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).
