Senior Fellows

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.
 
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 relating to 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 the 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 and 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.

Joshua Davis is Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship, Professor, and Direct, Center for Law and Ethics at the University of San Francisco School of Law. He received his BA from Brown University and his J.D. for New York University School of Law, where he graduated Order of the Coif and was the Senior Article Editor of the N.Y.U. Law Review. He then served a law clerk for Judge Patrick Higginbotham of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and taught on a fellowship at the Georgetown University Law Center. Before assuming his current academic role, he was a partner at Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP. His research focuses in relevant part on substantive antitrust law, private antitrust enforcement, and class action procedure. He has testified before Congress on civil procedure and served as the Reporter for the California Supreme Court task force and committee that formulated the rules on multijurisdictional practice currently in effect in California.

Beth Farmer is a Professor of Law at Penn State University. Her research interests include U.S. and foreign antitrust and trade regulation law, issues of federalism, and comparative competition policy. She has served as a non-governmental advisor and rapporteur for the International Competition Network annual conferences in 2011 (The Hague), 2010 (Istanbul) and 2009 (Zurich) and on the ICN Agency Effectiveness Working Group drafting the Effective Project Delivery chapter for the Competition Agency Practices Manual. Farmer was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to research and lecture on antitrust law at the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) in Beijing, China in 2008. Before pursuing an academic career, Professor Farmer was an antitrust law enforcement attorney with the New York attorney general's office and counsel with the National Association of Attorneys General in Washington, D.C.
 
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 UNiversity and the University of Michigan Law School. He is co-author, with fellow Advisory Board Member Lawrence Sullivan, of The Law of Antitrust: An Integrated Handbook.
 
Gregory T. Gundlach is Professor of Marketing, Coggin College of Business at the 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 to 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 is the Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics at Northeastern University.  He has served as President of the Industrial Organization Society, Vice President of the Southern Economics Association, and Editor of the Review of Industrial Organization. He has previously taught at George Washington University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and also worked at the Federal Trade Commission, the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department, and the Federal Communications Commission. Among his many publications, he co-edits (with fellow Advisory Board member Lawrence J. White) the successful casebook The Antitrust Revolution, now in its fifth edition (2009).
 
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 the 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.

Chris Sagers is Professor of Law at Cleveland State University. He is junior author of Sullivan & Grimes, The Law of Antitrust: An Integrated Handbook, as well as a number of other books and articles. He is a member of the American Law Institute and a leadership member of the American Bar Association's Section of Antitrust Law. He attended the University of Michigan (JD and MPP, 1997).
 
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 independent economist who has authored more than 40 articles in the Review of Industrial Organization, The Antitrust Law Journal, The Antitrust Bulletin, The Journal of Marketing, The Journal of Advertising, among others. The Special Issue of the Antitrust Bulletin (vol. 49, Winter 2004) The Implications of the Work of Robert L. Steiner, "Combining Horizontal and Vertical Analysis" contains articles by 10 scholars and deals with a major theme of his work. After obtaining an M.A. in economics at Columbia, Steiner spent 25 years as an executive in a number of family manufacturing businesses that made soap, soft drinks, OTC drugs, housewares and, most importantly, toys. He eventually became president of the toy company, Kenner Products. Subsequently, he taught at the University of Cincinnati, became an economic consultant and served in the FTC's Bureau of Economics as a "Visiting Professor" and staff economist.
 
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.