The Limits of Antitrust Revisited

3 November 2009 at 10:10 am Dick Langlois Leave a comment

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I also just returned from an interesting conference, this one at the Searle Center at Northwestern Law School. The topic was the 25th anniversary of Frank Easterbrook’s 1984 paper “The Limits of Antitrust.” Here’s the agenda. I don’t think the papers are all available online, but the plan is to publish them eventually.

Thursday, October 29th

Welcome and Introduction

Henry N. Butler, Executive Director, Searle Center on Law, Regulation and Economic Growth

Opening Remarks: “The Limits of Antitrust” and the Chicago School Tradition, George Priest, Yale Law School

Session One – Easterbrook on Errors, Fred S. McChesney, Class of 1967 James B. Haddad Professor of Law, Northwestern Law

Session Two – The Limits of Antitrust in the New Economy, Joshua D. Wright, George Mason University School of Law, and Geoffrey A. Manne, Lewis & Clark Law School and ICLE .

Dinner Keynote Address: Ronald A. Cass, Dean Emeritus, Boston University School of Law.

Friday, October 30th

Session Three – The Limits To Simplifying the Application of Current U.S. Antitrust Law, Richard S. Markovits, John B. Connally Chair, University of Texas at Austin, School of Law.

Session Four – Microsoft and the Limits of Antitrust, William H. Page, Marshall M. Criser Eminent Scholar, University of Florida, Levin College of Law.

Closing Remarks: Hon. Frank H. Easterbrook, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.