Speaker biographies
Richard A. Epstein is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1972. He has also been the Peter and Kirstin Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution since 2000. He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1985 and a senior fellow of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago Medical School since 1983. He served as editor of The Journal of Legal Studies from 1981 to 1991, and of The Journal of Law and Economics from 1991 to 2001. He is currently a director of the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics at the University of Chicago Law School. His books include Overdose: How Excessive Regulation Stifles Pharmaceutical Innovation (2006), Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case for Classical Liberalism (2003), Torts (1999), Free Society: Reconciling Individual Liberty with the Common Good (1998), and Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain (1985).
Michael S. Greve is the John G. Searle Scholar at AEI, where he directs the Federalism Project. His research and writing cover American federalism and its legal, political, and economic dimensions. Mr. Greve co-founded and, from 1989 to 2000, directed the Center for Individual Rights, a public interest law firm that served as counsel in many precedent-setting constitutional cases, including United States v. Morrison and Rosenberger v. University of Virginia. He has written widely on constitutional and administrative law, federalism, environmental policy, and civil rights.
A. Douglas Melamed is co-chairman of the Antitrust and Competition Department at WilmerHale. He has more than thirty years of experience in all aspects of antitrust practice. He has secured clearance for major acquisitions in the merger clearance process, argued cases in the United States Supreme Court and other appellate courts, litigated in federal and state trial courts and before the Federal Trade Commission, and counseled numerous firms on a wide range of antitrust matters. Mr. Melamed served in the U.S. Department of Justice from October 1996 to January 2001, first as acting assistant attorney general in charge of the Antitrust Division, and before that as principal deputy assistant attorney general. While principal deputy, he was responsible for civil non-merger and merger investigations; litigation involving most of the division’s litigating sections; the division’s appellate matters; policy matters involving, among others, the communications, electricity, and tobacco industries; and international antitrust enforcement matters.
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