Joshua D. Wright is a Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law and holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Economics. From 2013 to 2015, he was one of the five Commissioners of the US Federal Trade Commission. Professor Wright was appointed in 2007 as the inaugural Scholar in Residence at the Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Competition, where he served until Fall 2008. Professor Wright was a Visiting Professor at the University of Texas School of Law and was a Visiting Fellow at the Searle Center at the Northwestern University School of Law during the 2008-09 academic year. He also regularly lectures on economics, empirical methods, and antitrust economics to state and federal judges through the George Mason University Law and Economics Center Judicial Education Program. He received both a J.D. and a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA, where he was managing editor of the UCLA Law Review, and a B.A. in economics with highest departmental honors at the University of California, San Diego. Before coming to George Mason University School of Law, Professor Wright clerked for the Honorable James V. Selna of the Central District of California and taught at the Pepperdine University Graduate School of Public Policy. Professor Wright’s areas of expertise include antitrust law and economics, consumer protection, empirical law and economics, intellectual property and the law and economics of contracts.
2022 Awards
2021 Awards
2020 Awards
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Antitrust Out of Focus: The FTC’s Myopic Pursuit of 1-800 Contacts’Trademark SettlementsJoshua D. Wright, Hal Singer and Geoffrey Manne, The Antitrust Source, April 2019
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Antitrust Populism: Towards a TaxonomyJoshua D. Wright and Aurélien Portuese, Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance, Vol. 21, No. 1, March 2020
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What’s Next in Apple Inc. v. Pepper? The Indirect Purchaser Rule and the Economics of Pass-ThroughJoshua D. Wright and Bruce Kobayashi, Cato Supreme Court review (Forthcoming), 2020
Distinctions
Nominee, 2021 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, Unilateral Conduct
Nominee, 2020 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, General Antitrust
Nominee, 2020 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Private Enforcement
Nominee, 2020 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Unilateral Conduct
Winner, 2019 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, General
Nominee, 2018 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, General Antitrust
Nominee, 2017 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Procedure
Nominee, 2016 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Unilateral Conduct
Nominee, 2015 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, General Antitrust
Nominee, 2013 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, General Antitrust
Nominee, 2012 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Economics





