The Expanding Scope of Public Nuisance and Locality Litigation
Release Date: 12/17/2020
What’s Next for the Antitrust Agencies with a New Administration?
The Marketplace of Ideas
This discussion was Panel 4 of the 28th Annual George Mason Law Review Antitrust Symposium. Moderator: , Assistant Professor; Director of Competition, Law & Economics Center, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School Panelists: , Senior Managing Director, Compass Lexecon; , The University of Chicago Booth School of Business , Partner, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP , Vice President, Cornerstone Research
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Third Party Litigation Financing & Litigation Transparency Roundtable
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On Wednesday, March 26, the Law & Economics Center held a roundtable on Third Party Litigation Financing & Litigation Transparency, discussing transparency in our civil justice system, especially when it comes to third party litigation financing (TPLF)—an increasingly used and similarly scrutinized mechanism for financing lawsuits. Speakers included Moderator: , Judge, US District Court for the District of Columbia , Vice Dean of Intellectual Life and Associate Professor of Law, Seattle University School of Law , Founder & Executive Director, National...
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The Clash of AI Competition and Copyright Law Panel Discussion
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This discussion was Panel 2 of the 28th Annual George Mason Law Review Antitrust Symposium. Moderator: , Director, Advanced Analytics Lab, Berkeley Research Group; Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University; Editor, American Bar Association; External Expert; Romanian National Council for Scientific Panelists: Mark Gray, Copyright Policy Counsel, OpenAI , H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law; Associate Dean for Research and Innovation; Director, Intellectual Property (IP) Law and Innovation Initiative, Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law , Attorney, Bureau of...
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Commissioner Holyoak and Judge Doug Ginsburg - Fireside Chat
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FTC Commissioner Melissa Holyoak joined Judge Douglas Ginsburg of the DC Circuit Court for a fireside chat. This converation ended the 29th Annual George Mason Law Review Antitrust Symposium.
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Privacy Policy in the New Administration
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A panel of experts provides a discussion on some of the important developments under the Biden administration, and what to expect in this area from the new Trump administration.
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Civil Justice Preview of the Supreme Court’s 2024 – 2025 Term
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With the Court starting to hear cases for the upcoming year on October 7, 2024, a balanced panel of experts previewed some of the most interesting and potentially consequential cases for the coming year. The panelists focused on the civil justice-related cases on the docket, the cases where economic analysis is most at play, and those cases likely to have the most substantial economic impact or require adjustment to business activity. Panelists: , Of Counsel, Litigation; Mass Torts, Insurance and Consumer Litigation, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP , President, Center for...
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The Intersection of Antitrust & Privacy: A Deep Dive into the U.S. v. Apple Antitrust Case
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This one-hour talk examined the recent Department of Justice (DOJ) complaint against Apple, which alleges that Apple has designed and structured its iPhone platform in a manner that violates Section 2 of the Sherman Act. Join us as Professor James Cooper of George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, Professor Erika Douglas of Temple University Beasley School of Law, Professor Thom Lambert of the University of Missouri School of Law, and moderator Professor John Yun of George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School discuss the scope of a platform’s duty to deal, the relevance of...
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Climate Change Lawsuits and Preemption or Displacement of State Law: An Analysis of the Sunoco Cert Petition
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Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Law & Economics Center at the George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, Donald J. Kochan, moderates a discussion about Climate Change Lawsuits and Preemption or Displacement of State Law: An Analysis of the Sunoco Cert Petition. This conversation, recorded in May, 2024, features Phil Goldberg of Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P., Catherine M. Sharkey of New York University School of Law, and John Yoo of University of California at Berkeley School of Law, who analyzed, from diverse persepectives, the merits of the Sunoco Cert Petition...
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Standards for Judicial Education on Scientific Topics
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Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Law & Economics Center at the George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, Donald J. Kochan, moderates a discussion about the Standards for Judicial Education on Scientific Topics. This conversation, recorded in January, 2024, features David Faigman of the University of California College of Law, Jonathan Klick of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Gary Marchant of the Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, and Charles R. Santerre of Clemson University, who provide their expertise on teaching judges...
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Perspectives on the Economics and Law of Arbitration
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info_outlineListen in to the third panel of the LEC's Civil Justice Fest, a webinar series held throughout the month of November aimed to help make sense of America's rapidly changing civil justice environment.
This panel discussion featured:
Trevor S. Cox, Counsel, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
John Culhane, Professor of Law and H. Albert Young Fellow in Constitutional Law, Widener University Delaware Law School
Walter Olson, Senior Fellow, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute
Moderator: David J. Porter, Judge, US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit