The three recordings for this event are organized as, "day one-before lunch", "day one-after lunch", and "day two". Please select from the three podcasts by clicking one of the links below.
day one-before lunch (see above link)
Monday, April 16, 2007
9:00 - 9:30 a.m.
Welcome and Opening Remarks
T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Dean, Georgetown University Law Center
Robert Pitofsky, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, and former Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
9:30 - 11:15 a.m.
Panel I: Explanation of Conservative Economic Analysis and Positive Effects; What is "Conservative" Economics?
Richard
Schmalensee, Dean, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Business School
F.M. Scherer, former Director, Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Economics
Tom Kauper, Professor
of Law, University of Michigan Law School, and former Assistant
Attorney General for Antitrust, U.S. Department of Justice
Dan Rubinfeld, Professor of Law and Economics, University of California at Berkeley
Dennis Carlton, Assistant Attorney General for Economics, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice
11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Panel II: Is Allocative Efficiency (or Efficiency Generally) All That Counts?
Eleanor Fox, Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
Robert Lande, Professor of Law, University of Baltimore School of Law
day one- after lunch 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Panel III: Value of Sherman Act Section 2 - Is It Outweighed by False Positives?
Herb Hovenkamp, Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law
Harvey Goldschmid, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, and former Commissioner, U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
Irwin Stelzer, Senior Fellow and Director of Economic Policy Studies, Hudson Institute
3:30 - 4:45 p.m.
Panel
IV: Is the Assumption Valid That Cartels Are Fragile and Temporary -
Particularly Because of the Difficulty of Controlling Cheating?
Doug Melamed, Partner, WilmerHale, and former Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, U.S. Department of Justice
John Shenefield, Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, and former Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, U.S. Department of Justice
day two
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Panel V: Is It Valid to Assume that Vertical Arrangements (Merger and Distribution) Can Very Rarely Injure Consumer Welfare?
Steven Salop, Professor of Law & Economics, Georgetown University Law Center
Steven Calkins, Professor of Law, Wayne State University Law School, and former General Counsel, Federal Trade Commission
10:30 - 11:45 a.m.
Panel VI: Has the "Free Rider" Explanation for Vertical Arrangements Been Unrealistically Expanded?
Warren Grimes, Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School
Marina Lao, Seton Hall University School of Law
12:00 - 1:15 p.m.
Panel
VII: Has Merger Enforcement Been Unduly Influenced by Conservative
Economic Analysis: Consider Barriers to Entry and Structural
Presumptions?
Jonathan Baker, Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law
Carl Shapiro, Professor of Economics, University of California at Berkeley
1:15 - 1:30 p.m.
Closing Remarks
Robert Pitofsky, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, and former Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
The
Miles W. Kirkpatrick Antitrust Lecture was created to honor the memory
of Miles W. Kirkpatrick, a distinguished leader in the field of
antitrust law, as well as a former Chairman of the Federal Trade
Commission, Chairman of the American Bar Association Section of
Antitrust Law, and founding partner of the antitrust practice of the
law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. This program has been made
possible by the generosity of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP.
A podcast will be available at https://www.law.georgetown.edu/webcast/.
Media interested in attending should contact Kara Tershel at kat5@law.georgetown.edu. |
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