Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies: Events and Programs
Throughout the year, the Institute hosts a number of symposia, lectures and brown bag discussions on selected topics related to antitrust. Individual members in the legal community are invited to speak, and other programs are presented for students and faculty in conjunction with the Chicago Bar Association, the Illinois Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Each April the Institute sponsors its annual Loyola Antitrust Colloquium.
PROGRAMS
Antitrust Marathon II
April 11, 2008
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Competition Appeal Tribunal
London, UK
The Antitrust Marathon
Friday October 5, 2007
Simpson Lecture Law
Loyola University Museum of Art
820 N. Michigan Avenue
On Friday October 5th , the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies is co-sponsoring The Antitrust Marathon with the Competition Law Forum (CLF) of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. The Antitrust Marathon is a half day round table discussion of single firm dominance from a comparative perspective. The discussion will be based on the monopolization portion of the recent report of the Antitrust Modernization and a series of short issue papers about the purpose of monopolization law, defining market power, what is or should be a violation, remedies, and private enforcement. An edited transcript will appear in the Loyola Consumer Law Review.
The Antitrust Marathon takes place the Friday before the Chicago Marathon which a number of participants will run and will continue on April 11,2008 in the London half of the program, yes the Friday before the London marathon.
Anita Banicevic, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg, Toronto, Canada
Simon Baker, RBB Economics, London
Joe Bauer, Notre Dame Law School
David Braun, Drinker Biddle
Steve Calkins, Wayne State University Law School
Peter Carstensen, Wisconsin Law School
Richard Cudahy, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Kenneth Davidson, Washington, D.C.
Beth Farmer, Penn State School of Law
Bert Foer, American Antitrust Institute
David Gerber, IIT/Chicago Kent College of Law
Hillary Greene, University of Connecticut Law School
Michael Jacobs, DePaul College of Law
Robert Joseph, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal
Christopher Leslie, IIT/Chicago Kent College of Law
Adrian Majumdaer, RBB Economics, London
Philip Marsden, British Institute of International and Comparative Law
Carlos Orci, Mexico City
Steve Shadowen, Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin, Harrisburg, Pa.
Danny Sokol, University of Missouri School of Law
Paul Stancil, University of Illinois College of Law
Maurice Stucke, University of Tennessee School of Law
Mike Walker, CRA London
Spencer Weber Waller, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Antitrust Marathon Agenda
| 9:30 AM | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 9:50 AM |
Welcome and Introduction Professor Waller and Dr. Marsden |
| 10:00 AM | The Role of Monopolization/Abuse of Dominance in Competition Law |
| 10:40 AM | Defining and Measuring Power / Assessing Consumer Harm in Abuse Cases |
| 11:20 AM | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 AM | The Monopolization/ Abuse Offense: Microsoft as Case Study |
| 12:10 PM | Lunch |
| 12:40 PM | Remedies |
| 1:30 PM | Private Enforcement |
| 2:00 PM |
Concluding Remarks Dr. Marsden and Professor Waller |
Reading Material for the Roundtable Discussion
Antitrust Modernization Commission Report and Recommendations
Section 1C Exclusionary Conduct
| Issues Paper: | The Role of Monopolization/Abuse of Dominance in Competition Law |
| Issues Paper: | Defining and Measuring Power / Assessing Consumer Harm in Abuse Cases |
| Issues Paper: | The Monopolization/ Abuse Offense: Microsoft as Case Study |
| Issues Paper: | Remedies |
| Issues Paper: | Private Enforcement |
Press Release of CFI Microsoft Case
Limited spots are available to participate in both halves of the Antitrust Marathon. For more information, please contact either Spencer Weber Waller, Professor and Director, Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, Loyola University Chicago School of Law at swalle1@luc.edu or Dr. Philip Marsden, Competition Law Forum, British Institute of International and Comparative Law at p.marsden@biicl.org.
For past programs, please click here.
Loyola Antitrust Colloquium
The Institute sponsors an annual Colloquium for professors whose work reflects the same pro-consumer centrist view of antitrust shared by the Institute. Each spring leading antitrust law professors and scholars from related disciplines come to Loyola University Chicago School of Law to present and discuss new scholarly work in the field. Selected papers from the Colloquium are made available for publication through the Loyola University Law Journal, the Loyola Consumer Law Review, and are distributed as working papers of the Institute.
8th Annual Loyola Antitrust Colloquium - Friday, April 25, 2008
Schedule of Events
| Friday, April 25, 2008 | |
| 8:45 a.m. | Continental Breakfast Loyola University Chicago School of Law 25 E. Pearson 1st Floor Rubloff Reception Chicago, IL. 60611 |
| 9:20 a.m. | Welcome Dean David Yellen & Professor Spencer Weber Waller |
| 9:30 a.m. |
Maurice Stucke Should the Government Prosecute Monopolies? Commentators: Hillary Greene, University of Connecticut Richard Rappaport, McGuire Woods |
| 10:45 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 a.m. |
Donald Baker The Deepening Antitrust Divide Across the Atlantic - Causes and Consequences Commentators: Michal Gal, University of Haifa Law Faculty Andre Fiebig, Baker & McKenzie |
| 12:30 p.m. | Lunch Kasbeer Hall 15th Floor 25 E. Pearson |
| 2:00 p.m. |
Professor Tim Greaney, St. Louis University Commentators: David Marx, McDermott Will & Emery John Blum, Loyola University Chicago |
| 3:15 p.m. | Ice Cream Sundae Break |
| 3:30 p.m. |
Professor Robert Lande, University of Baltimore Commentators: Michael Freed, Freed Kanner London & Millen Shubha Ghosh, SMU Dedman School of Law |
Previous Antitrust Colloquium Programs
2001 Antitrust Colloquium
2002 Antitrust Colloquium
2003 Antitrust Colloquium
2004 Antitrust Colloquium
2005 Antitrust Colloquium
2006 Antitrust Colloquium
2007 Antitrust Colloquium
