11th Annual Conference: Public and Private: Are the Boundaries in Transition?

Name: 11th Annual Conference: Public and Private: Are the Boundaries in Transition?
Start: 2010-06-24T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2010-06-24T23:59:59+00:00
Location: National Press Club

June 24, 2010
National Press Club

The American Antitrust Institute held its 11th annual conference June 24th at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. This year, the conference was titled “Public and Private: Are the Boundaries in Transition?” and focused on the interplay between antitrust, regulation, exemptions, and immunities.

The Oregon Law Review Volume 89, Number 3, 2011 published a symposium issue of the conference.

8:30 am

Welcome and Introduction

Albert A. Foer, President, American Antitrust Institute

9:00 am

Keynote Address

Christine Varney, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice

10:00 am

Public and Private: Are the Boundaries Moving? Three Challenges in Competition Policy

Moderator:
Phil Weiser, Senior Advisor for Technology and Innovation to the National Economic Council Director

Standard-Setting
Christopher Sagers, Professor, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

Public-Private Partnerships
Michael Likosky, Senior Fellow, Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University

Government-Sponsored Enterprises
Jonathan GS Koppell, Director, School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University

11:00 am

Breakout Sessions

Insurance
Moderator:
Lawrence Mirel, Partner, Wiley Rein LLP; former Commissioner of Insurance, Securities and Banking for the District of Columbia

The McCarran Act Under Attack
Randy Stutz, Research Fellow, American Antitrust Institute

What is Public? What is Private? What is Federal? What is State-regulated?
Beth Farmer, Professor of Law, Penn State University

Financial Institutions Moderator:
K. Craig Wildfang, Partner, Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi LLP

Reforming Financial Regulation to Address the Too-Big-To-Fail Problem
Arthur E. Wilmarth, Professor, The George Washington University Law School

Interchange Fees as a Public Utility
Henry Polmer, Attorney, Law Offices of Henry M. Polmer

Telecommunications Moderator:
Jonathan Baker, Chief Economist, Federal Communications Commission

Panelists:
Joseph Farrell, Director of the Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission

Marius Schwartz, Professor of Economics, Georgetown University

Transportation Moderator:
Spencer Weber Waller, Professor and Director, Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, Loyola University Chicago School of Law

Statutory Immunities Related to Transportation
Peter Carstensen, Young-Bascom Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School

The Auto Industry Under Government Ownership
John Kwoka, Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics, Northeastern University

12:30 pm

Luncheon

Presentation of the 8th Annual Jerry S. Cohen Award to Einer Elhauge
Herb Milstein, Partner, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC

Presentation of the AAI Antitrust Achievement Award to Steven C. Salop
Jonathan Baker, Chief Economist, Federal Communications Commission

Carl Shapiro, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice

2:15 pm

Health Care Reform and Competition

Moderator:
Max Huffman, Associate Professor of Law and Dean’s Fellow, Indiana University Law School

Panelists:
Thomas Greaney, Professor of Law and Director, Center for Health Law Studies at Saint Louis University School of Law

Barak D. Richman, Professor of Law, Duke Law

3:30 pm

Energy Reform and Competition

Moderator:
Diana Moss, Vice President and Senior Fellow, American Antitrust Institute

Panelists:
Peter Fox-Penner, Principal, The Brattle Group; Author of Smart Power: Climate Change, the Smart Grid, and the Future of Electric Utilities
Susan Kelly, Vice President of Policy Analysis and General Counsel, American Public Power Association

4:30 pm