Geoffrey A. Manne is the founder and president of the International Center for Law and Economics (ICLE), a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center based in Portland, Oregon. He is also a distinguished fellow at Northwestern University’s Center on Law, Business, and Economics. In April 2017 he was appointed by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to the FCC’s Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee, and he recently served for two years on the FCC’s Consumer Advisory Committee. Mr. Manne earned his JD and AB degrees from the University of Chicago and is an expert in the economic analysis of law, specializing in competition, telecommunications, consumer protection, intellectual property, and technology policy. Prior to founding ICLE, Manne was a law professor at Lewis & Clark Law School where he taught Law & Economics, Corporations, and International Economic Regulation. From 2006-2009, he took a leave from teaching to develop Microsoft’s law and economics academic outreach program. Manne has also served as a lecturer in law at the University of Chicago Law School and the University of Virginia School of Law. He practiced antitrust law and appellate litigation at Latham & Watkins, clerked for Hon. Morris S. Arnold on the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, and worked as a research assistant for Judge Richard Posner. He was also once (very briefly) employed by the FTC.

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Nominee, 2021 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Asian Antitrust

Nominee, 2020 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, Unilateral Conduct

Nominee, 2017 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, Concerted Practices

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