Program Description: This symposium focused on the unique challenges in competition and antitrust law across differing global regimes. Panels discussed class actions and private actions, economics and economic evidence across differing antitrust regimes, non-competition goals in global antitrust law, and remedies and commitments across differing antitrust regimes. Expert panelists and speakers presented viewpoints of both domestic and international antitrust regimes. The symposium also featured morning and lunch keynote addresses.
Agenda
Conversation with Corporate Counsel
Speakers:
Aimee Imundo, Senior Counsel, Competition Law and Compliance, General Electric
David T. Blonder, Director, Legal Counsel, Regulatory and Privacy, BlackBerry LTD
Jaffer M. Abbasi, Compliance Counsel, Chevron Corporation
Commentator:
Terry Calvani, Of Counsel, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Class Actions and Private Actions
Panelists:
James G. Kress, Partner, Baker Botts LLP
Damien Geradin, Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law
Michelle M. Burtis, Vice President, Charles River Associates
Christine Siegwarth Meyer, Senior Vice President, NERA Economic Consulting
Reena A. Gambhir, Partner, Hausfeld LLP
Moderator:
Thomas Ensign, Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Economics and Economic Evidence Across Regimes
Reading Assignment: Yong Huang et al., Essential Facilities Doctrine and Its Application in Intellectual Property Space Under China’s Anti-Monopoly Law, 22 Geo. Mason L. Rev. (forthcoming 2015).
Panelists:
Elizabeth X. Wang, Principal, Charles River Associates
H. Stephen Harris, Jr., Partner, Winston & Strawn LLP
Jorge Padilla, Senior Managing Director and Head of Compass Lexecon Europe
Subramaniam Ramanarayanan, Senior Consultant, NERA Economic Consulting
Moderator
Bruce H. Kobayashi, Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law
Luncheon Keynote, Randolph W. Tritell
Keynote Speaker:
Randolph W. Tritell, Director, Office of International Affairs, Federal Trade Commission
Non-Competition Goals in Global Antitrust
Panelists:
James F. Rill, Senior Counsel, Baker Botts LLP
William E. Kovacic, Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy, Professor of Law, and Director, Competition Law Center, The George Washington University Law School
D. Daniel Sokol, Professor, Levin College of Law University of Florida
John A. Jurata, Partner, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Moderator:
Timothy J. Muris, Of Counsel, Kirkland & Ellis LLP and George Mason University Foundation Professor, George Mason University School of Law
Remedies and Commitments Across Regimes
Panelists:
The Honorable Joshua D. Wright, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
George S. Cary, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Bruce McCulloch, Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Abbott B. Lipsky, Jr., Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP
Moderator:
The Honorable Douglas H. Ginsburg, Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law
Research
The following articles were published as 22 George Mason Law Review (No. 5, 2015):
Terry Calvani, Jaffer Abbasi, David Blonder, Aimee Imundo, Keynote Panel Discussion
Damien Geradin, “Collective Redress for Antitrust Damages in the European Union: Is this a Reality Now?”
Yong Huang, Elizabeth Xiao-Ru Wang, & Roger Xin Zhang, “Essential Facilities Doctrine and Its Application in Intellectual Property Space Under China’s Anti-Monopoly Law”
John “Jay” Jurata & Inessa Mirkin Owens, “A New Trade War: Applying Domestic Antitrust Laws to Foreign Patents”
William E. Kovacic, “The United States and Its Future Influence on Global Competition Policy”
Derek W. Moore & Joshua D. Wright, “Conditional Discounts and the Law of Exclusive Dealing”
Daniel Sokol, “Tensions Between Antitrust and Industrial Policy”
Randolph W. Tritell, “Meeting the Challenges of the Evolving International Antitrust Landscape”