Next Generation of Antitrust Scholarship Conference II
Friday, January 20, 2012
8:20 AM - 5:15 PM
NYU School of Law
108 West 3rd Street
Lipton Hall
Conference Co-sponsors
NYU School of Law
American Association of Law Schools – Section on Antitrust and Economic Regulation
American Bar Association – Section of Antitrust Law
Conference Co-organizers
Harry First – NYU School of Law
Edward Cavanaugh – St. John’s School of Law
D. Daniel Sokol – University of Florida Law Levin College of Law
Abstract
This is the second "Next Generation of Antitrust Scholarship Conference" (the first was held in January 2010). The purpose of this day-long conference is to provide an opportunity for antitrust/competition law professors who began their full time professorial career in or after 2002 to present their latest research. Senior antitrust scholars and practitioners in the field will comment on the papers.
Registration
Free and open to the public. NY CLE credits are available to attendees. Registration required.
Agenda
08:20 – 08:50am Registration and Continental Breakfast
08:50 – 09:00am Introductory Comments from ABA Section of Antitrust Law Chair
Richard Steuer, Chair, ABA Section of Antitrust Law; Mayer Brown
09:00 – 10:30am Session 1: Antitrust and Courts
Session Chair: J. Douglas Richards, Cohen Milstein
Speaker: Hillary Greene, University of Connecticut School of Law
The Architecture of Legal Consistency
Discussant: E. Thomas Sullivan, University of Minnesota Law School
Speaker: Rebecca Haw, Vanderbilt University Law School.
Adversarial Economics in Antitrust Litigation: Losing Academic Consensus in the Battle of the Experts
Discussant: Judge Douglas Ginsburg, NYU School of Law
Speaker: Avishalom Tor, University of Notre Dame The Law School
Understanding Behavioral Antitrust
Discussant: Bruce Kobayashi, George Mason University School of Law
Practitioner Session Discussant: Stephen Houck, Menaker & Herrmann
10:30 – 10:45am Break
10:45 – 12:15pm Session 2: The Structure of Antitrust
Session Chair: Stacey Mahoney, Gibson Dunn
Speaker: Daniel Crane, University of Michigan Law School
Rethinking Merger Efficiencies
Discussant: Janusz Ordover, NYU Stern School of Business
Speaker: D. Daniel Sokol, University of Florida Levin College of Law
Behavioral Remedies for Cartels? End to Fines for Leniency Applicants and the Case for Corporate Monitors
Discussant: Harry First, NYU School of Law
Practitioner Session Discussant: Roxann Henry, Dewey & LeBoeuf
12:15 – 01:00pm Lunch
01:00 – 02:30pm Session 3: Antitrust and Intellectual Property
Session Chair: Elaine Johnston, Allen & Overy
Speaker: C. Scott Hemphill, Columbia Law School
Parallel Exclusion
Discussant: Lawrence White, NYU Stern School of Business
Speaker: Ariel Katz, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
What Antitrust Law Can (and Cannot) Teach About the First Sale Doctrine
Discussant: Mark Patterson, Fordham University School of Law
Speaker: Thomas Cheng, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law
Putting Innovation Incentives Back in the Patent-Antitrust Interface
Discussant: Marina Lao, Seton Hall University School of Law
Practitioner Session Discussant: Steven Edwards, Hogan Lovells
02:30 – 02:45pm Break
02:45 – 04:15pm Session 4: Antitrust and Regulation
Session Chair: Christine Varney, Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Speakers: Anu Bradford, University of Chicago Law School & Tim Buthe, Duke University Department of Political Science
The Law and Politics of Antitrust in an Open Economy
Discussant: William Kovacic, The George Washington University Law School
Speaker: Damien Gerard, University of Louvain Law
Antitrust and the Public/Private Divide: Which Discipline for State Action?
Discussant: Eleanor Fox, NYU School of Law
Speaker: Christopher Sagers, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Legal Boundaries as Political Economy: The Scope of Antitrust and a General Theory of the Regulation-Competition Dichotomy
Discussant: Edward Cavanaugh, St. John’s University School of Law
Practitioner Session Discussant: Jay Himes, Labaton Sucharow
04:15 – 05:15pm Cocktail Reception
For more information visit the ABA Section of Antitrust Law.
http://www.law.nyu.edu//conferences/nextgenantitrustii/index.htm