Boycotts and Antitrust
On July 13, Associate Dean Darcy Kirk will moderate "Boycotts and Antitrust - Is there a Nexus?" at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries. Professor Hillary Greene will be a featured speaker at the meeting.
Associate Dean for Library and Technology and Professor of Law Darcy Kirk has been elected vice president/president-elect of the American Association of Law Libraries for the July 2010 - July 2011 term. She directs the law library, information systems and teaches Advanced Legal Research and Higher Education Law. A graduate of Vassar College, she received her law degree from Boston College. Dean Kirk also earned both her MLS and MBA from Simmons College. Before joining the law faculty in 1996, Dean Kirk worked at Harvard University's Widener Library, she served in several positions at the Boston College Law Library and served as the Associate Law Librarian for Public Services at Georgetown University Law Center.
Professor Greene is an associate professor of law and director of the Law School's Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Law Clinic. Her most recent publications include: "Antitrust Censorship of Economic Protest," (Duke L. J., forthcoming 2010) and "Non-Per Se Treatment of Buyer Price-Fixing in Intellectual Property Settings" (Duke L. & Tech. Rev., forthcoming 2010). Additional publications include "Guideline Institutionalization: The Role of Merger Guidelines in Antitrust Discourse" in the William and Mary Law Review (2006), and "Articulating Trade-Offs: The Political Economy of State Action" in the Utah Law Review (2006). Prior to teaching, Greene served as project director for Intellectual Property in the Federal Trade Commission's Office of the General Counsel and as a litigation associate at Cahill Gordon & Reindel in New York City. She is admitted to practice in New York, and before the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. District Court, Eastern District in New York. Greene currently serves on the advisory board of the American Antitrust Institute.
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