S2E16 | A Matter of Antitrust

Jake sits down with Professor Spencer Waller to talk about the history of antitrust law in the United States, how U.S. antitrust law differs from competition law in other countries, and resurgence of antitrust law and breaking up monopolies as a major political issue in the 2020 election. Spencer Waller is the Faculty Director of the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies and the Justice John Paul Stevens Chair in Competition Law at Loyola University Chicago. He began his career as a staff law clerk for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, worked for the U.S. Department of Justice in the Foreign Commerce Section of the Antitrust Division and the Chicago Strike Force of the Criminal Division, and practiced at Freeborn & Peters. He has authored and co-authored numerous papers and books on antitrust, including Antitrust and American Business Abroad and The Fall and Rise of the Antitrust Class Action. Professor Waller taught at Brooklyn Law School for ten years, and has been teaching at Loyola since 2000 (including teaching Civil Procedure to most of the current Podvocate team).