Professor Beth Farmer’s research interests include U.S. and foreign antitrust and trade regulation law, issues of federalism, and comparative competition policy. She has served as a non-governmental advisor and rapporteur for the International Competition Network annual conferences in 2010 (Istanbul) and 2009 (Zurich) and is currently working the Agency Effectiveness Working Group on a chapter for the Competition Agency Practices Manual that will address agency prioritization and strategic planning, project management techniques and project evaluation. Before pursuing an academic career, she was an antitrust law enforcement attorney with the New York attorney general's office and counsel with the National Association of Attorneys General in Washington, D.C.

Professor Farmer’s recent publications focus on Chinese competition law and on the pre-merger notification guidelines, competition in the insurance sector, and an analysis of U.S. and European multi-jurisdictional competition enforcement. Professor Farmer serves on the advisory board of the American Antitrust Institute; the board of the Center for State Enforcement of Antitrust and Consumer Protection Law, and on several committees of the ABA Antitrust and International Law Sections.

 

 Competition Policy in China: Trends in Private Civil Litigation in Regulation and Competition Policy: New Developments and Empirical Evidence (Edward Elgar, forthcoming).

“Competition and Regulation in the Insurance Sector: Reassessing the McCarran-Ferguson Act,” 89 Or. L. Rev. 915 (2011).

“The Impact of China's Antitrust Law and Other Competition Policies on U.S. Companies,” 23 Loy. Consumer L. Rev. 34 (2010). 

“The Evolution of Chinese Merger Notification Guidelines: A Work in Progress Integrating Global Consenus and Domestic Imperatives,” 18 Tul. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 1 (2009).

The McCarran-Ferguson Exemption from the United States Antitrust Laws: Immunity in Search of a Justification, Study of Competition Law, presented paper, Korea University College of Law (2009) (available from SSRN http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=20369).

“Modern Legal and Legislative Developments in Antitrust Law and the Business of Insurance,” 18 J. Korean Comp. L. 466 (2008). 

“The European Experience with Merger and Deregulation” in Competition Policy and Merger Analysis in Deregulated and Newly Competitive Industries (edited with Peter Carstensen, 2008).

“Harmonizing Competition Law & Enforcement” in Harmonizing Law in an Era of Globalization: Convergence, Divergence and Resistance (edited by Larry C. Backer, 2007).

Global Competition: the Implications for Enforcement, 49 Amicus Curiae, (Sept/Oct. 2003).

State Criminal Antitrust Law Enforcement, chapter 7 in State Antitrust Enforcement (ABA 2003).

Guilds at the Millennium: Antitrust and the Professions: Introduction, 14 Loyola Cons. L. Rev. 377 (2002).

More Lessons from the Laboratories: Cy Pres Distributions in Parens Patriae Antitrust Actions Brought by State Attorneys General, 68 Fordham L. Rev. 361 (1999).

Hill Street Blues (chapter 2); in PRIME TIME LAW, FICTIONAL TELEVISION AS LEGAL NARRATIVE (Robert M. Jarvis & Paul R. Joseph, eds. 1998).

Altering the Balance Between State Sovereignty and Competition, the Impact of Seminole Tribe on the Antitrust State Action Immunity Doctrine, 23 O.N.U.L. Rev. 1403 (1997).

Balancing State Sovereign Immunity and Competition: An Analysis of the Impact of Seminole Tribe on the Antitrust State Action Immunity Doctrine, 42 Vill. L. Rev. 111 (1997).

ABA Antitrust Section, ANTITRUST LAW DEVELOPMENTS IV, chapter ID, Vertical Restraints of Trade (1997) (edited updated chapter 1D, Vertical Restraints of Trade).

Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University, Field Placement Clinics: Manual for Students & Supervisors, (annual editions 1995-96 - 2000-01).

Market Power and the National Association of Attorneys General Horizontal Merger Guidelines, 60 ANTITRUST L.J. 839 (1992);

STATE ATTORNEYS GENERAL: POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES, Antitrust Chapter (with E. Boisvert, T. Gilles, L. Ross) (L. Ross ed. 1990).

ABA Antitrust Law Section, STATE ANTITRUST PRACTICE AND STATUTES, Chapter 34: State of New York (with A. Arbisser, J. Balsam, W. Collins, S. Pincus 1990);

18 J. REPRINTS FOR ANTITRUST L. & ECONOMICS, State Antitrust Enforcement (S.B. Farmer ed. 1988);

ABA Antitrust Section: Monograph No. 15, Antitrust Federalism: The Role of State Law (1988) (member of Monograph Task Force).