The Global Antitrust Law & Economics faculty at Scalia Law is the most prestigious in the world. Four of our GMU Antitrust Law Professors were among the most-cited antitrust faculty in U.S. law schools based on the latest Sisk Data. It is only faculty in the United States that includes former leaders of both U.S. antitrust enforcement agencies: the Federal Trade Commission, and the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Learn more about some of our most impressive antitrust faculty members below. For full faculty profiles, visit the Faculty Directory.
THE HONORABLE DOUGLAS H. GINSBURG
Professor of Law and Senior Circuit Judge
B.S., Cornell University; J.D., University of Chicago Law School
Judge Ginsburg is a leading authority on competition law and policy, administrative law, and law and economics. In his distinguished career, he has been a professor of law at Harvard University (1975-1983), and held a number of posts in the executive branch of federal government (1983-1986), including Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust in the U.S. Department of Justice was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals by President Ronald Reagan in 1986 and served as Chief Judge from 2001 to 2008. Read More
THE HONORABLE TIMOTHY J. MURIS
George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law
B.A., San Diego State University; J.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Professor Timothy J. Muris served from 2000-2004 as Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. During his tenure at the FTC, he created the highly popular National Do Not Call Registry that has allowed millions of consumers to block unwanted telemarketing calls. After leaving the FTC in 1985, Professor Muris served in the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget for three years. Read More
BRUCE KOBAYASHI
Professor of Law
B.S., University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Professor of Law Bruce H. Kobayashi's background in economics makes him a vital part of the law and economics focus at George Mason. Since coming to George Mason in 1992, he has been a frequent contributor to economics and law and economics journals. He has held positions with the Federal Trade Commission as a senior economist, the US Sentencing Commission as a senior research associate, and the U.S. Department of Justice as an economist. Read More
DEAN HENRY N. BUTLER
George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law and Chairman of the Law & Economics Center
B.A., University of Richmond; M.A., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; J.D., University of Miami
A leading public policy analyst and specialist in law and economics, Dean Butler is Foundation Professor of Law and Chairman of the Law & Economics Center at Scalia Law. He has devoted much of his career to improving the country’s civil justice system through judicial education programs. Dean Butler previously served as the first executive director of the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth. Read More
TODD J. ZYWICKI
Foundation Professor of Law
A.B., Dartmouth College; M.A., Clemson University; J.D., University of Virginia
Todd J. Zywicki is George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law at Scalia Law School, Senior Scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and Senior Fellow at the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Since 2006 he has served as Co-Editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review. From 2003–04, Professor Zywicki served as the Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission. Professor Zywicki is the author of more than 70 articles in leading law reviews and peer-reviewed economics journals. He testifies often before Congress on issues of consumer bankruptcy law and consumer credit and is a frequent commentator on legal issues in the print and broadcast media. Read More
D. BRUCE JOHNSEN
Professor of Law
B.A., University of Washington; M.A., University of Washington; Ph.D., University of Washington; J.D., Emory University School of Law
Professor of Law D. Bruce Johnsen came to Scalia Law in 1994 from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught courses in the Legal Studies and Finance departments. He was a visiting senior research scholar at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Professor Johnsen teaches Legal and Economic Methods, Financial Theory, Business Associations, and the Law of Investment Management. Read More
JOHN YUN
Associate Professor of Law and Executive Director at the Global Antitrust Institute
BA, UCLA; PhD, Emory University
John M. Yun is an Associate Professor of Law and Executive Director at the Global Antitrust Institute (GAI). Prior to joining the GAI, he was the Acting Deputy Assistant Director in the Bureau of Economics, Antitrust Division, at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. His experience includes the analysis of horizontal mergers, vertical restraints, and exclusionary conduct. Over an eighteen-year career at the FTC, he presided over a number of high-profile matters and investigations in various industries including consumer products, retail, intermediate goods, and technology. Read More
TAD LIPSKY
Adjunct Professor
MA, Stanford University; JD, Stanford University
From 1981-83 Mr. Lipsky served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General under William F. Baxter, President Reagan's first chief antitrust enforcement official, who sparked profound changes in antitrust law and policy. In that position, Mr. Lipsky supervised Supreme Court litigation in a series of groundbreaking antitrust cases. He also supervised preparation of the 1982 Department of Justice Merger Guidelines, which provided the first clear and thorough economic foundation for antitrust analysis of mergers, acquisitions and other structural transactions. More recently he served as co-chair of the Transition Team for the Federal Trade Commission following the election of President Donald Trump. Following his retirement in February, 2017 after fifteen years of partnership at Latham & Watkins, LLP, he served as the Acting Director of FTC’s Bureau of Competition until July, 2017. Mr. Lipsky served as chief antitrust lawyer for The Coca-Cola Company from 1992-2002 and has incomparable experience with antitrust law regimes throughout the world, including established regimes (U.S., Brazil, Canada, Europe, India, Japan, South Africa) as well as in new and emerging antitrust law systems in scores of jurisdictions that adopted free-market institutions following the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. Read More