UPCOMING EVENTS

Jan. 26, 2024 | “Antitrust Law and Democratic Capitalism: What the Historical Meanings of Market Power Reveal about the Antitrust - Democracy Nexus” 2024 Next Generation of Antitrust, Data Privacy & Data Protection Scholars Conference, New York University School of Law

March 6, 2024 | Presentation TBA, “Competition Law in Service of Democracy,” University of Oxford, Centre for Competition Law and Policy, Oxford, UK

March 14-16, 2024 | Antitrust’s Political Economy,” Business History Conference, Providence, RI

April 3-5, 2024 | “Antitrust Law and Democratic Capitalism,” Stanford University Law School, Legal History Workshop

PAST EVENTS | *BY INVITATION

Book Talk, American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the “New Competition,” 1890-1940, UGA School of Law, Board of Visitors meeting (Nov. 11, 2023).

Interview with L’Obs (Paris, France) “Procès antitrust de Google : l’Amérique contre la Big Tech” (“Google Antitrust Lawsuit: America versus Big Tech”) by Sarah Halifa-Legrand (Oct. 24, 2023).

Discussant, The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise, by Richard N. Langlois, Penn Economic History Forum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (September 29, 2023).*

Discussant, “The Law of Geographic Labor Market Inequality,” by Hiba Hafiz, at the 23rd Annual Loyola Antitrust Colloquium, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Chicago, IL (Apr. 2023).*

Discussant, “Antimonopoly in the Long Twentieth Century,” Business History Conference, Detroit, MI (Mar. 2023).

“Antitrust’s Political Economy: The Shifting Law and Economics of Market Power,” at the “Capitalism and Democracy” conference, University of Virginia, Miller Center for Public Affairs, Charlottesville, VA (Mar. 2023).*

“Jurisdiction Beyond Our Borders: United States v. Alcoa and the Extraterritorial Reach of American Antitrust, 1909–1945,” American Society for Legal History, Chicago, IL (Nov. 2022).

Roundtable, “Business elites and the organization of capitalism 1890-1945: creators of democracy, captains of industry or extractors of value?” World Economic History Congress, Paris, France (July 2022).*

Roundtable, “Anti-Monopoly Past and Present” (with Richard John, Gerald Berk, Barry Lynn, and Matthew Stoller) Policy History Conference (June 2022).

“Antitrust and American Democracy: U.S. v. Alcoa and the Creation of Extraterritorial Antitrust,” Cambridge University and University Southern California’s Gould School of Law, Competition Policy Workshop (June 8, 2022).*

“Restructuring American Antitrust Law: Institutionalist Economics and the Antitrust Labor Immunity, 1890-1940s,” University of Chicago Law Review Symposium, “Labor Market Power and the Law,” May 2022.*

“Regulating Competition Abroad: United States v. Alcoa and the Extraterritorial Reach of American Antitrust, 1909–1945,” Business History Conference, Mexico City, MX, April 2022.

Roundtable, “Business History Roundtable: Business Historians on the New Brandeis Movement and the Uses of History” (with Professors Ed Balleisen, Herbert Hovenkamp, Richard John, and Naomi Lamoreaux), American Historical Association (Feb. 2022).*

“Alcoa and the Creation of Extraterritorial Antitrust,” University of Utah, Eccles Business School (Feb. 10, 2022).*

Roundtable, “SEC NIL Conversation Series: Alston and Antitrust,” with Professors Gary Myers and Thom Lambert (Feb. 2, 2022).*

Roundtable, “Myths and Facts: The Progressive Era and Populist Expressions of Antitrust,” with Professors Herbert Hovenkamp, Naomi Lamoreaux, and Barach Orbach; coordinated by D. Daniel Sokol, University of Southern California, Gould School of Law Center for Transnational Law & Economics (Nov. 9, 2021).*

Roundtable, preconference event “Regulation and Administration in American Life: Legal Historical Perspectives” at the American Society for Legal History, New Orleans, LA (Nov. 4, 2021).*

“An Introduction to the Case Method,” UGA Terry College MBA Orientation, Aug. 2021. Additionally, taught the entering class’s first HBS case, “Three Problems in Protecting Competition,” by Ben Edelman. *

“U.S. v. Alcoa and Extraterritorial Antitrust,” UGA-Emory Law Summer Workshop (July 2021).*

“Antitrust and American Democracy: Reviving the Antimonopoly Tradition during the Great Depression and World War II,” American Economic Liberties Project, Washington, D.C. (June 2021).

“Jurisdiction Beyond Our Borders: U.S. v. Alcoa and Extraterritorial Antitrust, 1909-1945,” U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, May 6, 2021.

Discussant, “Competition, Cartels, and Monopolies” panel, Business History Conference, March 12, 2021.

“Jurisdiction Beyond Our Borders: U.S. v. Alcoa and Extraterritorial Antitrust, 1909-1945,” Tobin Project edited collection on American Antitrust & Democracy, ed. William Novak and Daniel Crane, Dec. 2020.

“The Curse of Bigness?: American Antitrust, Then and Now,” UGA Economics Society, Oct. 22, 2020.

VIDEO LINK: Interview with Wall Street Journal, “Justice Department to Sue Google for Alleged Anticompetitive Conduct,” Oct. 22, 2020.

PODCAST LINK: Book Talk at Hagley Museum and Library (podcast), Aug. 21, 2020.

“An Introduction to the Case Method,” UGA Terry College MBA Orientation, Aug. 17, 2020.

“Jurisdiction Beyond Our Borders: The Long Road to U.S. v. Alcoa and Extraterritorial Antitrust, 1909-1945” Tobin Project conference on Antitrust and American Democracy, June 2020.

Comment, “Framing the Chicago School of Antitrust Analysis,” by Herbert Hovenkamp and Fiona Scott-Morton, “The Post-Chicago Antitrust Revolution,” University of Pennsylvania Law School, Oct. 2019.

“Unconventional Enforcement: Clarence Venner’s Shareholder Suits Against the Board and the Problem of Extortionate Litigation, 1900-1920,” Harvard Business School, May 10, 2019.

“Voting Trusts and Antitrust: Rethinking the Role of State Corporation Law in Competition Policy,” co-authored with Naomi Lamoreaux, Newberry Library “History of Capitalism” seminar series, Oct. 5, 2018.

Roundtable, “Author Meets Reader” review of American Fair Trade. Comments on the book from Professors Benjamin Waterhouse, Joanna Grisinger, Victoria Saker Woeste, and Elizabeth Sanders, Policy History Conference, May 18, 2018.

“Democratic Protest in an Age of Market Consolidation: A Case Study on the Chicago Gas Trust and the Illinois Antitrust Act of 1891” Tobin Project conference on American Democracy, June 4, 2017. (in abesentia, on maternity leave)

Comment, “Civilizations, Business Cultures, and Institutions,” with Naomi Lamoreaux, Andrew Popp, Louis Galambos presenting, Business History Conference, March 2016. (Invited by Professor Louis Galambos.) (declined, on maternity leave)

Comment, “Private Power, Public Values: Regulating ‘Social Infrastructure’ in a Changing Economy” by K. Sabeel Rahman, at Revisiting the Public Utility: A Research Roundtable, Vanderbilt Law School, Feb. 24, 2017.

Comment, “The Economic, Incentives, Rationality,” Historicizing “the Economy” Conference, Harvard University, Sept. 2016.

“Gilded Age Political Economy,” Brown University, April 2014. (Invited by Professor James Morone.)

“Institutionalist Economics and Managed Competition, 1920-1940,” University of Michigan Law School, Legal History Workshop, Nov. 2013. (Invited by Professor William Novak.)

“The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Creation of the Modern Administrative State: Codes of Fair Competition, Institutional Economics, and the State, 1912-1938,” Hagley Museum Conference, “Business and Politics in the Twentieth Century,” Wilmington, DE, Nov. 2013.

“The Political Uses of Economics Ideas: Institutionalist Economics and Managed Competition, 1920-1940,” Harvard Business School Conference, New Perspectives in the History of Political Economy, Boston, MA, Nov. 2013.

Discussant, “Understanding the Dynamics of Political-Economic Change in the 1930s and 1940s,” Business History Conference, Columbus, OH, March 2013.

“The Fair Trade Experiment in California: Popular Constitutionalism, Federalism, and Antitrust, 1929-1937,” American Society for Legal History, St. Louis, MO, Nov. 2012. (Invited by Professor Tony Freyer.)

“Edna Gleason and the Business of Fair Trade,” Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise at The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, May 2012. (Invited by Professor Louis Galambos.)

“The Fair Trade Experiment in California: Edna Gleason and the Druggists’ Campaign, 1929-1933,” Business History Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 2012. (Invited and sponsored by the German Historical Institute, D.C.)

“Exploring American Fair Trade: The Hagley Archive’s Seagram Collection and U.S. Chamber of Commerce Records – Contracts, Negotiations, and Price Management, 1910-1940,” Hagley Museum and Archive, Wilmington, DE, Nov. 3, 2010. (Invited by Professor Roger Horowitz.)

“The Economics and Ideology of American Fair Trade: The Federal Trade Commission and Institutionalist Economics, 1911-1925,” Workshop on Heterodox Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, April 2011. (Declined.)

PAST EVENTS | CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS

“Voting Trusts and Antitrust in Illinois: Rethinking the Role of State Corporation Law in Competition Policy,” co-authored with Naomi Lamoreaux, Harvard Business School Regulatory History Conference, Boston, MA, June 2018.*
* I organized this one-day HBS conference with Professor Herbert Hovenkamp (University of Pennsylvania Law School and Wharton) and it became the basis for the Business History Review special issue (winter 2019).

“Antitrust and Voting Trusts in Illinois: Rethinking the Role of State Corporation Law in Competition Policy,” co-authored with Naomi Lamoreaux, Business History Conference, Laura Phillips Sawyer, Ph.D. 8 Baltimore, MD, March 2018.

“Institutional Economics and Managed Competition: US Antitrust, Economics and Law in the Progressive Era, 1911-1929,” U.S. Intellectual History Conference, Washington, DC, Oct. 2015.

“The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and State-Building: Trade Associations, Antitrust Reform, and the Administrative State, 1912-1925,” Business History Conference, Miami, FL, June 2015.

“Institutional Economics and Managed Competition: US Antitrust, Economics and Law in the Long Progressive Era,” American Society for Legal History, Denver, CO, Nov. 2014.

“Managing American Competition: Trade Associations and the Growth of the Administrative State, 1911-1932,” Policy History Conference, Columbus, OH, June 2014.

“Institutionalist Economics and Managed Competition: The U.S. Experiment with a Coordinated Market Economy, 1920-1940,” Business History Conference, Frankfurt, Germany, March 2014.

“American Institutional Economics in the Interwar Period: John R. Commons and ‘New Competition’ in Policy-Making,” Power and History of Capitalism Conference, New York City, April 2011.

“The Economics and Ideology of American Fair Trade: Louis Brandeis, Herbert Hoover, and Open Price Associations, 1911-1925,” Business History Conference, Columbus, OH, April 2011.

“The American Pharmacist in the New Deal: The Robinson-Patman and Miller-Tydings Acts,” Institute for the History of Pharmacy, Madison, WI, Oct. 2010.

“Organization and Ethics: Edna Gleason’s Fair Trade Mission in California, 1900-1940,” Organization of American Historians Conference, Washington, DC, April 2010. Organized panel, “U.S. Price Stabilization and Citizen-Consumer Associations in the 20th Century.”

WORKSHOP: “New Fiscal Sociology,” coordinated by Isaac Martin, Ajay Mehrotra, and Monica Prasad, Social Science History Association conference, Long Beach, CA, Nov. 2009. Grant provided by the National Science Foundation.

“A Crisis in Economic Thought and the Rise of the Fair Trade Controversy: Changing Business Fashions, 1880-1914,” Business History Conference, Milan, Italy, June 2009.

DISSERTATION WORKSHOP: “The American Fair Trade Controversy,” Oxford Journals Dissertation Colloquium in Business History, at the Business History Conference, Milan, Italy, June 2009.

“Fair Trade Policy in America, 1890-1940: Interest Groups, Federalism, and the Origins of the Miller-Tydings Act,” Policy History Conference, St. Louis, MO, June 2008.