Antitrust law focus of Federalist symposium

The development of the Internet and recent increased government regulation of competition have led to a new scrutiny of antitrust law.

Is antitrust law obsolete? What are the alternatives? What can we learn from the Microsoft case? Does the Constitution limit the government’s ability to regulate competition? Do political considerations taint the government’s ability to improve the efficiency of markets?

These issues and other issues of competition will be discussed at the 18th Federalist Society Symposium titled Competition, Free Markets and the Law.

The event, hosted by the Chicago Law School and organized by its student Federalist Society, will be held Friday, April 9, and Saturday, April 10.

Panelists will include the Hon. Douglas Melamed, U.S. principal deputy assistant attorney general for antitrust; the Hon. William Baer, director of the Bureau of Competition in the Federal Trade Commission; Gary Reback, an antitrust attorney with Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati and a leading Microsoft detractor; the Hons. Frank Easterbrook and Diane Wood, judges for the 7th Circuit and Senior Lecturers in the Law School; and Richard Epstein, the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor in the Law School. The Hon. Alex Kozinski, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, will give the keynote address at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 10.

Registration is required. For additional information, contact James Ho at (773) 924-3285 or jamescho@alumni.stanford.org or Neomi Rao at (773) 955-9455 or nm-rao@uchicago.edu.