Past Events

CALIF | An Evening with the DOJ Antitrust Division

2/21/2023
6:00:00 PM to 7:00:00 PM
401 E. Peltason Drive, Suite 1000, Irvine, CA 92697-8000

The UCI Competition, Antitrust Law and Innovation Forum (CALIF) welcomes Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter with panelists from the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division to discuss antitrust priorities and the future of antitrust enforcement.

Panelists include:

• Maggie Goodlander, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Appellate, International, and Policy
• Hetal Doshi, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Litigation
• Scott McAbee, Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General

Host and Moderator: Christopher Leslie, Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Director, CALIF

This event is approved for 1.0 hour of Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California. UCI Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.

Competition, Antitrust Law, and Innovation Forum | Antitrust Scholars Roundtable

11/18/2022
10:30:00 AM to 3:30:00 PM
401 E. Peltason Drive, Suite 1000, Irvine, CA 92697-8000

Top antitrust scholars will present their work in progress.

Schedule:
10:30–11:30 a.m.: Christopher Leslie, UCI School of Law
"Bank Mergers and Racism"

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Sean P. Sullivan, Iowa College of Law
"Antitrust Time Travel: Entry & Potential Competition" (co-authored with Henry Su)

1:30–2:30 p.m.: Erika M. Douglas, Temple University Beasley School of Law
"What is Privacy--To Antitrust Law?"

2:30–3:30 p.m.: Barak Orbach, The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
"What's a Fair Price for Competition?"

4.0 hours of MCLE credit pending approval by the State Bar of California. UCI School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.

Competition, Antitrust Law, and Innovation Forum | Antitrust Scholars Roundtable

11/4/2022
10:30:00 AM to 3:30:00 PM
401 E. Peltason Drive, Suite 1000, Irvine, CA 92697-8000

Top antitrust scholars will present their work in progress.

Schedule:
10:30–11:30 a.m.: Christopher Leslie, UCI School of Law
"Horizontal Price Exchanges" (co-authored with Joseph Harrington, Jr. (University of Pennsylvania Wharton School))

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Joshua Davis, UC Hastings School of Law
"Law in the Books Versus Law in Action: How Federal Courts Really Award Attorney’s Fees in Antitrust Class Actions"

1:30–2:30 p.m.: Hiba Hafiz, Boston College Law School
"Regulating Rural and Distressed Labor Markets"

2:30–3:30 p.m.: D. Daniel Sokol, USC Gould School of Law
"Cookie Intermediates: Does Competition Leads to More Privacy? Evidence from the Online Digital Platform and the Dark Web" (co-authored with Arion Cheong (CSU Fullerton) and Tawei Wang (DePaul University))

4.0 hours of MCLE credit pending approval by the State Bar of California. UCI School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.

Competition, Antitrust Law, and Innovation Forum | Antitrust Scholars Roundtable

10/21/2022
10:30:00 AM to 3:30:00 PM
401 E. Peltason Drive, Suite 1000, Irvine, CA 92697-8000

Top antitrust scholars will present their work in progress.

Schedule:
10:30–11:30 a.m.: Christopher Leslie, UCI School of Law
"False Analogies to Predatory Pricing and the Demise of Antitrust Law"

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Erik Hovenkamp, USC Gould School of Law
"Platform Discrimination Against Rivals: An Economic Framework for Antitrust Enforcement"

1:30–2:30 p.m.: Felix Chang, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
"Clearing the Way for Renminbi Domination: Antitrust and Currency Competition"

2:30–3:30 p.m.: Christine P. Bartholomew, University of Buffalo School of Law
"The Dark Side of Antitrust Statements of Interest"

4.0 hours of MCLE credit pending approval by the State Bar of California. UCI School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.

CALIF | Antitrust and Race Conference

5/20/2022
10:15:00 AM to 3:45:00 PM
401 E. Peltason Drive, Suite 1000, Irvine, CA 92697-8000

The UCI Law Competition, Antitrust, and Innovation Forum hosts leading scholars to discuss their current work on antitrust and race.

Schedule

10:15 – 11:15 | Welcome and Session 1

Christopher Leslie (UCI)
Banking Deserts, Merger Law, and Structural Racism

Erika Wilson (University of North Carolina)
Monopolizing Whiteness

11:30 – 12:30 | Session 2

Felix Chang (University of Cincinnati)
Racially Collusive Boycotts

Daria Roithmayr (USC)
Racism Pays: Race and Monopsony Power in Digital Markets

12:30 – 1:30 | Lunch

1:30 – 2:30 | Session 3

Salil Mehra (Temple)
What is an Antitrust Problem, Anyway?

John Newman (Federal Trade Commission)
Antiracist Antitrust, Racist Antitrust

2:45 – 3:45 | Session 4

Bennett Capers (Fordham) and Greg Day (Georgia)
Race-ing Antitrust

Hiba Hafiz (Boston College)
Antitrust and Race

This event will be hosted in person at UCI Law with a live stream for remote participation. A Zoom link will be provided upon registration.

Competition, Antitrust Law, and Innovation Forum | Antitrust Scholars Roundtable

11/12/2021
10:30:00 AM to 3:30:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000

Top antitrust scholars will present their work in progress.

Schedule:
10:30–11:30 a.m.: Christopher Leslie, UCI School of Law
"A Quick Look at How Alston v. NCAA Threatens the Future of Antitrust Law"

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Eleanor M. Fox, NYU Law and Philipp Bazenov
"Antitrust and Inequality: The History Of (In)Equality in Competition Law and its Guide to the Future"

1:30–2:30 p.m.: Jonathan Remy Nash, Emory Law and D. Daniel Sokol, USC Gould School of Law
"A Subject-Matter Specific Empirical Investigation into the Impact of the “Summary Judgment Trilogy”"

2:30–3:30 p.m.: Christine P. Bartholomew, University of Buffalo School of Law
"Playing Nicely with Others"

4.0 hours of MCLE credit pending approval by the State Bar of California. UCI School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.

Competition, Antitrust Law, and Innovation Forum | Antitrust Scholars Roundtable

10/29/2021
10:30:00 AM to 3:30:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000

Top antitrust scholars will present their work in progress.

Schedule:
10:30–11:30 a.m.: Christopher Leslie, UCI School of Law
"Food Deserts, Racism, and Antitrust Law"

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Erik Hovenkamp, USC Gould School of Law
"The Antitrust Duty to Deal in the Age of Big Tech"

1:30–2:30 p.m.: Marina Lao, Seton Hall University School of Law
"Reimagining Merger Analysis to Include Intent"

2:30–3:30 p.m.: John M. Newman, University of Miami School of Law
"The Output-Welfare Fallacy: A Modern Antitrust Paradox"

4.0 hours of MCLE credit pending approval by the State Bar of California. UCI School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.

Competition, Antitrust Law, and Innovation Forum | Antitrust Scholars Roundtable

10/8/2021
10:30:00 AM to 3:30:00 PM

Top antitrust scholars will present their work in progress.

Schedule:
10:30–11:30 a.m.: Christopher Leslie, UCI School of Law
"The Factor/Element Distinction in Price-Fixing Litigation"

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Stacey Dogan, Boston University School of Law
"Interrogating Product Design in Antitrust Law"

1:30–2:30 p.m.: Salil Mehra, Temple University School of Law
"What is an Antitrust Problem, Anyway? Towards Antitrust Unlimited"

2:30–3:30 p.m.: Sanjukta Paul, Wayne State University School of Law
"Recovering the Moral Economy Foundations of the Sherman Act"


4.0 hours of MCLE credit pending approval by the State Bar of California. UCI School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.

CALIF Antitrust Scholars Roundtable

11/8/2019
10:30:00 AM to 3:30:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000

Top antitrust scholars will present their work in progress.

Schedule:
10:30–11:15 a.m.: Christopher Leslie, UCI School of Law
"A Typology of Plus Factors and the Probative Synergy of Circumstantial Evidence"

11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.: Erik Hovenkamp, USC Gould School of Law
"Startup Acquisitions, Error Costs, and Antitrust Policy"

1:00–1:45 p.m.: Sanjukta Paul, Wayne State University Law School
"Antitrust as Allocator of Coordination Rights"

1:45–2:30 p.m.: Spencer Weber Waller, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
"Institutions and Incentives in Antitrust Enforcement"

2:45–3:30 p.m.: John Newman, University of Miami School of Law
"Antitrust in Attention Markets"

3.75 hours of MCLE credit approved by the State Bar of California. UCI School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.

CALIF Antitrust Scholars Roundtable

3/8/2019
10:15:00 AM to 3:30:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000

Top antitrust scholars will present their work in progress.

Schedule:
10:30–11:15 a.m.: Christopher R. Leslie, UC Irvine School of Law
"Proving Price Fixing"

11:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.: Sean Sullivan, University of Iowa College of Law
"The Logic of Market Definition"

1:00–1:45 p.m.: Aaron Edlin, UC Berkeley School of Law
"Competition Policy for Exclusionary Pricing: Experimental Evidence"

1:45–2:30 p.m.: Christi ne Bartholomew, SUNY Buffalo School of Law
"Deciphering Antitrust Objections"

2:45–3:30 p.m.: John Kirkwood, Seattle University School of Law
"Antitrust Policy for Two-Sided Platforms: The Failure of American Express and the Path Forward"

3.75 hours of MCLE credit approved by the State Bar of California. UCI School of Law is a State Bar- approved MCLE provider.

CALIF Antitrust Scholars Roundtable

11/16/2018
10:00:00 AM to 3:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000

Top antitrust scholars will present their work in progress.

Schedule:
10:00–11:00 a.m.: Professor Christopher Leslie, UCI School of Law
"False Analogies in Antitrust"

11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.: Professor John Newman, University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law
"Procompetitive Justifications in Antitrust Law"

1:00–2:00 p.m.: Professor Eleanor Fox, New York University School of Law
"Modernizing Extraterritoriality"

2:00–3:00 p.m.: Professor Kyung Sin (KS) Park, Korea University Law School
"Reverse Profit Squeeze - The Case of Vertical Integration in Korean Film Industry"

4.0 hours of MCLE credit approved by the State Bar of California. UCI School of Law is a State Bar- approved MCLE provider.

CALIF Antitrust Scholars Roundtable

10/26/2018
10:00:00 AM to 3:00:00 PM
UCI School of Law
401 E. Peltason Dr. Irvine, CA 92697

Top antitrust scholars from across the country will present their work in progress.

Speakers include:

Lina Khan, Open Markets Institute
"The Separation of Platforms and Commerce"

William Kovacic, The George Washington University Law School
"'Competition in the Broadest Sense': Michael Pertschuk’s Chairmanship of the Federal Trade Commission 1977-1981"

Christopher Leslie, UCI School of Law
"Proving Price Fixing"

Douglas Melamed, Stanford Law School
"The Misguided Assault on the Consumer Welfare Standard in the Age of Platform Markets"
 

4.0 hours of MCLE credit approved by the State Bar of California. UCI School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.