Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit
Circuit Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in 1986. After receiving his B.S. from Cornell University in 1970, and his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1973, he clerked on the D.C. Circuit and for Justice Thurgood Marshall on the United States Supreme Court. Thereafter, Judge Ginsburg was a professor at the Harvard Law School, the Deputy Assistant and then Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, as well as the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget. Concurrent with his service as a federal judge, Judge Ginsburg has taught at the University of Chicago Law School and the New York University School of Law. Judge Ginsburg is currently a Professor of Law at the George Mason University and a visiting professor at University College London, Faculty of Laws.
Judge Ginsburg is the Chairman of the International Advisory Board of the Global Antitrust Institute at the Law and Economics Center of the George Mason University School of Law. He also serves on the Advisory Boards of: Competition Policy International; the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy; the Journal of Competition Law and Economics; the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy; the Supreme Court Economic Review; the University of Chicago Law Review; the New York University Journal of Law and Liberty; and, at University College London, both the Centre for Law, Economics and Society and the Jevons Institute for Competition Law and Economics.
In 2020, Judge Ginsburg was the 11th recipient of the John Sherman Award, presented by the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice in recognition of the awardee’s Lifetime Contributions to Antitrust Law and Policy.
In 2014, Judge Ginsburg received the Lifetime Achievement Award given annually by the Global Competition Review.
He is the author or co-author of several books and more than 100 articles on competition and regulation, including, most recently, Growing Convergence: The Limited Role of Antitrust in Standard Essential Patent Disputes, in CPI Antitrust Chronicle, Summer 2021, Vol. 1, No. 2.
Lafayette S. Foster Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Kate Stith, Lafayette S. Foster Professor of Law at Yale Law School, teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, and constitutional law. Prior to joining the faculty at Yale, Professor Stith was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where she prosecuted white-collar and organized-crime cases. Professor Stith is serving or has served as an Adviser for the American Law Institute project Model Penal Code Sentencing; on the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Research Council; on the Professional Ethics Committee in the State of Connecticut; as a Commissioner of the Permanent Commission on the Status of Women in Connecticut; as President of the Connecticut Bar Foundation; on the Dartmouth College Board of Trustees; as faculty sponsor and director of the Women's Campaign School at Yale; as Deputy Dean of Yale Law School; and, by appointment of the Chief Justice of the United States, on the Advisory Committee for the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Her book on the federal sentencing guidelines, Fear of Judging (with J.A. Cabranes), was awarded a Certificate of Merit by the ABA in 1999. A graduate of Dartmouth College, the Kennedy School of Government, and Harvard Law School, she clerked for Judge Carl McGowan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and for Supreme Court Justice Byron R.White.
Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, Claremont McKenna College
Wm. Craig Stubblebine, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the Claremont McKenna College (formerly Claremont Men’s College), is a native of Texas. He holds a B.S. degree from the University of Delaware, and a Ph.D. degree in Economics from the University of Virginia. He is married to the former Carol Ann Wiebe and has two children, Julia and Erik.
Stubblebine taught Economics on the faculty of the University of Virginia from 1961 to 1963, and on the faculty of the University of Delaware from 1963 to 1966. During 1965-66, he was a National Science Foundation Faculty Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
From 1966 to 2003, Stubblebine was a member of the faculties of Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate School. He now is an emeritus professor. He was on leave from Claremont during 1967-68, when he served as a Fulbright Lecturer in Welfare Economics at the University of Turin, Italy; and during 1971-72, when he served as Associate Professor of Economics at Southern Methodist University, and Visiting Scholar in Public Choice and Professor of Economics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Stubblebine was appointed Professor of Economics in 1976 and received the Von Tobel Chair of Political Economy in 1979. He was appointed founding Director of the Center for the Study of Law Structures in 1977, serving in that capacity until he became Chairman of the Department of Economics during 1984-87.
Stubblebine has served as President of the Western Tax Association, as President of the Faculty Senate of the Claremont Colleges, and has held various offices at Laws-atWork, including Vice-Chairman. He also has served as a Director and Senior Associate of Public Associates Incorporated, as a Senior Associate of JurEcon, and as a founding Director of the National Tax Limitation Committee. He was a founding director of the YES Fund and a director of Seapointe Savings and Loan. He chaired the national committee which drafted the proposed Federal tax/spending limitation amendment adopted by the U. S. Senate in 1982 and has served as a consultant to various state limitation drafting committees.
Author of articles on property rights and public finance, Stubblebine is a member of several professional societies and has participated in governmental and business consulting activities. With R. T. Smith, he is co-author of Maintaining the Legacy of Proposition 13 (1991). He is an editor of and contributor to Reaganomics: a Mid-Term Report (1983). He has lectured widely, has participated in many economic conferences, and served on a variety of task forces. He has been listed in various “Who’s Who ....” including “Who’s Who in America” and “Who’s Who in Economics”.
President Emeritus, Harvard University
Lawrence H. Summers is President Emeritus of Harvard University. During the past two decades he has served in a series of senior policy positions, including Vice President of development economics and chief economist of the World Bank, Undersecretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, Director of the National Economic Council for the Obama Administration from 2009 to 2011, and Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, from 1999 to 2001.
He received a bachelor of science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975 and was awarded a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1982. In 1983, he became one of the youngest individuals in recent history to be named as a tenured member of the Harvard University faculty. In 1987 Mr. Summers became the first social scientist ever to receive the annual Alan T. Waterman Award of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and in 1993, he was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, given every two years to the outstanding American economist under the age of 40.
He is currently the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University. He and his wife Elisa New, a professor of English at Harvard, reside in Brookline with their six children.
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