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The proceedings of this symposium were published in the George Mason Law Review, vol. 21, no. 5 (2014).
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Program Description: The George Mason Law Review and the Law & Economics Center at George Mason University School of Law proudly present the George Mason Law Review 17th Annual Antitrust Symposium “The FTC: 100 Years of Antitrust and Competition Policy.” In commemoration of the Federal Trade Commission’s centennial, the symposium will focus on the FTC’s unique contributions to the development antitrust policy. The symposium will feature an opening keynote address by FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez and a keynote lunch panel featuring several former FTC Chairs including Jon Leibowitz, Timothy J. Muris, and James C. Miller III. The remainder of the day will consist of panel discussions on the Commission’s role in several developing areas of antitrust and will feature the Honorable Douglas H. Ginsburg, Commissioner Julie Brill, Commissioner Maureen K. Ohlhausen, and Commissioner Joshua D. Wright.
Agenda
Opening Keynote Address
The Honorable Edith Ramirez, Chairwoman, Federal Trade Commission
Panel One: Intellectual Property and Antitrust
The Honorable Maureen K. Ohlhausen, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
John “Jay” Jurata, Partner, Orrick, Herrington & Suttcliffe LLP
C. Scott Hemphill, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Moderator: James C. Cooper, Director, Research and Policy, Law & Economics Center and Lecturer in Law, George Mason University School of Law
Panel Two: Mergers
William Blumenthal, Partner, Sidley Austin LLP
Chetan Sanghvi, Senior Vice President, NERA Economic Consulting
George S. Cary, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Moderator: The Honorable Douglas H. Ginsburg, Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law
Luncheon Panel
Keynote Panelists:
Jon D. Leibowitz, Partner, David Polk & Wardwell LLP
Timothy J. Muris, Of Counsel, Kirkland & Ellis LLP; George Mason University Foundation Professor, George Mason University School of Law
James C. Miller III, Senior Advisor, Husch Blackwell LLP
Moderator: William C. MacLeod, Partner, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
Panel Three: State and Professional Restriants
The Honorable Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
Todd J. Zywicki, George Mason University School of Law
Thomas G. Krattenmaker, Formerly Professor, Georgetown University Law Center and Formerly Dean, William & Mary Law School
Harry First, Charles L. Denison Professor of Law, Director of the Competition, Innovation, and Information Law Program, New York Univeristy School of Law
Moderator: James C. Cooper, Director, Research and Policy, Law & Economics Center and Lecturer in Law, George Mason University School of Law
Panel Four: Section 5 Policy
The Honorable Joshua D. Wright, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
Sharis A. Pozen, Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Justin “Guz” Hurwitz, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Nebrasksa College of Law
Carl W. Hittinger, Partner, DLA Piper and Co-Chair, US Antitrust and Trade Regulation Group
Moderator: Bruce McCulloch, Partner, Freshfields Bruchkaus Ceringer
Research
The proceedings of the conference have been published as George Mason Law Review, vol. 21, no. 5 (2014)
Ohlhausen, Maureen K., “100 is the New 30: Recommendations for the FTC’s Next 100 Years.”
Blumenthal, William, and Dnes, Stephen, “The Accidental Conception of Multijurisdictional Merger Review.”
Calvani, Terry, and Diveley, Angela, “The FTC at 100: A Modest Proposal for Change.”
Hurwitz, Justin, “Administrative Antitrust.”
Jurata, John “Jay”, and Patel, Amisha R., “Taming the Trolls: Why Antitrust is Not a Viable Solution for Stopping Patent Assertion Entities.”
Rybnicek, Jan M., and Wright, Joshua D., “Defining Section 5 of the FTC Act: The Failure of the Common Law Method and the Case for Formal Agency Guidelines.”