Faculty

Spencer Weber Waller
Professor and Associate Dean for Research
Director, Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies


Biography
Professor Waller served as a staff law clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He also worked for the U.S. Department of Justice, first as a trial attorney in the Foreign Commerce Section of the Antitrust Division and later as a special attorney in the Chicago Strike Force of the Criminal Division. He then practiced at the Chicago firm of Freeborn & Peters. He was a full-time faculty member at Brooklyn Law School for ten years until joining Loyola in 2000. Professor Waller also serves as the Faculty Director of the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies.

 

Education
B.A., cum laude, Michigan, 1979
J.D., cum laude, Northwestern, 1982

  Professor and Associate Dean Spencer Weber Waller

 

Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
25 E. Pearson Street
Room 1343
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: (312) 915-7137
Fax: (312) 915-7201
Email: swalle1@luc.edu

Spring 2008 Teaching Schedule

Courses Taught

Antitrust
Antitrust in the Health Care Field
Civil Procedure
Government Regulation and the Marketplace
The World Trade Organization
Transnational Dispute Resolution

  

Publications

Books

International Trade and U.S. Antitrust Law Thomson/West (2d edition 2006) (co-author Jeffrey Kessler)

Thurman Arnold: A Biography (NYU Press, 2005) Amazon.com

Antitrust and American Business Abroad (3rd ed., West Group, 1997 and annual supplements)

Baseball and the American Legal Mind (Garland Press, 1995) (co-authors Neil Cohen & Paul Finkelman) Amazon.com

Special Defenses in International Antitrust Litigation, American Bar Association (editor and a contributor) (1995)

International Trade and U.S. Antitrust Law (West Group, 1992 with annual supplements)

Antitrust Law Annual Developments, American Bar Association (contributor 1992-95, 2000)

 

Articles

Areeda, Epithets, and Essential Facilities, 2008 Wisc. L. Rev. 360

Revitalizing Essential Facilities, 75 Antitrust L. J. 1 (2008) (co-author Brett Frischmann)

The European Union's New Antitrust Law Reforms, Findlaw.com, April 29, 2008 (co-author Anthony Sebok)

The Antitrust Marathon, 20 Loy. Cons. L. Rev. 114 (2008) (panel discussion & issue papers)

Rescuing Regulation, 30 World Comp. 679 (2007) (book review)

Competition Rules for the 21st Century, 30 World Comp. 680 (2007) (book review)

The Chicago School Virus (2007) [article]

Towards a More Constructive Public-Private Partnership for Enforcing Competition Law, 29 WORLD COMP. L. & ECON. REV. 367 (2006)

The United States Experience in Competition Class Action Certification, 3 CAN. CLASS ACTION REV. 209 (2005)

Antitrust at the Beach: Mass Market Books about Competition Law, 28 World Comp. L. & Econ. Rev. 401 (Sept. 2005)

In Search of Economic Justice: Considering Competition and Consumer Protection Law, 36 Loy.U.Chi. L.J. 631 (2005) [article]

Taking Pop-Ups Seriously: The Jurisprudence of the Infield Fly Rule, 82 Wash.U.L.Q. 453 (2004) (with Neil B. Cohen) [article]

The Antitrust Legacy of Thurman Arnold, 78 St. John's L. Rev. 569 (2004) [article]

Public Choice Theory and the International Harmonization of Antitrust Law, 48 Antitrust Bulletin 427 (2003)

The Short Unhappy Judgeship of Thurman Arnold, 3 Wyo. L. Rev. 233 (2003)

The Incoherence of Punishment in Antitrust, 78 Chicago-Kent L. Rev. 207 (2003) [article]

The Use of Business Theory in Antitrust Litigation, 47 N.Y. Law School L. Rev. 119 (2003)

Suing OPEC, 64 Univ. Pitts. L. Rev. 105 (2002)

The Language of Law and the Language of Business, 52 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 283 (2001) [article]

Antitrust as Consumer Choice: Comments on the New Paradigm, 62 Univ. Pitts.L.Rev. 535 (2001)

Bringing Globalism Home:Lessons from Antitrust and Beyond, 32 Loy.U.Chi.L.J.113 (2000)

Can U.S Antitrust Law Open International Markets? 20 Nw. J. Int'l L. & Bus. 207 (2000)

The Twilight of Comity, 38 Colum.J.TransL. 563 (1999)

An International Common Law of Antitrust, 34 New England L. Rev. 163 (1999) [article]

Prosecution by Regulation: The Changing Nature of Antitrust Enforcement, 77 Oregon L.Rev.1383 (1999)

Teaching Linkages in International Trade, 19 U.Pa. J.Int'l Econ.L. 697 (1998)

The Internationalization of Antitrust Enforcement, 77 B.U.L. Rev. 343 (1997)

Market Talk, 22 Law & Soc. Inquiry 435 (1997)

Law Reform in Vietnam: The Uneven Legacy of Doi Moi, 29 N.Y.U.J. Int'l L&Pol. 555 (1997) (co-author Lan Cao) [article]

Comparative Competition Law as a Form of Empiricism, 23 Brook.J.Int'l L. 455 (1997)

National Laws and International Markets: Strategies of Cooperation and Harmonization in the Enforcement on Competition Law, 18 Cardozo L.Rev. 1111 (1996)

A Comparative Look at Failing Firms and Failing Industries, 64 Antitrust L.J. 703 (1996)

Images of Law School and Law teaching in "An Imperfect Spy", 8 Yale J. L. & Hum. 261 (1996) (co-author Stacy Caplow)

Legal Process and the Past of Antitrust, 47 SMU L.Rev.1811 (1995) (co-author William L. Reynolds)

Prospects for the Further Harmonization of Competition Law, VI Annual Competition Law & Policy Institute Proceedings (Wellington, New Zealand, 1995)

Comments on the Weddel Decision, VI Annual Competition Law & Policy Institute Proceedings (Wellington, New Zealand, 1995)

Antitrust and American Business Abroad Today, 44 DePaul L.Rev. 1251 (1995)

Neo-Realism and the International Harmonization of Law: Lessons from Antitrust, 42 U.Kan.L.Rev. 557 (1994)

The Modern Antitrust Relevance of Justice Holmes, 59 Brook L.Rev. 1443 (1994)

Changing Views of Intellectual Property and Competition Law in the European Community and the United States of American, 20 Brook J.Int'l L. 1(1993) (co-author Noel J. Byrne)

Predatory Pricing in United States Antitrust Law, 22 Japanese Int'l Bus. L.J. 8 (1994)

The Antitrust Philosophy of Oliver Wendell Holmes, 18 Southern Ill. U.L.J. 283 (1994)

A Unified Theory of Transactional Procedure, 26 Cornell Int'l L.J. 55 (1992)

Understanding and Appreciating EEC Competition Law, 61 Antitrust L.J. 55 (1992)

The Failure of the Export Trading Company Program, 17 N.C.J. Intl'l & Comm. Reg. 239 (1992)

The Uruguay Round and the Future of World Trade, 18 Brooklyn J. Int'l. L. 1 (1992)

Bringing Meaning to Interest Balancing in Transactional Litigation, 23 Vand. J. Trans Law 925 (1991)

 

Other Publications

The Law in Action at the WTO, review of Shaffer, Defending Interests: Public-Private Partnerships in WTO Litigation, 40 Texas Intl. L.J. 191 (2004)

Counseling the Foreign Multinational on United States Antitrust Law, in Antitrust Counseling and Litigation Techniques (Lexis Nexis, 2002)

The Bride Who Did Not Show Up at the Wedding: Anticartel Cooperation Between the United States and the European Union in Strengthening Transatlantic Antitrust Cooperation: The US and Europe in the MultiLateral System (Brookings Institute, 1999)

Intellectual Property, National Boundaries and International Exhaustion (co-author Michael Malina) in Intellectual Property Rights and Their Special Impact On Biotechnology (Medicine in the Public Interest, 1999)

From the Ashes of Hartford Fire: The Answered Questions of Comity, in 1998 Fordham Corporate Law Institute

The Clergy Privilege in Criminal and Civil Law, in Religion and American Law: An Encyclopedia (1998) (co-author Natasha Chefetz)

Tom Seaver, in The Twentieth Century: Great Athletes, 2291 (1991)

 

Recent Presentations
"The Past Present and Future of Monopolization Remedies," University of Virginia Law School, June 3, 2008

Co-Host, The Second Antitrust Marathon, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London UK, April 2008

Served on a panel on "Competition Law and Policy in the Modern World" and was the subject of an author meets reader panel at the annual meeting of the Law and Society Association, Baltimore, Maryland, July 6, 2006

Spoke to the D.C. Bar antitrust committee on June 29, 2006

Towards a More Constructive Public-Private Partnership to Enforce Competition Law," 4th Annual Turkish Competition Law Conference, Kayseri, Turkey, April 7, 2006

"What if the Realists had Won? Reflections on the Life and Work of Thurman Arnold," American Bar Foundation, Chicago, Illinois, November 2005

"The Importance of the Essential Facilities Doctrine," University of Gdansk, Poland, October 2005

"Suing OPEC," DC Bar International Section, September 2005

"The Inner Working of Antitrust Class Actions," Illinois State Bar Association, December 2003

"International Vitamins Cartel Litigation," British-America, Ltd., London, England, November 2003

"Competition and Consumer Protection Law: Breaking Down the Walls," DG-Comp, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium, November 2003

"International Antitrust Litigation," German-American Chamber of Commerce, Frankfurt, Germany, November 2003

"The Antitrust Legacy of Thurman Arnold," Lewis Bernstein Memorial Lecture, St. John's University, November 2003

"The Inner Working of Antitrust Class Actions," Chicago Bar Association, October 2003

"The Health of Major League Baseball," Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University, September 2003

"The Legacy of Thurman Arnold," American Heritage Center, Laramie, Wyoming, July 2003

"The Year in International Antitrust," The Conference Board, New York, March 2003

"Art, Auctions and Antitrust Scandals," Conference on Art and Law, Martin D'Arcy Museum of Art, Loyola University Chicago, March 2003

"Fundamentals of U.S. Antitrust Law," European Commission, Directorate-General Competition, Brussels, Belgium, November 2002

"The Uses of Business Theory in Antitrust Litigation," 3rd Annual American Antitrust Institute Symposium, Washington, DC, July 2002

"The Role of Marketing in Antitrust," Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame, May 2002

"EU Competition Fundamentals," Antitrust Section, American Bar Association, Washington, DC, April 2002

"If Justice Holmes Had Been Hit by an Omnibus: Professional Baseball in a World Without Antitrust Immunity," 2002 Hughie Jennings Memorial Lecture, University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, April 2002

 

Professional Service

American Antitrust Institute, Board of Advisors, Member, 2000 -

Antitrust Law Journal, Editorial Board, Member, 2002 -

Illinois State Bar Association, Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Committee, Council, Member, 2002 - 

Continuing Legal Education Committee, Co-Chair, 2002 -

Judicial Council for the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Reporter for Local Rules, 2002 -

World Competition Law and Economics Review, Editorial Board, Member, and U.S. Antitrust Book Review Editor, 2003 -

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