Speaker Biographies
September 7, 2005
John E. Calfee is a resident scholar at AEI. From 1980 to 1986, he served in the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission. Mr. Calfee has taught marketing and consumer behavior in the business schools of the University of Maryland–College Park and Boston University, and was a visiting senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Mr. Calfee's research has focused on regulation, especially FDA regulation; health care; advertising and information; tort liability; and related areas. He is the author of Prices, Markets, and the Pharmaceutical Revolution (AEI Press, 2000) and Fear of Persuasion: A New Perspective on Advertising and Regulation (AEI Press, 1997).
Ted Frank is a resident fellow at AEI and director of the AEI Liability Project, managing the institute's research about liability reform proposals, tort law, class actions and civil procedure, and other related issues. Before joining AEI, Mr. Frank worked at law firms in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., and clerked for Judge Frank H. Easterbrook. His litigation work included Vioxx and automobile product liability cases; class action defense; and antitrust and patent cases. Since 2003, he has been a regular contributor to the tort reform weblog Overlawyered.com.
Evan Schaeffer, a principal of Schaeffer & Lamere, P.C., is a plaintiffs' lawyer licensed in Missouri and Illinois who practices primarily in the areas of mass torts and class actions. His firm, along with two other St. Louis firms, has filed suit against Merck on behalf of approximately 1,000 Vioxx users. Mr. Schaeffer's legal writings and commentary essays have been published in a number of newspapers and magazines, including the Chicago Tribune, the Houston Chronicle, and the Illinois Bar Journal. He also publishes two popular legal weblogs, Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground and The Illinois Trial Practice Weblog.
Daniel Troy is a partner in Sidley Austin Brown & Wood's Life Sciences Practice as well its Appellate Litigation group. Before joining the firm, he was the former chief counsel of the Food and Drug Administration. In addition to providing strategic counseling on FDA-related matters, Mr. Troy practices administrative and constitutional law and litigation, with particular focus on the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, food, medical device, cosmetic, and media industries. From 1987 to 1990, he served in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, and before that clerked for D.C. Circuit judge Robert H. Bork. He has written thirteen law review articles and book chapters.
Peter J. Wallison joined AEI in 1999 as a resident fellow and as the co-director of AEI’s program on financial market deregulation. As a partner of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, he practiced banking, corporate, and financial law in the firm’s Washington and New York offices. As the general counsel of the Treasury Department from 1981 to 1985, Mr. Wallison helped develop the Reagan administration’s proposals for deregulating the financial services industry. During 1986 and 1987, Mr. Wallison was counsel to President Ronald Reagan.
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