AAI Welcomes Three New Advisory Board Members

3/12/2009

The AAI has appointed three new Advisory Board members: Dan Crane of Yeshiva University, Marina Lao of Seton Hall, and Bruce Spiva of Spiva & Hartnett.

Daniel A. Crane is a Professor of Law at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Professor Crane was previously an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, where his practice focused on antitrust and litigation. After graduating with honors from the University of Chicago, he clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Kenneth L. Ryskamp and then was a litigation associate at the Miami office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius.

Professor Marina Lao specializes in Antitrust Law and also teaches corporate and securities law at Seton Hall Law School. She joined the Seton Hall law faculty in 1994 after over a decade of practice experience in government and in the private sector. Professor Lao has written, lectured, and commented extensively on antitrust and competition law issues. She is currently the Chair of the Section of Antitrust and Economic Regulation of the Association of American Law Schools, and a member of the Antitrust Law Committee of the New Jersey State Bar Association. She has also served as a member of the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Committee and the Consumer Affairs Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and of committees and boards of many other professional organizations. In 2007 Professor Lao was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to the University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich. There, she taught U.S. Antitrust Law in the university’s graduate law program and conducted comparative research on EU and US competition law issues at the Max Planck.

Bruce V. Spiva is a founding partner of Spiva & Hartnett LLP, a majority-minority owned law firm. Mr. Spiva was a partner at Jenner & Block LLP prior to starting his own practice. He obtained a law degree in 1992 from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor and the Treasurer of the Harvard Law Review, and a B.A. in 1988 from Yale University. Following law school, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Jerome Farris of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Mr. Spiva represents consumers in several major class actions involving antitrust, unfair competition, breach of contract, and other issues. He also represents plaintiffs in civil rights litigation, including a challenge to Texas ballot-restrictions that target minority voters. Mr. Spiva recently testified on the Robinson-Patman Act as part of an expert panel before the Antitrust Modernization Commission. He is the author of numerous articles, including most recently "Indirect Purchaser Litigation on Behalf of Consumers After CAFA" in the Fall 2005 issue of Antitrust, and has presented at numerous conferences, including those of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, American Bar Association, Conference Board, Harvard Law School Black Alumni, and the Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers' Association.