George Mason University is a public research university in Fairfax County,Virginia near Washington,D.C. The university was originally founded in 1949 as a Northern Virginia regional branch of the University of Virginia. Named after Founding Father of the United States George Mason in 1959,it became an independent university in 1972. The school has since grown into the largest public university in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
The Robinson–Patman Act (RPA) of 1936 is a United States federal law that prohibits anticompetitive practices by producers,specifically price discrimination.
Douglas Howard Ginsburg is an American lawyer,jurist,and academic who serves as a senior judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was appointed to the D.C. Circuit in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan,and he served as its chief judge from 2001 to 2008.
The Antonin Scalia Law School is the law school of George Mason University,a public research university in Virginia. It is located in Arlington,Virginia,roughly 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Washington,D.C.,and 15 miles (24 km) east-northeast of George Mason University's main campus in Fairfax,Virginia.
Timothy J. Muris is an American lawyer and academic who served as Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from 2001 to 2004.
The Schar School of Policy and Government - SSPG,is the public policy school of George Mason University,a public research university in the Commonwealth of Virginia near Washington,D.C. Established as Northern Virginia's first public policy school with locations in Arlington and Fairfax County,the school's political science curriculum has a professional education and applied emphasis on public administration and national security at both the undergraduate and graduate levels,in addition to a traditional liberal arts education,while also maintaining an active role within all five major subfields of political science known as political philosophy,political methodology,comparative politics,international relations,public policy and public administration.
The George Mason Law Review is an independent law review run by students at the Antonin Scalia Law School of George Mason University. Founded in 1976,and partially re-founded after reorganization in 1995,it is the flagship law review of the Antonin Scalia Law School. The journal usually publishes four or five issues per year,with two of those issues dedicated to annual symposia including the journal's notable annual symposium that focuses on antitrust law.
Henry Nodle Butler is an American professor of law,economics,and public policy and former executive director of the Law and Economics Center at the Antonin Scalia Law School in Arlington,Virginia.
William Evan Kovacic is an American legal scholar who served as a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from 2006 to 2011,including as its chairman from 2008 to 2009. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Thomas W. Hazlett is the Hugh H. Macaulay Endowed Professor of Economics in the John E. Walker Department of Economics at Clemson University where he also directs the Information Economy Project.
Michael Ian Krauss is a professor emeritus of law at Antonin Scalia Law School,specializing in tort law,products liability,jurisprudence and legal ethics. He writes a Torts and Legal Ethics column for Forbes.
Edith Ramirez is an American attorney who served as a member of the Federal Trade Commission from 2010 to 2017. Ramirez served as FTC Chair from 2013 to 2017,the first person of color to lead the agency.
Julie Simone Brill is an American lawyer who serves as Chief Privacy Officer and Corporate Vice President for Global Privacy,Safety and Regulatory Affairs at Microsoft. Prior to her role at Microsoft,Brill was nominated by President Barack Obama on November 16,2009,and confirmed unanimously by the US Senate to serve as Commissioner of the US Federal Trade Commission on March 3,2010. Brill served as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from 2010 to 2016.
Stuart Malawer is an international trade lawyer,and distinguished service professor of law at George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government. He was a founding faculty member of both the Antonin Scalia Law School and Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.
Howard Shelanski is an American attorney,economist,and legal scholar. He is a professor of law at Georgetown University,where he holds the Sheehy Chair in Antitrust Law and Trade Regulation,and a partner in the law firm of Davis,Polk &Wardwell. He served in the Obama administration as administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA),part of the Office of Management and Budget.
Institute of Competition Law is a think tank focused on bringing together government regulators,private practitioners,and academics to study and shape antitrust policy on an international scale.
Jesse William Markham was an American economist. Markham was best known for his work on antitrust policy,price theory and industrial organization. Markham was the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (HBS),and the former chief economist to the Federal Trade Commission.
Lina M. Khan is a British-born American legal scholar serving as chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) since 2021. She is also an associate professor of law at Columbia Law School.
Thomas Barrett Leary was an American attorney who served as a member of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from November 17,1999 until his resignation from the body December 31,2005.
