Gregory Sidak
J. Gregory Sidak is a lawyer and an economist. He is the founder of Criterion Economics, L.L.C., an economic consulting firm in Washington, D.C.; the founder and president of the International Institute for Competition Law and Economics (IICLE), which promotes research on competition law, intellectual property, and regulation of industry; and the founding U.S. editor of the Journal of Competition Law & Economics, an international peer-reviewed journal published by the Oxford University Press. His work concerns antitrust policy in high-technology industries, intellectual property, the regulation of network industries, and constitutional issues regarding economic regulation.
Mr. Sidak was Deputy General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission from 1987 to 1989, and Senior Counsel and Economist to the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President from 1986 to 1987. As an attorney in private practice with Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., he worked on numerous antitrust cases and federal administrative, legislative, and appellate matters concerning telecommunications and other regulated industries. From 1992 through 2005, he was a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI), where he directed AEI’s Studies in Telecommunications Deregulation and held the F.K. Weyerhaeuser Chair in Law and Economics. From 1993 to 1999, Mr. Sidak was a Senior Lecturer at the Yale School of Management, where he taught a course on telecommunications regulation with Dean Paul W. MacAvoy. From 2005 to 2007, Mr. Sidak was a Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he taught courses on antitrust law and telecommunications regulation.
Mr. Sidak has written numerous books. With Dan Maldoom, Richard Marsden, and Hal J. Singer, he is the co-author of Broadband in Europe: How Brussels Can Wire the Information Society (Springer 2005). He is the author of Foreign Investment in American Telecommunications (University of Chicago Press 1997). With Daniel F. Spulber, he is co-author of Deregulatory Takings and the Regulatory Contract: The Competitive Transformation of Network Industries in the United States (Cambridge University Press 1997) and Protecting Competition from the Postal Monopoly (AEI Press 1996). With William J. Baumol, he is the co-author of Toward Competition in Local Telephony (MIT Press 1994) and Transmission Pricing and Stranded Costs in the Electric Power Industry (AEI Press 1995). Mr. Sidak is the co-editor of Competition and Regulation in Telecommunications: Examining Germany and America (Kluwer Academic Press 2000), and he is the editor of Is the Telecommunications Act of 1996 Broken? If So, How Can We Fix It? (AEI Press 1999), and Governing the Postal Service (AEI Press 1994).
Mr. Sidak has published approximately 80 scholarly articles in journals including the American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, Antitrust Law Journal, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, California Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Contributions in Economic and Policy Research, Harvard International Law Journal, Journal of Competition Law & Economics, Journal of Network Industries, Journal of Political Economy, New York University Law Review, Review of Network Economics, Review of Industrial Organization, Stanford Law Review, Supreme Court Economic Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Virginia Tax Review, Yale Law Journal, and Yale Journal on Regulation, as well as opinion essays in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and other business periodicals. He is the co-author of the chapter on remedies and the interface between antitrust and sector-specific regulation in the Handbook of Telecommunications Economics. He is ranks eighth among legal authors on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), from which his scholarly papers have been downloaded more than 38,000 times. His writings have been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Spanish.
Mr. Sidak has testified before committees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on regulatory and constitutional law matters, and before the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice on antitrust and intellectual property matters. His writings on antitrust, regulation, and constitutional law have been cited by the Supreme Court of the United States, the lower federal and state supreme courts, state and federal regulatory commissions, the Supreme Court of Canada, and the European Commission.
Mr. Sidak earned A.B. (1977) and A.M. (1981) degrees in economics and a J.D. (1981), all from Stanford University. He was a member of the Stanford Law Review. Following law school, he served as Judge Richard A. Posner’s first law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
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