Join us as the US Federal Trade Commission’s Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, Chris Mufarrige, sits down with Antonin Scalia Law School Professor and Director of PEP, James C. Cooper, to discuss the FTC’s consumer protection priorities, including privacy, rule making, Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act (ROSCA), and price transparency.
This luncheon is sponsored by the Law & Economics Center’s Program on Economics & Privacy at the George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School. There is no cost to attend.
Lunch will be served, and registration is open to the public!
Luncheon Speakers
Chris Mufarrige,
Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection,
US Federal Trade Commission
Chris Mufarrige served in the first Trump Administration as a Senior Adviser to the Director and Deputy Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, advising on enforcement, rulemaking, and supervisory exams relating to the country’s largest banks and nonbank financial institutions. Most recently, he was Commissioner Melissa Holyoak’s Chief of Staff and Attorney Adviser. He has also worked at private law firms and as an in-house lawyer.
Chris Mufarrige is an alumnus of George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School and returned to the Law School to teach a class on financial services and consumer protection.
James C. Cooper,
Professor of Law and Director, Program on Economics & Privacy,
George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School
Professor Cooper brings over a decade of public and private sector experience to his research and teaching. Prior to joining the faculty at Scalia Law, he served as Deputy and Acting Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Policy Planning, Advisor to Federal Trade Commissioner William Kovacic, and as an associate in the antitrust group of Crowell & Moring, LLP. More recently, Professor Cooper took leave to serve as a Deputy Director in the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. His research focuses on the law & economics of privacy, data security, and consumer protection, as well as on wide variety of topics surrounding competition policy.
Questions? Please contact Gwendolyn Watson at [email protected] or 703-993-8388.