William E. Kovacic
United Kingdom’s Competition Authority - CMA (London), George Washington University - School of Law (Washington), King’s College (London)
Professor / Non-Executive Director
Before joining George Washington University Law School in 1999, Professor Kovacic was the George Mason University Foundation Professor at the George Mason University School of Law. From January 2006 to October 2011, he was a member of the Federal Trade Commission and chaired the agency from March 2008 to March 2009. He was the FTC’s General Counsel from June 2001 to December 2004. In 2011 he received the FTC’s Miles W. Kirkpatrick Award for Lifetime Achievement. Since August 2013, Professor Kovacic has served as a Non-Executive Director with the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority. From January 2009 to September 2011, he was Vice-Chair for Outreach for the International Competition Network. He has advised many countries and international organizations on antitrust, consumer protection, government contracts, and the design of regulatory institutions. At GW, Professor Kovacic has taught antitrust, contracts, and government contracts. He is co-editor (with Ariel Ezrachi) of the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement. Professor Kovacic graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University in 1974, and received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1978 where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.
Distinctions
Nominee, 2021 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Cross-border issues
Nominee, 2021 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, General Antitrust
Nominee, 2020 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic Awards, Concerted Practices
Nominee, 2018 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, General Antitrust
Winner, 2017 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, General Antitrust
Nominee, 2016 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, General Antitrust
Nominee, 2015 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, General Antitrust
Linked authors
Louise Aberg
United Kingdom’s Competition Authority - CMA (London)
Simon Albert
United Kingdom’s Competition Authority - CMA (London)
Sue Aspinall
United Kingdom’s Competition Authority - CMA (London)
Donna Attanasio
George Washington University - School of Law (Washington)
Robert Miklós Babirad
King’s College (London)
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In recent years, a significant and growing body of observers has hammered the US antitrust agencies for weak enforcement. In particular, an avalanche of articles, blog posts, books, speeches, and tweets has buried the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) for (...)
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Following the substantive harmonisation in Regulation (EC) no. 1/2003, the Commission has started more recently to focus on procedure and sanctions, and in January 2016, the European Parliament called for penalties against natural persons. This ‘On Topic’ issue looks at the current state of (...)
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This first roundtable of the conference “New frontiers of Antitrust”, Paris, 21 February 2014, was dedicated to the detection of anticompetitive practices. Although competition authorities are provided with significant investigative resources, the discussions goes on about the need to dispose of (...)
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Competition Agencies with Complex Policy Portfolios: Divide or Conquer? David A. Hyman & William E. Kovacic The worldwide adoption of competition law is a remarkable development in economic regulation. More than 120 jurisdictions have enacted competition laws, and roughly 90 of these (...)
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Les lignes directrices de 2010 sur les concentrations horizontales sont l’occasion pour le DOJ et la FTC de réviser et de renforcer le cadre institutionnel de la politique de concurrence américaine. Le bon fonctionnement commun des deux agences fédérales dans l’application et l’explication de ces (...)
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This third roundtable of the conference "New frontiers of Antitrust", Paris, 11 February 2011, was dedicated to the role of consumers associations in competition proceedings. According to William E. Kovacic, Commissioner at the US Federal Trade Commission, competition and consumer protection (...)
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You were appointed as Chairman of the FTC in April 2008. However, the FTC is a well-known administration for you. Indeed, from 1979 to 1983, you served as a staff attorney and as an advisor to one of the FTC’s Commissioner. Later from 2001 until 2004, you served as the General Counsel of the (...)
Books
Price
190€00
Douglas H. Ginsburg Liber Amicorum : An Antitrust Professor on the Bench Vol. II
In this second volume of the Douglas H. Ginsburg Liber Amicorum, the reader will find a series of essays no less brilliant than those in the first. Emphasis is, rightly, placed on Judge (...)
Date
9 December 2020
Price
190€00
Price
120€00
Competition Law on the Global Stage: David Gerber’s Global Competition Law in Perspective
This volume collects selected contributions around the works of Professor David Gerber, a pioneer of global antitrust. Readers will be offered the opportunity to explore the various views on the (...)
Date
11 November 2013
Price
120€00
Global Dictionary of Competition Law
The Global Dictionary of Competition Law is a dictionary dedicated to competition law worldwide, edited by Professors Deborah Healey (University of New South Wales), Bill Kovacic (George (...)
Date
1 January 1900
