Joshua Wright, Ph.D., J.D.

Joshua D. Wright is an Assistant 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 has previously taught at the University of Texas School of Law and the Pepperdine University Graduate School of Public Policy, and was the Visiting Fellow at the Searle Center on Law, Regulation and Economic Growth at Northwestern University School of Law.

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. He clerked for the Honorable James V. Selna of the Central District of California.

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, 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 Pioneers of Law and Economics (Elgar Publishing) and Competition Policy and Patent Law under Uncertainty: Regulating Innovation (forthcoming, 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, the Federal Trade Commission Resale Price Maintenance Workshop, and the Horizontal Merger Guidelines Workshops.

Professor Wright is the co-editor of the Supreme Court Economic review, and serves on the editorial boards 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.

• Joshua Wright's Academic Website