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Schedule Registration Housing |
| Friday, January 7, 2000 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. |
Delaware Suite B Marriott Wardman Park Hotel Lobby Level |
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Section on Antitrust and Economic Regulation |
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| Andrew I. Gavil, Howard University, Chair | |
| Jean Wegman Burns, Brigham Young University, Program Chair |
| Do Antitrust Teachers and Scholars Matter? |
| Moderators: | |
| Jean Wegman Burns, Brigham Young University
Spencer Weber Waller, Brooklyn Law School |
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| Speakers: | |
| The Honorable Merrick B. Garland, Judge, U.S. Court of
Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, Washington, D.C.
Joel I. Klein, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. Janet L. McDavid, Hogan & Hartson, L.L.P., Washington, D.C. Robert Pitofsky, Chairman, U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D.C., and Georgetown University |
| In inviting the heads of the two federal antitrust enforcement agencies, as well as Judge Garland, our goal is to stimulate a more vigorous discussion of the role that teachers and scholars of antitrust can and should play in today's charged and evolving antitrust environment. Topics of discussion will include: Has antitrust teaching as a general matter kept up with changes in antitrust doctrine over the last quarter century? What kinds of issues are arising in today's antitrust litigation that need to be addressed in our teaching? How can antitrust be better taught to prepare our students to practice antitrust today and in the coming years? The program also will explore the role of antitrust teachers as scholars, and ask: Does academic scholarship play any significant role in influencing antitrust enforcement by the agencies and the courts? Should it? Has antitrust law benefited in the past from the work of scholars? If so, what characterizes "influential" scholarship and what areas could benefit today from further attention in the scholarly literature or from empirical work by scholars? The program will be conducted in a roundtable style with two moderators. |