Joshua D. Wright

Joshua Daniel Wright (born January 20, 1977) is an American economist and legal scholar who served as a commissioner of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission from 2013 to 2015.[2] He has been a professor of law at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School since 2004, and is the executive director of its Global Antitrust Institute.[3][4]

Joshua D. Wright
Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission
In office
January 2013 â€“ August 2015
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byJ. Thomas Rosch
Succeeded byRohit Chopra
Personal details
Born (1977-01-20) January 20, 1977[1]
San Diego, California, U.S.[1]
Political partyRepublican[1]
EducationUniversity of California, San Diego (BA)
University of California, Los Angeles (JD, PhD)
AwardsBator Award (2014)

Wright is a leading scholar in the fields of antitrust law, law and economics, and consumer protection, and was described in National Review to be "widely considered his generation's greatest mind on antitrust law."[5] He has published more than 100 articles and book chapters, co-authored a leading casebook, and edited several book volumes in these fields. Wright has served as co-editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review and senior editor of the Antitrust Law Journal,[4] and in 2014 received the Paul M. Bator Award.[6]

Career

Wright was born and raised in San Diego, California.[4][1] He studied economics at the University of California, San Diego, graduating in 1998 with a B.A. with highest departmental honors. He then went to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he did concurrent doctoral studies in the UCLA Department of Economics and attended the UCLA School of Law. He received a Juris Doctor in 2002 and a Ph.D. in economics in 2003, and was a managing editor of the UCLA Law Review.[4]

Wright clerked for Judge James V. Selna of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California from 2003 to 2004, and taught for one year at Pepperdine University before joining the faculty at the George Mason University Law School (now Antonin Scalia Law School) in 2004.[4] Wright served in the Federal Trade Commission in the Bureau of Competition as its inaugural Scholar-in-Residence from 2007 to 2008, where he focused on enforcement matters and competition policy. President Barack Obama appointed him to be an FTC Commissioner in 2013, and he served in that position until resigning in 2015 to return to academia.[4] Wright is currently University Professor of Law at the Scalia Law School and the executive director of its Global Antitrust Institute.

See also

References
  1. Wright Testimony
  2. "FTC Commissioner Joshua D. Wright to Resign". Federal Trade Commission. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
  3. "Joshua D. Wright". George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
  4. Public domain material from "Joshua D. Wright", a Federal Trade Commission webpage (accessed February 23, 2013).
  5. Foster, Daniel (23 May 2013). "Agent McConnell". National Review. Retrieved 8 July 2020. On the Federal Trade Commission, McConnell handed Obama the name of Josh Wright, a holder of both a Ph.D. in economics and a J.D. and widely considered his generation’s greatest mind on antitrust law.
  6. "Federalist Society Presents 2014 Bator Award". The Federalist Society. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
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