OUR PEOPLE: Officers, Directors, Fellows, and the Advisory Board

AAI OFFICERS

President

The President of the AAI is Albert A. ("Bert") Foer, whose career has included private law practice in Washington, DC (Hogan & Hartson, Jackson & Campbell); the Federal Senior Executive Service (as Assistant Director and Acting Deputy Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition); CEO of a mid-sized chain of retail jewelry stores for twelve years; trade association and non-profit leadership; and teaching antitrust to undergraduate and graduate business school students. Foer has published numerous articles, book chapters, and reviews relating to competition policy. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, with an A.B. (magna cum laude) from Brandeis University, and an M.A. in political science from Washington University. His e-mail:   Bfoer@antitrustinstitute.org; office phone is 202-276-6002.

Vice President

Diana L. Moss is Vice President as well as a Director and Senior Research Fellow of the AAI. She specializes in the economics of antitrust, regulation, and energy and natural resources. Dr. Moss was a senior Staff Economist and coordinated competition analysis in the Office of Markets, Tariffs and Rates, Division of Corporate Applications, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from 1995 through 2000. From 1989 through 1995, Dr. Moss consulted in private practice. She has published and spoken widely on energy regulation and antitrust issues and is also adjunct professor at the University of Colorado, Department of Economics and affiliated professor at the Georgetown University Graduate Public Policy Institute. Her PhD. in Mineral Economics was earned at the Colorado School of Mines in 1989. Dr. Moss joined AAI as a Senior Research Fellow in September, 2001. Her e-mail: DMoss@antitrustinstitute.org;  office phone is 720-233-5971.

Secretary

Robert H. Lande, the first AAI Senior Fellow and a co-founding Director of the AAI, served AAI on a full-time basis during three different periods. He is the Venable Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore. Professor Lande is the author of numerous law review articles relating to antitrust, is a frequent speaker at antitrust events, and is often quoted in the trade press. A graduate of Harvard University (J.D., M.P.P.) and Northwestern University (B.A.), he has served in the FTC's Bureau of Competition and was associated with Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in Washington.  RLande@antitrustinstitute.org.

Treasurer

Albert A. Foer (See above)

AAI DIRECTORS 

In addition to Foer, the initial directors were Robert Lande (See above) and Jonathan Cuneo (See below). Lande serves as corporate secretary. On January 1, 2007, Diana Moss, Vice President (See above), and Robert Skitol,  (See below) became the fourth and fifth members of the Board of Directors.

Jonathan Cuneo, a partner in the Washington, DC, law firm of Cuneo, Waldman, Gilbert & LaDuca, LLP,  is also General Counsel of the Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws. He served in the Office of the General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission and as Counsel to the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law. JCuneo@antitrustinstitute.org.

Robert A. Skitol is a senior partner in the Antitrust Practice Group at Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP in Washington. He is a former attorney-advisor to the chairman of the FTC and former special assistant to the director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection. He has over thirty years of experience in all facets of antitrust practice and has been an active participant in the ABA Section of Antitrust Law as well as a member of the Advisory Board and a Senior Fellow of the American Antitrust Institute. He has published articles covering a wide variety of antitrust subjects in the ABA Journal of Antitrust Law, the ABA Antitrust Source and other law journals. He co-authored the book, Mergers in the New Antitrust Era. RSkitol@antitrustinstitute.org.

ADVOCACY

Richard Brunell is AAI's Director of Legal Advocacy. A former editor of the Harvard Law Review, he has been a visiting law professor at Boston College, Boston University and the Roger Williams School of Law. He was a litigator with the firm of Foley, Hoag from 1991-2003 and before that with the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General and the U.S. Dept. of Justice Antitrust Division. He is a contributing editor of the Antitrust Law Journal. RBrunell@antitrustinstitute.org.

COMMUNICATIONS

Sarah J. Frey is AAI's Communication Manager. For media inquiries or questions regarding events, please contact her at sfrey@antitrustinstitute.org or 410-897-7028.

SENIOR FELLOWS OF THE AAI

Senior Fellows of the AAI are appointed to a term of two years, during which time they constitute an "inner circle" of advisors and undertake specific projects for the AAI.

Richard Brunell 

Stephen Calkins is Professor of Law and Director of Graduate Studies at Wayne State University Law School and Of Counsel to Covington & Burling. A frequent speaker at antitrust conferences and author or co-author of many antitrust and consumer law publications, he served as General Counsel of the FTC from 1995-97. He is a graduate of Yale (B.A.) and Harvard (J.D.).

Peter C. Carstensen is the George Young-Bascom Professor of Law, and in June 2002 stepped down as Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development at the University of Wisconsin Law School after nine years in the position. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, and received his law degree and a master's degree in economics from Yale University. From 1968 to 1973, he was an attorney at the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice assigned to the Evaluation Section, where one of his primary areas of work was on questions of relating competition policy and law to regulated industries. He has been a member of the faculty of the UW Law School since 1973.  His scholarship and teaching have focused on antitrust law and competition policy issues. He has published a number of articles in the field, including discussing several aspects of the relationship of antitrust law and regulation

John M. Connor is a professor of industrial economics at Purdue University in Indiana.  He holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Boston College and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. From 1979 to 1983, he was head of Food Manufacturing Research in the Economic Research Service of USDA. Dr. Connor specializes in empirical research in industrial economics and antitrust policy; since 1997 the focus of his research has been the competitive analysis of international cartels.  He is the author of 13 books and monographs and more than 200 other scholarly publications articles in economics and law. His book, Global Price Fixing, received two national writing awards in 2002 and 2003.  A revised edition of Global Price Fixing appeared in 2007. Dr. Connor is an advisor to the American Antitrust Institute and to law firms in cartel cases.

Eric L. Cramer is a shareholder with the Philadelphia law firm of Berger & Montague, P.C., where he has practiced since 1995. Mr. Cramer has been repeatedly selected by Chambers USA America’s Leading Lawyers for Business as one of Pennsylvania’s top antitrust lawyers; has been deemed a “Super Lawyer” by Philadelphia Magazine; and was selected as a “Rising Star” by Lawdragon.com. Mr. Cramer has focused his practice on complex litigation in the antitrust arena, including prosecuting antitrust class actions in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. In the last several years, Mr. Cramer and his colleagues have won substantial settlements for the clients and class members he has represented from pharmaceutical industry defendants for a combined total of more than $700 million in cases involving the following drugs, among others: Cardizem CD, Buspar, Platinol, Terazosin, Relafen, and Remeron.

Kenneth M. Davidson became a Senior Fellow upon his retirement from the Federal Trade Commission where he served from 1978-June, 2005. He is currently engaged in foreign and domestic consulting work. At the FTC, he was Deputy Assistant Director and a senior attorney in several divisions of the Bureau of Competition, with very substantial expertise in policy planning, premerger notification, and compliance. Formerly a law professor at SUNY Buffalo, he is the author of MEGAMERGERS: CORPORATE AMERICA'S BILLION-DOLLAR TAKEOVERS, a study of the large mergers of the 1970's and 1980's. In 1999, he co-authored A STUDY OF THE COMMISSION'S DIVESTITURE PROCESS. He has a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an LLM from Yale Law School.

Harry First is the Charles L. Denison Professor of Law at New York University School of Law and the Director of the law school's Trade Regulation Program. From 1999-2001 he served as Chief of the Antitrust Bureau of the Office of the Attorney General of the State of New York. Professor First's teaching interests include antitrust, regulated industries, international and comparative antitrust, business crime, and innovation policy. He is the co-author of law school casebooks on antitrust (with John Flynn and Darren Bush) and on regulated industries (with John Flynn), as well as the author of a casebook on business crime, and the author of numerous articles involving antitrust law. Professor First has twice been a Fulbright Research Fellow in Japan and has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Tokyo.

Warren S. Grimes has been Professor of Law at Southwestern University School of Law since 1988, where he teaches antitrust, legislation, business organizations, and unfair trade. Prior positions included Chief Counsel of the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law, and Assistant to the General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission. Grimes is a graduate of Stanford and the University of Michigan Law School. He is co-author, with fellow AAI Advisory Board Member Lawrence Sullivan of The Law of Antitrust: An Integrated Handbook.

Gregory T. Gundlach is Professor of Marketing, Coggin College of Business, University of North Florida. He holds four degrees from the University of Tennessee (B.S., M.B.A., J.D., and Ph.D.). Dr. Gundlach has been especially active with the AAI in the business school project, work relating to the distribution arena, and in arranging workshops relating antitrust and marketing issues.

Norman W. Hawker is Associate Professor in the Haworth College of Business at Western Michigan University, where he frequently writes on antitrust topics. A lawyer with experience in private practice and as an Assistant Attorney General in Michigan, Professor Hawker earned his law degree at the University of Michigan.

John B. Kirkwood is an Associate Professor at Seattle University School of Law and an Editor of Research in Law and Economics.  He has edited two books and written numerous articles, including an article on buyer power that was quoted by the Supreme Court and an article on the goals of the antitrust laws, with Robert Lande, that was published by the Notre Dame Law Review.  After receiving an A.B. from Yale, an M.P.P. from the Kennedy School, and a J.D. from Harvard, he directed two antitrust policy offices and the premerger notification program at the Federal Trade Commission. 

John E. Kwoka, Jr., is the Neal F. Finnegan Professor of Economics at Northeastern University. He has served as President of the Industrial Organization Society and co-edits the successful series (with fellow AAI Advisory Board member Lawrence J. White) The Antitrust Revolution-- Economics, Competition, and Policy (Oxford University Press, fourth edition, 2004).

James A. Langenfeld is a director of the national economic consulting firm, LECG. His prior work includes eleven years at the Federal Trade Commission, serving the last six years as the Director for Antitrust at the Bureau of Economics. An Adjunct Professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, he earned his doctorate in economics at Washington University.

Philip B. Nelson is a Principal at Economists, Inc. Before joining EI in 1987, he was an economist with the Federal Trade Commission, serving as Assistant Director for Competition Analysis in the FTC’s Bureau of Economics. He has taught at Yale University and Fordham Law School. He has written numerous articles and two books: Corporations in Crisis: Behavioral Observations for Bankruptcy Policy, and U.S. International Competitiveness (with John Hilke). Dr. Nelson is active in the ABA's Antitrust Section.

Roger G. Noll is Professor of Economics at Stanford University, where he also is Director of the Stanford Center for International Development. His principal research interests are antitrust, regulation, communications policy, the economics of sports, and the positive theory of public law. Dr. Noll is the author or co-author of thirteen books and monographs and over 300 articles on a wide range of topics. 

Rudolph J.R. Peritz is Professor of Law at New York Law School. He is author of Competition Policy in America: History, Rhetoric, Law, the leading history of antitrust; and co-editor with Eleanor Fox and Lawrence Sullivan of Antitrust in Global Perspective (2nd ed.). He earned his law degree at the University of Texas. Professor Peritz' work at AAI focuses on intellectual property and dynamic antitrust analysis, including the integration of legal, economic, and business theory perspectives.

Stephen F. Ross is Professor of Law at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of the treatise, Principles of Antitrust Law. Professor Ross has served as an attorney with both the FTC and the Antitrust Division; was a clerk for Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, then of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia; and was minority counsel for the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate. His fields of expertise include Canadian antitrust law and sports law.

F.M. ("Mike") Scherer is Aetna Professor Emeritus at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. His research specialties have been industrial economics and the economics of technological change, leading to such books as Industrial Market Structure and Economic Performance (third edition with David Ross) and Competition Policy: Domestic and International. Dr. Scherer received the AAI Antitrust Achievement Award in 2002.

Robert L. Steiner is an economist and marketing consultant and the author of numerous articles on the consumer goods industry. He served as senior staff economist at the FTC's Bureau of Economics and taught at the University of Cincinnati. For 25 years he was a principal in a number of family manufacturing concerns, including the toy maker Kenner Products Co. of which he became president. 

Maurice E. Stucke is an Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law, where he teaches antitrust, business torts, consumer protection law, evidence, and a behavioral law and economics seminar. Before becoming a professor, he served in the Antitrust Division and was a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney.

RESEARCH FELLOWS

Bernard Ascher is former Director of Service Industry Affairs in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), an agency within the Executive Office of the President. A graduate of Brooklyn College (BA/Economics) and City University of New York (MBA/International Trade), he is currently Adjunct Professor at George Mason University and University of Maryland University College. Research interests include: trade in services; international mobility, licensing and regulation of service providers, including the professions. 

James D. Hurwitz has a BA from San Francisco State University, a JD from University of California at Berkeley Law School and an LL.M from University of London’s School of Economics and Political Science. From 1973 to 1978, he was a Deputy Attorney General for the State of California specializing in criminal appeals. From 1978 to 2008, he was an attorney at the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition and Office of the General Counsel.  As an AAI Research Fellow, he has been writing on matters relating to the proposed merger between Ticketmaster Entertainment and Live Nation, Inc.

Randy M. Stutz is on leave from the Antitrust Department of the Washington D.C. office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, where he consulted on merger and cartel investigations and multidistrict class actions.  A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and Catholic University Columbus School of Law, he will work with AAI for approximately one year commencing June 29, 2009.

THE ROLE OF THE AAI ADVISORY BOARD

The AAI Advisory Board consists of outstanding experts in the fields of antitrust law, economics, and business. Although decisions are made by the Board of Directors, Advisors are consulted from time to time as positions are developed and their views are taken into account. They do not vote and do not assume responsibility for the positions of the organization either as a group or individually. Typically, the President circulates information or queries to the Advisors via an e-mail listserve, and those who desire to respond will do so, either directly to the President or to the entire listserve. Advisors also participate on special projects in small groups (e.g., in drafting an amicus brief or participating in a working group) or individually (e.g., in presenting a paper at our national conference). Sometimes Advisors recuse themselves because of a conflict of interest resulting from a client matter or present or past governmental role, or because of lack of relevant expertise or time. Nonetheless, the Advisory Board provides a unique resource of great experience and wisdom that can be counted on to participate influentially as the AAI operates from day to day.

THE AAI ADVISORY BOARD