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Professor Joshua Wright
JOSHUA D. WRIGHT is a Professor of Law at George
Mason University School of Law and holds a courtesy appointment in the
Department of Economics. Professor
Wright was recently appointed as the inaugural Scholar in Residence at the
Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Competition, where he served until Fall
2008. Professor Wright was a Visiting Professor at the University of Texas
School of Law and was a Visiting Fellow at the Searle Center at the Northwestern
University School of Law during the 2008-09 academic year. Professor
Wright also regularly lectures on economics, empirical methods, and antitrust
economics to state and federal judges
through the George Mason University Law and Economics Center Judicial Education
Program.
Professor Wright received both a J.D. and a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA,
where he was managing editor of the UCLA Law Review, and a B.A. in
economics with highest departmental honors at the University of California, San
Diego. Before coming to George Mason University School of Law, Professor Wright
clerked for the Honorable James V. Selna of the Central District of California
and taught at the Pepperdine University Graduate School of Public Policy.
Professor Wright's
areas of expertise include antitrust law and economics, consumer protection,
empirical law and economics, intellectual property and the law and economics of
contracts. His publications have appeared in leading academic journals,
including the Journal of Law and Economics, Antitrust Law Journal,
Competition Policy International, Northwestern Law Review, Supreme Court Economic Review,
Yale Journal on Regulation, Journal of Competition Law and Economics,
Review of Industrial Organization, Review of Law and Economics, and the UCLA Law Review. Professor
Wright is also the co-editor of
Pioneers of Law and Economics (Elgar Publishing) and
Competition
Policy and Patent Law under Uncertainty: Regulating Innovation (Cambridge Press). Professor Wright has also testified at the joint Department
of Justice/ Federal Trade Commission Hearings on Section 2 of the Sherman Act, the Federal Trade Commission’s FTC at 100 Conference,
and the DOJ/ FTC Hearings on the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines.
Professor Wright is
the co-editor of the Supreme Court Economic review, and serves on the editorial
board of the Antitrust Law Journal, Global Competition Policy, and
Competition Policy International. He is a co-founder of the Microsoft /
George Mason Annual Conference on the Law and Economics of Innovation, the
Director of Research at the International Center for Law and Economics, a member
of the National Science Foundation Advisory Panel for Law and Social Sciences, a
Senior Fellow at the George Mason Information Economy Project, and a regular
contributor to
Truth on the Market, a weblog dedicated to academic commentary on law,
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