John E. Lopatka A. Robert Noll Distinguished Professor of Law
Education:
LL.M., Columbia University
J.D., University of Chicago
B.A., Loyola University of Chicago
Professor John Lopatka joined Penn State Law from the University of South Carolina School of Law, where he was the Solomon Blatt Professor of Law. He began his full-time teaching career at the University of Illinois College of Law, where he was an associate professor. One of the nation’s leading antitrust scholars, he has published over forty articles in the areas of antitrust, economic analysis of law, and regulated industries. With Professor Joseph Bauer of the University of Notre Dame Law School and Professor William Page of the University of Florida, Levin College of Law, he authored the multi-volume treatise Federal Antitrust Law. He and Professor Page have also written The Microsoft Case: Antitrust, High Technology, and Consumer Welfare, which was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2007.
Professor Lopatka earned his juris doctor degree from the University of Chicago and his master of laws degree from Columbia University, where he also served as an Associate in Law and Fellow in the Center for Law and Economic Studies. Apart from his career in teaching, he served as assistant director for planning for the Bureau of Competition of the Federal Trade Commission and practiced law with Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine in New York City and Isham, Lincoln & Beale in Chicago.
Professor Lopatka is a member of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Section leadership and is a contributing editor of the section’s Antitrust Law Journal. From 2001 until 2004, he was a consultant to the Office of General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission.
Contact Information:
E-mail: jel28@psu.edu
Phone: (814) 863-7030
Principal Office: University Park
Selected Publications:
Class Action Professional Objectors: What To Do About Them? __Fla. St. U. L. Rev. __ (with D. Brooks Smith)(forthcoming 2012).
Market Definition? 39 Rev. Indus. Org. 69 (2011).
Assessing Microsoft From a Distance, 75 Antitrust L. J. 811 (2008).
Missed Opportunity: The Enforcement Recommendations of the Antitrust Modernization Commission, Antitrust Bulletin, 2008.
Predatory Buying and the Antitrust Laws,
2008 Utah L. Rev. 415 (2008)(with Roger D. Blair).
Antitrust Injury and Causation, inIssues in Competition Law and Policy, (Wayne D. Collins, ed. 2008).
The Microsoft Case, Antitrust, High Technology, and Consumer Welfare (University of Chicago Press, 2009) (with William H. Page).
Overcharge Damages for Monopolization of New Economy Markets,
51 Antitrust Bull. 453 (2006).
Resale Price Maintenance and the Private Antitrust Plaintiff, 83 Wash. U. L.Q. 657 (2005) (with Roger D. Blair & Jill B. Herndon).
Bargaining and Monopolization: In Search of the 'Boundary of Section 2 Liability' between Aspen and Trinko, 73 Antitrust L. J. 115 (2005) (with William H. Page).
Economic Authority and the Limits of Expertise in Antitrust Cases, 90 Cornell L. Rev. 617 (2004) (with William H. Page).
A Comment on the Antitrust Analysis of Reverse Payment Patent Settlements: Through the Lens of the Hand Formula, 79 Tul. L. Rev. 235 (2004).
State Action and the Meaning of Agreement Under the Sherman Act: An Approach to Hybrid Restraints, 20 Yale J. on Reg. 269 (2003) (with William H. Page).
Indirect Purchaser Suits and the Consumer Interest, 48 Antitrust Bull. 531 (2003) (with William H. Page).
'Obvious' Consumer Harm in Antitrust Policy: The Chicago School, the Post-Chicago School, and the Courts, inPost-Chicago Developments in Antitrust Law (Antonio Cucinotta et al., eds. 2002) (with William H. Page).
Who Suffered Antitrust Injury in the Microsoft Case? 69 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 829 (2001) (with William H. Page).
Monopolization, Innovation, and Consumer Welfare, 69 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 368 (2001) (with William H. Page).
