Joshua D. Wright
George Mason University, Global Antitrust Institute
Professor
Joshua D. Wright is a Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law and holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Economics. From 2013 to 2015, he was one of the five Commissioners of the US Federal Trade Commission. Professor Wright was appointed in 2007 as the inaugural Scholar in Residence at the Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Competition, where he served until Fall 2008. Professor Wright was a Visiting Professor at the University of Texas School of Law and was a Visiting Fellow at the Searle Center at the Northwestern University School of Law during the 2008-09 academic year. He also regularly lectures on economics, empirical methods, and antitrust economics to state and federal judges through the George Mason University Law and Economics Center Judicial Education Program. He received both a J.D. and a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA, where he was managing editor of the UCLA Law Review, and a B.A. in economics with highest departmental honors at the University of California, San Diego. Before coming to George Mason University School of Law, Professor Wright clerked for the Honorable James V. Selna of the Central District of California and taught at the Pepperdine University Graduate School of Public Policy. Professor Wright’s areas of expertise include antitrust law and economics, consumer protection, empirical law and economics, intellectual property and the law and economics of contracts.
Distinctions
Winner, 2019 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, General
Nominee, 2018 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, General Antitrust
Nominee, 2017 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Procedure
Nominee, 2016 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Unilateral Conduct
Nominee, 2015 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, General Antitrust
Nominee, 2013 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, General Antitrust
Nominee, 2012 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Economics
Linked authors
Douglas H. Ginsburg
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (Washington DC)
Laurence Idot
University Paris II Panthéon‑Assas
Bruno Lasserre
French State Council (Paris)
Frédéric Jenny
ESSEC Business School (Cergy)
Mario Monti
Italian Senate
William E. Kovacic
British Competition Authority - CMA (London)
Peter Freeman
UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (London)
Wouter Wils
European Commission (Brussels)
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Videos
Articles
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Comments of U.S. Federal Trade Commissionner Joshua D. Wright and Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg on the Canadian Competition Bureau’s draft updated intellectual property enforcement guidelines* This comment is submitted in response to the Canadian Competition Bureau’s (the Bureau’s) draft stage 2 (...)
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This second roundtable of the conference “New frontiers of Antitrust” (Paris, 21 February 2014) was dedicated to the: “Patents: Can antitrust authorities contribute to fixing the dysfunctional patent system?”. This roundtable acknowledges the fact that there is an increasing number of cases at the (...)
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L’absence de lignes directrices relatives à la Section 5 du Sherman Act a conduit à l’inefficacité de l’action de la Federal Trade Commission en matière de pratiques déloyales. À l’approche de son centième anniversaire, la FTC devrait s’efforcer de poursuivre son objectif de mise en oeuvre d’une (...)
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La Cour suprême des USA a jugé dans l’affaire FTC / Actavis que les accords négociés entre laboratoires pharmaceutiques et génériqueurs au titre des redevances sur brevets (reverse payments) devaient s’analyser au regard de la règle de raison traditionnelle interprétée de manière souple. La décision de (...)
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The beginning of a shift toward a more regulatory and less litigation-oriented regime of antitrust enforcement was observable by the mid-1990s, if not earlier. The transition toward this more bureaucratic approach by antitrust enforcement agencies is the subject of our analysis. Consent decrees (...)
Books
Price
240€00
Douglas H. Ginsburg Liber Amicorum : An Antitrust Professor on the Bench
This first volume of Douglas H. Ginsburg Liber Amicorum gathers original essays that pay tribute to the exceptional career of Judge Ginsburg. Known in the legal community as a “giant in antitrust (...)
Date
1 March 2018
Price
240€00
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130€00
Choice - A New Standard for Competition Law Analysis?
In this book, ten prominent authors offer eleven contributions that provide their varying perspectives on the subject of consumer choice in the EU, Member States, and in the US. Various aspects (...)
Date
20 June 2016
Price
130€00
Price
145€00
Global Antitrust Economics - Issues in Antitrust and Law & Economics
Concurrences Review in partnership with the Global Antitrust Institute of the Law & Economics Center held the Global Antitrust Economics Conference at George Mason University School of Law on (...)
Date
21 March 2016
Price
145€00
Price
215€00
William E. Kovacic: An Antitrust Tribute Liber Amicorum Vol. II
In the wake of William E. Kovacic Liber Amicorum -An Antitrust Tribute - Volume I, this Volume II provides, in the European tradition of Liber Amicorum, 27 contributions from 37 prominent authors (...)
Date
9 September 2014
Price
215€00
Price
180€00
William E. Kovacic: An Antitrust Tribute Liber Amicorum Vol. I
Les États-Unis ne semblent pas avoir développé la tradition du liber amicorum dans le cercle des juristes. Le présent ouvrage est donc un coup d’essai extrêmement réussi, pour ne pas dire “un coup de (...)
Date
12 December 2012
Price
180€00
