Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, CONFERENCES: Loyola University Chicago School of Law to hold Antitrust Colloquium on April 25, (Apr 9, 2014)

Loyola University Chicago School of Law’s Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies will hold a one-day conference entitled “14th Annual Loyola Antitrust Colloquium” on April 25, 2014, at Loyola’s Corboy Law Center in Chicago.

The Loyola Antitrust Colloquium is held each April, when professors, judges, enforcements officials, and practitioners gather for a day of discussion of cutting edge research in the antitrust field.

The conference will commence on the morning of April 25 with a “Welcome” by Professor Spencer Weber Waller, Director of the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, followed by a program titled “Antitrust Law and the Art of Modeling: Are Models Facts?” with Rebecca Haw, Vanderbilt Law School. The morning session will continue with the program “Apple, Irony, and Antitrust,” with Christopher L. Sagers, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.

Following a “Lunch Key Note Address,” with Leslie C. Overton, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Enforcement, U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, the afternoon will proceed with a program on “The Vatican School of Law,” with Pazmany Peter, Catholic University, Hungary. The conference concludes with a session on “Information Product Redesign as Commercial Expression: Antitrust Treatment of Speech and Innovation,” with Hillary Greene, University of Connecticut School of Law.

Commentators expected to participate include: Melissa H. Maxman (Cozen O’Connor); John B. Kirkwood, Seattle University School of Law; Jeffery M. Cross (Freeborn & Peters); Joseph P. Bauer, University of Notre Dame Law School; Maurice E. Stucke, University of Tennessee College of Law; James A. Morsch (Butler Rubin); Andrew Gavil, Director, Office of Policy & Planning, Federal Trade Commission; and Michael S. Jacobs, DePaul University College of Law.

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