Authors

Authors

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Alden Abbott

Alden Abbott is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

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Asheesh Agarwal

Asheesh Agarwal is president of Agarwal Strategies LLC. He has previously held positions in the U.S. Justice Department, Federal Trade Commission, and the first Trump administration.

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Brian Albrecht

Brian Albrecht serves as chief economist of the International Center for Law & Economics.

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Onyeka Aralu

Onyeka Aralu is a competition fellow at the International Center for Law & Economics.

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Dirk Auer

Dirk Auer serves as director of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics.

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Mikolaj Barczentewicz

Mikolaj Barczentewicz serves as a senior scholar of innovation policy at the International Center for Law & Economics.

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Giuseppe Colangelo

Giuseppe Colangelo serves as a senior scholar of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics.

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Eric Fruits

Eric Fruits serves as director of economic research at the International Center for Law & Economics.

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Daniel J. Gilman

Daniel J. Gilman serves as a senior scholar of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics.

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Gus Hurwitz

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.

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Geoffrey A. Manne

Geoffrey A. Manne is president and founder of the International Center for Law and Economics.

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Satya Marar

Satya Marar is a research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University specializing in competition, innovation and governance,  and an AI and competition fellow at the Innovators Network.

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Julian Morris

Julian Morris is a senior scholar at the International Center for Law & Economics.

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Dario Oliveira Neto

Dario Oliveira Neto serves as a senior scholar of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics.

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Lazar Radic

Lazar Radic serves as a senior scholar of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics.

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Ben Sperry

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

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Kristian Stout

Kristian Stout serves as director of innovation policy at the International Center for Law & Economics.

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Jeffrey Westling

Jeffrey Westling serves as a senior scholar of innovation policy at the International Center for Law & Economics.

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Selcukhan Ünekbas

Selcukhan Ünekbas is a postdoctoral researcher at the European University Institute and a research fellow at the Tusher Strategic Initiative for Technology Leadership at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

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John M. Yun

John M. Yun is a professor of law and economist at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School,

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Mario Zúñiga

Mario Zúñiga serves as a senior scholar of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics.

Guest Contributors

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Ian Adams

Ian Adams serves as executive director of the International Center for Law & Economics.

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Gerald L. Adams III

Gerald Adams is a research assistant professor at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. He is also affiliated with the Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and is a senior scholar of innovation policy at the International Center for Law & Economics.

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Jane Bambauer

Jane Bambauer is the Brechner Eminent Scholar at the University of Florida Levin College of Law and the College of Journalism and Communications.

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Jonathan M. Barnett

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.

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Corbin K. Barthold

Corbin K. Barthold is internet policy counsel and director of appellate litigation with TechFreedom.

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Roger Bate

Roger Bate is a nonresident scholar with the International Center for Law & Economics.

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Sam Bowman

Sam Bowman is head of publishing at Stripe and editor of Works in Progress.

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Timothy J. Brennan

Timothy J. Brennan is professor emeritus of public policy and economics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

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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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Neil Chilson

Neil Chilson is head of AI policy at the Abundance Institute.

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Daniel A. Crane

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

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Jeffrey E. Depp

Jeffrey E. Depp is senior counsel for law and policy with the Committee for Justice.

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Stephen Dnes

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

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Jay Ezrielev

Jay Ezrielev is founder and managing principal of Elevecon LLC.

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Harold Feld

Harold Feld is senior vice president at Public Knowledge.

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Luke M. Froeb

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

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Svetlana S. Gans

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

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Theodore A. Gebhard

Theodore A. Gebhard is a retired economist and attorney.

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Douglas Ginsburg

Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg has been a judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit since 1986.

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Thomas W. Hazlett

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.

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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.

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Mark Jamison

Mark Jamison is director and Gerald Gunter Professor of the Public Utility Research Center and director of the Digital Markets Initiative at the University of Florida.

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Kay Jebelli

Kayvan Hazemi-Jebelli is principal at Evalusion, a consultancy firm focused on digital-competition policy.

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William J. Kolasky

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

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Thomas A. Lambert

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.

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Sangyun Lee

Sangyun Lee is a postdoctoral researcher at Kyoto University, where he is a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) International Research Fellow.

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Mark A. Lemley

Mark A. Lemley is the William H. Neukom Professor at Stanford Law School.

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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.

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Francisco Marcos

Francisco Marcos is professor of business law at IE Law School in Madrid.

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Randolph J. May

Randolph J. May is founder and president of the Free State Foundation, an independent free-market-oriented think tank.

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A. Douglas Melamed

A. Douglas Melamed is a visiting fellow at the Stanford Law School and scholar in-residence at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.

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Andrew Mercado

Andrew Mercado is an economist and professional staff member with the U.S. House Judiciary Committee.

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Maureen K. Ohlhausen

Maureen K. Ohlhausen is a partner and co-chair of the antitrust and competition practice at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

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Sabrina Pekarovic

Sabrina Pekarovic is a competition fellow at the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE).

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Nicolas Petit

Nicolas Petit is professor of European Union competition law and head of the law department at European University Institute.

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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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Jason Pilkington

Jason Pilkington is a former research associate for the International Center for Law & Economics.

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Aurelien Portuese

Aurelien Portuese is a research professor at George Washington University.

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Subiksha Ramakrishnan

Subi Ramakrishnan serves as a communications and innovation fellow at the International Center for Law & Economics.

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Will Rinehart

Will Rinehart is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

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Don Rosenberg

Donald J. Rosenberg is former executive vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary of Qualcomm Inc.

 

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Jan Rybnicek

Jan Rybnicek is a partner in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s antitrust, competition and trade group, based in Washington, D.C.

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Steve Salop

Steven C. Salop is professor emeritus at Georgetown Law.

 

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Rohan Shah

Rohan Shah is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Mississippi.

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Joanna Shepherd

Joanna Shepherd is the Thomas Simmons Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law,

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Joe Sims

Joe Sims is a retired partner with Jones Day.

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Hal Singer

Hal Singer is managing director of Econ One, a professor in the economics department at the University of Utah, and the executive director the Utah Project.

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Brent Skorup

Brent Skorup is a research fellow at the Cato Institute’s Levy Center for Constitutional Studies.

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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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Alec Stapp

Alec Stapp is co-founder and co-CEO of the Institute for Progress.

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Sayako Takizawa

Sayako Takizawa is a professor at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate Schools for Law and Politics.

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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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Gregory J. Werden

Gregory J. Werden was senior economic counsel of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice before retiring in 2019.

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Lawrence J. White

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

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Ramsi Woodcock

Ramsi Woodcock is the Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law, with a secondary appointment in the Gatton College of Business & Economics.

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Joshua D. 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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Todd J. Zywicki

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 co-director of the Institute for Consumer Financial Choice and a nonresident scholar and academic affiliate with the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE).

Bloggers Emeriti

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David Balto

David Balto is an attorney with the Law Offices of David Balto.

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Richard A. Epstein

Richard A. Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at New York University Law School, and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago.

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Paul Gift

Paul Gift is an associate professor of economics at the Pepperdine Graziadio Business School.

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M. Todd Henderson

M. Todd Henderson is the Michael J. Marks Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.

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Henry G. Manne

Henry G. Manne (1928–2015) was dean emeritus and university professor emeritus at George Mason University School of Law.

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Robert Miller

Robert T. Miller is the Allison and Dorothy Rouse Chair in Law at Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University.

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Adam Mossoff

Adam Mossoff is a professor of law at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School.

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Elizabeth Nowicki

Elizabeth Nowicki is deputy general counsel and director of litigation at the New York State Office of Cannabis Management.

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Larry Ribstein

Larry E. Ribstein (1946-2011) was the Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Chair, associate dean for research, and co-director of the Illinois Business Law and Policy Program at the University of Illinois.

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Paul H. Rubin

Paul H. Rubin (1942–2024) was the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics Emeritus at Emory University.

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Keith Sharfman

Keith Sharfman is a professor of law and director of bankruptcy studies at St. John’s University School of Law.

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Bill Sjostrom

William K. Sjostrom is professor of law at the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law.

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Michael E. Sykuta

Michael E. Sykuta is associate professor of agricultural and applied economics in the Division of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Missouri and executive director of the Financial Research Institute.

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Berin Szoka

Berin Szóka is the president and founder of TechFreedom.

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Neil Turkewitz

Neil Turkewitz is president of Turkewitz Consulting Group.

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J.W. Verret

J.W. Verret is associate professor of law at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School.