Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, CONFERENCES: Global Antitrust Economics Conference scheduled for May 29, (May 11, 2015)
Organizations Mentioned:Bureau of Competition
The inaugural Global Antitrust Economics Conference will be held on Friday, May 29, 2015, at George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Virginia. Highlighting the conference will be keynote speeches by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and FTC Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen.
The conference will open with registration and a continental breakfast followed by welcome remarks from Bruce Kobayashi, professor and director, Global Antitrust Institute, George Mason University School of Law, and Douglas H. Ginsburg, Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and professor of law at George Mason. Commissioner Ohlhausen will provide the morning keynote speech.
A panel discussion, entitled “Use and Abuse of Economic Evidence in Antitrust Cases” (moderated by Judge Ginsburg) will follow the keynote speech. The morning program will conclude with a panel discussion—“Market Definition v. Market Power: Can They Be Reconciled?”—moderated by FTC Commissioner Joshua D. Wright.
A lunch keynote speech by Justice Scalia will precede the following afternoon panel discussions: “Coordination Issues: Information Exchange and Price Signaling,” moderated by Paul Friedman; “Negotiating Settlements & Remedies: Do You Really Need Consent?” moderated by FTC Director of the Bureau of Competition Diane L. Feinstein; and “Corporate Liability & Individual Liability: Double Paying?” moderated by Judge J. Frederick Motz of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.
The conference is being organized by Concurrences Journal and George Mason University School of Law’s Law and Economics Center. Further information about the conference, including registration information, is available here.
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