18th Annual Conference: The Value of Antitrust

Name: 18th Annual Conference: The Value of Antitrust
Start: 2017-06-21T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2017-06-21T23:59:59+00:00
Location: National Press Club

June 21, 2017
National Press Club

On June 21, 2017, the American Antitrust Institute hosted its 18th Annual Conference. This year’s event took up the important topic: The Value of Antitrust. The change in administration is an opportune time to take stock of why and how antitrust remains a central policy tool for promoting a market economy, competition, innovation, and consumer benefits. Growing concerns over declining competition, slowing rates of market entry, and inequality gaps have put antitrust into the spotlight. Mounting economic evidence on the effects of past mergers, efficiencies, and remedies has given competition enforcers and proponents of fair competition reasons to be more vigilant in scrutinizing further consolidation and potentially anticompetitive behavior.

AAI’s 18th Annual Conference assessed the value of antitrust in a number of ways, across four panels:

What’s Past is Prologue: How Yesterday’s Mergers Shape Today’s Merger Enforcement
The Public/Private Partnership in Antitrust Enforcement
Greatest Hits in Antitrust – Mergers, Monopoly, and More
Competition and Innovation – Theory, Practice, and Current Controversies

The conference included a gala luncheon featuring the presentation of the 2017 AAI Antitrust Achievement Award and the Jerry S. Cohen Award for Antitrust Scholarship.

4.5 CLE credits were available.

Welcome and Overview

Diana Moss, President, American Antitrust Institute

9:15 am

Session I: What’s Past is Prologue: How Yesterday’s Mergers Shape Today’s Merger Enforcement

Moderator:
Diana L. Moss, President, American Antitrust Institute

Speakers:
Dennis W. Carlton, David McDaniel Keller Professor of Economics, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago

John E. Kwoka, Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor, Department of Economics, Northeastern University

Nancy Rose, Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jonathan B. Sallet, Partner, Steptoe & Johnson LLP

10:45 am

Session II: The Public/Private Partnership in Antitrust Enforcement

Moderator:
Robert H. Lande, Venable Professor of Law, University of Baltimore School of Law

Speakers:
Andrew I. Gavil, Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law; Senior Of Counsel, Crowell & Moring LLP

Eric Mahr, Director of Litigation, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice

Ellen Meriwether, Partner, Cafferty, Clobes, Meriwether & Sprengel LLP

Bonny E. Sweeney, Partner, Hausfeld

12:45 pm

Luncheon and Awards Presentation

AAI’s Alfred Kahn Award for Antitrust Achievement
Presentation:
Presented by Renata B. Hesse, former Acting Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice; Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

Acceptance:
William J. Baer, Partner, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP

Jerry S. Cohen Award for Antitrust Scholarship
Presentation:
Daniel A. Small, Partner, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC

Acceptance:
Einer Elhauge, Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

2:00 pm

Session III: Greatest Hits in Antitrust - Mergers, Monopoly, and More

Moderator:
Pamela Gilbert, Partner, Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca LLP

Speakers:
Stephen Calkins, Professor of Law, Wayne State University Law School

Harry First, Charles L. Denison Professor of Law, Co-Director, Competition, Innovation, and Information Law Program, New York University School of Law

Joseph Goldberg, Partner, Freedman Boyd Hollander Goldberg and Urias, P.A.

Terrell McSweeny, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission

3:15 pm