How can the policies of both Europe and America be improved through trans-Atlantic dialogue? Competition policy operates very differently in the EU and the US. Mr. Fingleton and Professor Priest will address specific competition policy issues that differ in the EU and the US, including: consumer injury standards, the portfolio effects theory, merger standards, the role of the courts and judicial review.

Professor George L. Priest has been the John M. Olin Professor of Law and Economics at Yale Law School since 1986. Professor Priest has also been the Director of the Center for Law, Economics and Public Policy at Yale since 1981.

He is a world-renowned expert on competition policy and has written extensively on antitrust issues for scholarly journals as well as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and other publications.

Professor Priest received his B.A. from Yale University and his Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago, where he has been a lecturer and fellow of Law and Economics.

Mr. John Fingleton was appointed Director of Competition Enforcement, Ireland, in June 2000. He was previously appointed Chairman of the Irish Competition Authority in March 2000.

Mr. Fingleton took a BA at Trinity College Dublin and degrees of M.Phil. and D.Phil. at the University of Oxford where his research on mircoeconomic theory was supervised by James Mirrlees. He worked briefly at the London School of Economics in 1991 before taking up a lectureship at his alma mater, Trinity College Dublin, where he continues as a research associate of the Department of Economics.

In 1995, he spent six months at the European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Mr. Fingleton was also a visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. During the first year, he engaged in full-time research in microeconomic theory and competition policy and, in the second, he worked with the National Economics Research Associates.