2003 Antitrust Symposium
Moving from Theory to Enforcement
Wednesday, January 15, 2003
from 8:15 to 4:00
at
Marriott Metro Center ,
725 12TH Street NW
Washington, DC 20005
Winter 2003 Program Overview:
At the Winter 2003 symposium, practitioners, enforcers, and academics will join together to debate and consider the proper role of theory in the future of antitrust enforcement. The day's discussion will be divided into three panels:
- Twenty Years of Raising Rivals Costs: Is there support for enforcement?
- Coordinated Interaction: Is there a need for more rigor?
- Industrial Organization and Antitrust Enforcement: Will modern IO move out of the classroom and into the courthouse?
The Honorable Timothy J. Muris, FTC Chairman will deliver the keynote address on the future of IO. Registration includes breakfast and lunch, and abstracts from all the papers presented.
This year's symposium is dedicated to the memory of Professor Wesley J. Liebeler.
Schedule of Events:
8:15 am Breakfast
9:00 am Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:15 am Twenty Years of Raising Rivals Costs: Is there support for enforecement?
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Moderator:
- Debra Valentine, O'Melveny and Myers
Papers:
- Benjamin Klein, UCLA Department of Economics
- Alan Meese, William and Mary School of Law
- Charles F. (Rick) Rule, Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson
- Steven C. Salop, Georgetown University Law Center
- David Scheffman, Federal Trade Commission
- Willard K. Tom, Morgan Lewis & Bockius
10:45 am Break
11:00 pm Coordinated Interaction: Is there a need for more rigor?
- Moderator:
- Kathryn M. Fenton, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue
Papers:
- David Balto, White & Case
- Charles Biggio, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP
- Mary Coleman, Federal Trade Commission
- Bruce Owen, Economists Incorporated
Discussants:
- Jonathan B. Baker, Washington College of Law, American University
- Margaret E. Guerin-Calvert, Economists Incorporated
12:30 pm Lunch
1:15 pm Keynote Address: The Honorable Timothy J. Muris
1:45 pm Industrial Organization and Antitrust Enforcement: Will modern IO move out of the classroom and into the courthouse?
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Moderator:
- The Honorable Stephen F. Williams, United States Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
Papers:
- Dennis Carlton, The University of Chicago
- Michael Katz, U.S. Department of Justice
- Tad Lipsky, Latham & Watkins
- Pablo T. Spiller, Walter A. Haas School of Business
- Doug Zona, Cornerstone Research
Discussants:
- Michelle M. Burtis, LECG, Inc.
- William E. Kovacic, Federal Trade Commission
- A. Douglas Melamed, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
3:45 pm Closing Remarks
The George Mason Law Review wishes to thank the sponsors of this event:
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