Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law
Competition: Spring 2021, Vol 31, No. 1
Content
- A Conversation About Diversity, Racism and Equality In the Legal Profession
- A Conversation With California Supreme Court Justice Joshua P. Groban
- Antitrust Analysis of Frand Licensing Post-ftc v. Qualcomm
- Big Antitrust Trial: Newyork v. Deutsche Telekom Ag (S.D.N.Y.)
- Chair's Column
- Damage Methodology Trends Within False Advertising and Product Defect Class Actions
- Diversity and Inclusion In the Legal Profession: a Missed Opportunity For the Antitrust Practice
- Editor's Notes
- Masthead
- Recent Developments In California Competition and Privacy Law
- Recent Developments In Federal Antitrust Law
- The Correlation Between Antitrust Enforcement and Gender Equality
- Perspectives On the Role of Antitrust Law In Social Justice
PERSPECTIVES ON THE ROLE OF ANTITRUST LAW IN SOCIAL JUSTICE
By Mandy Chan1
The proper role of antitrust law within the context of social and economic justice reform has been debated since the inception of the Sherman Act and related laws. In this discussion, two leading experts, Professor Douglas Melamed and Sandeep Vaheesan, debate the proper role of antitrust in wealth distribution, discuss antitrust’s historical and political context, and comment on its future role as part of the modern social justice movement.
PANELISTS
Professor A. Douglas Melamed teaches at Stanford Law School. He was the Herman Phleger Visiting Professor in 2014, and appointed as a Professor of the Practice of Law in 2015. From 2009 to 2014, Professor Melamed served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Intel Corporation. Prior to joining Intel, he was a partner at WilmerHale’s Washington, D.C. office and chaired the Antitrust and Competition Practice Group. From 1996 to 2001, Professor Melamed served in the U.S. Department of Justice as Acting Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division and, before that, as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General. Professor Melamed has received numerous professional awards and honors. He has been the Distinguished Visitor from Practice and an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, and he has authored numerous articles on antitrust, and on law and economics. He is a member of the boards of directors of the Nasdaq exchanges and the American Law Institute and a Contributing Editor of the Antitrust Law Journal.