Awards:

• Concurrences 2019 Antitrust Writing Award, Best Antitrust Academic Article in the Intellectual Property Category, (for Douglas H. Ginsburg, Jorge Padilla, & Koren W. Wrong-Ervin, Antitrust Analysis Involving Intellectual Property and Standards: Implications from Economics.)
• Concurrences 2019 Antitrust Writing Award, Best Antitrust Business Article in the General Category, (for Joshua D. Wright, Elise Dorsey, & Jan Rybnicek, Hipster Antitrust meets Public Choice Economics: The Consumer Welfare Standard, the Rule of Law and Rent Seeking.)
• Concurrences 2018 Antitrust Writing Award, Best Article in the Academic category, Cross Border Issues section (for Douglas H. Ginsburg & John M. Taladay, Comity’s Enduring Vitality in a Globalized World)
• Global Competition Review, Reader’s Vote for Procedure, 2017 (for Joshua D. Wright & Douglas H. Ginsburg, The Costs and Benefits of Antitrust Consents, (George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper 16-42, 2016)
• Global Competition Review, Academic Excellence Award, 2016
• Global Competition Review, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2014 (Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg)
• Global Competition Review, Article of the Year Award, 2014 (for Joshua D. Wright & Douglas H. Ginsburg, The Goals of Antitrust: Welfare Trumps Choice, 81 Fordham Law Review 2405 (2013)

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Past Nominations:

Recently, the Global Antitrust Institute has been nominated for the Global Competition Review’s:
Academic or Advocacy Excellence Award, which is awarded to an academic competition specialist or advocacy organization that made an outstanding contribution to competition policy in 2018.

In the past year, the GAI published a record 33 articles, papers, and chapters in books.  We are also very proud to announce that the GAI faculty has had the most articles nominated for Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards out of any academic institutions and the most nominations out of any research center across all years

Specifically, the GAI proudly received eight nominations for the Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards (2019), which includes six articles and two comments by the GAI faculty. Two of the articles won and are listed above.

The six articles nominated for the Antitrust Writing Awards are the following:

• Requiem for a Paradox: The Dubious Rise and Inevitable Fall of Hipster Antitrust
  Joshua D. Wright, Jonathan Klick, Jan M. Rybnicek, & Elyse Dorsey
  George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 18-29
• Common Ownership: Solutions in Search of a Problem
  Keith Klovers & Douglas H. Ginsburg
  Frédéric Jenny: Standing Up for Convergence and Relevance in Antitrust, 2018
• Understanding Google’s Search Platform and the Implications for Antitrust Analyses
  John M Yun
  Journal of Competition Law & Economics, 2018
• US v. AT&T Time Warner: A Triumph of Economic Analysis
  Joshua D. Wright & Jan M. Rybnicek
  Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, 2018

The GAI’s Competition Advocacy Program (CAP) has submitted a dozen comments to antitrust agencies in the United States and abroad in 2018.  Two of those comments were also recognized and nominated by the Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards (2019).  The two comments nominated are:

• Comment on the U.S. FTC Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century: The Consumer Welfare Standard in Antitrust Law
  Tad Lipsky, Joshua Wright, Douglas Ginsburg, & John Yun
  George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 18-26
• Comment on the U.S. FTC Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century: Vertical Mergers
  Tad Lipsky, Joshua Wright, Douglas Ginsburg, & John Yun
  George Mason University Faculty Working Papers (2018)

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Featured Press:

• Joshua D. Wright is named as one of the “Antitrust Battle’s Biggest Players,” Bloomberg Businessweek (Oct. 24, 2019)
• Scalia Law and The Global Antitrust LLM Earns Top Ten Recognition Globally for LLMs in Competition Law for 2019, The LLM Guide (2019)
• Scalia Law’s LLM Programs, including The Global Antitrust LLM, Earns Best LLM Law School Experience, International Jurist Magazine (2019)
• Facebook’s $5B fine may be ‘the best’ the FTC could get, Scott Saloway, Yahoo Finance LIVE (July 24, 2019)
• Static vs. Dynamic Antitrust: A Reply, John M. Yun, Competition Policy International (June 16, 2019)
• CPI Talks with Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg, CPI Antitrust Article May 2019 (May 22, 2019)
• News Media Cartels are Bad News for Consumers, John M. Yun, Competition Policy International. (April 25, 2019)
• Effects-Based Analysis: Where Do We Stand on Both Sides of the Atlantic?, Douglas Ginsburg, Robin Jacob, & Jean-François Bellis, CPI Antitrust Article March 2019 (Mar. 14, 2019)
• The Government’s Failure to Block the AT&T Time Warner Merger Could Lead to Even Bigger Monopolies, Nihal Krishan, Mother Jones (Mar. 7, 2019)
• We must improve antitrust tools, says Wright, Kaela Cote-Stemmermann, GCR (Sept. 14, 2018)
• EC Android decision to offer consumers Chinese options, questionable benefits – analysis
  Khushita Vasant, PaRR (Aug. 22, 2018)
• DoJ framework aims to raise global due process standards — Aspen Forum
  Esther D’Amico, PaRR (Aug. 21, 2018)
• Antitrust observers react to judge’s approval of AT&T/Time Warner, Charles McDonnell, GCR (June 13, 2018)
• Communicators Roundtable on AT&T-Time Warner Merger, C-SPAN (June 12, 2018)
• AT&T’s victory in Time Warner merger clears way for deal bonanza, Joe Williams, Washington Examiner (June 12, 2018)
• EU antitrust official sees more scrutiny for Facebook, others, Foo Yun Chee, Reuters (May 22, 2018)
• FTC Chairman Simons makes appointments to agency’s leadership team, PaRR (May 16, 2018)

For additional highlights, please see our Awards and Press Archives.