AAI Advisory Board Adds Notre Dame Law Professor Joseph Bauer and Chicago complex litigation specialist Michael Freed

1/30/2000

Who's Involved?

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 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 address is BFoer@antitrustinstitute.org and his office phone is 202-276-6002.

Vice President

Diana L. Moss is Vice President and Senior Research Fellow of the AAI. She specializes in the economics of antitrust, regulation, and energy and natural resources. While at AAI, Dr. Moss has coordinated and managed projects relating to antitrust, consumer protection, and regulation in a number of different areas, including: federal energy legislative and regulatory policy, energy sector restructuring, energy mergers, antitrust modernization, network access and systems competition, cruise line and tobacco mergers, sports antitrust issues, and internet joint ventures. Dr. Moss was Senior Staff Economist and Coordinator of 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 the areas of antitrust and regulation 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 Georgetown University Graduate Public Policy Institute. Her PhD. in Mineral Economics was earned at the Colorado School of Mines in 1989. She joined AAI as a Senior Research Fellow in September, 2001. Her e-mail is DMoss@antitrustinstitute.org and her office phone is 720-233-5971.

Directors

In addition to Foer, the initial directors are Robert Lande, the Venable Professor at the University of Baltimore Law School and Jon Cuneo, an antitrust attorney in Washington, DC, who is also head of the Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws. Lande serves as corporate secretary.

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.

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.). SCalkins@antitrustinstitute.org.

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. His email is kdavidson@antitrustinstitute.org.

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. WGrimes@antitrustinstitute.org.

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. GGundlach@antitrustinstitute.org.

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. NHawker@antitrustinstitute.org.

John E. Kwoka, Jr.,is a Senior Fellow. He is the Neal F. Finnegan Professor of Economics at Northeastern University. He was recently President of the Industrial Organization Society, he co-authored (with fellow AAI Advisory Board member Lawrence J. White) The Antitrust Revolution-- Economics, Competition, and Policy (Oxford University Press, fourth edition, 2004). j.kwoka@NEU.edu.

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.

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. JLangenfeld@antitrustinstitute.org.

Diana L. Moss is Vice President and Senior Fellow. (See section on Vice President above.)

Philip B. Nelson is a Principal at Economists, Inc. Before joining EI in 1987, he was an economist with the F.T.C., serving as Assistant Director of the Bureau of Economics for Competition Analysis. 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, currently serving as vice-chair of the Section's Intellectual Property Committee and formerly serving as chair of the Section's Economics Committee. PNelson@antitrustinstitute.org.

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. RNoll@antitrustinstitute.org.

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. RPeritz@antitrustinstitute.org.

Stephen F. Ross is Professor of Law at the University of Illinois.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. SRoss@antitrustinstitute.org.

Jonathan L. Rubin is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Florida College of Law. Dr. Rubin was a trial lawyer in private practice in Florida from 1981-1993. He earned a Ph.D. in economics in 1998 from the University of Copenhagen, Institute of Economics, in Denmark. After serving as an assistant professor of economics at the Royal Danish Agricultural University in Copenhagen, Dr. Rubin re-entered private practice in the D.C. area, specializing in antitrust law and economics. He is Adjunct Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School, where he teaches Law and Economics. He is the author of AAI's amicus briefs before the Supreme Court monopolization case of Verizon v. Trinko and before the FTC in In re: Rambus, Inc, dealing with antitrust, intellectual property, and standards setting. He has worked on telecommunications matters such as content protection in digital broadcasting, local telephone deregulation, and DBS, and has authored AAI studies about the mortgage credit reporting and medical waste disposal industries. JRubin@antitrustinstitute.org.

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. FMScherer@antitrustinstitute.org.

Robert A. Skitol is a partner and head of 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 co-authored the book Mergers in the New Antitrust Era. RSkitol@antitrustinstitute.org.

Robert L. Steiner is an economist and marketing consultant and the author of numerous articles on the consumer goods economy, Steiner 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. In 2004, the AAI conducted a symposium titled "Combining Horizontal and Vertical Analysis in Antitrust: Implications of the Work of Robert L. Steiner." RSteiner@antitrustinstitute.org.

AAI 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. BAscher@antitrustinstitute.org.

David Giacalone is a graduate of Harvard Law School (1976) and served in several positions in the FTC's Bureau of Competition from 1977 through 1988. He retired from private practice as a mediator and children's advocate. At his website, f/k/a, he has focused on consumer rights, competition, and ethics in the market for legal services. His primary volunteer activities for AAI involve editing the Guide to Antitrust Resources on the Web. His e-mail is DAGiacalone@antitrustinstitute.org.

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 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 Advisory Board

Kenneth Adams, Attorney
Arthur Amolsch, Editor, FTC:Watch
Jonathan Baker, Economist and Law Professor, American University
Joseph Bauer, Professor of Law, Notre Dame
Maxwell Blecher, Attorney
James Brock, Economist, Miami University (Ohio)
Joseph Brodley, Professor of Law and Economics, Boston University
James Brown, Professor, Consumer Affairs, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Richard Brunell, Professor of Law, Boston College
Darren Bush, Professor, University of Houston Law Center
Stephen Calkins, Professor of Law, Wayne State
Michael Carrier, Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School-Camden
Peter Carstensen, Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin
Andrew Chin, Professor of Law, University of North Carolina
William Comanor, Economist, UCLA and UCSB
Patricia Conners, Assistant Attorney General, Florida
John M. Connor, Professor of Economics, Purdue University
Lloyd Constantine, Attorney
Ellen Cooper, Assistant Attorney General, Maryland
Craig Corbitt, Attorney
Eric Cramer, Attorney
Eugene Crew, Attorney
Paul Dobson, Economist, Loughborough University
Robert W. Doyle, Jr., Attorney
Beth Farmer, Professor of Law, Penn State
Harry First, Professor of Law, New York University
Kathleen E. Foote, Senior Assistant Attorney General, California
Eleanor Fox, Professor of Law, New York University
Michael Freed, Attorney
Gary French, Economist, Nathan Associates
Andrew Gavil, Professor of Law, Howard
Joseph Goldberg, Attorney
Hillary Greene, Professor of Law, University of Utah
Warren Grimes, Professor of Law, Southwestern
Gregory Gundlach, Professor of Business, Notre Dame
Daniel Gustafson, Attorney
Norman Hawker, Professor of Business, Western Michigan University
George Hay, Professor of Economics and Law, Cornell
Alfred Kahn, Professor of Economics emeritus, Cornell
Arthur M. Kaplan, Attorney
Veronica Kayne, Attorney
Susan Kelly, Attorney, American Public Power Association
John B. Kirkwood, Professor of Law, Seattle University Law School
Joseph Kohn, Attorney
John Kwoka, Jr., Professor of Economics, Northeastern
James Langenfeld, Economist, LECG
Robert Litan, Brookings Institution
Milton Marquis, Attorney
Philip Marsden, BIICL, London
Stephen Martin, Professor of Economics, Purdue
Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, (Ret) Chair, Consumer Federation of America
Monroe Milstein, Burlington Coat Factory
Daniel Mogin, Attorney
David Mohre, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
Diana Moss, Economist
John M. Nannes, Attorney
Philip Nelson, Economist, Economists, Inc.
Roger Noll, Professor of Economics, Stanford
Kevin O'Connor, Attorney
Mark Patterson, Professor of Law, Fordham
Rudolph Peritz, Professor, New York Law School
Bernard Persky, Attorney
Bernard Rapoport, Insurance Company Founder
J. Douglas Richards, Attorney
Douglas Rosenthal, Attorney
Stephen Ross, Professor of Law, Univ. of Illinois
Steven Salop, Professor of Economics and Law, Georgetown
Marc Seltzer, Attorney
F.M. Scherer, Economist, Harvard
John Shenefield, Attorney
William G. Shepherd, Professor of Economics, UMASS in Amherst
Robert Skirnick, Attorney
Robert Skitol, Attorney
Daniel Small, Attorney
Robert L. Steiner, Economic consultant
Irwin Stelzer, Economist
Mary Lou Steptoe, Attorney
Dennis Stewart, Attorney
Bonny Sweeney, Attorney
James Tierney, Attorney
Spencer Waller, Professor of Law, Loyola University
Phil Weiser, Professor of Law, University of Colorado
Lawrence White, Professor of Economics, NYU