Criterion Economics and WilmerHale Sponsor George Mason Law Review's 11th Annual Symposium on Antitrust

October 31, 2007

Criterion Founder J. Gregory Sidak, Chairman Jeffrey Eisenach, and President Hal J. Singer spoke at the George Mason Law Review’s 11th Annual Symposium on Antitrust, held at the J.W. Marriott in Washington, DC. The symposium brought together distinguished enforcement officials, lawyers, academics, and corporate executives to discuss the forefront issues in competition in law and policy.

Featured speakers on the 2007 program included:

• Thomas O. Barnett, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice
• J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission

Panelists, moderators, and discussants on the program included:

• Alden Abbott, Associate Director, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission; Adjunct Professor, George Mason University School of Law
• Dennis Carlton, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice
• Robert W. Crandall, Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, Brookings Institution
• Aaron S. Edlin, Richard Jennings Endowed Chair, Professor of Economics, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley
• Jeffrey A. Eisenach, Chairman, Criterion Economics
• William Kolasky, Partner, WilmerHale
• Frédéric Louis, Partner, WilmerHale
• Douglas Melamed, Partner, WilmerHale
• David L. Meyer, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice
• Mark Popofsky, Partner, Kaye Scholer; Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
• J. Gregory Sidak, Visiting Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
• Hal J. Singer, President, Criterion Economics
• Ronald A. Stern, Vice President and Senior Competition Counsel, General Electric Company
• John Thorne, Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Verizon Communications

To read more about the 11th Annual Symposium on Antitrust, including a full agenda, click here.