B.A., Yale University
J.D., Harvard Law School

Antitrust
Consumer Law
Torts
Antitrust and Trade Regulation: Current Issues (Seminar)
Comparative U.S. - European Competition Law (Seminar)

Professor Calkins is currently on leave from the Law School, serving as a Member of the Competition Authority of Ireland and Director of its Mergers Division.  For 2008-2011 Calkins served as Wayne State’s Associate Vice President for Academic Personnel, while continuing to teach at the Law School on a limited basis.

During 1995-97, Professor Calkins served as General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission, a position to which he was nominated by FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky. At Wayne Law, Professor Calkins formerly taught courses and seminars that drew on this experience – antitrust and trade regulation, and consumer law — plus torts and occasionally corporations. He has taught at the universities of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Utrecht (The Netherlands), and served as Wayne State's interim dean.

Professor Calkins is much in demand as a speaker, annually delivering many presentations on competition and consumer law and policy to governmental, professional and academic audiences across the United States and overseas. He consults with federal, state and foreign governmental agencies, and has testified before Congress and federal and state agencies. He is a prolific author with articles in leading academic and specialty journals. His books include Antitrust Law: Policy and Practice (4th ed. 2008) (with C. Paul Rogers III, Mark R. Patterson, and William R. Andersen), Antitrust Law and Economics in a Nutshell (5th ed. 2004) (with Ernest Gellhorn & William Kovacic), and, as a co-editor, ABA Antitrust Section, Consumer Protection Law Developments (2009).

Professor Calkins participates in a wide range of professional activities. He is a member of the American Law Institute, senior fellow of the American Antitrust Institute, a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a member of the advisory boards for the Sedona Conference and the National State Attorneys General Program Advisory Project at Columbia Law School. For the American Bar Association, he has served on the Councils of the Sections of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice and the Section of Antitrust Law (two three-year terms). For the Antitrust Section he currently serves on the Publications Advisory Board. He is legal book review editor of the Antitrust Bulletin. He is a former chair of the Association of American Law School's Antitrust and Economic Regulation Committee.

At the university, Professor Calkins has served three terms on the Academic Senate’s Policy Committee (its executive committee). He served as the Senate’s Parliamentarian from 2000–2007. Previously, he served on various university committees, including the Review Advisory Panel for Economics and the university Promotion and Tenure Committee. At the Law School, he has served multiple terms on the promotion and tenure committee, budget committee, curriculum committee and faculty appointments committee. He was an elected member of the 2003-04 Strategic Plan Implementation Committee. Previously, he chaired the ad hoc committee on US News and the task force on student recruitment.

He holds degrees from Yale (B.A.) and Harvard (J.D.). He is the recipient of the ABA Section of Antitrust Law Fiftieth Anniversary Publications Award, the Federal Trade Commission Award for Distinguished Service, and the Donald H. Gordon Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Professor Calkins lives in scenic Northville, Michigan, and with his eight siblings owns a summer place on Long Lake (near Traverse City, Michigan) that was established by his grandparents more than 75 years ago.
 

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  Antitrust Law: Policy and Practice, Fourth Edition (LexisNexis) 2008 co-authored with C. Paul Rogers III, Mark R. Patterson and William R. Andersen
  
  

  From LexisNexis.com: "This book explores in detail those legal issues that arise in counseling, planning, and litigating under the antitrust laws. It is designed to integrate theory and policy issues with doctrine and practice so that students will emerge with a fundamental grasp of antitrust doctrine, at least an introduction to the vagaries of antitrust practice, and a sensitivity to policy issues undergirding the application and enforcement of the antitrust laws. The Fourth Edition of Antitrust Law: Policy and Practice provides close coverage of the application of antitrust doctrine to cutting-edge technologies, the Internet, and to rapidly shifting markets."

  
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  Derecho y Economía de la Competencia (Thomson-West, 5th edition) August 2004, translated into Spanish 2008 co-authored with Ernest Gellhorn and William E. Kovacic
  
  

  As a contribution to Mexican competition law, Professor Calkins's co-authored Antitrust Nutshell has been translated into Spanish by the Mexican Competition Commission, USAID, and the U.S. Embassy in Mexico.
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  Antitrust Law and Economics in a Nutshell (Thomson-West, 5th edition) August 2004 co-authored with Ernest Gellhorn and William E. Kovacic
  
  

  This 600-page book provides a thorough introduction to all of antitrust law and economics. It looks both backward to history and forward to future developments, reviewing all of the major cases and issues. It provides context, doctrine, and analysis. The authors include a former and the current General Counsel to the Federal Trade Commission.

Antitrust Law:  Policy and Practice (4th edition forthcoming 2007) (w. Rogers & Patterson)

ABA Antitrust Section, Consumer Law Developments (editorial board) (forthcoming 2007)

Broadcast Music, Inc. v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., in Antitrust Stories ch. 7 (Eleanor M. Fox & Daniel A. Crane eds., 2007)

Public Enforcement of EU Competition Law, in 11 EUROPEAN COMPETITION LAW ANNUAL (forthcoming 2007)

U.S. Competition Enforcement (with William E. Kovacic & Derek Ludwin), in INTERNATIONALES KARTELL-UND FUSIONSKONTROLLVERFAHRENSRECHT (Jörg Philipp Terhechte, ed.) (Gieseking, publisher; forthcoming 2007)
       
Roundtable Discussion:  The Report of the Antitrust Modernization Commission,  21 ANTITRUST SOURCE 9 (summer 2007) (panel participant)

Competition Law in the United States of America, in COMPETITION LAW TODAY: CONCEPTS, ISSUES, AND THE LAW IN PRACTICE (Vinod Dhall, ed.) (Oxford University Press 2007)

Civil Monetary Remedies Available to Federal Antitrust Enforcers, 40 U.S.F. L. REV. 567 (2006) (symposium issue)

Development in U.S. Monopoly Law:  Much Ado About ____?, to be published in New Zealand 2006

Antitrust Modernization:  Looking Backwards, 31 J. CORP. L. 421 (2006) (symposium issue)

90 Years and Two Days in Forty-Five Minutes, 72 ANTITRUST L.J. 1183 (2005) (Symposium in honor of the FTC’s 90th Anniversary)

Perspectives on State and Federal Antitrust Enforcement, 53 DUKE L.J. 673 (2003) (symposium issue), reprinted in abbreviated form in STATE ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT (ABA Committee Newsletter) Spring 2005, at 3 (featured article).

Passion, Exaggeration, and Importance: Comments on Japanese Industrial Policy and American Extraterritorial Antitrust, 48 ANTITRUST BULL.  667 (2003) (symposium issue)

The Organized Bar and Antitrust:  Change, Continuity and Influence, 14 LOYOLA CONSUMER L. REV. 393 (2002) (symposium issue)

The Antitrust Year of the Baseball Bat, THE ANTITRUST SOURCE, www.antitrustsource.com, Vol. 1, Issue 2 (Jan. 2002).

American Antitrust:  Almost Ready for the 21st Century, in NEUESTE ENTWICKLUNGEN IM EUROPÄISCHEN UND INTERNATIONALEN KARTELLRECHT, ACHTES ST. GALLER INTERNATIONALES KARTELLRECHTSFORUM 2001 (Carl Baudenbacher ed. 2002) (Symposium Publication for the Eighth St. Gallen University (Switzerland) International Competition Law Conference)   

FTC Unfairness: An Essay, 46 WAYNE L. REV 1935 (2001) (symposium issue)

The Antitrust Conversation, 68 ANTITRUST L.J. 625 (2001) (symposium issue).

Counterpoint: The Legal Foundation of the Commission’s Use of Section 5 to Challenge Invitations to Collude, ANTITRUST, Spring 2000, at 69.

California Dental Association:  Not the Quick Look But Not the Full Monty, 67 ANTITRUST L.J. 495 (2000)

Novartis:  Is Corrective Advertising Back?, ANTITRUST, Fall 1999, at 20.

Corporate Compliance and the Antitrust Agencies' Bi-Modal Penalties, 60 LAW & CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS 127 (1998)

In Praise of Antitrust Litigation: The Second Annual Bernstein Lecture, 72 ST. JOHN'S U. L. REV. 1 (1998).

Vertical Restraints of Trade Competition Laws in an Integrated World Economy, in Conference Proceedings of the Oslo Norway Competition Conference (1997)

An Enforcement Official’s Reflections on Antitrust Class Actions, 39 AZ. L. REV. 413 (1997)

Summary Judgment, Motions to Dismiss, and Other Examples of Equilibrating Tendencies in the Antitrust System, 74 GEO. L.J. 1065 (1986), summarized, 36 L. REV. DIGEST No. 3, at 37 (May/June 1987), reprinted in part in M. HANDLER, H. BLAKE, R. PITOFSKY, & H. GOLDSCHMID, CASES AND MATERIALS ON TRADE REGULA¬TION 514-15 (4th ed. 1997)

Copperweld in the Courts:  The Road to Caribe, 63 ANTITRUST L.J. 345 (1995)

The October 1992 Supreme Court Term and Antitrust:  More Objectivity Than Ever, 62 ANTI¬TRUST L.J. 327 (1994)

Supreme Court Antitrust 1991-92:  The Revenge of the Amici, 61 ANTITRUST L.J. 269 (1993)

The 1990-91 Supreme Court Term and Antitrust:  Toward Great¬er Certainty, 60 ANTITRUST L.J. 603 (1992)

Developments in Merger Litigation: The Government Doesn't Always Win, 56 ANTI¬TRUST L.J. 855 (1988), reprinted in 21 JOURNAL OF J. REPRINTS FOR ANTITRUST LAW AND ECONOMICS 793 (1992) and ELEANOR M. FOX & JAMES T. HALVERSON, COLLABO¬RA¬TIONS AMONG COMPET¬ITORS:  ANTITRUST POLICY AND ECONOMICS (1991).

The October 1989 Supreme Court Term and Antitrust:  Power, Access, and Legitima¬cy, 59 ANTITRUST L.J. 339 (1990)

Counsel's Summary:  The ABA Special Committee's Report on the FTC (Kirkpatrick I); Kirkpatrick II:  Counsel Responds; and "Unfair Methods of Competition" in the 1990s:  The Example of Frequent Flyer Programs, in P. MURPHY & W. WILKIE, EDS., MARKETING AND ADVERTISING REGULATION:  THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMIS¬SION IN THE 1990S, at 7, 60, 374 (Notre Dame University Press 1990).

Developments in Antitrust and the First Amendment: The Disaggregation of Noerr, 57 ANTITRUST L.J. 327 (1988)

Equilibrating Tendencies in the Antitrust System, with Special Attention to Summary Judgment and to Motions to Dismiss, in LAWRENCE J. WHITE, ED., PRIVATE ANTI¬TRUST LITIGATION:  NEW EVIDENCE, NEW LEARNING ch. 5 (MIT Press 1988)

Antitrust 1986-87:  Power and Access (Part I), 32 ANTITRUST BULL. 275 (1987) (with Briggs; I wrote all but one section), reprinted in part, 18 J. REPRINTS FOR ANTITRUST L. & ECON. No. 2, at 227 (1988)

Antitrust 1986-87:  Power and Access (Part II), 32 ANTITRUST BULL. 699 (1987) (with Briggs; I contributed to and revised this article)

ABA ANTITRUST SECTION, ANTITRUST LAW DEVELOPMENTS (SECOND), FIRST SUPPLEMENT 1983-1986 (vice-chair of editorial board); SECOND SUPPLEMENT 1983-1988 (vice-chair of editorial board)

ABA ANTITRUST SECTION, ANTITRUST LAW DEVELOPMENTS (2d ed. 1984) (member of five-person editorial board for this 900 page book).

The Merger Guidelines and the Herfindahl Index, 71 CALIF. L. REV. 402 (1983) (symposium issue on the Guidelines)