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To register online, please click here. For more information, please contact BIOGRAPHIES Robert W. Hahn is co-founder and executive director of the American Enterprise Institute-Brookings Joint Center and a resident scholar at AEI. Previously, he worked for the Council of Economic Advisers. He also has served on the faculties of Harvard University and Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Hahn frequently contributes to leading scholarly journals and general-interest periodicals, including the American Economic Review, Yale Law Journal, Science, and the New York Times. He is the author of Reviving Regulatory Reform: A Global Perspective and In Defense of the Economic Analysis of Regulation. In addition, Dr. Hahn is co-founder of the Community Preparatory School––an inner-city middle school in Providence, Rhode Island, that provides opportunities for disadvantaged youth to achieve their full potential. Doug G. Lichtman earned undergraduate degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from Duke University in 1994. He next attended Yale Law School, where he completed his J.D. in 1997. He joined the law faculty of the University of Chicago in 1998 and was tenured in 2001. Professor Lichtman's research considers how technology will challenge, reinforce, and redefine traditional legal rules. Specific areas of expertise include patent, copyright, and trademark law; telecommunications regulation; information economics; and a variety of issues related to technology startups and the Internet. His work has been featured in the Journal of Law & Economics, the Journal of Legal Studies, and the Harvard Business Review. He is co-author of Telecommunications Law and Policy, a textbook that investigates the federal regulatory regime applicable to broadcast television, cable television, radio, telephony, and advanced services like the provision of Internet access over the cable infrastructure. He is also an Editor at the Journal of Law & Economics. Hal R. Varian is the Class of 1944 Professor at the School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS) , the Haas School of Business, and the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1995-2002, he served as the founding dean of SIMS. He received his S.B. degree from MIT in 1969 and his MA (mathematics) and Ph.D. (economics) from UC Berkeley in 1973. He has taught at MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Michigan and other universities around the world. Professor Varian is a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the Econometric Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served as Co-Editor of the American Economic Review and is on the editorial boards of several journals. Professor Varian has published numerous papers in economic theory, industrial organization, financial economics, econometrics and information economics. He is the author of two major economics textbooks which have been translated into 22 languages. His current research has been concerned with the economics of information technology and the information economy. He is the co-author of a bestselling book on business strategy, Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy and writes a monthly column for the The New York Times. |
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