Recorded Webinar—Antitrust Paradox Redux: A Market Competition Policy Back at War with Itself

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PRESENTERS:
William E. Kovacic, Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy, George Washington University School of Law

Robert H. Bork, Jr., President and Board Member, The Bork Foundation

DESCRIPTION:
In the midst of a revival of competition policy unmoored from economic analysis and neutral principles, Judge Robert Bork’s seminal The Antitrust Paradox: A Policy at War with Itself has reappeared on bookstore shelves. Join the book’s new publisher and one of America’s leading antitrust scholars for a discussion of The Antitrust Paradox’s welcome re-release and why its timeless consumer-welfare message is under attack on Capitol Hill and in the larger battle of ideas.

Speakers' Biographies

William E. Kovacic

Before joining GW Law School in 1999, Professor Kovacic was the George Mason University Foundation Professor at the George Mason University School of Law. Prior to that, he was a member of the Federal Trade Commission and chaired the agency from 2008-2009. Professor Kovacic also served as FTC General Counsel from June 2001 to December 2004. Since 2013, he has served as a Non-Executive Director with the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority.

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Robert H. Bork, Jr.

Robert H. Bork, Jr., is the eldest son of the late Judge Robert H. Bork. He heads the Bork Group, a public affairs agency. He began his career journalism career as a police reporter before moving to business and economics. As a journalist, he covered international economics at U.S. News and World Report, was managing editor of the quarterly journal Regulation, and worked as a reporter at Forbes, The Detroit Free Press, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram and The Miami Herald. He later worked at the Heritage Foundation, on Capitol Hill as an aide to U.S. Sen. Gordon Humphrey (R-NH), and as special assistant for U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills.