Michael K. Block
Dr. Michael Block serves the Foundation as a Senior Fellow on the "Competition in Electric Power" project. The project is designing a replacement model for the current bureaucratic and costly regulatory system in the electric utility industry that will result in a truly competitive electricity market. Block is a professor of economics and a professor of law at the university of Arizona. In addition, he is chairman of the Arizona Constitutional Defense Council and is president of the Goldwater Institute for Public Policy in Phoenix, Arizona. Block received his Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University in 1972, where he previously received his B.A. and M.A., both in economics.
John F. Duffy
John F. Duffy is Oswald Symister Colclough Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School. Professor Duffy joined the faculty in 2003. After receiving an undergraduate degree in physics, he served as articles editor on the University of Chicago Law Review and was awarded an Olin Fellowship in Law and Economics. Professor Duffy clerked for Judge Stephen Williams on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court, served as an attorney adviser in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel, and practiced law with the Washington firm of Covington & Burling. Since entering academia in 1996, Professor Duffy has been on the faculty of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and the William and Mary School of Law, and has also served as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago. He has published articles in the University of Chicago Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Texas Law Review, and Supreme Court Review, and he is the co-author of a casebook on patent law. Professor Duffy teaches torts, administrative law, patent law, and international intellectual property law. He received his B.A. in physics from Harvard University and his J.D. from the University of Chicago.
Charles Eldering
Dr. Charles Eldering's experience in the electronics, telecommunications and optics industries as an engineer, inventor, author, expert witness, entrepreneur, and researcher spans over 20 years. In addition, he owns an intellectual property management firm, Technology, Patents & Licensing (TPL) , that has provided services to numerous clients as well as a spin-off of TPL, Expanse Networks, Inc. relating to targeted advertising. Prior to founding TPL, Charles performed research for the U.S. Air Force and worked as a telecommunications engineer for Alcatel and subsequently General Instrument. Eldering has advised companies in the development and commercialization of strategic IP portfolios to reduce threats and risks to their core businesses, generate revenues by mapping IP to products of third parties, and negotiate the licensing and sale of the IP. He is a registered Patent Agent for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Eldering received a B.S. in Physics from Carnegie Mellon University , an M.S. in Solid State Science and Technology from Syracuse University , and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Davis.
Bruce H. Kobayashi
Bruce H. Kobayashi is an Adjunct Fellow with The Progress & Freedom Foundation and is a Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law, where he has been a faculty member since 1992. Professor Kobayashi’s teaching and research interests are in the application of economics to law. He has written articles examining the law and economics of intellectual property, antitrust law and regulation, litigation and procedure, evidence, uniform laws, and federalism. His articles have been published in numerous books and journals, including the Journal of Legal Studies, the Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, the International Review of Law and Economics, Research in Law and Economics, Research in Transportation Economics, Economic Inquiry, the RAND Journal of Economics, the Supreme Court Economic Review, and the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, as well as numerous law reviews. He has written entries for the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, and for the Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. Professor Kobayashi has been a lecturer in the Law and Economics Center’s Antitrust Institute for Federal Judges and Economics Institute for Law Professors. He currently serves on the advisory board for the BNA Patent, Copyright & Trademark Journal, and is a member of the executive board of the AALS Section on Antitrust and Economic Regulation. He also has served as a contributing editor for the Supreme Court Economic Review, and served as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2004 to 2006. Professor Kobayashi has previously served as a Senior Economist in the Division of Economic Policy Analysis of the Federal Trade Commission. Professor Kobayashi also served as a Senior Research Associate at the United States Sentencing Commission, and as an Economist for the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Professor Kobayashi received his Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics, and his B.S. in Economics-System Science, all from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Joseph S. Kraemer
Joseph Kraemer currently holds the title of Director at LECG, LLC, a Washington, DC, consulting firm specializing in capital intensive industries undergoing structural change. He also serves on the faculties of the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business and American University's Kogod Business School where he teaches e-commerce courses. He holds Ph.D. and Masters degrees from the University of Michigan and an MBA from George Washington University.
Richard O. Levine
Richard Levine is a Director at the Law and Economics Consulting Group (LECG). He has over 15 years of consulting experience with expertise in telecommunications, technology, and regulatory issues, as they affect strategic business decisions, including entry into new markets. He has focused recently on issues related to "last mile" wired and wireless broadband services (including the transition to digital television), and on potential distortions created in local telecommunications markets by the regulation of incumbent local exchange carriers. Prior to entering consulting, Mr. Levine was Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, where he participated in the drafting and implementation of the AT&T Divestiture Decree. Mr. Levine holds a J.D. degree from the Harvard Law School and a B.A. (economics) from Columbia University.
Michael Marcus
Michael Marcus is a Senior Adjunct Fellow at The Progress & Freedom Foundation and Director of Marcus Spectrum Solutions LLC, an independent consulting firm focusing on wireless technology and policy. Marcus retired from FCC in March 2004 after almost 25 years of technical policy management. He proposed and directed the FCC rulemakings that enabled Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Wireless HD. He worked at the FCC's Japanese counterpart for a year as a Mike Mansfield Fellow. Immediately after retirement he lived in Paris France for 3 years, consulting for US and European clients. In 2006 he was appointed Special Advisor to Mrs. Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information Society & Media. Prior to joining the FCC in 1979, he worked at Bell Labs, served in the Air Force, and analyzed electronic warfare issues at the Institute for Defense Analyses. Marcus received S.B. and Sc.D. degrees in electrical engineering from MIT and is an IEEE Fellow.
Michael Palage
Michael Palage is an intellectual property
attorney and an information technology consultant.
He has been actively involved in ICANN operational
and policy matters since its formation in both
an individual and leadership role, including
a three-year term on the ICANN Board of Directors.
Palage is currently President and CEO of Pharos
Global, Inc. that provides consulting and management
services to domain name registration authorities
and other technology related companies. He has
testified before the United States Congress regarding
the accuracy and access of domain name Whois
data, and as an expert witness in several Internet
legal proceedings on behalf of such clients as
3M, Ford Motor Company, NCAA, and the Florida
Attorney General. Palage holds a B.S.E.E. from
Drexel University, and a J.D. from the Temple
University School of Law.
Paul H. Rubin
Paul Rubin is Professor of Economics and Law at Emory University in Atlanta and editor in chief of Managerial and Decision Economics. He previously served as Senior Staff Economist at President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, Chief Economist at the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Director of Advertising Economics at the Federal Trade Commission, and vice-president of Glassman-Oliver Economic Consultants, Inc., a litigation consulting firm in Washington. He has taught economics at the University of Georgia, City University of New York, VPI, and George Washington University Law School. Dr. Rubin has written or edited seven books, and published over one hundred articles and chapters on economics, law, and regulation, in journals including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Legal Studies, Journal of Law and Economics, and the Yale Journal on Regulation, and he sometimes contributes to the Wall Street Journal. Dr. Rubin received his B.A. from the University of Cincinnati in 1963 and his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1970.
