January 11, 2012
The George Mason Law Review, in partnership with the George Mason Law and Economics Center and sponsor Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, invites you to attend its 15th Annual Symposium on Antitrust Law on Thursday, January 26, 2012. The event will take place between the hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. in Founders Hall on the Arlington Campus of George Mason University. CLE credits are available.
Featuring four distinguished panels of speakers, the symposium, entitled Antitrust in High-Tech Industries, will focus on the proper role of antitrust in high-technology industries, including the extent to which current competition policy is adequate to address dynamic competition concerns that are prevalent in rapidly evolving sectors.
Panel Topics Include:
• Perspectives on High-Tech Antitrust
• Social Media
• Mergers
• Search and Online Advertising
William E. Kovacic, Former Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, will offer keynote remarks.
For further information and to register for the Symposium, please click here or contact Katie Brown, Symposium Editor, at gmusymposium@gmail.com or 703-375-9529
November 17, 2011
Please take a moment to read our Fall 2011 newsletter.
July 29, 2011
Candidate Member Michael Mortorano is this year’s winner of the Arthur E. Schmalz Award for the best write-on competition entry. Michael’s paper earned the highest marks from our Notes Editors out of all of this year’s write-on entries. Congratulations, Mike!
Candidate Member Chelsea Sizemore is this year’s winner of the Arthur E. Schmalz Award for the best write-on competition entry. Chelsea’s paper earned the highest marks from our Notes Editors out of all of this year’s write-on entries. Congratulations, Chelsea!
July 19, 2011
Please join us in congratulating the newest Candidate Members of the George Mason Law Review:
Andrew Alder
Thomas Baker III
Daniel Bram
Matthew Bowles
Matthew J. Brown
Sarah Collins
Patrick Curran
Muhammad Elsayed
Timothy Fox
Lisa Goldstein
Lauren Hahn
Tashina Harris
Valerie Hill
Daniel Hoffman
Robert Hopkins
Jack Jerrett
Matt Lafferman
Steven Lavender
Evan Lisull
Philip Lynch
Lisa Madalone
Tyler McComas
Melinda Meade
Raven Merlau
Michael Mortorano
Erik Mussoni
Benjamin Owen
Rachel Parker
Cynthia Phillips
Deirdre Potts
Mark Quist
Eric Sega
Scott Stemetzki
Abby Uzupis
Jue Wang
Wesley Weeks
Thank you to all the first-year students who participated in this year’s Write-On Competition and to the other journals for helping the Law Review put together another successful competition.
April 30, 2011
Peter Cockrell is the recipient of a 2011 Distinguished Writing Award from the Burton Foundation for his student comment, Subprime Solutions to the Housing Crisis: Constitutional Problems with the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009. Founded in 1999, the Burton Awards program is run in association with the Library of Congress and its Law Library. Nominations for the award are made by law school deans and managing partners of the 1000 largest U.S. law firms. Fifteen Burton Award law school winners are selected annually from law schools across the nation to receive this award, which honors partners in law firms and law students who set a high standard for clarity and effectiveness in legal writing. Read the full story here.
Congratulations, Peter!
April 5, 2011
Please take a moment to read our Spring 2011 newsletter.
March 7, 2011
The Law Review’s annual Alumni Reception has been rescheduled for Thursday, March 10, 2011 at the Washington, D.C. office of Latham & Watkins from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. We hope our local alumni and friends can make it to meet with current editors, GMU professors, and our newest class of full members.
February 21, 2011
Congratulations to the 2011-2012 George Mason Law Review Board of Editors!
Editor-in-Chief: Catherine Schmierer
Executive Editor: Matthew McGuire
Managing Editor: Kalynn Hughes
Production Editor: Mark DiGiovanni
Symposium Editor: Catherine Brown
Senior Articles Editor: Lora Barnhart
Articles Editor: Sean Clerget
Articles Editor: Angela Diveley
Articles Editor: Stacey Sklaver
Senior Notes Editor: Chelsea Sizemore
Notes Editor: Alissa Dutrow
Notes Editor: Emily Harp
Notes Editor: Matthew Long
Senior Research Editor: Paisly Bender
Research Editor: Robyn Burrows
Research Editor: Joshua Chamberlain
Research Editor: Meredith Schramm-Strosser
February 16, 2011
The George Mason Law Review, together with Navigant Economics and O’Melveny & Myers LLP, presented the 14th Annual Symposium on Antitrust Law on February 9, 2011 at the Willard InterContinental in Washington, D.C. The Law Review thanks all of our speakers and participants for a successful and enjoyable event. For more information about the event and the speakers, please visit our Symposium Web page. Below are some photos from the event.
Below, from left to right: Bret Lee (Managing Editor 2010-2011), Geoffrey B. Fehling (Editor-in-Chief, 2010-2011), Isaac Post (Symposium Editor, 2010-2011), and Anthony D. Peluso (Executive Editor, 2010-2011)
Below, Keynote Address delivered by J. Thomas Rosch:
Below, from left to right: Isaac Post (Symposium Editor, 2010-2011), FTC Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch, and Geoffrey B. Fehling (Editor-in-Chief, 2010-2011)
Below, Panel One: “The Impact of the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines on the Litigation of Merger Cases”
Below, Panel Two: “Current Trends in Criminal Cartel Enforcement”
February 15, 2011
The George Mason Law Review is proud to congratulate the following student authors who have been selected for publication in the Law Review:
- Sean Clerget – Timing is of the Essence: Reviving the Neutral Law of General Applicability Standard and Applying it to Restrictions Against Religious Face Coverings Worn While Testifying in Court (2011 Adrian S. Fisher Award, Best Student Note or Comment)
- James Kim - For a Good Cause: Reforming the Good Cause Exception to Notice and Comment Rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act
- Chelsea A. Sizemore – Enforcing Islamic Mahr Agreements: The American Judge’s Interpretational Dilemma
- Lora E. Barnhart – Citizens United v. Central Hudson: A Rationale for Simplifying and Clarifying the First Amendment’s Protections for Non-Political Advertisements
- Robyn Burrows – Judicial Confusion and the Digital Drug Dog Sniff: Pragmatic Solutions Permitting Warrantless Hashing of Known Illegal Files
- Paisly Bender - Exposing the Hidden Penalties of Pleading Guilty: A Revision of the Collateral Consequences Rule
- Matthew McGuire - (Mis)Understanding “Undue Discrimination:” FERC’s Attempt to Encourage Transmission Infrastructure Investment by Protecting Independent Transmission Companies
- Mark F. DiGiovanni - Weeding Out a New Theory of Insider Trading Liability and Cultivating an Heirloom Variety: A Proposed Response to SEC v. Dorozhko
- Carly Humphrey – Keep Recording: Why On-Duty Police Officers Do Not Have a Protected Expectation of Privacy Under Maryland’s State Wiretap Act
- Genevieve McCarthy – A Short-lived Benchmark: How the Supreme Court Deviated from Brown v. Board Long Before Parents Involved
January 3, 2011
SAVE THE DATE
George Mason Law Review
14th Annual Symposium on Antitrust
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
8:30am – 12:30pm
The Willard Room
The Willard InterContinental Washington
1401 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20004
The George Mason Law Review, together with Navigant Economics and O’Melveny & Myers LLP, invite you to attend our 14th Annual Symposium on Antitrust Law.
The Symposium will focus on two timely topics in antitrust litigation:
(1) The impact of the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines on the litigation of merger cases, discussing the following issues: the Guidelines’ shift from evaluating competitive effects through a focus on market definition and step-by-step merger analysis to instead emphasizing diversion analysis and upward pricing pressure analysis; how the Courts will respond, if at all, to changes in the Guidelines; how the new Guidelines change the Government’s burden of proof in suing to oppose a merger, and the type of evidence that the parties can provide to rebut the Government’s allegations. Speakers include scholars and practitioners who have participated in merger litigations and have been involved in drafting the new Guidelines.
(2) Current trends in criminal cartel enforcement, focusing on the following issues: converging and diverging interests of company counsel and individual counsel; the “volume of commerce” analysis under the post-Booker U.S. Sentencing Guidelines; and whether economic damages analyses are useful in measuring “volume of commerce”. Speakers include a senior Department of Justice official responsible for cartel enforcement, and attorneys and an economist who work on cartel matters.
Confirmed speakers include FTC Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch; Howard Shelanski, Deputy Director for Antitrust, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission; Lisa Phelan, Chief, National Criminal Enforcement Section, U.S. Department of Justice; Kevin Murphy, George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, Booth School of Business and Department of Economics at the University of Chicago, and Navigant Economics; James Langenfeld, Navigant Economics and Adjunct Professor, Loyola University Chicago Law School; David Scheffman, Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University; Ian Simmons and Steve Bunnell, O’Melveny & Myers LLP; and Barry Boss, Cozen O’Connor.
For further information, please visit
www.law.gmu.edu/gmulawreview/symposium/
or contact Isaac Post, Symposium Editor at
gmusymposium@gmail.com or 202-277-5409
December 8, 2010
Please take a moment to read our Fall 2010 newsletter.
July 18, 2010
Candidate Member Chelsea Sizemore is this year’s winner of the Arthur E. Schmalz Award for the best write-on competition entry. Chelsea’s paper earned the highest marks from our Notes Editors out of all of this year’s write-on entries. Congratulations, Chelsea!
July 10, 2010
Please join us in congratulating the newest candidate members of the George Mason Law Review:
Lora Barnhart
Paisley Bender
Catherine M. Brown
Erik Burggraf
Robyn Burrows
Joshua Chamberlain
Sean Clerget
Mark DiGiovanni
Angela Diveley
Alissa Dutrow
Stephen Foster
Adam C. Fowles
Ashley Fry
Emily Harp
Kalynn Hughes
Carly Humphrey
James Kim
Alysa Kociuruba
Matthew Long
Genevieve McCarthy
Matthew McGuire
Linda America Santiago
Catherine Schmierer
Meredith Schramm-Strosser
Zach Shoup
Chelsea Sizemore
Stacey Sklaver
Mark Smatlak
Raymond B. Sperry
Thank you to all the first-year students who participated in this year’s Write-on Competition and to the other journals for helping the Law Review put together another successful competition.
July 2, 2010
Congratulations to Clayton E. Cramer, Nicholas J. Johnson, and George A. Mocsary, whose essay, “This Right Is Not Allowed By Governments That Are Afraid Of The People’: The Public Meaning of the Second Amendment When the Fourteenth Amendment Was Ratified,” was recently cited in the U.S. Supreme Court opinion McDonald v. City of Chicago, Ill. Their essay details the public meaning of “the right to keep and bear arms” in the period preceding the enactment of the Fourteenth Amendment. McDonald has stirred a lot of public debate since it was issued on June 28, and we are excited that the outstanding scholars published in the George Mason Law Review contributed to the Court’s decision.
The 2010 Transfer Write-On Competition Packet has now ended.
May 12, 2010
The 2010 GMU 1L Write-On Competition Packet has been posted. Good luck to all competitors!
April 27, 2010
Joshua Newborn (Senior Research Editor 2009-2010) is the recipient of a 2010 Distinguished Writing Award from the Burton Foundation for his student casenote, An Analysis of Credible Threat Standing and Ex Parte Young for Second Amendment Litigation. Founded in 1999, the Burton Awards program is run in association with the Library of Congress and its Law Library. Nominations for the award are made by law school deans and managing partners of the 1000 largest U.S. law firms. Fifteen Burton Award law school winners are selected annually from law schools across the nation to receive this award, which honors partners in law firms and law students who set a high standard for clarity and effectiveness in legal writing. Read the full story here.
Congratulations, Joshua!
April 16, 2010
Alyssa DaCunha (Editor-in-Chief 2009-2010) recently had her student casenote cited in a brief submitted to the Supreme Court in City of Ontario v. Quon. Alyssa’s casenote, Txts R Safe 4 2Day: Quon v. Arch Wireless and the Fourth Amendment Applied to Text Messages, 17 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 295 (2009), examined both the statutory and constitutional protections for text messages and argued that the current statutory protections under the Act are both outdated and inadequate. Read the full story here.
Congratulations, Alyssa!
March 18, 2010
Please take a moment to read our Spring 2010 Newsletter
March 16, 2010
Congratulations to the 2010-2011 George Mason Law Review Associate Editors!
Bryan Andersen
Mitchell Calhoun
Kieran Carter
Jessica Farace
February 28, 2010
Congratulations to the 2010-2011 George Mason Law Review Board of Editors!
Editor-in-Chief: Geoffrey Fehling
Executive Editor: Anthony Peluso
Managing Editor: Bret Lee
Production Editor: Michael Manteuffel
Symposium Editor: Isaac Post
Senior Articles Editor: Lindsey Champlin
Articles Editor: Brendan Coffman
Articles Editor: Joshua Cumby
Articles Editor: Tony Tran
Senior Notes Editor: Michael D’Anello
Notes Editor: Mitchell Bashur
Notes Editor: Aaron Brotman
Notes Editor: Kendal Smith
Senior Research Editor: Cattleya Concepcion
Research Editor: Joe Barrier
Research Editor: Nate Chubb
Research Editor: Stephanie Cook
February 19, 2010
Congratulations to the following ten members whose note or comment was chosen for publication in forthcoming issues of the George Mason Law Review.
- Peter Cockrell - Subprime Solutions to the Housing Crisis: Constitutional Problems with the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009 (2010 Adrian S. Fisher Award, Best Student Note)
- Lindsey Champlin - Should the Sherman Act Restrain State Power Under the Twenty-First Amendment? Why Federal Courts Should Abandon the Fourth Circuit’s Balancing Test From TFWS v. Schaefer
- Jeremy Graboyes - Now, Voyager: Deixis and the Temporal Pragmatics of Legislative Speech Acts
- Anthony Peluso – A Distinction Without a Difference: How Callahan v. Millard County Drew an Unwarranted Line in the Sand of Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence
- Ted Brown - Not a Tecom Party: There’s “Very Little Likelihood” Geren v. Tecom Will Promote Sound Government Contracting Practices
- Cattleya Concepcion - Beyond the Lens of Lenz: Looking to Protect Fair Use During the Safe Harbor Process Under the DMCA
- Geoff Fehling - Verdugo, Where’d You Go?: Stoot v. City of Everett and Evaluating Fifth Amendment Self-Incrimination Civil Liability Violations
- Nathan Chubb – Merger Review: How “Serious Questions” in Preliminary Injunctions May Improve Antitrust Law
- Kendal Smith - Human Trafficking and RICO: A New Prosecutorial Hammer in the War on Modern Day Slavery
- Joshua Cumby – The Sixth Amendment: Version 1.0 et seq–Commas, Clauses, and the Constitution
The Law Review celebrated the accomplishments of its newly-minted full members and announced which student notes would be published over the course of the next year.
January 22, 2010
The George Mason Law Review is once again excited to host its annual alumni reception on January 28th, 2010, at Arent Fox LLP. The reception will begin at 6:30 p.m. We look forward to seeing all of our distinguished alumni and introducing them to the Law Review’s newest candidate members. Please take a look at the invitation.
Event Photos:
From left: Mark Cowen (ME, 2009-10), David Pettit (SAE, 2009-10), Alyssa DaCunha (EiC, 2009-10), Dylan Brown (AE, 2009-10)
Law Review Alumni enjoying the reception
September 15, 2009
Dean Polsby selected George Ingham (Sr. Notes Editor, 2009-2010) for the honor based upon demonstrated excellence in the study of law and promise of contributing to the thoughtful study and analysis of the law. Read the full story here. Congratulations, George!
August 4, 2009
Please join us in congratulating the newest transfer members of the George Mason Law Review:
Geoffrey Fehling
Michael Manteuffel
July 28, 2009
Candidate Member Anthony Peluso is this year’s winner of the Arthur E. Schmalz Award for the best write-on competition entry. Anthony’s paper earned the highest marks from our Notes Editors out of all of this year’s write-on entries. Congratulations, Anthony!
Law Review alumnus Arthur Schmalz (EiC 1992-93), stands with Schmalz Award winner Anthony Peluso
July 12, 2009
Please join us in congratulation to the newest candidate members of the George Mason Law Review:
Bryan B. Andersen
Joseph Barrier
Mitchell A. Bashur
Aaron Brotman
Edward R. Brown
Mitchell Calhoun
Kieran Carter
Lindsey Champlin
Teresa Chin
Nathan Chubb
Peter Cockrell
Brendan Coffman
Cattleya Concepcion
Stephanie Cook
Joshua Cumby
Michael D’Anello
Jessica Farace
Benjamin Fleming
Henry Gola
Jeremy Graboyes
Kelly Hollrah
Julie M. Honan
Bret Lee
Zach Olson
Janice Pardue
Anthony Peluso
Kevin Pettrey
Isaac Post
Kendal Smith
Jacob Stewart
Tony Tran
July 2, 2009
A study in a George Mason Law Review article by David Thompson and Melinda Wachtell is featured in the National Law Journal. Visit the National Law Journal website to read the article (subscription required) or read the PDF version here. Read Thompson and Wachtell’s article and full study here.
