Independent Analyst, None
Allison Hayward most recently served as the Head of Case Selection at the Oversight Board. Previously, she was a Commissioner at the California Fair Political Practices Commission, a Board Member at the Office of Congressional Ethics, and an Assistant Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law. She also previously worked as Chief of Staff and Counsel in the office of Federal Election Commission Commissioner Bradley A. Smith and practiced election law in California and in Washington DC.
In 1994-1995, Professor Hayward was a judicial clerk for the Honorable Danny J. Boggs, United States Court of Appeal for the Sixth Circuit.
She is a member of the State Bar of California and the District of Columbia Bar.
Professor of Law and Executive Director, Law and Economics Center, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University
Donald Kochan is Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Law & Economics Center (LEC). Professor Kochan is an elected member of the American Law Institute (ALI) and serves as an Adviser to ALI's Restatement of the Law Fourth, Property project. Professor Kochan is a Nonresident Scholar at the Center for the Constitution at Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a Visiting Scholar in residence during Fall 2018. Before joining the Antonin Scalia Law School faculty, he was the Parker S. Kennedy Professor in Law at Chapman University’s Dale E. Fowler School of Law from 2004 to 2020. From 2003 to 2004, Professor Kochan was an Olin Fellow at the University of Virginia School of Law. During 2002-2003, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at George Mason’s Scalia Law School.
Professor Kochan’s scholarship focuses on areas of property law, constitutional law, administrative law, local government law, natural resources and environmental law, and law & economics. He has published several books and more than 50 scholarly articles and essays in well-regarded law journals. His work has been cited in more than a dozen state and federal court opinions, in more than 75 briefs filed in state and federal courts including more than 25 filed in the U.S. Supreme Court, in dozens of books and treatises, and in more than 800 scholarly articles.
Professor Kochan received his JD from Cornell Law School, where he was a John M. Olin Scholar in Law and Economics and managing editor of the Cornell International Law Journal. During law school, he also served as editor and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy symposium issues in 1997 and 1998. He received his BA from Western Michigan University, magna cum laude, with majors in both political science and philosophy, where he studied as the John W. Gill Medallion Scholar and was honored as the Presidential Scholar (awarded to the top graduate in the political science department).
After graduating from law school, Professor Kochan was a law clerk to The Honorable Richard F. Suhrheinrich of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Following his clerkship, Professor Kochan was an associate with the firm of Crowell & Moring LLP in Washington, D.C., where he specialized in natural resources & environmental law as well as tort, products, and consumer civil litigation & legislative affairs.
Will Modern Antitrust Enforcement Swallow Up Intellectual Property Rights?
Joseph Kattan, Carl Shapiro
Intellectual Property Practice Group Newsletter - Volume 2, Issue 3, Winter 1998
Following are excerpts from a panel discussion entitled "Will Modem Antitrust Enforcement Swallow Up Intellectual...
BOOK REVIEW - Patent Strategies For Business by Stephen C. Glazier
James L. Ewing
Intellectual Property Practice Group Newsletter - Volume 2, Issue 3, Winter 1998
Patent Strategies For Businessby Stephen C. Glazier(Third Edition, 1997)Businesspeople are beginning to understand that they...
Understanding Mergers & Acquisitions: Due Diligence Through a Different Prism
Financial Services & E-Commerce Newsletter - Volume 2, Issue 3, Winter 1998
In recent years a remarkable evolution has taken place in the financial services marketplace. Modern...
The Delicate Balance: Federalism and Financial Services
John S. Barry
Financial Services & E-Commerce Newsletter - Volume 2, Issue 3, Winter 1998
The financial services industry has changed significantly over the past 60 years, but federal and...
Book Review: God Is My Broker: A Monk-Tycoon Reveals the 7 1/2 Laws of Spiritual and Financial Growth by Brother Ty with Christopher Buckley and John Tierney
John Pickering
Financial Services & E-Commerce Newsletter - Volume 2, Issue 3, Winter 1998
It's been said that God helps those who help themselves. God Himself never said so,...
Defending First Principles and Missing a Golden Opportunity
Andrew Siff
Free Speech & Election Law Practice Group Newsletter - Volume 2, Issue 3, Winter 1998
In Toledo Area AFL-CIO v. Pizza, 154 F.3d 307 (6th Cir. 1998), the Sixth Circuit...
Michigan Issue Ad Ruling Reinforces Constitutional Protections
Charles R. Spies
Free Speech & Election Law Practice Group Newsletter - Volume 2, Issue 3, Winter 1998
Will the "campaign reformers" ever learn? Time after time federal courts have struck down restrictions...
Election Law Observer
Allison R. Hayward
Free Speech & Election Law Practice Group Newsletter - Volume 2, Issue 3, Winter 1998
Elsewhere in this issue, Charles Spies discusses the constitutional problems with campaign finance regulations that...
Tobacco-Free FDA
Administrative Law Practice Group Newsletter - Volume 2, Issue 3, Winter 1998
For 58 of the past 60 years, since Congress passed the 1938 Food, Drug and...
Ripeness, Permitting, and Public Choice
Donald J. Kochan
Administrative Law Practice Group Newsletter - Volume 2, Issue 3, Winter 1998
This article attempts to explain the incentives involved in the permitting process in light of...