Twenty Years in Antitrust and Lessons for a New Administration, Thursday, February 23, 2017

On February 23, 2017 the George Mason Law Review will be putting on its 20th Antitrust Symposium entitled “Twenty Years in Antitrust and Lessons for a New Administration.”

Twenty Years in Antitrust and Lessons for a New Administration

 

Thursday, February 23, 2017

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  8:00 AM  -  8:30 AM	Registration & Breakfast Founders Hall Multipurpose Room
  8:30 AM  -  8:35 AM	Welcome & Introduction All Panels will be held in Founders Hall Auditorium Henry N. Butler, Dean - George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School
  8:35 AM  -  9:30 AM	Opening Keynote Discussion Introduction – The Globalization of Competition Law in the Past 20 Years and the Advent of Brazilian Competition Law: Terry Calvani, Of Counsel - Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP Keynote Speaker: Alexandre Cordeiro Macedo, Commissioner - Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE)
  9:45 AM  -  11:00 AM	Panel One: Chinese Merger Law Confirmed Speakers include: Jing He, Senior Consultant - AnJie Law Firm Randy Tritell, Director - Federal Trade Commission Joanna Tsai, Vice President - Charles River Associates Mark Whitener, Senior Counsel - General Electric Company Moderator: H. Steve Harris, Jr., Partner - Winston & Strawn LLP
  11:15 AM  -  12:30 PM	Panel Two: From Staples to Staples – 20 Years of Merger Enforcement in the United States Confirmed Speakers include: Orley Ashenfelter, Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Professor of Economics - Princeton University George Cary, Partner - Cleary Gottlieb Deborah Feinstein, Director - Federal Trade Commission Matthew J. Reilly, Partner - Kirkland & Ellis LLP Chetan Sanghvi, Managing Director - NERA Economic Consulting Moderator: Paul Denis, Partner - Dechert LLP
  12:30 PM  -  2:00 PM	Luncheon Conversation - FTC Commissioner Ohlhausen and former FTC Commissioner Wright Speakers: Maureen K. Ohlhausen, Commissioner - US Federal Trade Commission Joshua D. Wright, University Professor - George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School; Senior Of Counsel - Wilson Soncini Goodrich & Rosati.
  2:00 PM  -  3:15 PM	Panel Three: The Intersection of Intellectual Property & Competition Law Confirmed Speakers include: Hiram Andrews, Counsel - Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP Jim Harlan, Director of Standards and Competition Policy - InterDigital Greg Sivinski, Assistant General Counsel - Microsoft Koren Wong-Ervin, Director - Global Antitrust Institute Moderator: Anne Layne-Farrar, Vice President - Charles River Associates
  3:30 PM  -  5:00 PM	Panel Four: Globalization of Cartel Enforcement Confirmed Speakers include: Vinicius Marques de Carvalho, Fmr. President - CADE; current Yale World Fellow Minji Kim, Deputy Director - Korea Fair Trade Commission Bruce McCulloch, Partner - Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP Gary Spratling, Partner - Gibson Dunn John Taladay, Partner - Baker Botts Moderator: The Honorable Douglas H. Ginsburg, Senior Judge - United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; Professor of Law - George Mason University School of Law
  5:00 PM  -  5:10 PM	Closing Remarks
  5:00 PM  -  6:00 PM	Reception Founders Hall Gallery