Ben Van Rompuy

Barak Richman’s primary research interests include the economics of contracting, new institutional economics, antitrust, and healthcare policy. His work has been published in the Columbia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Law and Social Inquiry, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Health Affairs.  In 2006, he co-edited with Clark Havighurst a symposium volume of Law and Contemporary Problems entitled “Who Pays? Who Benefits? Distributional Issues in Health Care,” and his book Stateless Commerce was published by Harvard University Press in 2017.

Richman represented the NFL Coaches Association in an amicus curiae brief in American Needle v. The Nat’l Football League, which was argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in January 2010 and again in Brady v. The Nat’l Football League in 2011.  His recent work challenging illegal practices by Rabbinical Associations was featured in the New York Times. His work is available at http://ssrn.com/author=334149.

Richman also is on the Health Sector Management faculty at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business and is a Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics. He won Duke Law School’s Blueprint Award in 2005 and was named Teacher of the Year in 2010.

Richman has an A.B., magna cum laude, from Brown University, a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied under Nobel Laureate in Economics Oliver Williamson. He served as a law clerk to Judge Bruce M. Selya of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and from 1994-1996 he handled international trade legislation as a staff member of the United States Senate Committee on Finance, then chaired by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

Art Wilmarth joined GW Law School’s faculty in 1986, following 11 years in private law practice. Prior to joining the Law School, he was a partner in the Washington, DC, office of the Jones Day law firm. Professor Wilmarth teaches courses in banking law, contracts, corporations, and American constitutional history. He has been a member of the Executive Board of the Law School’s Center for Law, Economics & Finance since 2009, and he served as the Center’s Executive Director from 2011 to 2014.

He is the author of more than thirty articles and book chapters in the fields of banking law and American constitutional history, and he is co-author of a book on corporate law. In 2005, the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers awarded him its prize for the best law review article published in the field of consumer financial services law during the previous year.

Professor Wilmarth has testified before committees of the U.S. Congress, the California legislature, and the DC Council on bank regulatory issues. In 2010, he was a consultant to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, the body established by Congress to report on the causes of the financial crisis. During 2008–09, he served as Chair of the Section on Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services of the Association of American Law Schools, after serving as the Section’s chair-elect and annual program chair during 2007–08. Professor Wilmarth is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Banking Regulation, published by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. He is also a member of the advisory board of the American Antitrust Institute.

Professor Andy Gavil has been a member of the Howard faculty since 1989 and currently teaches courses on antitrust law, civil procedure, complex litigation, federal courts, and Supreme Court Jurisprudence (seminar). He has written, lectured, and commented extensively on antitrust law and procedure. Areas of interest include the role of the U.S. Supreme Court in formulating antitrust rules, antitrust litigation, exclusionary conduct by dominant firms, regulatory responses to new and disruptive technologies, firms, and business models, indirect purchaser rights, expert economic testimony and economic evidence, and comparative and international perspectives on competition policy. He is a co-author of a leading antitrust casebook with Professors William E. Kovacic and Jonathan B. Baker, Antitrust Law in Perspective: Cases Concepts and Problems in Competition Policy (5th ed. 2024), and of Andrew I. Gavil & Harry First, Microsoft and the Globalization of Antitrust Law: Competition Policy for the Twenty-First Century (2014).

From September 2012 to December 2014, Professor Gavil served as the Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

He has also been an active member of the American Bar Association’s Section of Antitrust Law. He received an Outstanding Performance Award in 2021 and currently serves as a Senior Editor of the Antitrust Law Journal. Professor Gavil is also a member of the Advisory Board of the American Antitrust Institute and of the U.S. Advisory Board of the Loyola Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies.

Professor Gavil received his B.A. magna cum laude in 1978 from Queens College of the City University of New York, and his J.D. in 1981 from Northwestern University School of Law, where he was a member of the Law Review.

For additional information on Antitrust Law in Perspective: Cases, Concepts and Problems in Competition Policy (5th ed. 2024)

For additional information on Microsoft and the Globalization of Antitrust Law: Competition Policy for the Twenty-First Century (2014).

SSRN: http://ssrn.com/author=141373

After serving as student government president at Texas, Andrew Chin earned his doctorate studying combinatorial mathematics and computational complexity theory at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, on a Rhodes Scholarship and a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship.

Between 1991 and 1995, he taught mathematics at Texas A&M University, computer science at King’s College, University of London, and public policy at the University of Texas at Austin. At Yale, he published a paper written during his first semester as a note in the Yale Law Journal, and several subsequent law review articles. After graduation, he clerked for Judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr. of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and assisted Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson and his law clerks in the drafting of the findings of fact in United States v. Microsoft Corporation.

Chin then practiced in the corporate and intellectual property departments in the Washington, D.C., office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP. He is of counsel to Intellectual Property Solutions, P.L.L.C., where he prepares and prosecutes patent applications in computer and Internet technology.

Chin joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina School of Law in 2001. He teaches antitrust, intellectual property, and patent law.

Andre P. Barlow is a partner at Doyle, Barlow & Mazard PLLC focusing on all aspects of Antitrust, Hospitality and International Trade Law. He has extensive experience in antitrust enforcement matters before the United States Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and state enforcement agencies, as well as in complex commercial litigation involving the federal and state antitrust laws and other commercial matters.

Barlow is experienced in merger, grand jury, and other government investigations, and provides counseling and representation with respect to allegations of conspiracy, monopoly, tying, exclusive dealing, unfair competition, vertical and horizontal arrangements, unilateral conduct, Robinson Patman matters, price discrimination matters, potential mergers and joint ventures, and compliance with the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act. His antitrust litigation experience includes monopolization, Robinson Patman, price discrimination, and exclusive dealing cases.

Barlow represents clients in investigations by federal and state antitrust regulatory agencies. He also advises clients on issues related to mergers, and premerger notifications both inside and outside the United States. Barlow also advises clients in complex white collar criminal cases relating to antitrust conspiracies. He has experience in internal investigations and advising on compliance programs.

Allen Grunes concentrates on antitrust issues, advising clients on mergers and acquisitions and compliance with the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act. He represents clients in federal court, before the federal and state antitrust agencies, the Federal Communications Commission and Congress and also provides counsel on civil non-merger matters. He has extensive experience in a range of industries, including media and entertainment, telecommunications and the high-tech sector.
Before returning to Brownstein, Allen co-founded The Konkurrenz Group where he advised small businesses, Fortune 500 firms, consumer advocacy groups and labor organizations on issues of competition law and policy.

Allen’s prior experience also includes more than a decade at the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, where he led many merger and civil non-merger investigations in radio, television, newspapers, motion pictures and other industries. He was part of the litigation team in a number of important cases brought by the United States, including United States v. Alex. Brown & Sons (NASDAQ Market Makers) and United States v. National Association of Realtors.

Allen writes and speaks frequently on antitrust topics. He also provided analysis for media, including Bloomberg, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, Communications Daily, the Associated Press and Law360.