Authors

Authors

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Alden Abbott

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.

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Brian Albrecht

Brian Albrecht is Chief Economist of the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE).

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Dirk Auer

Dirk Auer currently works as the Director of Competition Policy at the International Center for Law & Economics.

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Mikolaj Barczentewicz

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.

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Jonathan M. Barnett

Jonathan M. Barnett is the Torrey H. Webb Professor of Law at the University of Southern California’s Gould School of Law.

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Eric Fruits

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.

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Daniel J. Gilman

Daniel Gilman is a Senior Scholar of Competition Policy with the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE).

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Gus Hurwitz

Justin (Gus) Hurwitz is the Director of Law & Economics Programs at ICLE.

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Thom Lambert

Thomas A. Lambert is the Wall Chair in Corporate Law and Governance and Professor of Law.

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Geoffrey Manne

Geoffrey A. Manne is the President & Founder of the International Center for Law & Economics.

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Julian Morris

Julian Morris is a Senior Scholar at the International Center for Law & Economics.

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Lazar Radic

Lazar is Senior Scholar for Competition Policy at the International Center for Law & Economics, and Adjunct Professor of Law at IE University.

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Joanna Shepherd

Joanna Shepherd is a Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law.

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Ben Sperry

Ben Sperry is senior scholar of innovation policy at the International Center for Law & Economics.

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Kristian Stout

Kristian Stout, ICLE’s Director of Innovation Policy is an expert in intellectual property, antitrust, telecommunications, and Internet governance.

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Michael Sykuta

Michael Sykuta is an Associate Professor, Division of Applied Sciences at the University of Missouri.

Guest Contributors

Pinar Akman headshot
Pinar Akman

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

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Jonathan Baker
David Balto headshot
David Balto

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

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Corbin K. Barthold

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

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Roger Bate
Timothy J. Brennan headshot
Timothy J. Brennan

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

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Michael Calabrese

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

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Steven J Cernak

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

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Giuseppe Colangelo

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

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Mary Coleman

Mary Coleman is an Executive Vice President at Compass Lexecon.

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Daniel A. Crane

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

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Stephen Dnes

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

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Susan Dudley

Susan Dudley is director of the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center.

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Richard A. Epstein

Richard Epstein is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at New York University Law School.

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David S. Evans
Jay Ezrielev headshot
Jay Ezrielev

Jay Ezrielev is founder and managing principal of Elevecon LLC.

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Harold Feld

Harold Feld is a Senior Vice President with Public Knowledge.

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Miranda Fleischer
Luke M. Froeb headshot
Luke M. Froeb

Luke Froeb is the William C. Oehmig Chair in Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University.

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Joshua Gans
Svetlana S. Gans headshot
Svetlana S. Gans

Svetlana S. Gans is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

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Paul Gift
Douglas Ginsburg headshot
Douglas Ginsburg
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Shane Greenstein
Philip Hanspach headshot
Philip Hanspach

Philip Hanspach is a PhD researcher in economics at the European University Institute.

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Natalie J. Hausknecht

Natalie Hausknecht is an associate attorney in Gibson Dunn’s Denver office.

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Thomas Hazlett
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Bowman Heiden

Bo Heiden is Executive Director at the Tusher Center for Business Innovation at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkley.

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Joshua Hendrickson

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

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Steve Horwitz
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Herbert Hovenkamp
Keith N. Hylton headshot
Keith N. Hylton

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

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Mark Jamison
William J. Kolasky headshot
William J. Kolasky
Richard Langlois headshot
Richard Langlois
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Tad Lipsky

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

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John Lopatka
Filip Lubinski headshot
Filip Lubinski

Filip Lubinski is a PhD researcher at the European University Institute.

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Daniel Lyons
William C. MacLeod headshot
William C. MacLeod

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.

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Henry G. Manne

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.

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Satya Marar

Satya Marar is a Visiting Postgraduate Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

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Philip Marsden
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Antonio Robles Martín-Laborda

Antonio Robles is an associate professor of commercial law at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

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Howard Marvel
Doug Melamed headshot
Doug Melamed
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Jessica Melugin

Jessica Melugin is director of the Center for Technology & Innovation at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

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Andrew Mercado

Andrew Mercado is a research assistant at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

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Robert Miller
Timothy J. Muris headshot
Timothy J. Muris

Tim Muris is Foundation Professor at the George Mason University School of Law and Senior Counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.

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Thomas Nachbar
John Newman headshot
John Newman
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Aaron Nielson

Aaron Nielson is Professor of Law at Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School.

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Maureen K. Ohlhausen

Maureen K. Ohlhausen is a partner with Baker Botts, and section chair of the firm’s Global Antitrust and Competition practice.

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Nicolas Petit
Noah J. Phillips headshot
Noah J. Phillips

Noah Phillips is Co-Chair of the Antitrust Practice at Cravath and previously served as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission.

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Randal C. Picker

Randy Picker is James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.

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Richard J. Pierce Jr.

Richard Pierce Jr. is the Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School.

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Sharis Pozen
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James F. Rill

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.

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William Eric Rinehart
Ben Rossen headshot
Ben Rossen

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.

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Michael Salinger
Steve Salop headshot
Steve Salop
Thibault Schrepel headshot
Thibault Schrepel

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

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Scott Sher
Joseph Simons headshot
Joseph Simons
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Joe Sims

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.

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Hal Singer

Hal Singer is a managing director at Econ One.

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Brent Skorup

Brent Skorup is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

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Margaret Slade

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

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Lawrence J. Spiwak

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

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Mary Sullivan

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

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Mariana Tavares de Araujo

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

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Ashwin Varma

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.

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Cento Veljanovski
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Gregory J. Werden

Gregory J. Werden is a visiting scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

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Lawrence J. White

Lawrence White is Robert Kavesh Professor of Economics at New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

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Christine Wilson
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Ramsi Woodcock
Mario Zúñiga headshot
Mario Zúñiga

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

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Todd Zywicki

Bloggers Emeriti

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Sam Bowman
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Todd Henderson
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Adam Mossoff
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Elizabeth Nowicki
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Larry Ribstein
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Paul H. Rubin

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

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Keith Sharfman
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Bill Sjostrom
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Alec Stapp
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J.W. Verret
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Josh Wright