About the Author(s)

Timothy J. Brennan is professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County's School of Public Policy.

Luke M. Froeb

William C. Oehmig Chair in Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
Vanderbilt University

Luke Froeb is an ICLE Academic Affiliate.

Eric Fruits

Senior Scholar

Eric Fruits is a senior scholar at ICLE and an adjunct professor of economics at Portland State University.

Douglas Ginsburg

Senior Circuit Judge
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia

The Hon. Douglas H. Ginsburg is a member of ICLE's Board of Academic Advisors.

Herbert Hovenkamp

Herbert Hovenkamp is James G. Dinan University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Jonathon Jacobson

Partner at WSGR

Jonathan Jacobson is a retired partner of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

William Kolasky

Partner at HHR

William J. Kolasky is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Hughes Hubbard & Reed.

Tad Lipsky

Tad Lipsky is assistant professor at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School and director of the Competition Advocacy Program at the Global Antitrust Institute.

Geoffrey A. Manne

President and Founder

Geoffrey A. Manne is president and founder of the International Center for Law and Economics (ICLE), a distinguished fellow at Northwestern University’s Center on Law, Business, and Economics, and a visiting professor of law at IE University, Madrid.

Kristian Stout

Director of Innovation Policy

Kristian Stout is director of innovation policy at the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE).

Joshua Wright

Joshua D. Wright is founding partner of Lodestar Law & Economics and a former member of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

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Antitrust

Regulatory Comments

Comment by Various Antitrust Scholars from the Truth on the Market Blog Symposium on the VMGs (Matter Number P810034)

Timothy J. Brennan, Luke M. Froeb, Eric Fruits, Douglas Ginsburg, Herbert Hovenkamp, Jonathon Jacobson, William Kolasky, Tad Lipsky, Geoffrey A. Manne, Kristian Stout, & Joshua Wright February 24, 2020

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In response to the Draft Vertical Merger Guidelines released by DOJ and the FTC on January 10, 2020,1 the International Center for Law & Economics convened a blog symposium to discuss the legal and economic implications of the proposed changes. Published on Thursday, February 6, 2020 and Friday, February 7, 2020 on TruthOnTheMarket.com, that symposium included contributions from twenty-six well respected legal academics, economists, and seasoned practitioners. This Comment collects those posts together so that they can form part of the record as DOJ and the FTC consider the final form of the Vertical Merger Guidelines.

Please note, inclusion of the posts in this comment should not be interpreted as indicating that any particular author supports any post that is not his or her own — this was a broad effort that included many different viewpoints.