James Campbell Cooper is the Director of Research and Policy at the Law & Economics Center, and a lecturer in law at George Mason University School of Law. He previously spent several years at the Federal Trade Commission serving as an advisor to Commissioner William E. Kovacic, and Acting Director of the FTC's Office of Policy Planning. Before serving at the FTC, James Cooper worked in the antitrust group at Crowell & Moring LLP in Washington, DC. His research has appeared in publications including the Antitrust Law Journal, Boston University Law Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Regulatory Economics, and theInternational Review of Law & Economics. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from Emory University and a J.D. from George Mason University School of Law, where he was a Levy Fellow and a member of the George Mason Law Review.
Contributors:
James C. Miller, (former FTC Commissioner) - Chapter 1: Causes and Implications of the Regulatory Revolution at the FTC
William E. Kovacic, (Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy at the George Washington University Law School; former FTC Chairman and General Counsel) - Chapter 3: The Future of FTC Jurisdiction over Antitrust and Consumer Protection
Julie Brill, (current FTC Commissioner) - Chapter 4: The Future of FTC Jurisdiction Over Antitrust and Consumer Protection: A Commentary
Joshua D. Wright, (current FTC Commissioner), and Angela Diveley, (associate with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US, LLP) - Chapter 5: Do Expert Agencies Outperform Generalist Judges? Some Preliminary Evidence from the Federal Trade Commission
A. Douglas Melamed, (Member of the District of Columbia Bar; author of one of the most influential works in law & economics, and has served as Acting Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division) - Chapter 6:Paradigm Shopping: Section 5, the FTC, and the Courts
Fred S. McChesney, (University of Miami: de la Cruz/Mentschikoff Professor of Economics and Law) - Chapter 7:Consumer Protection and James Miller at the Federal Trade Commission: A Thirty-Year Perspective
J. Howard Beales, III, (Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy,
George Washington University School of Business; former Director of the Buruea of Consumer Protection at the FTC), and Timothy J. Muris, (Foundation Professor of Law, George Mason University;
former Chairman of the FTC), and Robert Pitofsky, (Joseph and Madeline Sheehy Professor of Antitrust and Trade Regulation Law, Georgetown University Law Center; former Chairman of the FTC) - Chapter 8: In Defense of the Pfizer Factors
Paul H. Rubin, (Emory University and Technology Policy Institute) and Thomas M. Lenard, (Technology Policy Institute) - Chapter 9: The FTC Then and Now: Privacy
Paul A. Pautler, (Deputy Director for Consumer Protection in the Bureau of Economics at the FTC) - Chapter 10:Regulation and Behavioral Economics at the FTC
Richard S. Higgins, (Principal, Finance Scholars Group) & Mark Perelman, (Quantitative Analyst, PineBridge Investments) - Chapter 11: Tying to Mitigate the Deadweight Loss of Monopoly Pricing
Daniel A. Crane, (Law Professor, University of Michigan, and author of: The Institutional Structure of Antitrust Enforcement, Oxford University Press, 2011) - Chapter 12: Section 5 of the FTC Act
