Biographies of Speakers
Bruce Abramson is the President of Gordian Solutions, Inc., a consultancy based in San Francisco, CA. Dr.
Abramson is an expert in the law and economics of technology, with a particular emphasis on the Internet, software,
and the still-emerging world of digital content. His research contributions have spanned a comparable range, from
heuristic search, decision analysis, forecasting, and intelligent-system design to digital copyrights, patents, and
antitrust law. Dr. Abramson has served on the faculty of the University of Southern California, as a research adjunct
to the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University, and as a law clerk for the Hon. Arthur J. Gajarsa of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. His consulting clients have included Fortune 500 companies, major
research universities, and some of the nation's largest law firms. He has won multiple research grants and contracts;
advised federal agencies, startup companies, and educational foundations; published over three dozen scholarly
articles; presented more than fifty invited lectures; and served on the editorial boards of several journals. He has
contributed to the scholarly literature of Computer Science, Management Science, and Law, and is the author most
recently of Digital Phoenix: Why the Information Economy Collapsed and How it Will Rise Again, (MIT Press,
2005).
Barry Brucker is the President and CEO of Independent Ink, Inc. (est. 1939), an internationally recognized
manufacturer of specialty inks and chemicals. He holds six U.S. patents in digital and security printing technologies.
The company’s clients include: U.S. Government, NASA, Dept. of Homeland Security, GSA, Northrop, Boeing,
Israeli Defense Forces, Proctor & Gamble, Chanel, Microsoft and other Fortune 500 companies involved in food,
beverage, pharmaceutical, documentation, security, printing etc. Mr. Brucker has been a featured speaker at
seminars and conferences on ink jet printing, anti-counterfeit coding technologies and the aftermarket role and
contribution to the advancement of high technology specialty inks. Brucker was elected to the Beverly Hills City
Council in March 2005. Prior to being elected a councilmember, Brucker served on the board of education of the
Beverly Hills Unified School District. Elected as a write-in candidate in 1997 and re-elected in 2001, he served two
terms as school board president in 1999 and 2003. Brucker was the first elected official to win as a write-in candidate
in the state of California in the past 30 years. Brucker earned a degree with honors in business/economics from
University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a member of the economics honor society, Omicron Delta Epsilon.
Michael Carrier is a recently tenured law professor at Rutgers Law School in Camden, New Jersey. He teaches and
writes in the areas of antitrust, intellectual property, and property law. He has published (or has forthcoming)
approximately twenty articles and book chapters that include publications in the Stanford, Penn, Duke, Vanderbilt,
and Minnesota law reviews. Professor Carrier is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale University and a cum laude
graduate of Michigan Law School, where he was Book Review Editor of the law review. For four years, he litigated
antitrust, civil, intellectual property, and sports cases at Covington & Burling, in Washington, D.C. He also clerked
for the Honorable John D. Butzner, Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He is a member of the
bars of the District of Columbia and Maryland.
Joseph Farrell is Professor of Economics and Chair of the Competition Policy Center at the University of
California, Berkeley. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, former Editor of the Journal of Industrial
Economics, and former President of the Industrial Organization Society. He is a Senior Consultant with CRA
International. Farrell has written extensively in industrial organization and microeconomics, including the economics
of standards and of innovation. For some of his recent research, see http://iber.berkeley.edu/cpc and
http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/farrell. Professor Farrell was Chief Economist at the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) in 1996-1997, and later was Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Chief Economist at the
Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice, 2000-2001. He has consulted for firms and government
agencies on a variety of topics, primarily around innovation, standards, telecommunications, and competition policy.
Harry First is the Charles L. Denison Professor of Law at New York University School of Law and the Director of
the law school's Trade Regulation Program. From 1999-2001 he served as Chief of the Antitrust Bureau of the
Office of the Attorney General of the State of New York. Professor First's teaching interests include antitrust,
regulated industries, international and comparative antitrust, business crime, and innovation policy. He is the coauthor of law school casebooks on antitrust and on regulated industries, as well as the author of a casebook on
business crime, and the author of numerous articles involving antitrust law. Professor First has twice been a
Fulbright Research Fellow in Japan and has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Tokyo.
Professor First earned his B.A. and J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Albert A. Foer is President of the American Antitrust Institute. A graduate of the University of Chicago Law
School, where he was an Associate Editor of the Law Review, he also holds a masters degree in political science
from Washington University and an A.B. from Brandeis University (magna cum laude). Before founding the AAI,
Bert practiced law with Hogan & Hartson and Jackson & Campbell, both in Washington, DC; was a senior
executive of the FTC Bureau of Competition for six years, rising to Acting Deputy Director; and was CEO of a
mid-sized chain of retail stores for twelve years. He has played leadership roles in a variety of trade and non-profit
associations, has published numerous articles about regulatory and competition policy issues, and has taught
antitrust on an adjunct basis at Johns Hopkins and George Washington universities.
Warren S. Grimes has been Professor of Law at Southwestern University School of Law since 1988, where he
teaches antitrust, legislation, business organizations, and unfair trade. His prior positions include Chief Counsel of
the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law, and
Assistant to the General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission. Professor Grimes is a graduate of Stanford and
the University of Michigan Law School. He is co-author, with Lawrence Sullivan on The Law of Antitrust: An
Integrated Handbook, West Publishing. He is also a member of the AAI Advisory Board and a former AAI Research
Fellow.
Gregory T. Gundlach is the Visiting Eminent Scholar in Wholesaling, Professor of Marketing and Director of the
Center for Research and Education in Wholesaling at the University of North Florida and Senior Fellow at the
American Antitrust Institute. Before coming to the University of North Florida, Professor Gundlach was the John
Berry, Sr. Professor of Business at the University of Notre Dame where he was a faculty member since 1987.
Professor Gundlach's research interests focus on vertical and horizontal interfirm relationships with particular
emphasis on how such associations are managed and the nature of competition policy and antitrust issues that may
result. He has published extensively on the marketing and business strategy aspects of competition policy and
antitrust law. Through his work Professor Gundlach has provided counsel and other expertise on marketing and
competition related issues to a variety of businesses, trade associations and governmental agencies.
Robert H. Lande, the Venable Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore, is a Director, co-founder, and
Fellow of the AAI. Lande has worked on a number of projects of concern to the AAI, including Illinois Brick
reform, the merger incipiency doctrine, the Microsoft case, the BP/Arco case and many other mergers, international
antitrust issues, and a wide variety of consumer choice issues and collusion issues. A graduate of Harvard University
(J.D., M.P.P.) and Northwestern University (B.A.), he has served in the FTC's Bureau of Competition and was
associated with Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in Washington.
Jonathan Leibowitz joined the Federal Trade Commission from the Motion Picture Association of America, where
he served as vice president for congressional affairs from 2000 to 2004. Prior to his position at the MPAA,
Leibowitz was the Democratic chief counsel and staff director for the U.S. Senate Antitrust Subcommittee from
1997 to 2000, where he focused on competition policy and telecommunications matters. He served as chief counsel
and staff director for the Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism and Technology from 1995 to 1996 and the Senate
Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice from 1991 to 1994. In addition, he served as chief counsel to Senator Herb Kohl
from 1989 to 2000. Leibowitz worked for Senator Paul Simon from 1986 to 1987 and as an attorney in private
practice in Washington from 1984 to 1986. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Wisconsin with a B.A.
in American History (1980), Leibowitz graduated from the New York University School of Law in 1984. He is a
member of the District of Columbia Bar, and has co-authored amicus briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court on
issues ranging from gun control to the census.
Deborah Platt Majoras was sworn in on August 16, 2004, as Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. Majoras
joined the FTC from Jones Day in Washington, DC, where she served as a partner in the firm’s antitrust section.
While at Jones Day, she worked on a variety of antitrust counseling and civil and criminal litigation matters,
including mergers and acquisitions, monopolization, price-fixing, distribution issues, and governmental
investigations. Majoras also was a member of the firm’s technology issues practice and has participated in a variety
of non-antitrust commercial disputes and criminal cases, including fraud, securities violations, and employment
discrimination. In April 2001, Majoras was appointed deputy assistant attorney general at the U.S. Department of
Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division. She was named principal deputy in November 2002. During her three-year
tenure, she oversaw matters involving numerous industries including software, financial networks, defense, health
care, media and entertainment, banking, and industrial equipment. She also served as chair of the International
Competition Network’s (ICN) Merger Working Group and oversaw policy initiatives such as the FTC/DOJ Health
Care Hearings, DOJ’s Merger Review Process Initiative, and the Mergers Best Practices Project. She is a frequent
speaker on competition policy to national and international audiences.
Howard Morse is a partner and co-chair of Drinker Biddle's Antitrust Practice Group. He regularly represents
businesses before the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice, and State Attorneys General, in
investigations involving mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures as well as alleged monopolization and restraint of
trade cases. He also counsels clients on antitrust issues and represents companies in private antitrust litigation. Prior
to joining the firm in 1998, Howard served as Assistant Director of the FTC's Bureau of Competition, where he was
responsible for antitrust investigations and litigation in a broad range of industries, including the computer hardware
and software, chemical, pharmaceutical, medical device and auto parts industries. During Howard's decade-long
tenure at the FTC, he served as a staff attorney and as Deputy Assistant Director for Policy before becoming
Assistant Director. While Assistant Director, Howard was named to the government's Senior Executive Service. He
also served as a Special Attorney to the U.S. Attorney General. Howard is a member of the American Bar
Association's Antitrust Section Council and is a past chair of the Section’s Intellectual Property and Computer
Industry Committees. He is also Vice Chair of the Intellectual Property Owners Association Antitrust and
Competition Law Committee. He testified before the DOJ/FTC hearings on Competition and Intellectual Property
Law and Policy in the Knowledge-Based Economy.
Diana L. Moss is Vice President and Senior Research Fellow of the AAI. She specializes in the economics of
antitrust, regulation, and energy and natural resources. While at AAI, Dr. Moss has coordinated and managed
projects relating to antitrust, consumer protection, and regulation in a number of different areas, including: federal
energy legislative and regulatory policy, energy sector restructuring, energy mergers, antitrust modernization,
network access and systems competition, cruise line and tobacco mergers, sports antitrust issues, and internet joint
ventures. Dr. Moss was Senior Staff Economist and Coordinator of Competition Analysis in the Office of Markets,
Tariffs and Rates, Division of Corporate Applications, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from 1995 through
2000. From 1989 through 1995, Dr. Moss consulted in the areas of antitrust and regulation in private practice. She
has published and spoken widely on energy regulation and antitrust issues and is also adjunct professor at the
University of Colorado, Department of Economics and Georgetown University Graduate Public Policy Institute.
Her PhD. in Mineral Economics was earned at the Colorado School of Mines in 1989. She joined AAI as a Senior
Research Fellow in September, 2001.
Philip Nelson received a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University. Formerly Assistant Director for Competition
Analysis at the Federal Trade Commission, he currently works at Economists Incorporated where he is a Principal.
He has also taught antitrust at Fordham Law School. He is a past chair of the ABA Antitrust Section’s Economics
Committee, a past vice chair of its Intellectual Property Committee, and an incoming vice chair of its Healthcare
Committee. He has published two books and numerous journal articles, many of which deal with market definition,
strategic behavior, and other antitrust topics. While at the FTC, Dr. Nelson served on the FTC’s Merger Screening
and Evaluation Committees and supervised and participated in numerous antitrust investigations. His work on
antitrust matters has continued as a consultant. He has worked on numerous large mergers and testified as an expert
witness. He has also worked on non-merger antitrust matters. For example, his consulting work has included the
study of alleged collusion, Robinson-Patman violations, vertical foreclosure (including tying), intellectual property
rights, predatory pricing, and franchise relationships. He has also calculated damages and the value of intellectual
property. His work has led him to study numerous industries. For example, he has worked on matters in the
pharmaceutical, petroleum, consumer products retailing, computer, chemical, defense, telecommunications,
franchising, and sports industries.
Claude Rakovsky has served for most of his career as an official in the Directorate General for Competition in the
European Commission. In the last decade he has been in charge, as a head of unit, of the review of some of the
major merger projects filed with the European Commission under the EC Merger Regulation. Earlier in his career
Claude Rakovsky served, within the Directorate General for Competition as the head of unit in charge of
international relations. Previously Claude Rakovsky has also had several assignments with the European
Commission both in the Directorate General for Competition and in the Directorate General for Economic and
Financial Affairs as well as in the French Central Bank.
Jonathan L. Rubin is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Florida College of
Law. Dr. Rubin was a trial lawyer in private practice in Florida from 1981-1993. He earned a Ph.D. in economics in
1998 from the University of Copenhagen, Institute of Economics, in Denmark. After serving as an assistant
professor of economics at the Royal Danish Agricultural University in Copenhagen, Dr. Rubin re-entered private
practice in the D.C. area, specializing in antitrust law and economics. He is Adjunct Professor of Law at the George
Washington University Law School, where he teaches Law and Economics. He is the author of AAI's amicus briefs
before the Supreme Court monopolization case of Verizon v. Trinko and before the FTC in In re: Rambus, Inc,
dealing with antitrust, intellectual property, and standards setting. He has worked on telecommunications matters
such as content protection in digital broadcasting, local telephone deregulation, and DBS, and has authored AAI
studies about the mortgage credit reporting and medical waste disposal industries.