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MASON ATTORNEYS GENERAL EDUCATION PROGRAM
PUBLIC POLICY CONFERENCE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION
October 21 – 23, 2012 George Mason University School of Law Arlington, Virginia
LAW & ECONOMICS CENTER, GEORGE MASON UNIVERS ITY SCHOOL OF LAW Publ ic Pol icy Conference on the Economics of Consumer Protection Sunday, October 21 through Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Agenda Sunday, October 21 Le Méridien Arlington 5:00 – 7:00 pm Registration and Meet & Greet Reception Le Méridien Arlington, Adagio Room Monday, October 22 Classes held at GMU School of Law, Hazel Hall, Room 215 7:00 & 7:30 am Bus departs Le Méridien and the Hyatt Arlington for George Mason University School of
Law 7:00 – 7:50 am Breakfast, Rear Atrium 8:00 – 9:15 am Welcome
Daniel D. Polsby, Dean and Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law Karen M. Czarnecki, Director, Education, Law & Economics Center The Institutions of Consumer Protection: Competitive Markets, Common Law, and Regulation Todd J. Zywicki, George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law
9:30 – 10:45 am Market Forces in Action: Advertising, Reputation, Bonding, Contracting
James C. Cooper, Director, Research and Policy, Law & Economics Center, and Adjunct Professor, George Mason University School of Law
11:00 am – 12:00 pm The Role of Self-Regulatory Organizations in Protecting Consumers
C. Lee Peeler, Executive Vice President, Council of Better Business Bureaus & President & CEO, Advertising Self Regulatory Council
Linda Sherry, Director, National Priorities, Consumer Action Moderator: Lydia B. Parnes, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Reading Assignments: Press Release, Advertising Self-Regulatory Council, Accountability Program Looks Under Hood of Online Ad Campaign: Self-Regulation Process Ensures Consumers Receive Notice of Interest-Based Ads (Oct. 1, 2012) Press Release, Advertising Self-Regulatory Council, Self-Regulation Keeps Pace with Innovation: Accountability Program Makes Clear that All Technologies Must Comply with Industry Self- Regulatory Standards (May 30, 2012) Press Release, Advertising Self-Regulatory Council, CARU Recommends USA BMX/BMX Canada Modify Website to Better Protect Children’s Privacy (Sept. 6, 2012) Advertising Self-Regulatory Council, Children’s Advertising Review Unit, Website Privacy Digest, June 21, 2012
Monday, October 22 continued Advertising Self-Regulatory Council, Self-Regulatory Program for Children’s Advertising Speech to the Council of Better Business Bureaus, Deborah Platt Majoras, Self Regulatory Organizations and the FTC, April 11, 2005 Press Release, Advertising Self-Regulatory Council, NAD Recommends Allstate Discontinue Certain Claims in ‘Mayhem’ Campaign (May 8, 2012) Press Release, The National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus, NAD Recommends Merck Discontinue Claim that Coppertone “Protects Across 100% of the UVA UVB Spectrum” (Dec. 15, 2011) Press Release, Advertising Self-Regulatory Council, NAD Finds Nutrisystem’s “Pinned” Content is Testimonial in Nature, Requires Disclosures (July 12, 2012) The Advertising Industry’s Process of Voluntary Self-Regulation, Policies and Procedures by Advertising Self-Regulatory Council Procedures, Online Interest-Based Advertising Accountability Program, Advertising Self-Regulatory Council, Revised April 3, 2012
12:00 – 1:30 pm Luncheon Discussion, Multipurpose Room 125
Evolving First Amendment Protections of Commercial Speech Dawn C. Nunziato, Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School Ilya Somin, Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law 1:45 – 3:00 pm The Economics of Privacy
Paul H. Rubin, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics, Emory University
Reading Assignments: Paul H. Rubin, Ten Fallacies About Web Privacy, The Wall Street Journal, August 30, 2010, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704147804575455192488549362.html
Michael R. Hammock & Paul H. Rubin, Applications Want to be Free: Privacy Against
Information, Competition Policy International, Volume 7, Number 1 (Spring 2011) 3:15 – 4:30 pm The Interface Between Privacy and Competitive Analysis in Search and Social
Media Paul H. Rubin, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics, Emory University Peter P. Swire, C. William O’Neill Professor in Law and Judicial Administration, Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University Catherine Tucker, Mark Hyman, Jr. Career Development Professor and Associate Professor of Management Science, MIT Sloan School of Management Moderator: James C. Cooper, Director, Research and Policy, Law & Economics Center, George Mason University School of Law
Reading Assignment: Peter Swire & Yianni Lagos, "Why the Right to Data Portability Likely Reduces Consumer Welfare: Antitrust and Privacy Critique," available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2159157
Monday, October 22 continued 4:45 – 6:00 pm Self Regulating Organizations From a Business Perspective
Phillip J. Grudzinski, CEO, Professional Association for Customer Engagement Rick Stauffer, Chief Operating Office, PossibleNOW Moderator: Betty D. Montgomery, Of Counsel, MacMurray, Petersen & Shuster LLP, and former Ohio Attorney General
6:00 pm Bus departs George Mason University School of Law for Le Méridien Arlington 6:30 – 9:00 pm Reception and Dinner Le Méridien Arlington, Vivace Room Tuesday, October 23, 2012 Classes held at GMU School of Law, Hazel Hall, Room 215 7:00 & 7:30 am Bus departs Le Méridien and the Hyatt Arlington for GMU School of Law
Please bring your bags with you. 7:00 – 7:50 am Breakfast, Rear Atrium 8:00 – 9:15 am Competition and Consumer Welfare in Financial Services Markets J.W. Verret, Assistant Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law 9:30 – 10:45 am Dodd-Frank Developments Update
Frank M. Salinger, General Counsel, Card Coalition Andrew J. Pincus, Partner, Mayer Brown Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr., Professor of Law and Executive Director, Center for Law, Economics and Finance, The George Washington University Law School
Moderator: Jodie Z. Bernstein, Of Counsel, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP Reading Assignments: Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr.,The Financial Services Industry’s Misguided Quest to Undermine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, The George Washington University Law School Public Law and Legal Theory Paper No. 2012-4 (Jan. 2012) Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Supervision and Examination Manual, Version 1.0 Frank Salinger, The Short Legislative History of “Abusive” Acts or Practices (or Why Are We Here, Anyway?), June 5, 2012
11:00 am – 12:30 pm Using Disparate Impact Analysis to Establish Discrimination in Lending Andrew L. Sandler, Chairman & Executive Partner, BuckleySandler LLP Alan M. White, Professor of Law, CUNY School of Law D. Jean Veta, Partner, Covington & Burling LLP Paul H. Rubin, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics, Emory University
Moderator: Satya P. Thallam, Assistant Director for Research and Policy, Law & Economics Center
Tuesday, October 23 continued 12:30 – 1:45 pm Luncheon, Hazel Hall, Room 215
Charles A. Harwood, Deputy Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission
1:50 pm Adjourn 2:00 pm Bus departs George Mason University School of Law for Reagan National Airport
Partic ipant List
Richard Anderson Office of the Attorney General of Alabama 501 Washington Avenue Montgomery, AL 36130 Phone: 334.263.7265 [email protected] W. Mark Anderson I I I Office of the Alabama Attorney General 680 Alabama Center for Commerce 401 Adams Avenue Montgomery, AL 36104 Phone: 334.353.4512 [email protected] Nancy Anger Office of the Arizona Attorney General 1275 West Washington Phoenix, AZ 85007 Phone: 602.542.7710 [email protected] Kyle Beckman Office of the Alabama Attorney General 501 Washington Avenue Montgomery, AL 36130 Phone: 334.353.2619 [email protected] Dena Benjamin Office of the Attorney General of Arizona 1275 West Washington Phoenix, AZ 85007 Phone: 602.542.7717 [email protected] Richard Ber l in Office of the Attorney General of Texas 808 Travis St., Suite 1520 Houston, TX 77002 Phone: 713.225.8917 [email protected] Jon Blake Office of the Attorney General of Connecticut 110 Sherman Street Hartford, CT 06105-2294 Phone: 860.808.5400 [email protected]
Monica Brookman Office of the Attorney General of Massachusetts One Ashburton Place, 18th Floor Boston, MA 02108 Phone: 617.963.2450 [email protected] Nicho las Campins Office of the Attorney General of California 455 Golden Gate Ave. Suite 11000 San Francisco, CA 94010 Phone: 415.703.5500 [email protected] Gwendo lyn J. Coo ley Wisconsin Department of Justice PO Box 7857 17 W. Main St. Madison, WI 53707-7857 Phone: 608.261.5810 [email protected] Joe l Cruz-Esparza Office of the New Mexico Attorney General 111 Lomas Boulevard Northwest, Suite 120 Albuquerque, NM 87102 Phone: 505.222.9058 [email protected] Tracy Dickens Office of the Attorney General of Ohio 30 E. Broad Street, 14th Floor Columbus, OH 43215 Phone: 614.466.3999 [email protected] Ca it l in Doty Office of the Attorney General of Tennessee PO Box 20207 Nashville, TN 37202-0207 Phone: 615.741.1671 [email protected] Jenny Draff in Smith Office of the Attorney General of South Carolina PO Box 11549 Columbia, SC 29211-1549 Phone: 803.734.5254 [email protected]
Jenn ifer Epperson North Carolina Attorney General's Office 9001 Mail Service Center Raleigh, NC 27699-9001 Phone: 919.716.6412 [email protected] Samantha Schosberg Feuer Office of the Attorney General of Florida 1515 North Flagler Drive, Suite 900 West Palm Beach, FL 33401 Phone: 561.837.8500 [email protected] Natasha Fossett Office of the Attorney General of Louisiana 1885 N. Third St. Baton Rouge, LA 70802 Phone: 225.326.6435 [email protected] Michae l Gerdes Office of the Attorney General of Pennsylvania Strawberry Square, 15th Floor Harrisburg, PA 17120 Phone: 717.772.4379 [email protected] Keith Gordon Office of the Attorney General of New York 120 Broadway, Rm. 3B42 New York, NY 10271 Phone: 212.416.8320 [email protected] G lenn Graham Office of the Attorney General of New Jersey 124 Halsey St. Newark, NJ 07101 Phone: 973.648.7457 [email protected] John Grantham Office of the Attorney General of Missouri PO Box 899 Jefferson City, MO 65109 Phone: 573.751.3942 [email protected] Greg Grzeskiewicz Office of the Attorney General of Illinois 100 W. Randolph, 12th Floor Chicago, IL 60601 Phone: 312.814.8552 [email protected]
Keets ie Gunne ls Louisiana Attorney General's Office PO Box 94005 Baton Rouge, LA 70804 Phone: 225.326.6449 [email protected] Mary Henderson Office of the Attorney General of Texas PO Box 12548 Austin, TX 78711-2548 Phone: 512.475.4185 [email protected] Sonny Jones South Carolina Office of the Attorney General 1000 Assembly Street, Room 519 Columbia, SC 29201 Phone: 803.734.3680 [email protected] Mary Frances Jowers Office of the Attorney General of South Carolina PO Box 11549 Columbia, SC 29211.1549 Phone: 803.734.3996 [email protected] Alexander Kassoff Office of the Attorney General of Mississippi 550 High Street, Suite 1200 11th Floor, Sellers Bldg. Jackson, MS 39201 Phone: 601.359.4230 [email protected] Cynth ia E. Kinser Office of the Tennessee Attorney General PO Box 20207 Nashville, TN 37202.0207 Phone: 615.741.1671 [email protected] Oscar Klaas Office of the Attorney General of Idaho PO Box 83720 Boise, ID 83720.0010 Phone: 208.332.3549 [email protected] E l izabeth Koen ig Office of the Maryland Attorney General 200 St. Paul Place Baltimore, MD 21202 Phone: 410.576.7226 [email protected]
Sarah Kurtz California Department of Justice Office of the Attorney General 455 Golden Gate Ave. Suite 11000 San Francisco, CA 94102-7004 Phone: 415.703.5562 [email protected] Abiga i l L . Kuzma Office of the Indiana Attorney General 302 West Washington Street, 5th Floor Indianapolis, IN 46204 Phone: 317.234.6843 [email protected] Albert Lama Office of the Attorney General of New Mexico PO Drawer 1508 408 Galisteo Santa Fe, NM 87504-1508 Phone: 505.827.6067 [email protected] Stephen Levins Office of the Attorney General of Hawaii 425 Queen Street Honolulu, HI 96813 Phone: 808.586.1180 [email protected] Jared Libet Office of the Attorney General of South Carolina PO Box 11549 Columbia, SC 29211 Phone: 803.734.5251 [email protected] Marty Mack Office of the Attorney General of New York 120 Broadway New York City, NY 10005 Phone: 315.448.4823 [email protected] Alyse Meis l ik Office of the Attorney General of Arizona 1275 W. Washington Street Phoenix, AZ 85007 Phone: 605.542.7727 [email protected]
Adam Mi l ler Office of the Attorney General of California 455 Golden Gate Avenue San Francisco, CA 94102 Phone: 415.703.5551 [email protected] Terre l l Mi l ler Office of the Attorney General of Kentucky 1024 Capital Center Drive, Suite 200 Frankfort, KY 40601 Phone: 502.696.5389 [email protected] Grant G. Moy, Jr. Office of the District of Columbia Attorney General 441 4th Street Northwest, Suite 650N Washington, DC 20001 Phone: 202.727.6337 [email protected] Sarah Pou l imas Office of the Attorney General of Illinois 100 W. Randolph, 12th Floor Chicago, IL 60601 Phone: 312.814.4424 [email protected] Viv ienne Rakowsky Office of the Attorney General of Nevada 555 East Washington Ave., Rm. 3900 Las Vegas, NV 89101 Phone: 702.486.3103 [email protected] De idre Decu lus Robert Louisiana Attorney General's Office PO Box 94005 Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9005 Phone: 225.326.6400 [email protected] Ph i l l ip Rosar io Connecticut Attorney General's Office 110 Sherman Street Hartford, CT 06105 Phone: 860.808.5400 [email protected]
Suzan Sanford Office of the Attorney General of Michigan 525 W. Ottawa PO Box 30755 Lansing, MI 48909 Phone: 517.373.1160 [email protected]
Gary Tan Office of the District of Columbia Attorney General 441 4th Street Northwest, Suite 650 North Washington, DC 20001 Phone: 202.727.6241 [email protected]
Keith Vanden Dooren Office of the Attorney General of Florida The Capitol, PL-01 Tallahassee, FL 32399 Phone: 850.414.3827 [email protected] L inda Wi l l iams Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General Strawberry Square, 15th Floor Harrisburg, PA 17120 Phone: 717.787.9707 [email protected]
Ward Zimmerman Office of the Attorney General of North Carolina 114 West Edenton Street Raleigh, NC 27603 Phone: 919.716.6000 [email protected] Ph i l ip Ziperman Office of the Attorney General of Maryland 200 St. Paul Place, 16th Floor Baltimore, MD 21202 Phone: 410.576.6374 [email protected]
Speaker Biographies Jodie Z. Bernstein Of Counsel Kelley Drye & Warren LLP 3050 K Street, NW Washington Harbour, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20007 Phone: 202.342.8646 [email protected]
Jodie Bernstein is of counsel in the Washington, DC office of Kelley Drye & Warren LLP. She is widely respected among consumer groups, industry organizations and the private bar as one the country’s leading lawyers, and she counsels clients across the spectrum of privacy and consumer protection law. Ms. Bernstein’s public service includes appointments as director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), general counsel of the Environmental Protection Agency and general counsel of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In her role at HHS, she supervised the legal divisions of the Food and Drug Administration, as well as the Health Care Finance Administration. During her tenure at the FTC, Ms. Bernstein expanded the Bureau’s prosecution of unfair and deceptive marketing practices, and the FTC became the leading enforcer of federal privacy laws. She targeted issues including Internet privacy and identity theft; she developed the Commission’s privacy enforcement policies; and she directed the FTC’s implementation and enforcement of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. James C. Cooper Director, Research and Policy, Law & Economics Center Adjunct Professor, George Mason University School of Law 3301 Fairfax Drive, Room 433E Arlington, VA 22201 Phone: 703.993.9582 [email protected]
Professor James Cooper is Director, Research and Policy at the Law & Economics Center at George Mason University School of Law. Prior to joining the Law & Economics Center, he spent several years at the Federal Trade Commission, most recently as an advisor to Commissioner William Kovacic. Dr. Cooper also worked in the FTC’s Office of Policy Planning, where he last served as Acting Director. Prior to joining the FTC, James was an associate in the antitrust group at Crowell & Moring LLP in Washington, DC. Dr. Cooper has taught law & economics at Johns Hopkins University, and his research has appeared in publications including the Antitrust Law Journal, International Journal of Industrial Organization, and the Boston University Law Review. Dr. Cooper has a PhD in Economics from Emory University, and a JD from George Mason University School of Law, where he was a Levy Fellow.
Phi l l ip J. Grudzinski Chief Executive Officer Professional Association for Customer Engagement (PACE) 8500 Keystone Crossing, Suite 480 Indianapolis, IN 46240 Phone: 317.816.9336 [email protected] Phil Grudzinski is chief executive officer of the Professional Association for Customer Engagement (PACE), formerly known as the American Teleservices Association. Phil takes an active leadership role in the customer communications industry and is in regular contact with the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission regarding consumer regulatory compliance. He has spoken internationally on engaging customers with Ideal Customer Experience (ICE) and is now leading the way for the development and understanding of the digital transformation that is occurring in the world of customer engagement. Prior to his tenure at PACE, Phil held senior management roles in several blue-chip companies including as American Express, General Electric and Sears Roebuck and Company.
Charles A. HarwoodDeputy Director Bureau of Consumer Protection Federal Trade Commission 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20580 Phone: 202.326.2280 [email protected]
Charles Harwood became a deputy director of the US Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection in 2009. Prior to that, he served for 20 years as the director of the Federal Trade Commission's Northwest Regional Office, located in Seattle. From 1983 to 1989, Mr. Harwood was counsel to the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and he worked briefly for the chairman of the FTC. Mr. Harwood also serves as a commissioner of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, a US government board that oversees federal laws concerning the marketing and sale of Native American arts and crafts. Mr. Harwood is a member of the Oregon and District of Columbia Bars. He received a BA from Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, and a JD from Willamette University College of Law, Salem, Oregon.
Betty D. Montgomery Of Counsel MacMurray, Petersen & Shuster LLP 6530 West Campus Oval, Suite 210 New Albany, OH 43054 Phone: 614.939.9955 [email protected]
Protecting Ohio’s most vulnerable citizens – that’s been the chief focus of Betty Montgomery’s distinguished career in public service. Guided by that priority, she has prosecuted criminals, helped victims, protected taxpayers, and reshaped Ohio law. Now she brings that same commitment and fervor to assisting businesses to understand their compliance obligations and to representing them before state agencies. Betty’s long career in public service has included a number of highlights and awards. A dedicated crime-fighter from her earliest days in the workforce, she directed a 250 percent increase in the felony conviction rate of the Wood County Prosecutor’s Office. As state senator from the 2nd District in northwest Ohio, Betty Montgomery drafted far-reaching legislation that continues to make a positive difference in Ohio. As Ohio attorney general, Betty Montgomery received national recognition for excellence in service and advocacy in many areas including legal work before the US Supreme Court. This commitment reflected itself in her Consumer Section, which was recognized in 2000 as being the nation’s most outstanding consumer protection agency in the country by the National Association of Consumer Agency Administrators. Additionally, her Senior Citizen Initiative was one of five agencies (and the only public agency) recognized by the American Bar Association with the national “Pro Bono” Award in 2002. Mac Murray, Petersen & Shuster LLP (MPS) is led by a former Ohio attorney general and auditor of state, plus three former assistant attorneys general, who together have more than thirty years of experience managing state consumer protection initiatives and assisting businesses comply with state and federal consumer laws. MPS attorneys regularly appear before state attorneys general, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as well as state and federal courts around the country.
Dawn C. Nunziato Professor of Law The George Washington University Law School 2000 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20052 Phone: 202.994.7781 [email protected]
Dawn C. Nunziato is a professor of law at The George Washington University Law School, where she has taught since 1999. She is an internationally recognized expert in the area of free speech and the Internet. Her primary teaching and scholarship interests are in the areas of Internet law, free speech, and digital copyright. She recently published her book Virtual Freedom: Net Neutrality and Free Speech in the Internet Age (Stanford University Press), and has lectured and written extensively on issues involving free speech and the Internet. Professor Nunziato has taught Internet law courses and lectured on Internet free speech issues around the world, including at Oxford University; the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center; Tsinghua University in Beijing; the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information at the University of Palermo in Buenos Aires; and the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México in Mexico City. She has been an invited presenter and speaker at Yale, Oxford, University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown, Vanderbilt, and University of Virginia, among other institutions. While a law student at the University of Virginia, Professor Nunziato served as Articles Development Editor of the Virginia Law Review and was the recipient of the Thomas Marshall Miller Prize, awarded to the outstanding member of the graduating class. After graduating from law school she clerked for Judge Paul Niemeyer of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Following her clerkship, Professor Nunziato joined the law firm of Covington & Burling in Washington, DC, where she practiced intellectual property law and Internet law.
Lydia B. Parnes Partner Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 1700 K Street, NW, Fifth Floor Washington, DC 20006 Phone: 202.973.8801 [email protected]
Lydia Parnes is a partner in the Washington, DC, office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where her practice focuses on privacy, data security, online advertising, and general advertising and marketing practices. Lydia advises companies on how to maintain the highest standards for the collection, protection, and use of consumer data while pursuing their business interests. She helps clients respond to security breaches, including defending against federal investigations; develop and implement comprehensive privacy compliance programs; and understand the nuances of regulation and self-regulation in the privacy arena. Before joining the firm, Lydia served as the director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), where she oversaw data security enforcement efforts and the development of the FTC’s approach to online advertising. She testified on numerous occasions on the benefits of a nationwide data breach law, the risks of legislating in the technology area, and the need to assist consumers who become victims of identity theft. In addition, Lydia has extensive experience with the application of consumer-protection principles to the technology market. In 2006, she served as the deputy executive director of the President's Task Force on Identity Theft, coordinating the efforts of 17 federal agencies in developing a national strategic plan to combat identity theft in both the private and public sectors. Lydia is a member of the American Bar Association; she has served as a vice chair of the ABA Section of Antitrust Law’s Consumer Protection Committee and is co-chairing the Section’s 2013 Consumer Protection Conference. She sits on the Board of Directors of the Council of Better Business Bureaus and is a member of the Department of Homeland Security’s Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. In 2010, she was named among the country’s top privacy and data security attorneys in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business; in 2011 she was recognized in Chamber’s Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business. In 2012, Wilson Sonsini was recognized by Law360 as a “top privacy and consumer protection” law firm. Lydia speaks throughout the country on developments in data security and privacy.
C. Lee Peeler President and CEO, National Advertising Review Council Executive Vice President, National Advertising Self-Regulation, Council of Better Business Bureaus 112 Madison Ave., 3rd Floor New York, NY 10016 Phone: 212.705.0129 [email protected]
C. Lee Peeler, Esq., is president and chief executive officer of the National Advertising Review Council (NARC) and executive vice president, National Advertising Self-Regulation, Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB). Mr. Peeler is responsible for leading the advertising industry’s system of self-regulation, a system dedicated to fostering truth and accuracy in advertising. He oversees the operation of NARC investigative and appeals units; briefs elected officials on self-regulatory initiatives, works to expand advertising self-regulation to industries that are not yet regular participants and consults with representatives of foreign governments on the value of industry self-regulation. Mr. Peeler joined NARC and CBBB in 2006, following a 33-year career at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), where he held a number management positions. While at the FTC, he served as associate director of the Division of Advertising Practices (1985-2001) and deputy director, Bureau of Consumer Protection (2001-2006). He has spoken and testified widely on consumer protection issues including truth in advertising, consumer credit, electronic commerce, privacy and data security. Mr. Peeler received his BA and JD degrees from Georgetown University.
Andrew J. Pincus Partner Mayer Brown LLP 1999 K Street, NW Washington, DC 20006 Phone: 202.263.3220 [email protected]
Andrew Pincus focuses his appellate practice on briefing and arguing cases in the Supreme Court of the United States and in federal and state appellate courts, as well as on developing legal arguments in trial courts. Andy has argued twenty-three cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, four of them in the 2010 and 2011 Terms, including AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, 131 S. Ct. 1740 (2011). A former assistant to the Solicitor General in the United States Department of Justice, Andy co-founded and serves as co-director of the Yale Law School's Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic, which provides pro bono representation in ten to fifteen Supreme Court cases each year. Andy also advises clients on legislative and regulatory matters. In 2011, Andy testified before Congressional committees regarding patent reform legislation, the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the Supreme Court’s decisions in cases involving businesses. While serving as general counsel of the United States Department of Commerce, Andy had principal responsibility for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act. Paul H. Rubin Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics Department of Economics Emory University 1602 Fishburne Dr., Rich Memorial Building Room 306 Atlanta, GA 30322 Phone: 404.931.0493 [email protected]
Paul H. Rubin is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics at Emory University, Editor of Managerial and Decision Economics, and President Elect of the Southern Economic Association. He blogs at Truth on the Market. He is a fellow of the Public Choice Association, and is associated with the Technology Policy Institute, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Independent Institute. Dr. Rubin has been a senior economist at President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, chief economist at the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, director of advertising economics at the Federal Trade Commission, and vice-president of Glassman-Oliver Economic Consultants, Inc., formerly a litigation consulting firm in Washington. He has taught Economics at the Emory University Law School, the University of Georgia, City University of New York, VPI, and George Washington University Law School. Dr. Rubin has written or edited eleven books, and published over two hundred and fifty articles and chapters on economics, law, regulation, and evolution in journals including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Legal Studies, and the Journal of Law and Economics, and he frequently contributes to the Wall Street Journal and other leading newspapers. His work has been cited in the professional literature over 5900 times. Books include Managing Business Transactions, Free Press, 1990, Tort Reform by Contract, AEI, 1993, Privacy and the Commercial Use of Personal Information, Kluwer, 2001, (with Thomas Lenard), Darwinian Politics: The Evolutionary Origin of Freedom, Rutgers University Press, 2002, and Economics, Law and Individual Rights, Routledge, 2008 (edited, with Hugo Mialon). He has consulted widely on litigation related matters and has been an advisor to the Congressional Budget Office on tort reform. He has addressed numerous business, professional, policy, government and academic audiences. Dr. Rubin received his BA from the University of Cincinnati in 1963 and his PhD from Purdue University in 1970.
Frank M. Sal l inger General Counsel Card Coalition 1155 F Street, NW, Suite 1050 Washington, DC 20004 Phone: 202.559.4199 [email protected]
Frank Salinger focuses his practice on legislative and regulatory matters impacting the credit card, consumer finance, and industrial bank sector. Frank serves as counsel to the Card Coalition, which represents payment card systems and issuers with an interest in state legislative, executive, and regulatory activities. Before establishing his own practice, Frank headed the government relations department for a leading business and consumer credit card issuer where he also served as chief corporate compliance officer and was responsible for the Community Reinvestment Act lending program. In his career, Frank headed the government relations programs for the American Financial Services Association and the Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association. A graduate of the University of Baltimore School of Law, Frank is a frequent speaker on financial services issues. He serves as vice chairmen of First State Community Loan Fund, a Delaware-based community development financial institution, and is a former outside director of Commerce Bank of Maryland. Andrew L. Sandler Chairman and Executive Partner BuckleySandler LLP 1250 14th St NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC 20037 Phone: 202.349.8001 [email protected]
Andrew L. Sandler, chairman and executive Partner of BuckleySandler LLP and chief executive officer of Treliant Risk Advisors LLP, is a recognized leader in financial services litigation, enforcement, regulation and compliance. He also serves as a strategic legal advisor to many leading banks and thrifts, mortgage and consumer finance companies, and credit card issuers. A wide range of financial services companies look to Mr. Sandler for strategic advice and to help them navigate complex litigation and civil and criminal investigations and examinations by federal and state enforcement and bank regulatory agencies. Mr. Sandler has been the lead defense counsel in more than 80 class action cases. He has represented many financial institutions and other corporate entities in Fair Lending, UDAAP, AML/BSA, Mortgage Fraud, False Claims Act and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigations and litigation. He is frequently consulted on regulatory issues related to bank mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Sandler also often represents officers and directors with respect to regulatory proceedings related to troubled or failed banks. As chief executive officer of Treliant Risk Advisors, Mr. Sandler leads a multi disciplinary firm that provides consulting, compliance, and transaction advisory assistance to the financial services industry. Chambers USA has consistently recognized Mr. Sandler as a one of America’s Leading Lawyers in the Financial Services Industry. He currently holds Chambers USA’s top rating in the areas of Financial Services Regulation Banking Enforcement & Investigations and Consumer Finance Compliance and was recognized in 2012 as a “Star Individual” in Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance Litigation. He has been named one of 30 DC "Superstar" lawyers by Washingtonian Magazine and a "Star of the Bar" in Banking and Financial Services. In June 2010, Legal Times named him a “Legal Visionary” for his role in founding BuckleySandler. Mr. Sandler is an active participant in community and professional organizations. He serves on the board of advisors for the American Association of Bank Directors and has had many leadership roles in the Litigation and Business Law Sections of the American Bar Association – including chair of the Consumer and Civil Rights Committee and vice chair of the Banking Law Committee. He serves on the National Board of Directors of the Cancer Support Community and the Board of the Kolar Charitable Foundation of BuckleySandler LLP. Mr. Sandler received his JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, an MA from the University of Warwick (U.K.) (Rotary Foundation Fellow), and a BA from Union College.
Linda Sherry Director, National Priorities Consumer Action P.O. Box 70037 Washington, DC 20024 Phone: 202.544.3088 [email protected]
Consumer Action’s director of national priorities and one of the organization’s chief spokespersons, Linda Sherry joined the San Francisco-based national consumer education and advocacy group in 1994 from a background as a weekly newspaper reporter. Sherry, a nationally recognized consumer advocate, is an expert on credit and financial services pricing and practices and consumer rights. She responds regularly to requests for interviews and background information about consumer protection issues from the national and local media, Congress and federal regulators. Sherry, who established Consumer Action’s DC office in 2004, is responsible for the organization’s national advocacy work and for the research and writing of Consumer Action’s free, multilingual educational publications and website content. In 2012, her team has been busy working on mobile and e-health privacy issues, foreclosure prevention efforts and federal education loan protections, as well as responding to requests for comment at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission. Sherry has received awards for Consumer Action publications from the National Association of Consumer Agency Administrators and US Office of Consumer Affairs. Before joining Consumer Action, Sherry was managing editor of AsianWeek in San Francisco from 1991-1994. Previously she was a reporter at The Almanac newspapers in Menlo Park, California; The New York Times Long Island Section, and The East Hampton Star in East Hampton, NY. She was a founding editor of the Sag Harbor Herald, a weekly newspaper in Long Island, New York. I lya Somin Professor of Law George Mason University School of Law 3301 Fairfax Drive Arlington, VA 22201 Phone: 703.993.8069 [email protected]
Ilya Somin is professor of law at George Mason University School of Law. His research focuses on constitutional law, property law, and the study of popular political participation and its implications for constitutional democracy. Somin currently serves as co-editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review, one of the country's top-rated law and economics journals. His work has appeared in numerous scholarly journals, including the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Critical Review, and others. He has also published articles in a variety of popular press outlets, including the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal OpinionJournal.com, Newark Star Ledger, Orlando Sentinel, South China Morning Post, Legal Times, National Law Journal and Reason. He has been quoted or interviewed by the New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, and the Voice of America, among other media. In July 2009, he testified on property rights issues at the United States Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Somin writes regularly for the popular Volokh Conspiracy law and politics blog. During the Fall 2008 semester, he served as visiting professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Somin has previously been a visiting professor at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and the University of Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Before joining the faculty at George Mason, he was the John M. Olin Fellow in Law at Northwestern University Law School in 2002-2003. In 2001-2002, he clerked for the Hon. Judge Jerry E. Smith of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Professor Somin earned his BA, Summa Cum Laude, at Amherst College, MA in Political Science from Harvard University, and JD from Yale Law School.
Rick Stauffer Chief Operating Officer PossibleNOW 4400 River Green Parkway Suite 100 Duluth, GA 30096 Phone: 770.255.1020 [email protected]
Rick is the Chief Operating Officer of PossibleNOW, Inc. PossibleNOW is a rapidly growing, Atlanta-based technology company best known for its Internet-based technology solutions for complying with direct marketing laws and regulations and for collecting and managing consumer marketing preferences. The company includes CompliancePoint, a wholly-owned consulting firm focused on direct marketing and information security compliance. As COO, Rick oversees company operations, strategic planning, financial planning, and strategic partnerships. Rick has twenty-six years of experience as a technology start-up executive. Rick has managed internal technology start-ups for GE and Intel, and in the late 1990’s he founded and successfully sold an Internet technology business. In 2001 Rick joined the PossibleNOW team to help manage and guide the growth of the company. Rick received an MBA from Stanford University and a BS in Engineering from Princeton University. Peter P. Swire C. William O’Neill Professor of Law Moritz College of Law Ohio State University 55 West 12th Avenue Columbus, OH 43210 Phone: 614.292.2631 [email protected]
Peter P. Swire is the C. William O’Neill Professor of Law at the Moritz College of Law of the Ohio State University. He is a senior fellow with the Future of Privacy Forum and the Center for American Progress, and policy fellow with the Center for Democracy and Technology. In 2009-2010 Professor Swire was special assistant to the President for Economic Policy, serving in the National Economic Council under Lawrence Summers. From 1999 to early 2001 Professor Swire served as the Clinton Administration's Chief Counselor for Privacy, in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, the only person to date to have government-wide responsibility for privacy issues. In that role, he was the White House coordinator for the proposed and final Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act medical privacy rules and chaired a White House task force on how to update wiretap laws for the Internet age. He also participated in the negotiation of the Safe Harbor agreement for trans-border data flows between the European Union and the United States. The International Association of Privacy Professionals this fall has published his two new books for the Certified Information Privacy Professional program, co-authored with Kenesa Ahmad: “Foundations of Information Privacy and Data Protection: A Survey of Global Concepts, Laws, and Practices,” and “U.S. Private Sector Privacy: Law and Practice for Information Privacy Professionals.” Many of his writings appear at www.peterswire.net.
Satya P. Thal lam Deputy Director, Research and Policy Law & Economics Center George Mason University School of Law 3301 Fairfax Dr. Arlington, VA 22201 Phone: 703.993.9961 [email protected]
Satya Thallam is Assistant Director for Research and Policy at the Law & Economics Center at George Mason University School of Law. He was most recently founder and Director of the Financial Markets Working Group at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, winner of the 2010 Templeton Award. He was previously the 2007 Hernando de Soto Fellow, a Research Associate at the Mercatus Center, and acting director of fiscal policy at the Goldwater Institute. He also acts as an expert advisor to groups such as Pulitzer Prize winner PolitiFact and the Congressional Oversight Panel, a consultant to American Continental Group, an Affiliated Economic Expert with American Action Forum, and was senior editor of the journal Lombard Street. He graduated with honors from Arizona State University with a degree in economics and attended the doctoral program in economics at Emory University.
Catherine Tucker Mark Hyman Jr. Career Development Professor MIT Sloan School of Management 100 Main Street, Room E62-533 Cambridge, MA 02142 Phone: 617.252.1499 [email protected]
Catherine Tucker is the Mark Hyman Jr. Career Development Professor and Associate Professor (with tenure) of Marketing at MIT Sloan. Her research interests lie in how technology allows firms to use digital data to improve their operations and marketing and in the challenges this poses for regulations designed to promote innovation. She has particular expertise in online advertising, digital health, social media and electronic privacy. Generally, most of her research lies in the interface between Marketing, Economics and Law. She has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for her work on digital privacy and a Garfield Award for her work on electronic medical records. Dr. Tucker is Associate Editor at Management Science and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She teaches MIT Sloan's course on Pricing and the Executive Master of Business Administration course Marketing Management for the Senior Executive. She holds a PhD in Economics from Stanford University, and a BA from Oxford University.
J.W. Verret Assistant Professor George Mason University School of Law 3301 Fairfax Drive Arlington, VA 22201 Phone: 703.993.8038 [email protected]
Assistant Professor J.W. Verret received his JD and MA in Public Policy from Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, respectively, in 2006. While in law school, Professor Verret served an Olin Fellowship in Law and Economics at the Harvard Program on Corporate Governance under the guidance of Professor Lucian Bebchuk. Professor Verret then served as a law clerk for Vice-Chancellor John W. Noble of the Delaware Court of Chancery. Prior to joining the faculty at Mason Law, Professor Verret was an associate in the SEC Enforcement Defense Practice Group at Skadden, Arps in Washington, DC. He has written extensively on corporate law topics, including a recent paper, Delaware's Guidance, co-written with Chief Justice Myron T. Steele of the Delaware Supreme Court. His academic work has been featured in the Yale Journal on Regulation, The Business Lawyer, the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, and the Virginia Law and Business Review. Professor Verret was recently selected by the Northwestern Law School Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth for a 2009-2010 Searle-Kaufmann Research Fellowship. Professor Verret is also a Senior Scholar at the Mercatus Center Working Group on Financial Markets, where he regularly briefs Congressional staff, members of Congress, SEC Commissioners and other financial regulatory agencies on financial regulation topics. Professor Verret has been invited to testify before various House and Senate Committees four times during the financial crisis of 2009 regarding all of the central provisions of the Obama Administration's 2009 financial regulatory reform proposals. For a full list of Professor Verret's C-Span appearances, including testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, see http://www.c-spanvideo.org/jwverret. Professor Verret has been an invited panelist for various television appearances, including a recent interview on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Professor Verret has been quoted in various media on financial regulation and corporate law topics, including CNN Money, the CNN Political Ticker, CNBC, ABC News, Investor's Business Daily, ESPN.com, The American Banker, The American Lawyer, The Huffington Post, CBS.com, and AP News. Professor Verret's op-eds have been featured in Forbes, The Chicago Tribune, and The Orange County Register. Professor Verret is also a regular guest contributor to three of the most noted corporate law and financial regulation law blogs: the Harvard Law School Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation Forum, Deallawyers.com, and The Conglomerate.
D. Jean Veta Partner Covington & Burling LLP 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20004 Phone: 202.662.5294 [email protected]
Jean Veta is a partner whose litigation and regulatory practice focuses on civil and regulatory enforcement matters, government investigations, internal corporate investigations, and congressional investigations, primarily on behalf of financial institutions and their officers and directors. Ms. Veta has served as chair of the firm's Financial Institutions practice group and holds Chambers USA’s top rating as a leader in the field of Financial Services Enforcement and Investigations. She was a finalist for Regulatory Lawyer of the Year at the 2012 Chambers USA Women in Law awards and is recognized in Best Lawyers in America for banking law. Ms. Veta is also listed as one of Washington's Super Lawyers in white-collar criminal defense, and is recommended by The Legal 500 US for SEC investigations and financial services regulatory enforcement actions. Her practice includes the representation of clients on a broad array of regulatory enforcement matters, including anti-money laundering, lending discrimination, safety and soundness, and other government investigations. Prior to rejoining Covington in 2001, Ms. Veta was Deputy Associate Attorney General at the United States Department of Justice, where she was responsible for a wide range of legal and policy issues.
Alan White Professor of Law The City University of New York School of Law 2 Court Square, Office 4-313 Long Island City, NY 11101 Phone: 718.340.4591 [email protected] Alan White joined the faculty at City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law in 2012. He teaches consumer law, commercial law, bankruptcy, comparative private law and contracts. He is a nationally recognized expert on credit regulation and the residential mortgage market. Professor White is a past member of the Federal Reserve Board’s Consumer Advisory Council, a member of the American Law Institute, and is currently serving as reporter for the Uniform Law Commission’s project on a Residential Real Estate Foreclosure statute. He is quoted frequently in the national media, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, in connection with his research on the foreclosure crisis. He has published a number of research papers and articles on housing, credit and consumer law issues, and testified before Congress and at federal agency hearings on the foreclosure crisis, bankruptcy reform and predatory mortgage lending. Before becoming a full-time teacher, Professor White was a supervising attorney at the North Philadelphia office of Community Legal Services, Inc., and was also a fellow and consultant with the National Consumer Law Center in Boston and adjunct professor with Temple University Law School and Drake University School of Law. His legal services practice included representation of low-income consumers in mortgage foreclosures, class actions, bankruptcies, student loan disputes, and real estate matters. Mr. White received his B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his J.D. from the New York University School of Law.
Arthur E. Wi lmarth, Jr. Professor of Law The George Washington University Law School Executive Director, Center for Law, Economics & Finance 2000 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20052 Phone: 202.994.6386 [email protected]
Art Wilmarth is a professor of law at The George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC. He is also executive director of the law school’s Center for Law, Economics & Finance (C-LEAF). He joined the Law School’s faculty in 1986, after 11 years in private law practice. Before he joined the faculty, he was a partner in the Washington, DC office of the Jones Day law firm. Professor Wilmarth has published more than thirty law review articles and book chapters dealing with banking law and constitutional history, and he is the co-author of a book on corporate law. In 2005, the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers awarded him its prize for the best law review article published in the field of consumer financial services law during 2004. Professor Wilmarth received his BA degree from Yale University and his JD degree from Harvard University. He has testified on issues concerning banking regulation before committees of the United States Senate, the United States House of Representatives, and the California state legislature. In 2010, he served as a consultant to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, the body established by Congress to report on the causes of the financial crisis that began in 2007. He is a member of the International Advisory Board for the Journal of Banking Regulation (Palgrave Macmillan, U.K.), and he also serves on the advisory board for the American Antitrust Institute. During 2008-09, he served as chair of the Section on Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services of the Association of American Law Schools, after serving as chair-elect and program chair for that Section during 2007-08.
Todd J. Zywicki George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law George Mason University School of Law 3301 Fairfax Drive, Room 419 Arlington, VA 22201 Phone: 703.993.9484 [email protected] Professor Todd J. Zywicki is a George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law and senior scholar of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. In 2009, Professor Zywicki was honored as the recipient of the Institute for Humane Studies 2009 Charles G. Koch Outstanding IHS Alum Award. Since 2006 he has served as co-editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review. From 2003-2004, Professor Zywicki served as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission. He teaches in the area of Bankruptcy, Contracts, Commercial Law, Business Associations, Law & Economics, and Public Choice and the Law. He has also taught at Vanderbilt University Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, Boston College Law School, and Mississippi College School of Law. Professor Zywicki clerked for Judge Jerry E. Smith of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and worked as an associate at Alston & Bird in Atlanta, Georgia, where he practiced bankruptcy and commercial law. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia, where he was executive editor of the Virginia Tax Review and John M. Olin Scholar in Law and Economics. Professor Zywicki also received an MA in Economics from Clemson University and an AB cum laude with high honors in his major from Dartmouth College. Professor Zywicki is a senior scholar of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, senior fellow of the James Buchanan Center for Political Economy Program on Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, at George Mason University, a senior fellow of the Goldwater Institute, and a fellow of the International Centre for Economic Research in Turin, Italy. During the Fall 2008 Semester Professor Zywicki was the Searle Fellow of the George Mason University School of Law and was a 2008-09 W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow and the Arch W. Shaw National Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University. He has lectured and consulted with government officials around the world, including Iceland, Italy, Japan, Canada, and Guatemala. In 2006 Professor Zywicki served as a member of the United States Department of Justice Study Group on "Identifying Fraud, Abuse and Errors in the United States Bankruptcy System." In 2011 Professor Zywicki delivered the Dean Lindsey Cowen Lecture in Business Law and Regulation at Case Western Reserve School of Law on the mortgage crisis and regulation. Professor Zywicki is the author of more than 70 articles in leading law reviews and peer-reviewed economics journals. He is one of the Top 50 Most Downloaded Law Authors at the Social Science Research Network, both “All Time” and during the past 12 months. He served as the Editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review from 2001-02. He has testified several times before Congress on issues of consumer bankruptcy law and consumer credit and is a frequent commentator on legal issues in the print and broadcast media, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Times, Forbes, Nightline, National Review, NBC Nightly News, The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Fox and Friends, Fox Business, CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg News, BBC, ABC Radio, The Diane Rehm Show, Lou Dobbs Radio Show, Neil Caputo Show, and The Laura Ingraham Show. He is a contributor to the popular legal weblog The Volokh Conspiracy and The Atlantic magazine's The Atlantic Business Channel.
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Missouri
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E . Scott Pru itt
Oklahoma
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Greg Zoel ler
Indiana
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Florida
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Tennessee
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Georgia
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Mason Attorneys General Education Program Schedule 2012 to 2013
AGEP Economics Inst itute Sunday, September 30 – Wednesday, October 3, 2012 George Mason University School of Law
AGEP Pub l ic Po l icy Conference on Economics and the Law of Consumer Protect ion Sunday, October 21 – Tuesday, October 23, 2012 George Mason University School of Law
AGEP Pub l ic Po l icy Conference on “Pr ivacy, Regu lat ion , and Ant itrust” Wednesday, January 16 – Friday, January 18, 2013 George Mason University School of Law
AGEP Fifth Annua l Pub l ic Po l icy Conference, “The Role of the States in Formulat ing
Energy Pol icy” Wednesday, May 1 – Friday, May 3, 2013 George Mason University School of Law
AGEP Pub l ic Po l icy Inst itute on Counterfe it ing and Piracy Tuesday, May 7 – Thursday, May 9, 2013 Mystic, CT AGEP Pub l ic Po l icy Conference on Compet it ion , Search, and Soc ia l Media Tuesday, May 14 – Thursday, May 16, 2013 George Mason University School of Law
AGEP Third Annua l Pub l ic Po l icy Inst itute , “F inanc ia l Services Conference” Sunday, June 2 – Tuesday, June 4, 2013 George Mason University School of Law
AGEP Pub l ic Po l icy Conference, “The Law & Economics of Pr ivacy and Data Secur ity” Tuesday, June 4 – Thursday, June 6, 2013 George Mason University School of Law AGEP Economics Inst itute Sunday, September 29 – Wednesday, October 2, 2013 George Mason University School of Law Apply onl ine at www.MasonAGEP.org. Questions? Contact Jon Foltz, Manager, AGEP at [email protected] or 703.993.9964.
