Joshua Wright, Senior Adjunct Fellow

Joshua Wright

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Joshua Wright is a Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law and holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Economics. Professor 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 also regularly lectures on economics, empirical methods, and antitrust economics to state and federal judges through the George Mason University Law and Economics Center Judicial Education Program.

Professor Wright received both a 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. Before coming to George Mason University School of Law, 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, consumer protection, 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, Northwestern Law Review, Supreme Court Economic Review, Yale Journal on Regulation, Journal of Competition Law and Economics, Review of Industrial Organization, Review of Law and Economics, and the UCLA Law Review. Professor Wright is also the co-editor of 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, the Federal Trade Commission’s FTC at 100 Conference, and the DOJ/ FTC Hearings on the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines.

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

Content featuring Joshua Wright

TechFreedom's Latest: Against Pacifica, SOPA, Emergency Alert System, Antitrust & Social Media, Privacy & Free Speech

Berin Szoka, Larry Downes, Joshua Wright

November 18, 2011

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Our Amicus Brief Asking Supreme Court to End to FCC's TV Censorship

In an amicus brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in FCC v. Fox, we joined Public Knowledge, the Cato Institute, the Center for Democracy & Technology, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation in asking the Court to recognize that advances in technology have made obsolete the current television indecency standards, based on the decision in the 1978 "Seven Dirty Words" case (FCC v. Pacifica). The First Amendment, we argued, should protect all media equally. Mentioned in Hillicon Valley, Ars Technica, The Hollywood Reporter, etc.

TechFreedom Joins Coalition Letter Expressing Concerns with SOPA

TechFreedom joined an ideologically diverse coalition of public interest groups in a letter voicing concerns about H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). TechFreedom's Larry Downes explained his reservations in a statement about the bill and, earlier, at a Congressional Internet Caucus briefing last event last week featuring both sides of the issue. We are, of course, strong believers in property rights, and are serious about enforcing copyrights and trademarks. But we fear SOPA would come at too high a cost to lawful Internet expression and communication. As explained in the letter, SOPA would, as drafted, lead to years of costly litigation, creating potentially massive regulatory uncertainty for one of America's most innovative wealth creating sectors. Mentioned in PCWorld, CATO-at-Liberty, SiliconRepublic, etc.

Emergency Alert System Failure (Daily Caller)

The first nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System was conducted last week but excluded cell phones. "The current system," Adam Marcus explained, " only works on radio and television stations—as if it were still 1997 and cell phones were rare." Adam decried the test as exemplifying "first responders’ antiquated notions of centralized command-and-control networks." Instead, he argued "FEMA should design emergency communications systems that take advantage of the centrality of cell phones in our lives. … [C]ommercial cellular networks can meet the needs of first responders. … What’s missing is a public awareness-building campaign akin to ‘Only you can prevent forest fires!’ The message should be simple: ‘Wait 20, save a life!’"

MSU/Quello Center "Governance of Social Media Workshop"

At this two-day workshop organized by the Quello Center at Michigan State University and held at Georgetown University, Josh Wright delivered a talk about "The Rise of Social Media & Its Antitrust Implications" and Berin Szoka spoke about "Privacy, Analytics & the First Amendment." Video of the entire event is available online.