W. Joseph Bruckner

A nationally recognized expert on health care and antitrust law, Professor Thomas (Tim) Greaney has spent the last two decades examining the evolution of the health care industry and is a vocal advocate for reforming the health care system and protecting consumers. He also has a strong interest in comparative antitrust law, having been a Fulbright Scholar in Brussels and a visiting lecturer at several European law schools.

After graduating from Harvard Law School, Greaney began his career as a legislative assistant on Capitol Hill and as a law clerk with the Federal Communications Commission. He then moved on to the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice where he was a trial attorney and became the assistant chief in charge of antitrust matters in health care. His career at Justice spanned ten years and involved him in civil and criminal antitrust litigation in health care, banking, communications and other regulated industries as well as policy formulation and legislative matters.

Greaney came to SLU LAW in 1987 after completing two fellowships and a visiting professorship at Yale Law School. Professor Greaney became Chester A. Myers Professor of Law in 2004 and was named Health Law Teacher of the Year by the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics in 2007. His academic writing has been recognized six times by the Thompson Coburn Award for SLU Faculty scholarship.

Professor Greaney’s extensive body of scholarly writing on health care and antitrust laws encompasses articles published in some of the country’s most prestigious legal and health policy journals. Professor Greaney has authored or co-authored several books, including the leading health care casebook, Health Law. A frequent speaker in academia and the media, Professor Greaney has also offered expert testimony at hearings sponsored by the Federal Trade Commission on the issues of applying competition law and policy to health care, and submitted invited testimony to the U.S. Senate on competition policy and health care reform. He has also testified several times before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives and has submitted invited testimony

H.E. (Ted) Frech III is professor of economics in the School of Letters and Science and professor of technology management in the School of Engineering  at the UC Santa Barbara.  He is former director of the MA program and former Chairman of the economics department. He is an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and an affiliated faculty member at the Petris Center for Health Care Markets at UC Berkeley. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard and at the University of Chicago and an adjunct professor at Sciences Po in Paris, Curtin University in Australia and the Naval Postgraduate School. He holds a BS in industrial engineering from the University of Missouri, and a PhD in economics from UCLA.

Prof.  Frech, has written widely on antitrust, industrial organization, health economics, insurance, energy, and land use regulation. He has consulted for private and governmental organizations on liability and damage issues in complex commercial issues, including regulation, contract and unfair competition and antitrust.  This work has covered many industries, including health care and health insurance, aviation, electronics, sports fields and real estate.

Professor Salop teaches courses in Antitrust Law, Economic Reasoning and the Law, and conducts a Faculty Workshop in Law and Economics. His recent writings include several articles in the Antitrust Law Journal that focus on exclusionary conduct, including an article on the overarching antitrust standard for exclusionary conduct, an article on exclusionary conduct by buyers and an article on the antitrust standard for refusals to deal and price squeezes.   Professor Salop has other articles on the consumer welfare standard, the raising rivals’ cost conduct, and the first principles approach to antitrust .  His research focuses on antitrust law and economics and economic analysis of industrial competition and imperfect information.   Before joining the Law Center faculty in 1981, he served as Associate Director for Special Projects with the Bureau of Economics of the FTC, as an adjunct professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his B.A. in 1968, and as an economist with the Civil Aeronautics Board and Federal Reserve Board. He is a member of the American Economic Association and the Econometric Society. He has been an associate editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, The International Journal of Industrial Organization and the Journal of Industrial Economics.

In over twenty-five years of practice Steven N. Williams has handled successfully and with distinction all aspects of litigation and trial in state and federal courts and in private arbitration.

Mr. Williams has played a lead role in many of the most prominent antitrust class cases litigated in the United States over the last decade, including In re Automotive Parts Antitrust Litigation, In re Static Random Access Memory Litigation, Precision Associates v. Panalpina World Transport, and In re Transpacific Air Transportation Litigation. He has helped recover more than $2 billion and has been responsible for new law including ground-breaking decisions narrowing the scope of the Filed Rate Doctrine and permitting civil damage claims in E. & J. Gallo Winery v. EnCana Corp., 503 F.3d 1027 (2007) and Wortman v. All Nippon Airways, 854 F.3d 606 (2017), and a ruling that “umbrella damages” are available under California state law. County of San Mateo v. CSL, Ltd., 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 116342 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 20, 2014).

Mr. Williams, previously a long-time partner at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP, practices in the fields of litigation, trial, and client counseling, with an emphasis on representation of civil plaintiffs in antitrust matters. He has served in leadership positions in more than a dozen antitrust class cases throughout the United States. During his career, he has represented claimants in cases involving memory chips, pharmaceuticals, air passenger transportation, air cargo transportation, cathode ray tubes, capacitors, resistors, flash memory, lithium ion batteries, financial products and services, poultry, and water. He has been appointed to represent classes, and in non-class cases he has represented the Chief Justice of California, the Judicial Council of California, Consumers Union of United States, Inc., the United Farm Workers, Dolores Huerta, public pension funds, private investment funds, many cities and counties of California, public utilities including water districts, and individual consumers. His current caseload includes representing a class alleging that Nestlé Waters of North America has been misleading consumers for years by falsely claiming that its “Poland Spring” water is natural spring water, and leading a class action alleging that Pfizer and Mylan—manufacturer and distributor of the EpiPen, respectively—have unlawfully created and abused a monopoly for the essential, life-saving product.

Mr. Williams has written and lectured on various topics including antitrust, multidistrict litigation, complex litigation, electronic discovery, MTBE litigation, regulatory developments in environmental law, contractual issues in environmental cleanups, and habeas corpus. He has spoken at many venues, including the American Bar Association Antitrust Section Spring Meeting, the California State Bar Antitrust, UCL and Privacy Section, the New York State Bar Association Antitrust Section, and the Consumer Attorneys of California. He is the author or co-author of several publications, including: “Should United States Courts Defer to Foreign Governments?,” Chambers and Partners’s Cartels 2019 global practice guide; “‘Pepper’ as a Back Door to ‘Illinois Brick’ (and ‘ARC America’)?” and “Should ‘Hanover Shoe’ and ‘Illinois Brick’ Be Discarded?,” August 2018 The Recorder (with Firm Senior Associate Jiamie Chen); Antitrust Law Developments (Eighth), American Bar Association; “Federal and State Class Antitrust Actions Should Not Be Tried in a Single Trial,” The Journal of the Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Section of the State Bar of California, Fall 2014; “Recoveries for Violations of Federal and California Antitrust Statutes Should Not Be Apportioned,” Competition, Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Section, California State Bar, Fall 2014; “Antitrust Whistleblowers Get Clarity,” Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal, 2013; “Courts Rein in the Cost of E-Discovery When Lawyers and Their Clients Won’t,” California Lawyer, April 2012; and California’s 2009 E-Discovery Laws, Text and Analysis, LexisNexis 2009.

Mr. Williams was appointed by the Consumer Attorneys of California(“CAOC”) as a member of the California Discovery Subcommittee for revision of California discovery rules and statutes relating to electronic discovery and electronically stored information, 2007-2008. He has given yearly presentations to CAOC on topics of civil discovery in California. He is currently in leadership for the American Bar Association Antitrust Section and is a member of the International Cartel Task Force, the Advisory Board of the American Antitrust Institute, and the Executive Committee of the Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws. He has repeatedly acted as faculty at the joint Federal Judicial Center/American Bar Association Institute on Antitrust and Economics. He is an advisor to the Executive Committee of the California Lawyers Association Section on Antitrust, Unfair Competition Law, and Privacy Law, and was chair of the 2017 Golden State Antitrust Institute. He is also a Board Member of Public Justice and past Chairman of the Board of Community Gatepath, an organization dedicated to serving the needs of developmentally disabled children and adults.

Mr. Williams has received numerous professional accolades during his legal career. Chambers USA has ranked him 2015-2018 as a Band 1 or Band 2 attorney for “Antitrust:  Mainly Plaintiff—California” and 2017-2018 as a Band 2 attorney for “Antitrust:  Plaintiff—Nationwide.” He has been rated AV Preeminent by Martindale Hubbell since 2002. He has been designated 2005-2018 as a “Super Lawyer” and 2016-2018 as a “Top 100 Northern California Super Lawyer” by Thomson Reuters’s Super Lawyers publication. From 2014-2018 he has been ranked by Who’s Who Legal as one of the top plaintiffs’ attorneys worldwide via Who’s Who Legal:  Competition, a publication of Who’s Who Legal and Global Competition Review. And, in 2018 he was selected and profiled by the California Daily Journal as one of thirty “Top Plaintiff Lawyers” in California.

Mr. Williams is admitted to practice in California, New Jersey, New York, the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals (Second, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth, and District of Columbia Circuits), and the United States District Court of California (Eastern, Central, Northern, and Southern Districts), Michigan (Eastern District), New Jersey, and New York (Eastern and Southern Districts). He received his J.D. from the Fordham University School of Law and his B.A. in Russian and Slavic Studies from New York University.

Steve Shadowen is regularly recognized as a top national antitrust lawyer, a result of his dedicated work on cases where intellectual property and antitrust law intersect. Shadowen was lead counsel for the purchaser plaintiffs in the landmark litigation that began calling Big Pharma to account for anticompetitive conduct. Abbott Labs. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals, U.S.A., Inc.:  Shadowen was on plaintiffs’ trial team, and was one of the driving forces in the litigation, in the first case to accept the “product hopping” theory of anticompetitive conduct. Steve Shadowen consistently garners recognition as a Best Lawyer in America for Antitrust and Commercial Litigation and as a Pennsylvania SuperLawyer. He serves on the advisory boards of the American Antitrust Institute and the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies and is an adjunct professor at the Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law. Shadowen has published numerous papers on antitrust and civil rights issues and lectured on antitrust and competition law at universities across the nation and in Europe. He is a committed advocate for equal access to education, serving on the board of the Harrisburg Public Schools Foundation and as a trustee of St. Edward’s University.  Shadowen is also the President of the Joshua Group, an at-risk youth advocate organization. Prior to starting Hilliard Shadowen LLC, Shadowen was a partner at the Philadelphia-based firms, Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin, and Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, where he represented plaintiffs in antitrust litigation for more than 19 years. As a law student he was the criminal procedure project editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. Upon graduation from Georgetown he served as a clerk for the Hon. Boyce F. Martin, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Sports law scholar Professor Ross has clerked for Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, was Senate Judiciary Committee counsel to former Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, and worked as an attorney for the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice. He has taught and written about sports law in North America, Europe, and Australia, and has provided expert testimony and advice on sports antitrust issues to governmental entities in both the United States and Canada. He has also consulted on sports league design for professional sports organizations in ice hockey, cricket, rugby, soccer, and motorcycle racing.

Professor Ross previously served as  a senior fellow of the American Antitrust Institute as well as  pro bono counsel to the AAI and other consumer groups on antitrust and sports litigation.

Stephen Martin is Professor of Economics at the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University. From July 2002 through July 2005 he was Faculty Director of the Technology Transfer Initiative at the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, continuing until May 2006 with the Innovation Realization Laboratory. From August 2005-August 2008, he was Chairman of the Economics Policy Committee.  From January 2000 through the end of June 2002, he was Professor of Industrial Organization at the Faculty of Economics and Econometrics, University of Amsterdam (and from September 2000 to December 2001, Chairman of the Department of Finance & Organization). From September 1995 through December 31, 1999 he was Director of the Centre for Industrial Economics at the Universit of Copenhagen. From August 1996 through December 2004, he was co-Managing Editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization. He was Professor at the European University Institute for 7 years, serving as Head of Department for 3 years. He was successively Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor at Michigan State University, having previously taken his Ph.D. in economics at M.I.T. after surviving 3 years in the U.S. Army. His first university degree was in mathematics from Michigan State University. His research interests include all areas of industrial economics, on which he has published widely, with current emphasis on comparative (U.S. and EU) competition policy and the impact of state aid on market performance. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in industrial economics, and supervised 22 Ph.D. dissertations to completion.

Professor Stephen Calkins is the 2019 recipient of the Alfred E. Kahn Award for Antitrust Achievement. Read his acceptance remarks here.

Calkins returned to Wayne Law in fall semester 2015 after being on leave since 2011. During his leave, Calkins served as a member of The Competition Authority of Ireland and director of its Mergers Division and later as a member of the melded Competition and Consumer Protection Commission of Ireland. He also served as an adjunct professor at University College Dublin Sutherland School of Law.

From 2008 to 2011, Calkins served as Wayne State University’s associate vice president for academic personnel, while continuing to teach at Wayne Law on a limited basis.

From 1995 to 1997, he served as general counsel of the Federal Trade Commission, a position to which he was nominated by FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky. At Wayne Law, Calkins taught courses and seminars that drew on this experience – Antitrust and Trade Regulation, and Consumer Law – plus Torts and occasionally Corporations. He has taught at the universities of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Utrecht (The Netherlands) and served as Wayne Law’s interim dean.

Calkins is in demand as a speaker, annually delivering many presentations on competition and consumer law and policy to governmental, professional and academic audiences across the United States and overseas. Before joining The Competition Authority of Ireland, he consulted with federal, state and foreign governmental agencies. He has testified before Congress and federal and state agencies. He is a prolific author with articles in leading academic and specialty journals. His books include Antitrust Law: Policy and Practice (4th ed. 2008) (with C. Paul Rogers III, Mark R. Patterson and William R. Andersen),Antitrust Law and Economics in a Nutshell (5th ed. 2004) (with Ernest Gellhorn and William Kovacic) and, as a co-editor, ABA Antitrust Section, Consumer Protection Law Developments (2009).

Calkins participates in a wide range of professional activities. He is a life member of the American Law Institute, a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a member of the advisory boards for the American Antitrust Institute, Sedona Conference and National State Attorneys General Program Advisory Project at Columbia Law School. For the American Bar Association, he has served on the Councils of the Sections of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice and the Section of Antitrust Law (two, three-year terms). He is a former chair of the Association of American Law School’s Antitrust and Economic Regulation Committee.

At Wayne State, Calkins served three terms on the Academic Senate’s Policy Committee (its executive committee). He served as the Senate’s parliamentarian from 2000 to 2007. Previously, he served on various university committees, including the Review Advisory Panel for Economics and the university Promotion and Tenure Committee. At Wayne Law, he has served multiple terms on the promotion and tenure committee, budget committee, curriculum committee and faculty appointments committee. He was an elected member of the 2003-04 Strategic Plan Implementation Committee. Previously, he chaired the ad hoc committee on U.S. news and the task force on student recruitment.

He holds a bachelor of arts degree from Yale University and a law degree from Harvard University. He is the recipient of the ABA Section of Antitrust Law Fiftieth Anniversary Publications Award, Federal Trade Commission Award for Distinguished Service and Donald H. Gordon Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Calkins lives in Northville, Mich., and, with his eight siblings, he owns a summer place on Long Lake (near Traverse City, Mich.) that was established by his grandparents more than 80 years ago.