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All panels will be in Van Metre Hall
8:00 – 8:50 A.M
Continental Breakfast, Van Metre Hall Gallery
9:00 – 9:10 A.M.
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Megan Dill, Symposium Editor, George Mason Law Review
Donald J. Kochan, Professor of Law and Executive Director, Law & Economics Center, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School
John M. Yun, Associate Professor of Law, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School
9:10 – 10:30 A.M.
Panel 1: The FTC and DOJ’s Draft Merger Guidelines
Dennis W. Carlton, David McDaniel Keller Professor of Economics Emeritus, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business; Senior Managing Director, Compass Lexecon
Aviv Nevo, Director, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission; George A. Weiss and Lydia Bravo Weiss University Professor, University of Pennsylvania College of Arts and Sciences
Eric A. Posner, Kirkland & Ellis Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Arthur and Esther Kane Research Chair, The University of Chicago Law School
Howard Shelanski, Joseph and Madeline Sheehy Chair in Antitrust Law and Trade Regulation and Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Valerie Suslow, Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
More panelists to be announced.
Moderator: Alexander Raskovich, Director of Research, Global Antitrust Institute (GAI)
10:30 – 10:50 A.M.
Break
10:50 A.M. – 12:10 P.M.
Panel 2: Digital Markets Act Enforcement & Compliance
Neil Chilson, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Growth and Opportunity
Nikhil Shanbhag, Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Product Legal, Competition and Telecommunications Law, Meta Inc.
More panelists to be announced.
Moderator: Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; Professor of Law, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School
12:10 – 12:35 P.M.
Lunch, Van Meter Hall Multipurpose Room
12:35 – 1:55 P.M.
Lunch & Panel 3: Antitrust and Privacy
D. Daniel Sokol, Carolyn Craig Franklin Chair in Law, Professor of Law and Business, Gould School of Law, and Affiliate Professor of Business, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
Andrew Stivers, Director, NERA Economic Consulting, Inc.
Ramsi Woodcock, Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs Associated Professor of Law Secondary Appointment, Gatton College of Business & Economics, J. David Rosenberg College of Law, University of Kentucky
Koren W. Wong-Ervin, Partner, Jones Day
More panelists to be announced.
Moderator: James C. Cooper, Director, Program on Economics & Privacy; George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School
1:55 – 2:05 P.M.
Break
2:05 – 3:25 P.M.
Panel 4: U.S. Tech Litigation Download
Ling Ling Ang, Managing Director, NERA Economic Consulting, Inc.
Dale Collins, Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Kristen Limarzi, Partner, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Michael A. Salinger, Jacqueline J. and Arthur S. Bahr Professor of Management and Professor of Economics, Boston University School of Management; Senior Academic Advisor, Charles River Associates
More panelists to be announced.
Moderator: John M. Yun, Associate Professor of Law, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School
3:25 – 3:45 P.M.
Break
3:45 – 4:45 P.M.
A Conversation on Antitrust
An esteemed Special Guest (to be announced) joins Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg
4:45 – 4:55 P.M.
Closing Remarks
Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; Professor of Law, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School
4:55 – 6:00 P.M.
Reception