Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics Howard Shelanski will discuss how antitrust agencies are dealing with the changing digital marketplace during the Bayard Wickliffe Heath Memorial Lecture Series at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. The lecture, “Information, Innovation, and Competition Policy for the Internet,” is on Friday, Nov. 16, at 10 a.m. in the Martin H. Levin Advocacy Center courtroom. It is free and open to the public.

Shelanski will specifically examine the theory that under-enforcement of antitrust laws in the digital world results in much lower error costs than over-enforcement, and will look at how competition policy can improve on assessing costs, benefits and risks in digital markets.

Shelanski, who is also a professor at Georgetown Law, has co-written six books and contributed to myriad law reviews and scholarly journals. In 2004, he received Berkeley Law’s Rutter Award for Teaching Distinction. Shelanski’s teachings and research focus on antitrust, regulation and telecommunications policy.

The Heath Memorial Lecture Series is made possible by a gift from Inez Heath, Ph.D., widow of Bayard “Wick” Heath. Before his death in 2008, Heath was the senior competition consultant with Info Tech, a Gainesville firm specializing in statistical and econometric consulting, expert witness testimony and antitrust law. Previous lecturers include Herbert Hovenkamp, William Kovacic and Joseph Harrington.

A webcast of the Heath Lecture will be available at http://video.ufl.edu/service2/public/pub_showMain.php?id=39797.

Contact:
Matt Walker, UF Law Communications
352-273-0650, mlwalker@law.ufl.edu

10 – 11 a.m.

This year’s guest speaker for the Bayard Wickliffe Heath Memorial Lecture Series will be Director of the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission and Georgetown Law Professor Howard Shelanski. His lecture is entitled,  ”Information, Innovation and Competition Policy for the Internet.” Shelanski’s teaching and research focus on antitrust, regulation and telecommunications policy.

A live webcast of the Heath Lecture can be streamed at http://video.ufl.edu/service2/public/pub_showMain.php?id=39797.

Joseph Harrington, professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University, will deliver the third annual Bayard Wickliffe Heath Memorial Lecture Friday at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. The lecture is titled, “Game-Theoretic Ruminations on Section 1 of the Sherman Act.”