David Balto is the Assistant Director of the Office of Policy and Evaluation at the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition. He directs an office of seven senior attorneys that serve as the Commission's "think tank" and "litigation swat team" identifying enforcement initiatives, generating new cases, and evaluating cases for litigation.

Both in that position and as Attorney Advisor to Chairman Robert Pitofsky he has played a critical role in all aspects of the Commission's merger and nonmerger enforcement program during the past several years. He is well respected and recognized as one of the leading antitrust thinkers on a wide variety of subjects, including merger enforcement, electronic commerce, networks, strategic alliances, and joint ventures, and antitrust in deregulated industries. He has played a critical role in most of the Commission's recent litigated cases including its challenges to the Staples/Office Depot and Heinz/Beechnut mergers and the Intel monopolization case. He is a prolific author and a frequent speaker at a wide range of antitrust and business programs.

François Bar

François Bar is Assistant Professor of Communication at Stanford University. He is also Director of Network Research at the Stanford Computer Industry Project (SCIP). Since 1983, he has been a member of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE), at UC Berkeley, where he served as program director for research on telecommunications policy and information networking. He received his Ph.D. in city and regional planning from University of California at Berkeley (1990). He has studied at Harvard's J.F. Kennedy School of Government and he holds a Diplome d'Ingenieur from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chausees (ENPC), Paris, France. Dr. Bar's current research interests include comparative telecommunication policy, as well as economic, strategic and social dimensions of computer networking, new media and the internet. His research has been published in books of collected studies, in policy reports, and in such journals as Telecommunication Policy, Infrastructure Economics and Policy, Communications & Strategies, Reseaux, and the International Journal of Technology Management. His dissertation "Configuring the Telecommunications Infrastructure for the Computer Age: the Economics of Network Control" won the 1989-90 Doctoral Award from the International Center for Information Technologies.

John H. Barton is Professor of Law at Stanford, where he teaches both high technology and international law courses. He is particularly interested in both the international aspects of intellectual property law and the interrelations between intellectual property and antitrust law. He has published extensively in these areas, and has made many presentations on both of them as well as on the Microsoft litigation. He has advised international development agencies on ways to balance intellectual property incentives and public sector funding in the biotechnology area. And he was a consultant to the FTC on the Intel case. He is currently completing a paper on patent-antitrust issues in oligopolies.

Timothy Bresnahan

Timothy Bresnahan is Professor of Economics at Stanford and Director of the Center for Research in Employment and Economic Growth in SIEPR. Previously, he has served as Chief Economist of the Antrust Division of the US Department of Justice and head of the Information Technology in Use research program and of the Stanford Computer Industry Project. His research interests lie in the economics of industry, especially of high-technology industry. Recently, he has been writing on the competition and the structure of the computer and software industries, on the impact of information technology on labor demand and income distribution, and on the implications of entrepreneurship in high tech industries for growth and change. His recent writings on these and other subjects and further contact information can be found at http://www.stanford.edu/~tbres/

Dan L. Burk

Dan L. Burk is an expert in the law of intellectual property and is internationally recognized for his scholarship on cyberlaw and biotechnology. After visiting at the University of Minnesota during the 1999-2000 academic year, Professor Burk joined the University of Minnesota faculty in the Fall of 2000 and was appointed Vance K. Opperman Research Scholar. Professor Burk teaches in the areas of Copyright, Patent, and Biotechnology Law. He is the author of numerous papers on the legal and societal impact of new technologies, including articles on scientific misconduct, on the regulation of biotechnology, and on the intellectual property implications of global computer networks.

Professor Burk holds appointments at both the Law School and the Center for Bioethics, and currently serves as Associate Director to the new Joint Degree Program in Law, Health, and the Life Sciences. He has also been closely involved in the development of the new Internet Studies Center at the University of Minnesota. Prior to his arrival at the University of Minnesota, Professor Burk taught at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. He has taught as a visitor at George Mason University, Cardozo Law School, and the Ohio State University Programme at Oxford, and as a Teaching Fellow at Stanford Law School. He holds a B.S. in Microbiology (1985) from Brigham Young University, an M.S. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry (1987) from Northwestern University, a J.D., cum laude, (1990) from Arizona State University, and a J.S.M. (1994) from Stanford University.

Jim Chen

A member of the University of Minnesota Law School faculty since 1993, Jim Chen teaches and writes in the areas of administrative law, agricultural law, constitutional law, economic regulation, environmental law, industrial policy, and legislation. He was awarded tenure in 1997 and promoted to the rank of full professor in 1999. In 1998 and again in 1999, was honored as a Vance K. Opperman Research Scholar.

Professor Chen received his B.A. degree, summa cum laude, and his M.A. degree from Emory University. After studying as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Iceland, he earned his J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he served as an Executive Editor of the Harvard Law Review. He clerked for Judge J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and for Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court of the United States. Professor Chen's lectures have spanned seven countries, four continents, and three languages. In 1995 he held a chaire départementale in the Faculté de Droit et des Sciences Politiques of the Université de Nantes. In 1999 he became the first American to teach law as a visiting professor at Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf.

Susan Creighton is a member of the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, specializing in antitrust litigation and counseling. Most recently, Ms. Creighton has represented Netscape Communications in connection with antitrust issues raised by its dealings with Microsoft. Ms. Creighton was also one of the lead attorneys in representing Silicon Valley companies in connection with the 1995 consent decree entered against Microsoft. Ms. Creighton has represented VISX, G-Tech, Borland, Synopsys, 3COM, and numerous other companies in connection with antitrust litigation counseling matters. Before joining WSGR, Ms. Creighton was a law clerk for the Hon. Pamela Ann Rymer and then for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. She is a graduate of Harvard University (1981) (Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude) and Stanford Law School (1984) (Order of the Coif). She is a member of the Board of Governors of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers of Northern California; the Board of Visitors for Stanford Law School; and has lectured at Harvard Law School and Stanford Business School on antitrust and intellectual property issues.

Rebecca S. Eisenberg is a graduate of Stanford University and Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was articles editor of the California Law Review. Following law school she served as law clerk for Chief Judge Robert F. Peckham on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and then practiced law as a litigator in San Francisco. She joined the University of Michigan Law School faculty in 1984. Professor Eisenberg regularly teaches courses in intellectual property and torts and has taught courses on legal regulation of science and legal issues in the Human Genome Project. She has written extensively about patent law as applied to biotechnology and the role of intellectual property at the public-private divide in research science, publishing in scientific journals as well as law reviews. She has received grants from the program on Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Biological and Environmental Research for her work on private appropriation and public dissemination of DNA sequence information.

Professor Eisenberg has played an active role in public policy debates concerning the role of intellectual property in biomedical research. In 1996 she chaired a workshop on intellectual property rights and research tools in molecular biology at the National Academy of Sciences, and in 1997-98 she chaired a working group on research tools for the National Institutes of Health. She is a member of the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health and a past member of the Working Group on Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Human Genome Research. Professor Eisenberg is the Robert and Barbara Luciano Professor of Law. During the the 1999-2000 academic year, Professor Eisenberg was a visiting professor at Stanford Law School.

Joseph Farrell is Professor of Economics and Affiliate Professor of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1986. He is also an Affiliate of the Center for Regulatory Policy, the Consortium for Research in Telecommunications, and the Center for Law and Technology. He is an Editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics. During 1996-1997, Professor Farrell served as Chief Economist of the Federal Communications Commission, helping implement the dramatic changes in telecommunications policy and regulation called for by the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Professor Farrell is a former President of the Industrial Organization Society. His research in industrial organization has focused largely, though not exclusively, on issues of standard-setting, competition with network effects, and buyer lock-in.

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Robin Feldman received a B.A. from Stanford University in 1983graduating Phi Beta Kappa. She received a J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1989 graduating Order of the Coif and receiving the Urban A. Sontheimer Award and the Hilmer Oehlmann Jr. Prize. She served as an Article Editor of the Stanford Law Review. Ms. Feldman clerked for the Honorable Joseph Sneed, 9th Circuit United States Court of Appeals and was an associate at Morrison and Foerster. Ms Feldman is currently a Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School. Her article Defensive Leveraging in Antitrust, appeared in the Georgetown Law Journal in 1999.

Richard Gilbert is Professor of Economics and Business Administration at the University of California at Berkeley. From 1993 to 1995 he was the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he led a task force that developed joint Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property. Before serving in the Department of Justice, he was the Director of the University of California Energy Institute and Associate Editor of The Journal of Industrial Economics, The Journal of Economic Theory, and The Review of Industrial Organization. From 1993 until 1994 he was president of The Industrial Organization Society. Professor Gilbert's research specialties are in the areas of antitrust economics, intellectual property, research and development, energy markets, and public utility regulation.

Thomas Jorde is Professor of Law at Boalt Hall Law School, University of California Berkeley. Upon graduating from law school, Professor Jorde clerked for Judge Stanley A. Weigel of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco and for Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court. He then practiced in San Francisco for four years, specializing in litigation. He joined the Boalt faculty in 1978. He served for a year as a Special Assistant to the Director of the Bureau of Competition of the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C. He has also served as Special Master for Judge Thelton Henderson of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco. Jorde is on the Board of Directors of the Brennan Center for Justice. Jorde is the co-author of Antitrust, Innovation, and Competitiveness (1991) and Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age (1997).

Michael L. Katz is the Edward J. and Mollie Arnold Professor of Business Administration at the University of California at Berkeley. He also holds an appointment as professor in the Department of Economics. Dr. Katz is the faculty leader of the Haas Business School's e-business initiatives, and he serves as Director of the Center for Telecommunications and Digital Convergence. He is a four-time finalist for the Earl F. Cheit award for outstanding teaching and has won it twice.

Dr. Katz has published numerous articles on the economics of networks industries, intellectual property licensing, telecommunications policy, and cooperative research and development. He is a co-editor of The California Management Review and serves on the editorial board of The Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. Dr. Katz also serves on the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Katz served as Chief Economist of the Federal Communications Commission from January 1994 through January 1996. He participated in the formulation and analysis of policies toward all industries under Commission jurisdiction, including broadcasting, cable, telephone, and wireless communications.

Dr. Katz holds an A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard University and a D.Phil. from Oxford University. Both degrees are in economics.

Christopher J. Kelly is an attorney in the Washington, DC, office of Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, LLP, a leading international law firm representing public and private companies, governmental entities, financial institutions and other organizations in matters across the country and around the world. Prior to joining Kaye, Scholer, Mr. Kelly was Senior Counsel for Intellectual Property in the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice. In that position, he consulted with Antitrust Division attorneys, and represented the Antitrust Division within the Administration, on issues at the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property law. He advised the Administration's interagency working group formed to coordinate federal policy relating to the Internet Domain Name System, and participated in the Administration's working group on the issue of legal protection for data collection. He has been involved also in the Antitrust Division's analysis of patent pools and cross-licensing issues. During his career with the Antitrust Division, which also included stints in the Division's Civil Task Force, Chicago Field Office, Office of Operations, and Communications & Finance Section, Mr. Kelly investigated and prosecuted antitrust violations in businesses ranging from road building to treasury securities to intellectual property licensing.

Prior to joining the Antitrust Division in 1984, Mr. Kelly clerked with Judge John A. Terry on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. He received his A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1980, and his J.D. from Columbia University in 1983.

Mark Lemley, Professor of Law at Boalt Hall Law School, teaches intellectual property, computer law, patent law, antitrust, electronic commerce and regulation of the Internet and is a Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. He is of counsel to the law firm of Fish & Richardson, where he litigates and counsels clients in the areas of antitrust, intellectual property and computer law. Professor Lemley is the author of five books and over 30 articles on these and related subjects, has taught intellectual property law to federal judges at numerous Federal Judicial Center programs, and has testified before Congress and the Federal Trade Commission on patent and antitrust matters.

Lemley's articles have appeared in the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, the California Law Review, the Texas Law Review, the Duke Law Journal and the Southern California Law Review, as well as in numerous specialty journals. He has chaired or co-chaired a dozen major conferences on intellectual property and computer law, including "Computers, Freedom and Privacy '98," and he was the 1997 Chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Law and Computers.

Professor Lemley clerked for Judge Dorothy Nelson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and practiced law in Silicon Valley with Brown & Bain and with Fish & Richardson before entering law teaching. Before joining the Boalt faculty in January 2000, he was the Marrs McLean Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law.

Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at the Stanford Law School. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. From 1991 to 1997, he was a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1989, and then clerked for Judge Richard Posner of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, and Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, contracts, comparative constitutional law, and the law of cyberspace. His book, Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace, is published by Basic Books. In 1999-2000, he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

Douglas Lichtman is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Chicago School of Law, where his research focuses on the question of how modern technology will challenge, redefine, and reinforce traditional legal principles. Specific areas of interest include the core intellectual property subjects of patent, copyright, and trademark; telecommunications law; antitrust; and a variety of issues related to technology startups and the Internet. Mr. Lichtman joined the law faculty in 1998, coming to Chicago after having completed a year as a Fellow with Yale Law School's Information Society Project. Professor Lichtman has undergraduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, both earned in 1994 from Duke University, and a J.D. from Yale Law School earned in 1997.

Professor Lichtman's current research agenda focuses on the strategic use of intellectual property protections. For example, one project considers the dynamics of markets where one set of firms sells some platform technology such as a computer, video game console, or operating system, while another possibly overlapping set of firms sells peripherals compatible with that platform, for example, computer software or video game cartridges. The paper explains that firms involved in these markets will systematically charge prices that are unprofitably high - that is, these firms would earn greater profits if only they could coordinate to charge lower prices - and shows how current intellectual property protections could be used to bring about that welfare-enhancing outcome.

Professor Lichtman's work has appeared in the Journal of Law and Economics and the Journal of Legal Studies, both peer-reviewed journals. His work has also been featured in the Harvard Business Review and one recent paper will be excerpted in a compilation being published this October by MIT Press. He is a co-author on the forthcoming third edition of Thomas Krattenmaker's Telecommunications Law and Policy, and he has given invited talks at numerous conferences and institutions, including presentations at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Duke, NYU and the University of California at Berkeley.

Christopher T. Marsden is a Reseach Associate at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation and a Law Lecturer at the University of Warwick (UK). He has edited the following collection of essays: "Convergence in European Digital TV Regulation" (Blackstone, London June 1999, with Stefaan Verhulst) and "Regulating the Global Information Society" (Routledge, London, November 2000).

Professor Marsden published refereed articles in 1999 in Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal, Utilities Law Review, Intermedia, and Info. In 2000, he published in Convergence in Communication and Beyond (ed. Erik Bohlin). He has written on competition analysis of European, Australian and US pay-TV with Campbell Cowie, in papers at ITS'98/TPRC98/99/2000, and published as a monograph, and in the inaugural issue of Info, to which he is a regular contributor.

Professor Marsden's research interests are international communications convergence policy and competition law, and multinational investment in information and communications industries. He is founder and co-editor of the electronic Intenational Journal of Communications Law and Policy.

He served in 1999 as an expert consultant to the Council of Europe MM-S-PL Committee on digital media pluralism. The report was published as MM-S-PL 1999-12 Final: "Pluralism in the Multi-channel Market: Suggestions for Regulatory Scrutiny." He is co-author of a consultant's report for the UK ESRC Globalisation Centre entitled "Information technology and globalisation to 2005," forthcoming in March 2000.

A frequent speaker at international communications events, he was moderator to the panel "Global Convergence" at Telecom'99 in Geneva on October 11, 1999. Professor Marsden recently presented papers in Switzerland, Sweden, Belgium, Germany, the United States, Australia and the UK. He is advisory board member to GAP21 and the animal rights charity Virunga.
 

Professor David McGowan teaches and writes in the areas of securities regulation, contracts, corporations, and the intersection of antitrust law and intellectual property. His current research interests include theories of collective behavior, such as network economic theory, the role of organizational analysis in assessing legal problems, the changing nature of the legal profession, and legal history.

Professor McGowan received his B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1986 and his J.D. from the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, in 1990. At Boalt he was a member of the Order of the Coif, recipient of the prize for best student publication, and an Associate Editor of the California Law Review. Professor McGowan served as law clerk to the Hon. A. Raymond Randolph of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit during the 1990 Term. After clerking, he practiced in the fields of securities and antitrust litigation and counseling for Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom from 1991-1994; he practiced as an associate and later a Director of Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin from 1994-1998. From 1995-1998 Professor McGowan was a lecturer at Boalt Hall, teaching corporations and corporate control transactions.

Peter Menell is a Professor of Law at Boalt Hall, and the Executive Director and co-founder of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. After graduating from law school, Peter Menell clerked for Judge Jon O. Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He joined the Boalt faculty in 1990 and has visited at the Georgetown University Law Center, Harvard Law School and Stanford Law School. Professor Menell has published Environmental Law and Policy (with Richard Stewart, 1994); Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age (with Robert Merges and Mark Lemley, 1997, 2nd ed., 2000); Property Law and Policy (with John Dwyer, 1997); and Software and Internet Law (with Mark Lemley, Robert Merges and Pamela Samuelson, 2000). He supervises the Annual Review of Law and Technology (published by the Berkeley Technology Law Journal) and the Annual Review of Environmental and Natural Resource Law (published by the Ecology Law Quarterly). Menell's recent articles include "Intellectual Property: General Theories," in the Encyclopedia of Law & Economics (forthcoming 2000); "An Epitaph for Traditional Copyright Protection of Network Features of Computer Software," in the Antitrust Bulletin (1998); and "Regulation of Toxic Substances," in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law (1998).

Jay Monahan is Associate General Counsel, Intellectual Property for eBay Inc., the leading internet on-line trading community. He manages worldwide intellectual property matters for the company, including the Verified Rights Owner (VeRO) Program (infringing items), copyright, patent and trademark prosecutions, domain registrations and enforcement, and other IP enforcement matters, spam, and litigation concerning unauthorized robots and other access to the eBay site. Prior to joining eBay, Mr. Monahan was Vice President, Worldwide Anti-Piracy for Walt Disney Pictures & Television (1993-99). He also has been a high technology IP litigator with Brown & Bain in Palo Alto, California, and a general litigator with the Los Angeles office of Morrison & Foerster. He is a 1987 graduate of the University of California, Hastings College of Law, where he has Editor-in-Chief of COMM/ENT, The Hastings Journal of Communications and Entertainment Law, and attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1981. Mr. is a frequent speaker at seminars concerning the Internet and intellectual property matters.

Maureen O'Rourke is a Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law where she teaches courses on Commercial Law and Intellectual Property. Her research interests include defining the relationship between the public law of intellectual property and the private law of contract, considering how antitrust law should or should not affect the scope of intellectual property rights and intellectual property rights on the Internet. Her work on these topics has been published in the Duke Law Journal, Minnesota Law Review, Berkeley Technology Law Journal and other publications. Prior to arriving at B.U., Professor O'Rourke was employed as an attorney by IBM Corp. Her responsibilities there included software licensing and working on antitrust litigation involving the Open Software Foundation. Professor O'Rourke is a 1990 graduate of Yale Law School and a 1985 graduate of Marist College with B.S. degrees in Accounting and Computer Science.

William H. Page, a native of New Orleans, graduated summa cum laude in 1975 from the University of New Mexico Law School and received an LL.M. in 1979 from the University of Chicago. He was a trial attorney with the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice. He has taught at Boston University School of Law and at Mississippi College School of Law, where he was the J. Will Young Professor. This year, he joined the faculty of the University of Florida, Levin College of Law, where is the Marshall M. Criser Eminent Scholar. He has authored numerous articles in antitrust law and has recently joined Joseph Bauer in revising and supplementing the Kintner treatise on Federal Antitrust Law.

Robert Pitofsky was sworn in as Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission on April 12, 1995. He is the FTC's 54th Chairman since it opened its doors in March 1915. At the time he was nominated by President Clinton to chair the FTC, Mr. Pitofsky was a Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center and Of Counsel to the Washington, D.C. law firm of Arnold & Porter. He also has held the positions of Commissioner (1978-1981) and Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection (1970-1973) at the FTC. Mr. Pitofsky chaired the Defense Science Board Task Force on Antitrust Aspects of Defense Industry Downsizing in 1994, has been a member of the Council of the Administrative Conference, the Board of Governors of the D.C. Bar Association, and the Council of the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association. In addition, he has been Dean of the Georgetown University Law Center, a professor at New York University School of Law and Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Mr. Pitofsky's publications include legal casebooks on both trade regulation and antitrust law. He received a bachelor of arts degree from New York University and an L.L.B. from Columbia School of Law.

Arti Rai is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Sand Diego School of Law. Professor Rai attended Harvard Medical School before focusing on the law. She served as executive editor of Harvard University’s Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, and clerked for Judge Marilyn Hall Patel of the U.S. District Court. She was an associate at the Washington, D.C., office of Jenner and Block, as well as an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice in the Federal Programs Branch. Professor Rai has taught health law at the University of Chicago Law School and was a Faculty Fellow at Harvard University’s Program in Ethics and the Professions. Professor Rai joined the USD faculty in 1997. She teaches and writes in the areas of intellectual property, biotechnology and the law, and health care regulation. She is the author of "Rationing Through Choice: A New Approach to Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care" (Indiana Law Journal) and various other law and medical journal articles. She is a co-author of Law and the Mental Health System (West Publishing Co.) and serves on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of Law and Medicine.

Daniel Rubinfeld is the Robert L. Bridges Professor of Law at Boalt Hall School of Law. Professor Rubinfeld taught economics and law at the University of Michigan before joining the Boalt faculty in 1983. He was chair of the Jurisprudence and Social Policy (JSP) program from 1987 to 1990 and was the associate dean and chair of the JSP program from 1998 to 2000.

He was on leave from June 1997 to December 1998, serving as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust in the U.S. Department of Justice. He has also served in various capacities with the President's Council of Economic Advisors, the National Academy of Sciences, the Urban Institute, and the National Bureau of Economic Research.

From 1992 to 1993 he was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and in 1994 he received a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship. He was a visiting professor at New York University School of Law in 1999 and in 2000. Professor Rubinfeld's major books include Econometric Models and Economic Forecasts and Microeconomics. Recent publications include "Federalism," in The Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (1999); "Antitrust Enforcement in Dynamic Network Industries," in The Antitrust Bulletin (1998); "Empirical Methods in Antitrust: Review and Evidence," in American Law and Economics Review (with Jonathan B. Baker, 1999); and "Making Sense of the Antitrust State Action Doctrine: Balancing Political Participation and Economics Efficiency in Regulatory Federalism," in the Texas Law Review (with Robert Inman, 1997). He is the coeditor of the International Review of Law and Economics and is currently working on a book on the political economy of federalism with Robert Inman from the Wharton School of Business.

Pamela Samuelson

Pamela Samuelson is a Professor at the University of California at Berkeley with a joint appointment in the School of Information Management & Systems as well as in the School of Law where she is Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. She has written and spoken extensively about the challenges that new information technologies pose for traditional legal regimes, especially for intellectual property law.

In June of 1997 she was named a Fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She has also been a Public Policy Fellow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery. In March of 1998, the National Law Journal named her as one of the fifty most outstanding women lawyers in the U.S. She is also a member of the American Law Institute and of the Board of Directors for the Northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. As a Contributing Editor of the computing professionals' journal, Communications of the ACM, she writes a regular "Legally Speaking" column.

A 1976 graduate of Yale Law School, she practiced law as an associate with the New York law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher before turning to more academic pursuits. From 1981 through June 1996 she was a member of the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh Law School, from which she visited at Columbia, Cornell, and Emory Law Schools.

Marc Schildkraut is a partner at the law firm of Howrey Simon Arnold & White. Since October 1993, Mr. Schildkraut has specialized in mergers and antitrust litigation. Among many other mergers, he was responsible for clearances for the BP/Amoco merger, the Boeing/McDonnell Douglas merger, and the Texaco/Shell joint venture. His antitrust litigations include Intergraph v. Intel, where Mr. Schildkraut’s represented Intel in oral arguments before the Federal Circuit concerning the interface between antitrust and intellectual property law. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Schildkraut spent 17 years at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, where he was an Assistant Director, responsible for the FTC’s antitrust programs covering high technology industries, energy, chemicals and food.

Suzanne Scotchmer is a Professor of Public Policy and a Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley. Professor Scotchmer has eclectic academic interests that range from legal issues such as intellectual property protection and rules of evidence in criminal trials to evolutionary game theory. She has also written on the process of jurisdiction formation, tax enforcement, and antitrust issues. She is currently on the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Public Economics, and Regional Science and Urban Economics, and previously, the American Economic Review. She has been Visiting Professor of Economics at the new School of Economics in Moscow, Russia, and at Université de Paris I (Sorbonne), and the Distinguished Olin Visiting Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Toronto. Scotchmer's academic career has been entirely at Berkeley, including her graduate degrees in economics and statistics, except for lapses when she was Associate Professor of Economics at Harvard University, Hoover National Fellow at Stanford University, and Olin Fellow at the Yale Law School. She is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Carl Shapiro is the Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. He also is Director of the Institute of Business and Economic Research, and Professor of Economics in the Economics Department, at UC Berkeley. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics at M.I.T. in 1981 and taught at Princeton University during the 1980s. He has been Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

Professor Shapiro has published extensively in the areas of industrial organization, competition policy, the economics of innovation, and competitive strategy. His current research interests include antitrust economics, intellectual property and licensing, product standards and compatibility, and the economics of networks and interconnection.

Professor Shapiro served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice during 1995-1996. He is a founder of the Tilden Group, an economics consulting company. He has consulted extensively for a wide range of private clients as well as for the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission.

Professor Shapiro has recently completed a book with Hal R. Varian, Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy, published by the Harvard Business School Press.

Howard Shelanski

Howard Shelanski is an Acting Professor of Law at Boalt Hall. Professor Shelanski graduated from Boalt in 1992 and received his Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley the following year. While a student at Boalt he was a Senior Articles Editor of the California Law Review. He is a member of the Order of the Coif and received Boalt's Thelen-Marrin Prize for legal scholarship. After graduating from Boalt he clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Judge Louis Pollak, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and Justice Antonin Scalia, U.S. Supreme Court. Before joining the Boalt faculty, he was an associate with the Washington, D.C. firm of Kellogg Huber Hansen Todd & Evans.

Professor Shelanski's research focuses on telecommunications law, regulation, and antitrust. His recent articles include: "Administrative Creation of Property Rights to Radio Spectrum," (with Peter Huber); "Video Competition and the Public-Interest Debate;" "The Bending Line Between Conventional Broadcast and Wireless Carriage;" and "A Review of Extraterritorial Applications of U.S. and E.C. Antitrust Laws: Comparisons and Limitations" (with Astrid Becker-Celik).

Professor Shelanski has served Senior Economist to the President's Council of Economic Advisors in Washington D.C., as well as Chief Economist at the Federal Communications Commission.

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Debra Valentine is the Federal Trade Commission's first female General Counsel. As General Counsel, she advises the Commission on the full range of competition and consumer protection issues within the agency's jurisdiction. She oversees all appellate and defensive litigation, as well as personnel and procurement proceedings, assists the Bureaus of Competition and Consumer Protection in district court actions, and advises the Commission on congressional and external relations.

Before her tenure as General Counsel, she was the Commission's Assistant Director for International Antitrust where she oversaw the FTC staff's dealings with competition authorities around the world and represented the agency in multilateral organizations such as the WTO, APEC and the OECD. Ms. Valentine joined the Federal Trade Commission in May 1995 as Deputy Director for Policy Planning. In that position, she coordinated the FTC hearings on global and innovation-based competition and played a substantial role in drafting the report on Competition Policy in the High-Tech, Global Marketplace. Ms. Valentine also was a major drafter of the revisions to the efficiencies section of the DOJ-FTC Horizontal Merger Guidelines, issued in April 1997.

Before coming to the Commission, Ms. Valentine was a partner at O'Melveny & Myers, where she specialized in complex civil litigation and regulatory matters. Her antitrust representations included serving as counsel to Lockheed in the Lockheed-Martin Marietta merger; counsel to United Air Lines in the airlines antitrust litigation, which involved investigations by the DOJ and state attorneys general as well as over forty class action filings; and counsel to CIGNA in federal and state lawsuits that the state attorneys general brought against the insurance industry and which resulted in the 1993 Supreme Court decision in Hartford Fire Insurance Co. v. California.

Ms. Valentine also had an active appellate practice, often involving constitutional issues, for clients as diverse as The Ford Motor Company, Dow Corning, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority and the judges of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. While at O'Melveny, Ms. Valentine served as a consultant to the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on South Africa and was a member of the Advisory Council to the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies for its Project on Children and TV Violence for The Pew Charitable Trusts. She also was the pro bono coordinator for the Washington, D.C. office.

Before her private practice, Ms. Valentine was an attorney-advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel of the Department of Justice from 1981 to early 1985. There she provided advice to the Attorney General and the President on constitutional issues and high-level disputes between heads of executive departments or agencies.

Ms. Valentine graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University in 1976, spent a year in Munich, Germany as a Fulbright Scholar, and went to Yale Law School, where she was an Editor on the Yale Law Journal. She clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit before coming to Washington, D.C.

Currently, Ms. Valentine is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Law Institute, and is an advisory member of the Board of Directors of The Washington Ballet. She is a member of the antitrust and international sections of the ABA and District of Columbia Bar and serves as Co-Chair of the antitrust section's Committee on International Antitrust and Foreign Competition Laws.

Hal R. Varian is the Dean of the School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS) at the University of California at Berkeley. He is also a Professor in the Haas School of Business, a Professor in the Department of Economics, and holds the Class of 1944 Professorship. He has taught at MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Michigan and other universities around the world.

Professor Varian is fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the Econometric Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served as Co-Editor of the American Economic Review and is currently on the editorial boards of several journals.

Professor Varian has published numerous papers in economic theory, industrial organization, financial economics, econometrics and information economics. He is the author of two major economics textbooks which have been translated into nine languages. His recent work has been concerned with the economics of information technology and the information economy.

He received his S.B. degree from MIT in 1969 and his MA in mathematics and Ph.D. in economics from U.C. Berkeley in 1973.

Peter Wald is a partner in the San Francisco office of Latham & Watkins, and is Chair of Latham’s Bay Area Litigation Department. He has extensive trial and appellate experience in complex commercial cases, including antitrust, securities, intellectual property, professional liability, financial services, partnership, and insurance coverage matters. Mr. Wald also has extensive experience in intellectual property matters, having represented video game manufacturers in patent, copyright, and trademark litigation, and computer and entertainment companies in trade secrets disputes.

Mr. Wald has appeared in the United States Supreme Court, and in the United States Courts of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Federal Circuit in ALCOA v. Central Lincoln Peoples’ Utility District, 467 U.S. 380 (1984); Govett American Endeavour Fund Ltd. v. Trueger, 112 F.3d 1017 (9th Cir. 1997); City of San Jose v. Price Waterhouse, 950 F.2d 1256 (9th Cir. 1993); Louisiana-Pacific Corp. v. Asarco, Inc., 1993 W.L. 370506 (9th Cir. 1993); Atari Games Corp. v. Nintendo, 974 F.2d 832 (Fed. Cir. 1992); and Bristow v. WCI, 905 F.2d 1540 (9th Cir. 1990). Mr. Wald served as law clerk to the Honorable James R. Browning, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1977-78.

Dr. Woroch is presently Visiting Professor of Economics and Executive Director of the Consortium for Research on Telecommunications Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. After receiving an M.A. in Statistics and a Ph.D. in Economics from Berkeley, he joined the economics faculty at the University of Rochester. Subsequently, as a research economist at GTE Laboratories, he managed several projects related to regulatory reform and emerging competition in local exchange markets. Returning to California, Dr. Woroch taught briefly at Stanford University before taking up his current positions at Berkeley.

Dr. Woroch's current research examines the incentives for and consequences of entry into network industries, and regulatory policy and corporate strategy toward deregulated telecommunications markets. His research also investigates the efficient protection of intellectual property and the competitive and welfare effects of exclusionary practices of dominant firms especially in high tech and network industries.

Dr. Woroch is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Regulatory Economics and the board of directors of the International Telecommunications Society. He has served as an advisor to government agencies and industry committees, and regularly consults to private companies and testifies on regulatory, antitrust and intellectual property matters.

For a detailed curriculum vitae and research publications, please visit Dr. Woroch's website