The Economics of Transaction Costs,” and the two-volume “Transaction Cost Economics: Theory and Concepts” and “Transaction Cost Economics: Policy and Applications” (co-edited with Oliver E. Williamson). He received the University of Michigan Distinguished Faculty Governance Award. Masten earned a Ph.D. and a master’s in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s from Dartmouth College.
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Visiting Scholar Professor
National University of Singapore
Ian McEwin is a visiting scholar professor at the EW Barker Centre for Law and Business and the Centre for Banking and Finance Law in the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on law & economics, particularly competition law, corporate law, and intellectual property. His recent work examines ASEAN competition regimes, their integration, and the role corporate law can play in promoting economic growth. McEwin has served as an honorary professor of law at the Australian National University and founded its Centre for Law and Economics. He has been head of Competition Consulting Asia and previously held the Khazanah National Chair of Regulatory Studies at the University of Malaya. He also served as a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore and Chulalongkorn University. In public service, he worked at Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry on drafting the country’s competition-law framework and on free-trade negotiations with the United States and South Korea. He later served as assistant chief executive and chief economist of the Competition Commission of Singapore and as a member of the Singapore Copyright Tribunal. Earlier in his career, he was a senior research fellow at the Policy Studies Centre and a research affiliate advising the New Zealand Business Roundtable. His professional distinctions include admission as a legal practitioner in the Australian Capital Territory, fellowship in the Australian Institute of Company Directors, appointment as an international arbitrator with the Thai Arbitration Institute, and life membership in the ASEAN Law Association. He edited or co-edited several books, including “Getting the Balance Right: Intellectual Property, Competition Law and Economics in Asia,” “Competition Law in Mainland Southeast Asia,” “ASEAN Competition Law,” and “Competition Law in Singapore: Principles, Practice and Procedure.” He earned a Ph.D. in economics and a bachelor’s in law with first-class honors from the Australian National University.
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Lyle L. Jones Professor of Competition and Innovation Law
University of San Diego School of Law
David McGowan is the Lyle L. Jones Professor of Competition and Innovation Law at the University of San Diego School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research and teaching focus on intellectual property, antitrust, and legal ethics, with particular emphasis on the economic analysis of IP policy and the intersection of intellectual property and competition law. His scholarship examines antitrust policy in software markets, network effects, standard-setting organizations, open-source software, patent misuse, copyright scope, website access rules, and the relationship between copyright and free-speech policy. He previously taught at the University of Minnesota Law School, where he became a full professor. Before entering academia, he practiced law in San Francisco with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin, where he was elected a director. Earlier in his career, he clerked for Judge A. Raymond Randolph of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. His distinctions include election to the Order of the Coif and recognition for best student publication while in law school. He earned a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and a bachelor’s from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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George Family Research Professor
Duke University
Steven G. Medema is the George Family Research Professor of Economics in Duke University’s Trinity College of Arts & Sciences and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on the history of economic thought, public economics, and law & economics, with particular attention to the development and influence of the Coase theorem across economics and legal scholarship. His recent book projects examine the intellectual history of the Coase theorem and the broader evolution of economic ideas. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including “The Hesitant Hand: Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas,” “The Economics Book: From Xenophon to Cryptocurrency, 250 Milestones in the History of Economics,” and “Economics and the Law: From Posner to Postmodernism.” Medema also serves as associate director of Duke’s Center for the History of Political Economy and a research associate in the Duke University School of Law. He previously was University Distinguished Professor of Economics and director of the Honors and Leadership Program at the University of Colorado Denver, where he also served as department chair. He has held visiting appointments at several universities in the United States and Europe. His professional distinctions include election as president of the History of Economics Society and the European Society for the History of Economic Thought’s Best Monograph Award for “The Hesitant Hand.” He also received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship for his work on the intellectual history of the Coase theorem, along with multiple research, teaching, and service awards. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from Michigan State University and a bachelor’s from Calvin University.
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Ball Professor of Law
William & Mary Law School
Alan J. Meese is the Ball Professor of Law at William & Mary Law School and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.
Alan J. Meese is the Ball Professor of Law at William & Mary Law School and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research and teaching focus on antitrust law, constitutional law, business associations, political economy, and law & economics. Meese has spent his academic career at William & Mary, where he has held multiple named research professorships, including Cabell Research Professor of Law and Tazewell Taylor Research Professor. He also was a visiting professor of law at the University of Virginia. Before entering academia, he practiced law at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in Washington, D.C. Earlier, he clerked for Judge Frank H. Easterbrook of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States. His professional service has included senior adviser to the Antitrust Modernization Commission, service on the executive committee of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Antitrust and Economic Regulation, and board service with the Bork Foundation and the Antitrust Education Project. He also has held extensive university-level faculty-governance leadership roles and was nominated by the Virginia Bar Association for consideration to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. His distinctions include the Walter L. Williams Jr. Teaching Award, the Plumeri Fellowship for Faculty Excellence, and the Society for the College’s William Small Award. He earned a J.D. with honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where he served as a comment editor on the law review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. He received a bachelor’s with high honors from the College of William & Mary.
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Charles B. Klein Professor in Law and Government
Temple University Beasley School of Law
Salil Mehra is the Charles B. Klein Professor in Law and Government at the Temple University Beasley School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. He also serves as inaugural co-director of the Institute for Law, Innovation and Technology and director of the LL.M. program in Asian law. His research focuses on antitrust and competition law, technology, and law & economics. Mehra has held multiple positions at Temple University, including professor of law, associate professor, and assistant professor. He also has served as a visiting professor at Keio University School of Law and at Temple University Japan. Before entering academia, he was a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where he handled antitrust, First Amendment, and takeover-defense litigation. Earlier in his career, he served as a trial attorney in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and clerked for Chief Judge Juan R. Torruella of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. His professional distinctions include serving as chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Antitrust and Economic Regulation and as a nongovernmental adviser to the International Competition Network. He also was an Abe Fellow of the Social Science Research Council and Japan’s Center for Global Partnership, and he received the Temple University Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. He earned a J.D. with honors from the University of Chicago Law School, a master’s in Asian studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and a bachelor’s from Harvard University.
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Professor of Law
University of Wyoming College of Law
George A. Mocsary is professor of law at the University of Wyoming College of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. He also…
George A. Mocsary is professor of law at the University of Wyoming College of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. He also is founder and director of the Firearms Research Center and director of the Business Planning Practicum. His research focuses on corporate and small-business law, firearms law, and the Second Amendment, including the intersection of firearms law and private law. He is the co-author of “Firearms Law and the Second Amendment: Regulation, Rights, and Policy,” the first casebook devoted to the subject. Mocsary previously served as an associate professor of law at the Southern Illinois University School of Law and as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law. Before entering academia, he practiced corporate and bankruptcy law at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York. Earlier in his career, he clerked for Judge Harris L. Hartz of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. His distinctions include graduating first in his class at Fordham Law School, serving as notes and articles editor of the Fordham Law Review, and receiving the Benjamin Finkel Prize for Excellence in Bankruptcy and the Fordham Law Alumni Association Medal in Constitutional Law. He earned a J.D., summa cum laude, from Fordham Law School, an M.B.A. from the University of Rochester Simon School of Business, and a bachelor’s from The Cooper Union School of Engineering.
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Dean, School of Innovation
Texas A&M University
Andrew P. Morriss is 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…
Andrew P. Morriss is 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 of law at Texas A&M University, and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on international financial centers, business and environmental regulation, and empirical legal studies. He is the co-author of “Regulation by Litigation” and “The False Promise of Green Energy.” Morriss previously served as dean of the Texas A&M University School of Law. Before joining Texas A&M, he held the D. Paul & Charlene A. Jones Chair in Law at the University of Alabama and was a visiting professor there. He earlier held the H. Ross & Helen Workman Professor of Law at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also served as professor of business and a professor in the Institute of Government and Public Affairs. Prior to that, he was director of the Center for Business Law & Regulation, associate dean for academic affairs, and the Galen J. Roush Professor of Business Law and Regulation at Case Western Reserve University, where he also served as professor of law and associate professor of economics. Earlier in his career, he worked as a staff attorney at Texas Rural Legal Aid and clerked for U.S. District Judge Harold Barefoot Sanders Jr. in the Northern District of Texas. Morriss is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a member of the Mont Pelerin Society. His honors include the Dennis J. Jenks Memorial Award for Administrator of the Year. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a J.D. with high honors and a master’s in public affairs from the University of Texas at Austin, and a bachelor’s, cum laude, from Princeton University. He also holds a master of educational psychology from Texas A&M University.
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Professor of Law
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
Adam Mossoff is a professor of law at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. He is also a co-founder of the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property, where he serves as a senior scholar and director of academic programs. His research examines the theory and history of intellectual property, with a particular focus on patents and other IP rights as property rights in commercial markets. He teaches property, patent law, trade secrets, trademark law, remedies, and internet law. Mossoff previously taught at Washington & Lee University School of Law, the University of San Diego School of Law, and Michigan State University College of Law. Earlier in his career, he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and visiting lecturer at Northwestern University School of Law, and he clerked for Judge Jacques L. Wiener Jr. of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He serves on professional policy and advisory bodies, including the Public Policy Committee of the Licensing Executives Society, the Amicus Committee of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, and the Academic Advisory Committee of the Copyright Alliance. He also served as chair and vice chair of the IEEE-USA Intellectual Property Committee. Mossoff earned a J.D. with honors from the University of Chicago Law School. He also holds a master’s in philosophy from Columbia University, specializing in legal and political philosophy, and a bachelor’s with high distinction from the University of Michigan.
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Director, Law & Economics Program
Texas A&M University School of Law
Murat C. Mungan is professor of law and director of the Law & Economics Program at Texas A&M University School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on the economics of criminal law and law enforcement. He also studies antitrust, intellectual property, contracts, and legal procedure, applying economic theory to analyze how legal rules affect deterrence, compliance, and institutional behavior. Mungan previously served as professor of law at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, where he also directed academic programs and research initiatives in law & economics and antitrust. Before that, he held faculty appointments at Florida State University College of Law, where he progressed from visiting assistant professor to the D’Alemberte Professor of Law and a courtesy professor of economics. He has served the profession in editorial roles, including as editor of the International Review of Law and Economics and as editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review. He is also an elected member of the Science Academy of Turkey. He earned a J.D. from George Mason University, a Ph.D. and a master’s in economics from Boston College, and a bachelor’s from Sabanci University.
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Dean and Donald J. Weidner Chair
Florida State University College of Law
Erin O’Hara O’Connor is dean and the Donald J. Weidner Chair at the Florida State University College of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. Her research and teaching focus on law & economics, conflict of laws, arbitration, and the interaction between legal rules and human behavior. Her scholarship examines how legal regimes compete and how institutional design shapes dispute resolution and governance. She co-authored the book “The Law Market” and co-edited “The Economics of Conflict of Laws,” and is also a co-author of the casebook “Conflict of Laws: Cases and Materials.” O’Hara O’Connor previously taught at Vanderbilt Law School, where she served as director of the Law and Human Behavior Program, associate dean for academic affairs, and director of graduate studies for the Ph.D. Program in law & economics. Before that, she was on the faculty of George Mason University School of Law. Earlier in her career, she held visiting appointments at Northwestern University School of Law and Georgetown University Law Center, served as a visiting assistant professor at Clemson University, and was a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and lecturer in law at the University of Chicago Law School. She began her legal career clerking for Chief Judge Dolores K. Sloviter of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Her distinctions include election to the Order of the Coif and the Tamm Memorial Award for outstanding legal scholarship, as well as a university award for excellence in law teaching. She earned a J.D., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center and a bachelor’s from the University of Rochester.
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Senior Scholar, Competition Policy
Dario Oliveira Neto serves as a senior scholar of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics. Before joining ICLE, he was director of the…
Dario Oliveira Neto serves as a senior scholar of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics. Before joining ICLE, he was director of the Latin America Competition Advocacy Program at the Global Antitrust Institute, where he led regional programming, partnerships, and competition-advocacy initiatives. Earlier, Oliveira Neto held a series of senior advisory roles at Brazil’s competition authority, the Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica. He served as head of the Technical Advisory Unit to the Office of the President, after previously advising the Office of the President and the Office of the General Superintendent. He began his tenure at CADE as a technical assistant and graduate intern. He has earned several academic distinctions, including graduating summa cum laude in law and finishing first in his class in economics. Oliveira Neto holds an LL.M. in international business and economic law from Georgetown University. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in commercial law at the University of São Paulo. He also earned a master’s in development economics from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul and two bachelor’s degrees from Brazilian universities. In addition, he completed graduate certificates in antitrust law and business law.
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Assistant Professor of Economics
Jacksonville University
Robert Tucker Omberg is an assistant professor of economics at Jacksonville University and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research spans…
Robert Tucker Omberg is an assistant professor of economics at Jacksonville University and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research spans labor economics, public choice, and law & economics, with particular emphasis on causal-inference methods in applied microeconometrics. His work examines diverse policy questions, including ridesharing markets, government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, public monuments, and mental health. Omberg previously served as affiliate faculty at Jacksonville University and as a professor of economics at Florida State College at Jacksonville. Earlier, he was a graduate lecturer at George Mason University. He also worked as a research affiliate at New York University and was a Ph.D. fellow at the Mercatus Center, as well as a Humane Studies fellow at the Institute for Humane Studies. He earned a Ph.D. in economics, a master’s in economics, and a bachelor’s from George Mason University.
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Austin E. Owen Research Scholar
University of Richmond School of Law
Kristen Jakobsen Osenga is Austin E. Owen Research Scholar and professor of law at the University of Richmond School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. She also serves as associate dean for academic affairs. Her research focuses on intellectual property, patent law, legislation and regulation, and the relationship between law and language. Her recent scholarship examines patent-eligible subject matter, patent-licensing firms, standard-setting organizations, patent reform, and claim construction. Osenga has held successive appointments at the University of Richmond as professor of law, associate professor of law, and assistant professor of law. She has also been a visiting professor at William & Mary Law School and Emory University School of Law, and earlier a visiting assistant professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. Before entering academia, she clerked for Judge Richard Linn of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and practiced patent prosecution and litigation as an associate attorney at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP. Her distinctions include the University of Richmond Distinguished Scholar Award and the University of Richmond Distinguished Educator Award. She is a registered patent attorney with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and a member of the Federal Circuit Bar Association and the American Intellectual Property Law Association. She earned a J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Illinois College of Law, a master’s in electrical engineering from Southern Illinois University–Carbondale, and a bachelor’s from the University of Iowa.
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Senior Research Fellow
Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Liya Palagashvili is senior research fellow and director of the Labor Policy Project at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. She is also a research fellow with the Classical Liberal Institute at New York University School of Law. Her research focuses on labor regulation, the gig economy, entrepreneurship, and the changing nature of work, with particular attention to how regulation affects labor-market participation and business formation. Palagashvili previously served as assistant professor of economics at the State University of New York–Purchase, where she taught econometrics, macroeconomics, entrepreneurship, and public policy and founded a student-entrepreneurship program. She also held roles as a visiting Ph.D. research fellow at New York University and as a Mercatus Ph.D. fellow in economics at George Mason University. Earlier professional experience includes policy and research internships with public-interest and educational organizations. She has testified before state legislatures and before committees of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives and served on the Data Users Advisory Committee of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. She was named to the Forbes “30 Under 30” list in Law & Policy. She earned a Ph.D. and a master’s in economics from George Mason University and a bachelor’s from George Mason University.
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics
University of Mississippi
Clara Piano is a visiting assistant professor of economics at the University of Mississippi and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. Her…
Clara Piano is a visiting assistant professor of economics at the University of Mississippi and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. Her research focuses on family economics, law & economics, and public choice, with particular attention to how legal and social institutions shape household decision-making. Piano previously served as assistant professor of economics at Austin Peay State University and assistant professor of quantitative analysis at Samford University. Earlier, she was a lecturer in economics at The Catholic University of America and at George Mason University, and a Ph.D. fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Markets & Morality and has held several research fellowships and policy-affiliate positions. Her distinctions include the Acton Institute Novak Award, the Heritage Foundation Freedom & Opportunity Academic Prize, and multiple competitive research fellowships. She earned a Ph.D. and a master’s in economics from George Mason University and a bachelor’s from Creighton University.
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Distinguished Professor, School of Business and Department of Economics
National University of Singapore
Ivan Png is a distinguished professor in the School of Business and Department of Economics at the National University of Singapore and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on the economics of innovation and productivity, as well as managerial decision-making and firm performance. He is the author of the textbook “Managerial Economics,” published in multiple editions, and the editor of “Financial Crisis 2008.” Png has held numerous academic and administrative roles at the National University of Singapore, including department leadership and senior university-wide academic appointments. He also served as a nominated member of Parliament in Singapore. Earlier in his career, he was professor, associate professor, and assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles Anderson School of Management and held visiting and teaching appointments at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the National University of Singapore. His distinctions include multiple teaching-excellence awards at the National University of Singapore and the University of California, Los Angeles, as well as competitive research-paper recognition from international academic conferences. He earned a Ph.D. in business from Stanford University and a bachelor from the University of Cambridge.
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Postdoctoral Fellow
Bocconi University
Zachary Porreca is a postdoctoral fellow at Bocconi University and an academic affiliate of…
Zachary Porreca is a postdoctoral fellow at Bocconi University and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on applied microeconomics at the intersection of crime, corruption, and legal institutions, with particular attention to illicit markets, violence, and urban environments, as well as the emergence of informal institutions outside formal governance structures. Porreca serves as a researcher in Bocconi University’s CLEAN research unit and is a Criminal Justice Innovation Fellow with the Social Science Research Council. He is also affiliated with several research networks focused on labor economics, regulation, and public policy. Before beginning his doctoral studies, he conducted research in natural-resource economics, including work on fishery production. His distinctions include the Adam Smith Award in Economics and a Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellowship, along with multiple competitive research fellowships and grants from the Institute for Humane Studies and the Mercatus Center. He earned a Ph.D. in economics and a master’s in economics from West Virginia University and a bachelor’s from Bloomsburg University.
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Director
Alabama Center for Insurance Information and Research
Lawrence “Lars” Powell is director of the Alabama Center for Insurance Information and Research at the University of Alabama and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law…
Lawrence “Lars” Powell is director of the Alabama Center for Insurance Information and Research at the University of Alabama and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on risk and insurance markets, including loss mitigation, insurer capitalization, insurance fraud, and the effects of regulation on insurance-market performance. Powell previously served as the Whitbeck-Beyer Professor of Insurance and Financial Services at the University of Arkansas–Little Rock. He has also worked as a consultant and principal at Powell & Associates and served as secretary-treasurer and a board member of Arkansas Mutual Insurance Company. Earlier in his career, he worked in the insurance industry as an agent. He has served as editor of the Journal of Insurance Regulation and as president of the Risk Theory Society and the Southern Risk and Insurance Association. His distinctions include the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies Service Award. He earned a Ph.D. in risk management and insurance from the University of Georgia and a bachelor’s from the University of South Carolina.
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Harold A. Poling Chair of Strategic Management
Indiana University Kelley School of Business
Jeff Prince is chair and professor of business economics and public policy and the Harold A. Poling Chair of Strategic Management at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business,…
Jeff Prince is chair and professor of business economics and public policy and the Harold A. Poling Chair of Strategic Management at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. He is also co-director of the Institute for Business Analytics at Kelley. His research focuses on industrial organization, applied econometrics, regulation, and business strategy, particularly the economics of communications and technology markets. Prince previously served as chief economist of the Federal Communications Commission. Earlier, he was assistant and associate professor of applied economics and management at Cornell University. He has also worked as a consultant on business-education programs and as a research participant in the National Security Agency’s Director’s Summer Program. He serves as co-editor of the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy and sits on the editorial board of Information Economics and Policy. His distinctions include the Trustees Teaching Award and the Innovative Teaching Award at the Kelley School of Business, the Young Faculty Teaching Excellence Award at Cornell University, and multiple teaching and reviewing honors from Northwestern University and professional research conferences. He earned a Ph.D. and a master’s in economics from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s from Miami University.
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Senior Scholar, Competition Policy
Lazar Radić serves as a senior scholar of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics. His research addresses competition law, digital-competition regulation, and the interaction between…
Lazar Radić serves as a senior scholar of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics. His research addresses competition law, digital-competition regulation, and the interaction between law & economics and political philosophy. He is also an assistant professor of law at IE University in Madrid, where he teaches administrative law, economic regulation, and competition law. Earlier at IE University, he served as an adjunct professor of law, and he also taught as an adjunct professor at Universidad CEU San Pablo. Before entering full-time academia, Radić practiced competition law in private practice. He worked as an associate at Martínez-Lage, Allendesalazar & Brockelmann in Madrid and earlier as an associate at BDK Advokati in Serbia. During his doctoral studies, he was a researcher in competition law at the European University Institute and a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School. Radić is a qualified lawyer admitted to the Madrid bar. He earned a Ph.D. in law from the European University Institute. He also holds an LL.M. in comparative, European, and international laws from the European University Institute and an LL.M., cum laude, in European and international law from the University of Amsterdam. He earned two licentiate degrees in law and in political science and public administration from the Autonomous University of Madrid.
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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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Assistant Professor
University of Texas at El Paso
Louis Rouanet is assistant professor of economics and finance at the University of Texas at El Paso and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.…
Louis Rouanet is assistant professor of economics and finance at the University of Texas at El Paso and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research applies economic analysis to historical and institutional settings, with a focus on political economy, monetary institutions, and public choice. Rouanet previously served as assistant professor of economics at Western Kentucky University. Earlier, he held research fellowships with several political-economy research programs and now serves as affiliated faculty with the Political Economy Research Institute at Middle Tennessee State University. He also serves as an associate editor of Public Choice. His distinctions include the Gordon Tullock Prize for best paper in Public Choice by a junior scholar, the Snavely Award for Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies, and the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics prize for best article in Austrian economics. He earned a Ph.D. in economics and a master’s in economics from George Mason University, a master’s in economics and public policy from Sciences Po Paris, and a bachelor’s from Sciences Po Paris.
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Associate Teaching Professor, Brandmeyer Center for Applied Economics
University of Kansas
Levi A. Russell is associate teaching professor in the School of Business at the University of Kansas and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.…
Levi A. Russell is associate teaching professor in the School of Business at the University of Kansas and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on political economy, public choice, risk, and applied economics, including energy finance and the economic implications of social institutions. Russell previously served as the Gwartney Institute Professor of Economic Education and Research at Ottawa University. Before that, he was assistant professor and extension economist at Texas A&M University and assistant professor and extension livestock economist at the University of Georgia. Earlier, he worked as a graduate research assistant at Kansas State University. He also serves as chairman and fellow in economics at the Leonine Institute for Catholic Social Teaching. He earned a Ph.D. in economics and a bachelor’s from Kansas State University.
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Professor of Law
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Christopher J. (C.J.) Ryan Jr. is professor of law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. He is also an affiliated scholar at the American Bar Foundation. His research examines the incentives shaping individual and firm behavior across legal institutions, with a focus on law & economics, tax law, trust and estate law, nonprofit law, and higher-education policy, including student-loan regulation. Ryan previously served as associate professor of law at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law and, before that, associate professor of law at Roger Williams University School of Law. His distinctions include the Army Achievement Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Army Reserve Component Achievement Medal, and recognition as a Provost Graduate Fellow. He earned a Ph.D. in policy studies from Vanderbilt University, a J.D. from the University of Kentucky, a master’s in education from the University of Notre Dame, and a bachelor’s from Dartmouth College.
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Professor of Law
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
Paolo Saguato is professor of law and founder and executive director of the Program on Financial Markets at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School and an academic affiliate…
Paolo Saguato is professor of law and founder and executive director of the Program on Financial Markets at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on U.S., EU, and international financial regulation, with particular attention to financial-market infrastructures, securities and derivatives markets, financial innovation, and corporate law and theory. Saguato also serves on the Consultative Working Group of the European Securities and Markets Authority’s Central Counterparty Policy Committee and on the Central Counterparty Risk and Governance Subcommittee of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Market Risk Advisory Committee. He is a senior research fellow at the Genoa Centre for Law and Finance. Before joining George Mason University, Saguato was a research fellow at the Institute of International Economic Law at Georgetown University Law Center and a fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was also a global research fellow at New York University School of Law and a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford. Earlier in his career, he taught corporate law, securities regulation, and banking law at the University of Genoa. He is co-editor of “Financial Market Infrastructures—Law and Regulation” and co-author of “Business Associations: A Modern Approach.” His distinctions include a Fulbright Scholarship and a teaching-excellence award from the London School of Economics. He earned a Ph.D. in private, business, and international law and a J.D. from the University of Genoa, an LL.M. from Yale Law School, and a bachelor’s from the University of Genoa.
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Associate Professor of Law
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Thibault Schrepel is associate professor of law at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. He is also a faculty associate…
Thibault Schrepel is associate professor of law at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. He is also a faculty associate at Stanford University’s CodeX Center, where he founded the Computational Antitrust project, and an adjunct professor at Cornell Tech. His research focuses on antitrust, digital markets, blockchain, artificial intelligence, and law & economics, with particular attention to how technological change reshapes competition policy and regulatory design. Schrepel previously served as assistant professor of European economic law at Utrecht University. He has also held research and teaching appointments as an invited professor at Sciences Po Paris and the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and as an affiliate faculty member at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Earlier in his career, he practiced competition law at Mayer Brown and Herbert Smith and worked as a competition-law senior associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He has served as an expert for the World Economic Forum and the World Bank and as a member of the scientific committee of the French audiovisual regulator. He also contributes as an external expert to public authorities on digital-market and blockchain issues. He is the author of “Blockchain + Antitrust: The Decentralization Formula” and “Predatory Innovation in Antitrust Law,” and co-editor of “Artificial Intelligence and Competition Policy.” His distinctions include the Global Competition Review “Academic Excellence” Award for outstanding contributions to competition policy. He earned a Ph.D. in antitrust law from Université Paris-Saclay, an LL.M. from Brooklyn Law School, and a master’s in contract and competition law from Université Paris-Saclay.
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Visiting Professor
Fundação Getúlio Vargas
Valéria Silva is a visiting professor at Fundação Getúlio Vargas Law School in Rio de Janeiro and an academic affiliate of…
Valéria Silva is a visiting professor at Fundação Getúlio Vargas Law School in Rio de Janeiro and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. She is also an affiliated law professor at ESCP Business School in Paris. Her research focuses on competition policy, artificial-intelligence governance, digital regulation, intellectual property, and international economic law, with an emphasis on comparative regulatory frameworks and technology policy. Silva previously served as an associate professor at ESCP Business School. She has worked as an artificial-intelligence policy expert and senior legal consultant with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and has participated in multistakeholder policy initiatives with the European AI Office. Earlier, she was chief of staff and head of the international department at the Brazilian competition authority, CADE, and a trainee in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition. She also held research positions as a global research fellow at New York University School of Law and as a joint Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellow at Princeton University and the University of Oxford. Earlier in her career, she worked in private practice and as legal counsel in the biotechnology sector. Her professional distinctions include membership on the advisory committee of the 4iP Council and service as an expert contributor to international policy initiatives on artificial intelligence. She earned a Ph.D. in international law from the University of São Paulo, an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, a master’s in international economic law from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, a master’s in international law and economics from the World Trade Institute, and a bachelor’s in law from the University of São Paulo.
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Senior Scholar, Innovation Policy
Ben Sperry serves as a senior scholar of innovation policy at the International Center for Law & Economics. His research examines the intersection of civil liberties and government regulation,…
Ben Sperry serves as a senior scholar of innovation policy at the International Center for Law & Economics. His research examines the intersection of civil liberties and government regulation, including online speech, platform regulation, competition policy, payment-card regulation, telecommunications, and criminal-justice reform. After law school, he worked in public service as an assistant public defender in the Crawford County Office of the Public Defender in Pennsylvania and earlier as a judicial law clerk in the Erie County Court of Common Pleas. Earlier, he held policy and research positions in the nonprofit legal and public-policy community. He served as a legal fellow at TechFreedom and as a research associate and Google Policy Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He also worked as a law clerk at the Institute for Justice and as a legal-studies summer fellow at the Washington Legal Foundation. Sperry is admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He earned a J.D. from the George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School and a bachelor’s from Allegheny College.
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Director of Innovation Policy
Kristian Stout serves as director of innovation policy at the International Center for Law & Economics. His work addresses competition, telecommunications, and artificial-intelligence policy, with a focus on how law &…
Kristian Stout serves as director of innovation policy at the International Center for Law & Economics. His work addresses competition, telecommunications, and artificial-intelligence policy, with a focus on how law & economics informs regulatory design. Alongside his ICLE role, Stout has been a partner and counsel at A & S Technologies. Earlier, he practiced law as of counsel at the Law Offices of Jeffrey Hoffman and held a fellowship at the Internet Law & Policy Foundry and the Eagleton Institute of Politics. Before entering legal practice, Stout worked in technology and academia. He was a lecturer in the computer-science department at Rutgers University and earlier served as chief technology officer of SendAFrame.com and as a web developer at Enterprise Solution Providers. Stout has held several public-service and professional appointments. He served on the Federal Communications Commission’s Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee, sat on the board of the New Jersey Leadership Program, and chaired the Asset Forfeiture Working Group of the New Jersey State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He earned a J.D., cum laude, from Rutgers University School of Law and a bachelor’s from Rutgers University.
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Professor of Law
University of Munich
Joseph Straus is professor of law at the Universities of Munich and Ljubljana and director emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich. He is…
Joseph Straus is professor of law at the Universities of Munich and Ljubljana and director emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich. He is also an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on intellectual-property law, especially European and international patent law, the protection of biotechnological inventions, technology transfer, and international intellectual-property governance. Straus previously served as director of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law and has long taught European and German patent law at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He has also been a visiting professor at Cornell Law School, the George Washington University Law School, and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Earlier in his career, he practiced law before joining the Max Planck Institute as a scientific member. He has held numerous professional leadership roles, including president of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property, chair of the Intellectual Property Rights Committee of the Human Genome Organisation, and adviser to international organizations and governments on intellectual-property policy. His distinctions include the Science Award of the Foundation for German Science, the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Venice Intellectual Property Award, induction into the Intellectual Asset Management Intellectual Property Hall of Fame, and two honorary doctorates. He is also a member of Academia Europaea and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He earned a doctorate in law from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and a law diploma from the University of Ljubljana.
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Associate Professor, Division of Applied Sciences
University of Missouri
Michael E. Sykuta is associate professor of agricultural and applied economics in the Division of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Missouri, executive director of the Financial Research…
Michael E. Sykuta is associate professor of agricultural and applied economics in the Division of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Missouri, executive director of the Financial Research Institute, and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on organizational economics, contracting, corporate governance, industrial organization, antitrust, regulation, and political economy. He studies how regulation and government programs affect firm behavior, with particular attention to public-utility regulation, energy policy, ownership structure, and agri-food value chains. Sykuta also serves as director of the Center for Rural Energy Security at the University of Missouri and co-editor of the Social Science Research Network’s New Institutional Economics eJournal. He co-founded and directs the Contracting and Organizations Research Institute, an interdisciplinary program examining the economics and law of contracting and corporate governance. Before joining the University of Missouri faculty, he was a faculty research associate and lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh’s Katz Graduate School of Business and associate director of the Center for Research on Contracts and the Structure of Enterprise. Earlier, he held teaching and research appointments at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Missouri–St. Louis, and was a research fellow at the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington University. He co-edited the book “The Elgar Companion to Transaction Cost Economics.” His honors include multiple teaching awards from the University of Missouri, including the Golden Apple Award and the Writing Intensive Teaching Excellence Award. He earned a Ph.D. in economics and a master’s in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a bachelor’s from the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
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Professor Emeritus
Kansai University Faculty of Law
Toshiaki Takigawa is professor emeritus in the Faculty of Law at Kansai University in Osaka, Japan, and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on comparative competition law, with particular attention to differences among Japanese, U.S., and European Union regulatory approaches and the treatment of digital platforms and data-driven markets. Takigawa previously served as professor of law at Kansai University and, before that, as professor in the division of business law at Toyama University, where he taught competition law and international trade law. Earlier in his career, he was a director at the Japan Fair Trade Commission and then first secretary in the Japanese delegation to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris. He has also been a Fulbright scholar at George Washington University Law School and a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. He earned an M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a bachelor’s in law from Kyoto University.
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Professor
University of Tokyo Graduate Schools for Law and Politics
Sayako Takizawa is a professor at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate Schools for Law and Politics and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. Her…
Sayako Takizawa is a professor at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate Schools for Law and Politics and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. Her research focuses on competition-law policy and related comparative-law questions. Takizawa previously served as a professor and earlier as an associate professor at the Tohoku University Graduate School of Law. Before that, she was an assistant at the University of Tokyo’s Institute for Law and Politics. She has also been a visiting scholar at Georgetown University Law Center and at the Institute of European and Comparative Law at the University of Oxford. She earned an LL.M. from Harvard Law School and a bachelor’s in law from the University of Tokyo.
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University of California, Berkeley,
Haas School of Business
David J. Teece is distinguished scholar of strategy and innovation at the University of South Florida’s Muma College of Business and professor of the graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on innovation, competition, entrepreneurship, intellectual property, and corporate strategy. He pioneered the dynamic-capabilities framework, which examines how firms integrate and reconfigure internal and external competencies to adapt to rapidly changing technological and market environments. Teece is executive director and chairman of the Berkeley Policy Institute and previously served as chairman and principal executive officer of Berkeley Research Group. He earlier co-founded the Law and Economics Consulting Group, where he served as chairman and later vice chairman. Before his work in consulting and policy, he held a chaired professorship in global business at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business and directed the Institute for Business Innovation. Earlier academic appointments include associate professor and assistant professor of business economics at Stanford University, visiting associate professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania, visiting fellow at Oxford University, and assistant lecturer in economics at the University of Canterbury. His distinctions include the Herbert Simon Award, the Eminent Scholar Award from the Academy of International Business, induction into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame, recognition as a Clarivate Citation Laureate, designation as a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, and multiple honorary doctorates. He earned a Ph.D. in economics and a master’s from the University of Pennsylvania, a master of commerce from the University of Canterbury, and a bachelor’s from the University of Canterbury.
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Assistant Professor of Economics
University of Mississippi
Henry A. Thompson is assistant professor of economics at the University of Mississippi and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research examines the political economy of institutions, with particular attention to the customary, organizational, and contractual arrangements people develop when formal government institutions do not adequately protect property rights. Before joining the University of Mississippi, Thompson was a graduate lecturer and graduate research assistant at George Mason University. He also served as a curriculum-development associate at the Foundation for Economic Education and as a research fellow at the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism. He serves as book review editor for Public Choice and is affiliated faculty with the University of Mississippi School of Law. His distinctions include the International Center for Law & Economics award for best law & economics article by a junior scholar, the Young Scholars Program Award from the Mont Pelerin Society, and finalist recognition for the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Prize from the Public Choice Society. He has also received fellowships and research grants from the Institute for Humane Studies and the Mercatus Center. He earned a Ph.D. in economics and a master’s in economics from George Mason University and a bachelor’s from Clemson University, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
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Senior Scholar, Competition Policy
Selçukhan Ünekbaş serves as a senior scholar of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics. He is also a Ph.D. researcher at the European…
Selçukhan Ünekbaş serves as a senior scholar of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics. He is also a Ph.D. researcher at the European University Institute and a research fellow at both the Dynamic Competition Initiative and the Tusher Strategic Initiative for Technology Leadership at the University of California, Berkeley. Previously, Ünekbaş was a visiting scholar at Georgetown University Law Center and an international scholar-in-residence with the American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section. He earlier practiced competition law as an associate at Dentons. Earlier in his career, he worked in academic research and teaching. He served as a teaching assistant and research assistant at the Institute for European Studies in Brussels and held legal internships at Dentons, Baker McKenzie, and Microsoft. Ünekbaş has received several academic distinctions, including the Jean Monnet Scholarship, recognition as the top student of his cohort, and an outstanding-thesis award. He holds an LL.M. from the European University Institute and an LL.M. in international and European business law from the Institute for European Studies. He also earned a bachelor’s from Anadolu University.
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Founder and Managing Partner
Case Associates
Cento Veljanovski is founder and managing partner of Case Associates, a competition, regulation, and litigation economics-consulting practice, and a fellow in law & economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs. He is also an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on competition policy, regulation, and the application of law & economics to litigation, market design, and public policy. Veljanovski previously served as a senior fellow with the George Washington University Competition & Innovation Lab and as a visiting lecturer at the University of Buckingham. Earlier, he was a junior research fellow and research fellow at the University of Oxford. Before entering consulting, he held academic appointments that included lecturer in law & economics and lecturer in English law and trusts at University College London, visiting professor at the University of Toronto, lecturer in economics at the University of York, and teaching fellow in economics at Monash University. He also worked as a research officer in the Australian Commonwealth Treasury and later co-founded Lexecon Ltd and served as a director of Putnam, Hayes & Bartlett. His distinctions include a Commonwealth Scholarship for study in the United Kingdom, the Shell Prize, and designation as a Commonwealth Scholar, along with multiple academic scholarships and honors. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of York and completed a master’s in economics and a bachelor’s from Monash University.
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Dean and Professor of Economics
Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Liad Wagman is dean and professor of economics at the Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research examines competition and innovation in technology-driven markets, focusing on information economics, industrial organization, law & economics, entrepreneurship, data use and privacy, and antitrust policy. Wagman previously served as dean and professor of economics, and the John and Mae Calamos Endowed Chair, at the Stuart School of Business at the Illinois Institute of Technology, with an affiliate professorship in the Lewis College of Science and Letters. He also held several earlier faculty roles at Illinois Institute of Technology. He was senior economic and technology advisor in the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Policy Planning. In that role, he helped lead a major government study of technology-platform acquisitions and served as lead author of the U.S. contribution to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on consumer data rights and competition. He has also been a competition fellow at the Data Catalyst Institute; a visiting associate professor of executive education and managerial economics & decision sciences at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management; a visiting scholar in the Duke University economics department; a research fellow in Duke University’s computer science department and Social Sciences Research Institute; and a researcher at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation at the Freeman Spogli Institute. His honors include the Sigma Xi Excellence in Research Award, the Bauer Family University Excellence in Teaching Award, the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Best Paper Award, the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Outstanding Paper Award, the Education and Research Initiative Award, and recognition as one of Poets & Quants’ Top 40 Business School Faculty Under 40. He earned a Ph.D. in economics and a master’s in economics from Duke University, a master’s in computer science from Stanford University, and a bachelor’s from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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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 and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on international relations, U.S. foreign policy, international security, constitutional war powers, terrorism, and political philosophy. His recent work examines congressional-executive war-powers conflicts in the ongoing armed conflict against al Qaeda. He teaches courses on international relations, international security, terrorism, constitutional law, and political theory. Before joining the University of Puget Sound, Weinberger taught political science at Duke University as an instructor and teaching assistant. Earlier in his career, he worked as a defense analyst at the Strategic Assessment Center of Science Applications International Corporation, where he researched future warfare, nuclear weapons policy, and military strategy. Weinberger is the author of “Restoring the Balance: War Powers in an Age of Terror.” His distinctions include the Thomas A. Davis Teaching Excellence Award and selection as an academic fellow of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He earned a Ph.D. in political science from Duke University, a master’s in security studies from Georgetown University, a master’s in political science from Duke University, and a bachelor’s from the University of Chicago.
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Senior Scholar, Innovation Policy
Jeffrey Westling serves as a senior scholar of innovation policy at the International Center for Law & Economics. His work focuses on telecommunications policy, particularly reducing barriers to broadband…
Jeffrey Westling serves as a senior scholar of innovation policy at the International Center for Law & Economics. His work focuses on telecommunications policy, particularly reducing barriers to broadband deployment and improving spectrum-management processes. Before joining ICLE, Westling was director of technology and innovation policy at the American Action Forum. Earlier, he worked at the R Street Institute as a technology and innovation policy fellow and associate. After law school, he served as a legal fellow at the Federal Communications Commission. During his studies, he worked as a research assistant at the Silicon Flatirons Center at the University of Colorado and held policy and legal internships with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the U.S. Department of Energy, AT&T’s federal regulatory office, and Hogan Lovells. Westling has held public-service appointments, including membership on the Federal Communications Commission’s Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee. He earned a J.D. from the University of Colorado Law School and a bachelor’s from the University of Arizona.
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Adjunct Professor
National School of Development, Peking University
Zhaofeng Xue is an adjunct professor at the National School of Development, Peking University, and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His…
Zhaofeng Xue is an adjunct professor at the National School of Development, Peking University, and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on antitrust, law & economics, political economy, price theory, and competition policy, including e-commerce governance and digital-market regulation. He previously served as a professor of law & economics and co-director of the Institute for Law and Economics at the National School of Development, Peking University. He was also a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University School of Law. Xue is a member of the Information Society 50 Forum. He is the author of “Common Sense in Economics, Commerce without Frontiers: The Economics Revolution in Antitrust, Controversies in Economics,” and “Economics Lecture Notes.” He earned a Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University.
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John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Christopher S. Yoo is the John H. Chestnut Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, professor of communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, professor of computer and information science in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and founding director of the Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition. He is also an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on law & technology, antitrust, telecommunications regulation, intellectual property, privacy, and administrative law. His scholarship examines imperfect competition in communications markets, network neutrality, interoperability, and the regulation of digital platforms, as well as the technical and institutional design of Internet governance. He also studies copyright theory and the history of presidential power. Yoo previously served on the Federal Communications Commission’s Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee, the American Law Institute’s project on data-privacy principles and the data-economy restatement, and the United Nations Internet Governance Forum’s initiative on connecting and enabling the next billions. He frequently testifies before Congress and federal competition and communications agencies. Before joining the University of Pennsylvania, Yoo was a professor of law and founding director of the Technology and Entertainment Law Program at Vanderbilt University. Earlier in his career, he practiced law in the appellate group at Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells). He also served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and to Judge A. Raymond Randolph of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Yoo is the author of “The Dynamic Internet: How Technology, Users, and Businesses Are Transforming the Network.” He is also the co-author, with Daniel F. Spulber, of “Networks in Telecommunications: Economics and Law,” and, with Steven G. Calabresi, of “The Unitary Executive: Presidential Power from Washington to Bush.” His honors include the John Paul Stevens Prize for graduating first in his law school class, the Lowden-Wigmore Prize, Order of the Coif, and numerous competitive research grants and fellowships. He earned a J.D. magna cum laude from Northwestern University, an M.B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a bachelor’s from Harvard University.
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Professor of Law
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
John M. Yun is a professor of law and economist at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on antitrust, intellectual property, privacy, and data governance, as well as broader questions in law & economics, industrial organization, and law & technology. His work examines network effects, multisided platforms, and digital markets. He teaches antitrust, law & economics, and intellectual property. Before joining the Scalia Law School faculty, Yun served as acting deputy assistant director in the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics, Antitrust Division, and previously worked as a staff economist at the FTC. He has also held leadership roles at the Global Antitrust Institute at Scalia Law School, including executive director, deputy executive director, and director of economic education. He has taught economics at Georgetown University, Emory University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Earlier in his career, he worked as an analyst at United Parcel Service’s Strategic Cost & Planning Group and at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s research department. Yun’s work was cited by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in the scientific background materials accompanying the 2014 Prize in Economic Sciences honoring Jean Tirole. His honors also include the Federal Trade Commission’s Francis Walker Award for sustained excellent performance, the Janet Steiger Award (Intel-AMD team and Oil & Gas Projects team), the FTC Outstanding Team Award (MSC Software matter), and a nomination for the George Mason University Teaching Excellence Award. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from Emory University and a bachelor’s from the University of California, Los Angeles, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
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Senior Scholar, Competition Policy
Mario Zúñiga serves as a senior scholar of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics. He is also a professor of economic analysis of…
Mario Zúñiga serves as a senior scholar of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics. He is also a professor of economic analysis of law at the University of Lima and the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and a nongovernmental advisor for Peru at the International Competition Network. Before joining ICLE, Zúñiga was a senior manager at EY and earlier a public-affairs manager at Alicorp. He previously served as a commissioner of Peru’s Commission for the Defense of Free Competition (INDECOPI) and as an advisor in the Cabinet of Advisors of the Peruvian Ministry of Economy and Finance. Earlier in his career, he was vice president of Taxpayers for Respect and a researcher and senior researcher at the Institute for Liberty and Democracy. He also practiced law as an associate at Estudio Echecopar and began his career as a legal assistant at INDECOPI and Andersen Legal/Ernst & Young. He earned a J.D. from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and an LL.M. in regulation and public policy 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 the George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law at the Antonin Scalia School of Law at George Mason University. He is also a senior scholar…
Todd J. Zywicki is the George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law at the Antonin Scalia School of Law at George Mason University. He is also a senior scholar and senior fellow with the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center, and a nonresident scholar and academic affiliate with the International Center for Law & Economics. His work focuses on law & economics, consumer credit, bankruptcy, and financial regulation. He previously served as executive director of the Law & Economics Center at George Mason University and as director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Policy Planning. He has also taught as a visiting professor at Vanderbilt University Law School and Georgetown University Law Center, and earlier taught at 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. He also received the Institute for Humane Studies Charles G. Koch Outstanding IHS Alum Award. He earned a J.D. from the University of Virginia, a master’s in economics from Clemson University, and a bachelor’s from Dartmouth College.
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