Authors

Alden Abbott is a a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, focusing on antitrust issues. He previously served as the Federal Trade Commission’s General Counsel from 2018 to early 2021.

Brian Albrecht is Chief Economist of the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE).
Dirk Auer currently works as the Director of Competition Policy at the International Center for Law & Economics.
Mikolaj Barczentewicz is a Senior Lecturer in Public Law and Legal Theory and the Research Director of the Law and Technology Hub at the University of Surrey School of Law in Guildford, England.
Jonathan M. Barnett is the Torrey H. Webb Professor of Law at the University of Southern California’s Gould School of Law.
Eric Fruits, Ph.D. is a senior scholar at the International Center for Law & Economics and an adjunct professor of economics at Portland State University.
Daniel Gilman is a Senior Scholar of Competition Policy with the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE).
Justin (Gus) Hurwitz is the Director of Law & Economics Programs at ICLE.
Thomas A. Lambert is the Wall Chair in Corporate Law and Governance and Professor of Law.
Geoffrey A. Manne is the President & Founder of the International Center for Law & Economics.
Julian Morris is a Senior Scholar at the International Center for Law & Economics.

Lazar is Senior Scholar for Competition Policy at the International Center for Law & Economics, and Adjunct Professor of Law at IE University.
Joanna Shepherd is a Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law.
Ben Sperry is senior scholar of innovation policy at the International Center for Law & Economics.
Kristian Stout, ICLE’s Director of Innovation Policy is an expert in intellectual property, antitrust, telecommunications, and Internet governance.
Michael Sykuta is an Associate Professor, Division of Applied Sciences at the University of Missouri.
Guest Contributors

Pinar Akman is Professor of Law at the University of Leeds and a judge at the U.K.’s Competition Appeal Tribunal.

David Balto is an attorney with the Law Offices of David Balto, specializing in competition policy.

Corbin Barthold is Internet Policy Counsel and Director of Appellate Litigation at TechFreedom.


Tim Brennan is Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Economics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Michael Calabrese is director of the Wireless Future Project, which is part of New America’s Open Technology Institute.

Steven J. Cernak is a partner with BonaLaw in Detroit, Michigan, where he serves in the firm’s antitrust and competition practice.

Giuseppe Colangelo is the Jean Monnet Professor of EU Innovation Policy and an associate professor of law and economics at the University of Basilicata.

Mary Coleman is an Executive Vice President at Compass Lexecon.

Dan Crane is the Richard W. Pogue Professor of Law at the University of Michigan.

Stephen Dnes is an Associate Professor in Law at Northeastern University London.

Susan Dudley is director of the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center.
Richard Epstein is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at New York University Law School.

Jay Ezrielev is founder and managing principal of Elevecon LLC.
Harold Feld is a Senior Vice President with Public Knowledge.

Luke Froeb is the William C. Oehmig Chair in Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University.
Svetlana S. Gans is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

Philip Hanspach is a PhD researcher in economics at the European University Institute.
Natalie Hausknecht is an associate attorney in Gibson Dunn’s Denver office.
Bo Heiden is Executive Director at the Tusher Center for Business Innovation at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkley.

Josh Hendrickson is Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of Mississippi.

Keith Hylton is William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of Boston University.

Tad Lipsky is an assistant professor at George Mason University Law School and director of the Competition Advocacy Program at the Global Antitrust Institute.
Filip Lubinski is a PhD researcher at the European University Institute.

Bill MacLeod is a partner with Kelley Drye & Warren LLP in Washington, D.C., where he chairs the firm’s antitrust and competition practice group.

Henry Manne (1928-2015) was Dean Emeritus of the George Mason University School of Law and one of the founders of the discipline of Law & Economics.
Satya Marar is a Visiting Postgraduate Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
Antonio Robles is an associate professor of commercial law at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Jessica Melugin is director of the Center for Technology & Innovation at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Andrew Mercado is a research assistant at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

Tim Muris is Foundation Professor at the George Mason University School of Law and Senior Counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Aaron Nielson is Professor of Law at Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School.
Maureen K. Ohlhausen is a partner with Baker Botts, and section chair of the firm’s Global Antitrust and Competition practice.

Noah Phillips is Co-Chair of the Antitrust Practice at Cravath and previously served as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission.
Randy Picker is James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.

Richard Pierce Jr. is the Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School.
James F. Rill is a senior counsel with Baker Botts and previously served as assistant attorney general in charge of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division.
Ben Rossen is special counsel with Baker Botts and previously served as a senior attorney in the Federal Trade Commission’s Division of Privacy and Identity Protection.

Thibault Schrepel is an Associate Professor of Law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Joe Sims is a retired partner with Jones Day and former head of the firm’s global antitrust and competition law practice and government regulations group.
Hal Singer is a managing director at Econ One.
Brent Skorup is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

Margaret Slade is professor emeritus in the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia.

Lawrence J. Spiwak is the president of the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies.

Mary Sullivan is a visiting scholar at the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center.

Mariana Tavares de Araujo is a partner with Levy & Salomão Advogados’ Antitrust and Compliance Practice Group in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Ashwin Varma is a medical student at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and a former associate consultant at Boston Consulting Group.

Gregory J. Werden is a visiting scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
Lawrence White is Robert Kavesh Professor of Economics at New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

Mario Zúñiga is a professor of economic analysis of law at the University of Lima and at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
Bloggers Emeriti

Paul Rubin is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics Emeritus at Emory University.
