The George Mason Law Review 27th Annual Antitrust Symposium was held on February 23, 2024, at the Antonin Scalia Law School in Arlington, Virginia.

This acclaimed annual conference explored the issues that dominate antitrust enforcement in the United States and internationally. Our expert panelists, including economists, lawyers, practitioners, and scholars, debated topics such as the US Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission’s Proposed Merger Guidelines, enforcement of the Digital Markets Act, and litigation surrounding big tech.

PANEL 1: The DOJ & FTC’s 2023 Merger Guidelines

Dennis W. Carlton, David McDaniel Keller Professor of Economics Emeritus, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business; Senior Managing Director, Compass Lexecon
Aviv Nevo, Director, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission; George A. Weiss and Lydia Bravo Weiss University Professor, Wharton School of Business University of Pennsylvania
Eric A. Posner, Kirkland & Ellis Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Arthur and Esther Kane Research Chair, The University of Chicago Law School
Howard Shelanski, Joseph and Madeline Sheehy Chair in Antitrust Law and Trade Regulation and Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center Valerie Suslow, Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
Moderator: Alexander Raskovich, Director of Research, Global Antitrust Institute

PANEL 2: Digital Markets Act Enforcement & Compliance 

Neil Chilson, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Growth and Opportunity
Beatriz Marques, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General of New York
Jenn Mellott, Office Managing Partner, Washington DC, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Nikhil Shanbhag, Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Product Legal, Competition and Telecommunications Law, Meta Inc.
Moderator: The Honorable Douglas H. Ginsburg, Circuit Judge, US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; Professor of Law, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School

PANEL 3: Antitrust and Privacy

D. Daniel Sokol, Carolyn Craig Franklin Chair in Law, Professor of Law and Business, Gould School of Law, and Affiliate Professor of Business, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
Andrew Stivers, Director, NERA Economic Consulting, Inc.
Koren W. Wong-Ervin, Partner, Jones Day
Ramsi Woodcock, Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, Associate Professor of Law, Rosenberg College of Law and Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky
Moderator: James C. Cooper, Director, Program on Economics & Privacy; Professor of Law, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School

PANEL 4: US Tech Litigation Download

Ling Ling Ang, Managing Director, NERA Economic Consulting, Inc.
Wayne Dale Collins, Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Kristen Limarzi, Partner, Gibson Dunn and Crutcher LLP
Michael A. Salinger, Jacqueline J. and Arthur S. Bahr Professor of Management and Professor of Economics, Boston University Questrom School of Business; Senior Academic Advisor, Charles River Associates
Moderator: John M. Yun, Associate Professor of Law, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School