Annual Survey of American Law

Critical Directions in Antitrust

LOCATION

Greenberg Lounge
Vanderbilt Hall 40 Washington Square South
Friday, February 19th, 2010
9:30 A.M. - 4:30 P.M.




SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE

9:30 am  REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST

10:00 am OPENING REMARKS

HARRY FIRST
Charles L. Denison Professor of Law, New York University School of Law

RICHARD REVESZ
Dean and Lawrence King Professor of Law, New York University School of Law

10:15 am PANEL 1:  GOVERNMENT ENFORCEMENT
Government enforcement agencies play a key role in enforcing the antitrust laws. The FTC, DOJ, and FCC all review mergers and challenge anticompetitive behavior. This panel reviews recent changes and developments in government enforcement and discusses what the role of government enforcement should be.

Moderator: HARRY FIRST
Charles L. Denison Professor of Law, New York University School of Law

Panelists:  KEVIN ARQUIT
Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

JONATHAN BAKER
Chief Economist, Federal Communications Commission
Visiting Professor, New York University School of Law

HOWARD SHELANSKI
Deputy Director for Antitrust, Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Economics
Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

PHILIP WEISER
Deputy Assistant Attorney General for International, Policy, and Appellate Matters, United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division
Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School

ROBERT WILLIG
Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, The Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs at Princeton University

11:45 am COFFEE BREAK


12:00 pm PANEL 2:  ANTITRUST AND INNOVATION
One of the most important questions facing antitrust practice in the coming decades is that of how antitrust should encourage and interact with innovation. There is a tension between policies that encourage innovation, such as granting temporary monopolies to innovators, and the antitrust laws that foster competition. How should these interests be balanced?

Moderator: ELEANOR FOX
Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation, New York University School of Law

Panelists:  WAYNE DALE COLLINS
Partner, Shearman & Sterling LLP
Adjunct Professor of Law, New York University School of Law

HERBERT HOVENKAMP
Ben and Dorothy Willie Chair, University of Iowa College of Law

JANUSZ ORDOVER
Professor of Economics, New York University


MARIUS SCHWARTZ
Professor of Economics, Georgetown University

1:15 pm  LUNCH BREAK

2:30 pm PANEL 3: PRIVATE ENFORCEMENT
This panel will discuss developments in private antitrust suits, including class actions following government investigations and suits brought by competitors over harm to competition.

Moderator: ILENE GOTTS
Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Chairwoman, Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association

Panelists:  JONATHAN JACOBSON
Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

STACEY ANNE MAHONEY
Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

J. DOUGLAS RICHARDS
Managing Partner, New York Office, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC

DANIEL RUBINFELD
Robert L. Bridges Professor of Law, Professor of Economics, University of California Berkeley School of Law

3:45 pm CLOSING REMARKS; RECEPTION TO FOLLOW