Authors

Alden Abbott is a senior research fellow with the Mercatus Center and a former general counsel of the Federal Trade Commission.

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

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

Mikolaj Barczentewicz is an associate professor in law at the University of Surrey in Guildford, England and a senior scholar at the International Center for Law & Economics.

Jonathan M. 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.

Eric Fruits is a senior scholar at the International Center for Law & Economics and an adjunct professor of economics at Portland State University.

Daniel J. 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 the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) and a senior fellow and academic director of the Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.

Thomas A. Lambert is the Wall Chair in Corporate Law and Governance and professor of law at the University of Missouri School of Law.

Geoffrey A. Manne is president and founder of the International Center for Law and Economics (ICLE) and a distinguished fellow at Northwestern University’s Center on Law, Business, and Economics.
Julian Morris is a Senior Scholar at the International Center for Law & Economics.

Lazar Radic is a senior scholar for competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE), and an assistant professor of law at IE University.

Joanna Shepherd is the Thomas Simmons Professor of Law at Emory Law.

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

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

Michael E. Sykuta is an associate professor at the University of Missouri’s Division of Applied Social Sciences and executive director of the Financial Research Institute.
Guest Contributors

Asheesh Agarwal is president of Agarwal Strategies LLC.

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

Andrew Albanese is executive editor and deals columnist for Publishers Weekly.

Reiko Aoki is a commissioner of the Japan Fair Trade Commission.

Onyeka Aralu is a research assistant with the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE).

Gustavo Augusto Freitas de Lima is a commissioner for Brazil’s Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica (CADE).

Hans Bader practices law in Washington, D.C.

Stephen Bainbridge is the William D. Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law.

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

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

Benjamin H. Barton is the Helen and Charles Lockett Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law.

Roger Bate is a senior scholar with the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE). He researches international and domestic health policy, with a special interest in medicines. He has a PhD in applied economics from Cambridge University.

Michael Baye is the Bert Elwert Professor of Business at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.

Chris Berg is a professor of economics at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

Andrew L. Black is an associate in White & Case\’s global competition and commercial litigation practice groups.

Jarod M. Bona is the founder and CEO of Bona Law PC.

Oscar Borgogno is a legal research officer with Banca d’Italia and a senior fellow with the GW Competition & Innovation Lab.

Chelsea Boyd is a resident research fellow of harm reduction with the R Street Institute.

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

Christopher J. Buccafusco is the Edward & Ellen Schwarzman Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law.

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

Dan Caprio is CEO and president of DC Strategies and co-founder and chairman of The Providence Group.

Michael A. Carrier is Board of Governors Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School.

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.

James C. Cooper is professor of law and director of the Program on Economics & Privacy at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School

Peter Craddock is a partner in the Brussels office of Keller & Heckman LLP, where he head the EU Data/Cyber/Tech Law team.

Robert W. Crandall is an adjunct senior fellow at the Technology Policy Institute.

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

Dennis Crouch is the Judge C.A. Leedy Professor of Law and director of the Center for Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship at the University of Missouri School of Law.

Chris DeMuth Jr. is a partner with Rangeley Capital LLC.

Paul Denis is a retired partner from Dechert’s Washington, D.C. office.

Stephen Dnes is an Associate Professor in Law at Northeastern University London.
Michael J. Doane is a founding member and director at Competition Economics LLC.

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

Tirzah Duren is vice president of policy and research at the American Consumer Institute.

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.

David S. Evans is the founder and publisher of Competition Policy International.

Jay Ezrielev is founder and managing principal of Elevecon LLC.

Allan Fels is professorial fellow at the University of Melbourne Law School and was chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

John Fingleton is chair of the advisory firm Fingleton and former CEO of the UK Office of Fair Trading.

David D. Friedman is professor emeritus at Santa Clara University School of Law.

Brett Frischmann is the Charles Widger Endowed University Professor in Law, Business and Economics at Villanova University.

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

Joshua Gans is the Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management.

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

Nuno Garoupa is a professor of law and the faculty director of graduate studies at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School.

Theodore A. Gebhard is a retired economist and attorney.

Allen Gibby is legal counsel at Asurion and a former ICLE senior fellow.

Michael Giberson is an economist now retired from Texas Tech University.

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

Colin Grabow is a research fellow at the Cato Institute’s Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies.

Thomas J. Grennes is a professor emeritus of economics at North Carolina State University.

Gillian Hadfield is the Schwartz Reisman Chair in Technology and Society, a professor of law, and professor of strategic management at the University of Toronto.

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

Natalie Hausknecht is a partner in the Denver office of Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher.

Thomas W. Hazlett is the Hugh H. Macaulay Endowed Professor of Economics at Clemson University.

Bowman Heiden is executive director at the Tusher Strategic Initiative for Technology Leadership at the University of California at Berkeley and co-director of the Center for Intellectual Property.

William Henderson is the Stephen F. Burns Professor of Law at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law.

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

Claire Hill is the James L. Krusemark Chair in Law at the University of Minnesota Law School.

Dae Sik Hong is a professor of law at Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea.

Steven G. Horwitz (1964-2021) was the Distinguished Professor of Free Enterprise and Director of the Institute for the Study of Political Economy at Ball State University’s Miller College of Business.

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.

Keith N. Hylton is the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of Boston University and professor of law at Boston University School of Law.

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

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

Renee Knake Jefferson holds the Joanne and Larry Doherty Chair in Legal Ethics at the University of Houston Law Center.

Daniel Martin Katz is professor of law and director of the Law Lab at Illinois Tech’s Chicago-Kent College of Law.

F. Scott Kieff is the Stevenson Bernard Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School.

Bruce H. Kobayashi is the Paige V. and Henry N. Butler Chair in Law and Economics at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School.

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

Filippo Lancieri is a postdoctoral fellow at the ETH Zurich Center for Law & Economics.

Robert H. Lande is the Venable Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Baltimore School of Law.

Angela Diveley Landry is counsel with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

Aaron Lane is a senior lecturer in law at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, and a senior fellow with George Washington University’s Competition & Innovation Lab.

Marina Lao is the Edward S. Hendrickson Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law.

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

George Leef is director of editorial content for the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal.

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

David K. Levine is joint chair of the Department of Economics and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute.

Steven Levitsky is an antitrust attorney in New York.

Ioannis Lianos is a professor and chair of global competition law and public policy at University College London’s Faculty of Laws.

Scott Lincicome is the vice president of general economics at the Cato Institute and Cato’s Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies.

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.

Gerard Llobet is associate professor at the Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros.

John E. Lopatka is the A. Robert Noll Distinguished Professor of Law at Penn State Law.
Filip Lubinski is a PhD researcher at the European University Institute.

Nelson Lund is Distinguished University Professor at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia School of Law.

Daniel Lyons is a professor, the associate dean of academic affairs, and the Dean’s Distinguished Scholar at Boston College Law School.

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.

Andrew Magloughlin is an associate with Steptoe LLP in Washington, D.C.

Akiva Malamet is a contributing editor at The UnPopulist.

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.

Howard P. Marvel is professor emeritus of economics at The Ohio State University.

Kevin McCabe is a professor of economics, law, and neuroscience at George Mason University.

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.

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

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

Thomas D. Morgan is the Oppenheim Professor Emeritus of Antitrust and Trade Regulation Law at George Washington University Law School.

Andrew P. Morriss is the dean of Texas A&M University’s School of Innovation and professor at the School of Law and the Bush School of Government and Public Service.

Diana L. Moss is vice president and director of competition policy at the Progressive Policy Institute.

Timothy J. Muris is George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law at George Mason’s Antonin Scalia Law School and a former chairman of the Federal Trade Commission

Aaron Nielson is solicitor-general of the State of Texas and a professor of law at Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School.

Erin O’Hara O’Connor is dean and Donald J. Weidner Chair at Florida State University College of Law.
Maureen K. Ohlhausen is a partner with Baker Botts, and section chair of the firm’s Global Antitrust and Competition practice.

Dario Oliveira Neto is an LL.M. candidate in international business and economic law (IBEL) at Georgetown University and an ICLE academic affiliate.

Walter Olson is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies.

Jorge Padilla is chair of Compass Lexecon EMEA.

Ajit Pai is a partner at Searchlight Capital Partners and a former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.

Richard W. Painter is the S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Minnesota.

Sabrina Pekarovic is an intern with the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) and a second-year law student at IE University in Segovia, Spain.

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

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

Jaclyn Phillips is a senior associate in White & Case’s global antitrust/competition practice.
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.

Aurelien Portuese is a research professor at George Washington University.

Ryan Radia is research fellow and regulatory counsel with the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

Subiksha Ramakrishnan is a research assistant with the International Center for Law & Economics.

Eric B. Rasmusen is a retired professor of economics and public policy, previously at Indiana University.

Morgan Reed is president and executive director of ACT – The App Association.

James F. Rill is a senior counsel with Baker Botts in Washington, D.C., and the former assistant U.S. attorney general in charge of the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) Antitrust Division.

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

Roberta Romano is Sterling Professor of Law and co-director of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law.

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

Michael A. Salinger is the Jacqueline J. and Arthur S. Bahr Professor of Management and professor of economics at the Boston University School of Management.

Steven C. Salop is professor emeritus at Georgetown Law.

Kerem Cem Sanli is an associate professor in civil law and competition law at Istanbul Bilgi University.

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

Mike Shor is an associate professor of economics at the University of Connecticut.

J. Gregory Sidak is founder and chairman of Criterion Economics Inc. and founding co-editor of Oxford University Press’ Journal of Competition Law & Economics.

Joseph J. Simons is a retired partner with the antitrust group of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP and the former chairman of the Federal Trade Commission.

Joe Sims is a retired partner with Jones Day.

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.

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

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.

Christopher Jon Sprigman is the Murray and Kathleen Bring Professor of Law at New York University School of Law.

Matthew Starr is government affairs director for privacy and AI policy with Motorola Solutions.

Judd E. Stone is a partner at Stone Hilton in Austin, Texas, and was the State of Texas solicitor general from February 2021 to October 2023.

Shivanghi Sukumar is a partner with Axiom5 Law Chambers LLP.

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

Berin Szóka is the president and founder of TechFreedom.

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

Eric Talley is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.

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

Amir C. Tayrani is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Washington, D.C. office.

David J. Teece is the Thomas W. Tusher Professor in Global Business and faculty director of the Tusher Center for The Management of Intellectual Capital at the University of California at Berkeley Haas School of Business.

Richard H. Thaler is the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the 2017 recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to behavioral economics.

Chang-hsien (Robert) Tsai is a professor of law and business at the Institute of Law for Science and Technology within Taiwan’s National Tsing Hua University College of Technology Management.

Darren is a partner in the antitrust group of Vinson & Elkins.

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.

Cento Veljanovski is founder and managing partner of Case Associates.

Carrie Wade is senior manager of global scientific engagement with Philip Morris International.

Phil Weiser is the attorney general of the State of Colorado and the Hatfield Professor of Law and Telecommunications at the University of Colorado Law School.

Gregory J. Werden retired in 2019 after 42 years in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Justice Department.
Lawrence White is Robert Kavesh Professor of Economics at New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

Christine S. Wilson is a senior advisor in the antitrust, competition and trade practice of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and a former commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

Timothy Wu is the Julius Silver Professor of Law, Science and Technology at Columbia Law School.

Aaron Wudrick is a senior fellow and director of the Domestic Policy Program at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.

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

Luigi Zingales is the Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Mario Zúñiga is a senior scholar of competition policy at ICLE.

Todd J. Zywicki is George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law at George Mason’s Antonin Scalia School of Law.
Bloggers Emeriti

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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