Professor Joshua Wright's Curriculum Vitae
ACADEMIC POSITIONS AND APPOINTMENTS
Visiting Professor, University of Texas School of Law (August 2008 to May
2009)
Visiting Fellow, Searle Center on Law, Regulation and Economic Growth at
Northwestern University School of Law (September 22-26, 2008)
Scholar in Residence, Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Competition
(2007-2008)
Assistant Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law
(2004-present) (on leave as of August 2007)
- Antitrust, Contracts
- Teaching interests include: Law and Economics, Quantitative Methods,
Antitrust Economics, Sales, Intellectual Property and Antitrust, Advanced
Antitrust
Education
University of California, Los Angeles, Department
of Economics (1999-2003)
- Ph.D., Economics (2003)
- Dissertation: “The Law and Economics of Slotting Arrangements
and Category Management”
Committee Members:
Benjamin Klein (chair), Armen Alchian, Harold
Demsetz, and Judge John Wiley, Jr.
- High Honors in Microeconomic Theory
- C. Phil., Economics (2002)
- M.A., Economics (2001)
University of California, Los Angeles, School
of Law (1998-2002)
- J.D. (May 2002)
- Managing Editor, UCLA Law Review
University of California, San Diego (1995-1998)
- B.A., Economics (June 1998) (graduated in three years)
- Highest Departmental Distinction in Economics
- Golden Key National Honor Society
Patrick Henry High School, San Diego, CA (1992-1995)
Employment History
PREVIOUS TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Adjunct Professor, Pepperdine University Graduate School of Public Policy
- Law and economics (Fall 2003)
Lecturer, UCLA Department of Economics
- Law and economics (Fall 2003)
Teaching Assistant, UCLA Department of Economics
- Introductory, intermediate, advanced and graduate level microeconomic
theory courses (2000-2003)
- Departmental Teaching Assistant Award (2001-2003)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Law Clerk to the Honorable James V. Selna, U.S. District Court for the
Central District of California (2003-2004)
Consultant, Economic Analysis, LLC (currently LECG, LLC) (1998-2002)
Summer Associate, Latham and Watkins (San Francisco) (2001)
Summer Associate, Jones Day Reavis & Pogue (Washington) (2000-01)
Honors Paralegal, Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Competition (1998)
Intern, Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Economics (1997)
Other Information
PRESENTATIONS
Federalism,
Substantive Preemption, and Limits on Antitrust: An Application to Patent
Holdup
(with Bruce H.
Kobayashi)
Duke University Law School Intellectual Property Symposium (February
2008)
George Mason/ Microsoft Annual Conference
on the Law and Economics of Innovation (May 2008)
Tilburg Law and Economics Center (December
2008)
Tastes Great, Less Filling: The Effects of Contract Regulation on Beer
Consumption (with Jonathan Klick)
Southern Economics Association Annual
Meetings (November 2007)
Is A Per Se Rule on Resale Price Maintenance Still Necessary?
Southeastern Association of Law Schools Panel Discussion (July 2007)
The Roberts Court and
the Chicago School of Antitrust: The 2006 Term and Beyond
University
of Missouri-Columbia School of Law (February 2008)
William S. Boyd School of Law, UNLV
(April 2008)
Antitrust, Multi-Dimensional Competition, and Innovation: Do We Have An
Antitrust Relevant Theory of Competition Now?
George Mason/ Microsoft Conference on the Law and Economics of Innovation (May
2007)
Antitrust Analysis of Slotting Allowances and Category Management
Contracts
FTC/DOJ Hearings on Section 2 of the Sherman Act and Single-Firm Conduct
Workshop on Asian Competition
Laws and Enforcement (Shanghai, China, June 2007)
Antitrust Analysis of Category Management: Conwood v. U.S. Tobacco
American Law & Economics Association 2004 Annual Meeting
George Mason
University Levy Workshop
The Economics of Slotting Contracts
International Society of New Institutional Economics 2004 Annual Meeting
George Mason University Levy Workshop
American Law & Economics Association
2005 Annual Meeting
Antitrust Law and Competition for Distribution
George Mason Law Review Fall 2005 Antitrust Symposium
Behavioral Law and Economics, Paternalism, and Consumer Contracts: An
Empirical Perspective
New York University School of Law Symposium on Behavioral Law and
Economics (October 2006)
MasterCard's Single Entity Strategy
Harvard Negotiation Law Review Symposium
Slotting Contracts and Consumer Welfare
George Mason University Levy
Workshop
University of Texas School of Law
Center for Law, Business, and Economics Workshop
International Industrial
Organization Conference (April 2006)
American Law & Economics
Association 2006 Annual Meeting (May 2006)
Southeastern Association of Law
Schools Annual Meeting (July 2006)
First Annual Conference on
Empirical Legal Studies (October 2006)
Southern Economic Association
Annual Meeting (November 2006)
CONFERENCES AND TESTIMONY
Panelist, Federalist Society Conference on Intellectual Property (July 2008)
Panelist, Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research and the Hoover
Institution Conference on the
Modernization of Antitrust (May 2008)
Panelist, Searle Center Research Roundtable on the Theory of the Firm (March
2008)
Panelist, Searle Center Research Roundtable on the Law and Economics of
Innovation (January 2008)Panelist, Searle Center Conference on The End of the
Microsoft Consent Decree (November 2007)
Panelist, Joint DOJ/FTC Hearings on Sherman Act Section 2 and Single Firm
Conduct on Exclusive Dealing Panelist, George Mason Law Review Fall 2006
Antitrust Symposium Discussion on Single Firm Conduct
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Referee, Review of Law and Economics;
Supreme Court Economic
Review
Member, National Science Foundation
Law and Social Science Advisory Panel
Member, Global Competition Policy Magazine Advisory Board
Assistant Editor, Antitrust Law Journal
Referee, Review of Law and Economics; Supreme Court Economic
Review
Contributor, Truth on the Market (a blog dedicated to academic commentary
on law, business, and economics)
Co-Founder and Conference Organizer, Microsoft and George Mason Series on the
Law and Economics of Innovation (2007-2011) (www.innovationforum.gmu.edu)
Conference Organizer, Merger Analysis in High Technology Markets (Feb. 1, 2008)
(with Thomas W. Hazlett)
AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
International
Industrial Organization Society
American Economics Association
Southern Economic Association
International Society of New Institutional Economics
Sloan Foundation Industry Studies Affiliate
American Law and Economics Association
California Bar Association
American Bar Association Antitrust Section
HOBBIES
Poker
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