Harry First Liber Amicorum: A Global Vision for Competition Law

This Liber Amicorum celebrates the remarkable career and lasting influence of Harry First-a scholar, mentor, and leader in competition law. In 21 insightful essays, distinguished academics and practitioners reflect on Harry's contributions and the pressing challenges in antitrust law and policy today. The volume begins with personal tributes, revealing Harry's role as a mensch, mentor, and visionary in the field. It then explores foundational questions in antitrust, from the impact of megamergers to the evolving intersection of law, policy, and politics. A deep dive into statutory interpretation follows, shedding light on key debates circling around the FTC Act, the Clayton Act, and market definition. The final section concludes with major players, including Microsoft, Apple, and the pharmaceutical industry, examining their role in shaping competition law. Together, these chapters provide a rich mosaic of Harry's many accomplishments and interests and the qualities that make him a very special person, teacher, scholar, enforcer, lawyer, and friend. Spanning history, policy, and enforcement, this collection is both a tribute to Harry First's extraordinary legacy and a thought-provoking exploration of the future of antitrust law.

With contributions from: Adi Ayal, Darren Bush, Stephen Calkins, Michael A. Carrier, Peter C. Carstensen, Erika M. Douglas, Ariel Ezrachi, Albert A. Foer, Eleanor M. Fox, Mark Glick, Jamie Ha, Jonathan Jacobson, Wolfgang Kerber, John B. Kirkwood, Robert H. Lande, Marina Lao, Ioannis Lianos, Gabriel A. Lozada, Melissa H. Maxman, Barak D. Richman, Tadashi Shiraishi, Daniel Sokol, Erica Straus, Maurice E. Stucke, Sean P. Sullivan, Simonetta Vezzoso, Ronald F. Wick, Diane P. Wood, Angela Huyue Zhang.

Darren Bush's scholarship focuses on the intersection of regulation and antitrust, with emphasis on deregulated markets, immunities and exemptions, and merger review. Along with Harry First and the late John J. Flynn, he is coauthor on the antitrust casebook FREE ENTERPRISE AND ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION: ANTITRUST (7th Ed.) with Foundation Press. Professor Bush received his Ph.D. in economics and J.D., both from the University of Utah. While completing his J.D., he consulted on issues regarding state deregulation of electric utilities, interned at the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, taught various economics courses, and received a Marriner S. Eccles Fellowship in Political Economy. After receiving his J.D., he served as an Attorney General's Honor Program Trial Attorney at the Antitrust Division's Transportation, Energy, & Agriculture Section, where his primary focus was the investigation of mergers and anticompetitive conduct in wholesale and retail energy markets and airlines. He has testified numerous times on antitrust matters before congressional committees and federal commissions.

Spencer Weber Waller is the Justice John Paul Stevens Chair in Competition Law at Loyola University of Chicago and the Director of the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies. Professor Waller served as a staff law clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He also worked for the U.S. Department of Justice, first as a trial attorney in the Foreign Commerce Section of the Antitrust Division and later as a special attorney in the Chicago Strike Force of the Criminal Division. He then practiced at the Chicago firm of Freeborn & Peters. He was a full-time faculty member at Brooklyn Law School for ten years until joining Loyola in 2000. In 2022, Professor Waller served as a Senior Adviser to the Chair of the United States Federal Trade Commission.