Information Economy Project Staff and Faculty

Dr. Joshua D. Wright
Senior Fellow
703-993-8236
jwrightg@gmu.edu

Profile

Joshua Wright is an Assistant Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law.  Dr. Wright was recently appointed as the inaugural Scholar in Residence at the Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Competition, where he served until Fall 2008.  Professor Wright was a Visiting Professor at the University of Texas School of Law and was a Visiting Fellow at the Searle Center at the Northwestern University School of Law during the 2008-09 academic year.

Professor Wright received both his J.D. and a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA, where he was managing editor of the UCLA Law Review, and a B.A. in economics with highest departmental honors at the University of California, San Diego.  Professor Wright clerked for the Honorable James V. Selna of the Central District of California and taught at the Pepperdine University Graduate School of Public Policy. 

Professor Wright's areas of expertise include antitrust law and economics, empirical law and economics, intellectual property and the law and economics of contracts.  His publications have appeared in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Law and Economics, Antitrust Law Journal, Competition Policy International, Supreme Court Economic Review, Yale Journal on Regulation, Journal of Competition Law and Economics, Review of Law and Economics, and the UCLA Law Review.   Professor Wright is also the co-editor of two volumes forthcoming in 2010: Pioneers of Law and Economics (Elgar Publishing) and Competition Policy and Patent Law under Uncertainty: Regulating Innovation (Cambridge Press).  Professor Wright has also testified at the joint Department of Justice/ Federal Trade Commission Hearings on Section 2 of the Sherman Act as well as the Federal Trade Commission’s FTC at 100 Conference.

Professor Wright is on the editorial board of the Antitrust Law Journal, Global Competition Policy, Supreme Court Economic Review and Competition Policy International.  He is a co-founder of the Microsoft / George Mason Annual Conference on the Law and Economics of Innovation, a member of the National Science Foundation Advisory Panel for Law and Social Sciences, and a regular contributor to Truth on the Market, a weblog dedicated to academic commentary on law, business, and economics.

For full dossier, please visit Joshua Wright's Faculty Page.

Education

University of California, Los Angeles, J.D.

University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D. (Economics)

University of California, San Diego, B.A.

Selected Works

Why the Supreme Court Was Correct to Deny Certiorari in FTC v. Rambus, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 09-14, Feb. 2009 [SSRN Download].

Federalism, Substantive Preemption, and Limits on Antitrust: An Application to Patent Holdup (with Bruce H. Kobayashi), Journal of Competition Law and Economics (forthcoming 2009) [SSRN Download].

Missed Opportunities in Independent Ink, Cato Supreme Court Review, 2006 [SSRN Download].