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Crane, Daniel

Frederick Paul Furth, Sr. Professor of Law

3066 South Hall
734.615.2622
E-mail dancrane@umich.edu
Daniel Crane, the Frederick Paul Furth, Sr. Professor of Law, teaches contracts, antitrust, antitrust and intellectual property, and various advanced antitrust courses. He was previously professor of law at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and a visiting professor at New York University Law School and the University of Chicago Law School. In the spring of 2009, he taught antitrust law on a Fulbright Scholarship at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Lisbon. His recent scholarship has focused primarily on antitrust and economic regulation, particularly the institutional structure of antitrust enforcement, predatory pricing, bundling, and the antitrust implications of various patent practices. Prof. Crane's work has appeared in the University of Chicago Law Review, the California Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, and the Cornell Law Review, among other journals. He is the author of several books on antitrust law, including The Institutional Structure of Antitrust Enforcement (Oxford University Press, 2011).

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"The Rationales for Antitrust: Economics and Other Bases." In Oxford Handbook of Antitrust Economics, edited by D. Sokol and R. Harrison. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Forthcoming.

​"Enacted Legislative Findings and the Deference Problem." Geo. L. J. (Forthcoming).
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​"Bargaining Over Loyalty." Tex L. Rev. (Forthcoming).
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Antitrust: The Essentials. Sandy, UT: Aspen Press. Forthcoming.

"Antitrust." In an ABA Casebook on Franchising Law, edited by A. Meiklejohn. Chicago: ABA. Forthcoming.

The Obama Justice Department's Merger Enforcement Record: An Armchair Reply to Baker and Shapiro. Univ. of Michigan Law School, Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series, no. 279. Working Paper.
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Predation Analysis and the FTC's Case Against Intel. Univ. of Michigan Law School, Empirical Legal Studies Center Working Paper, no. 10-014; Univ. of Michigan Law School, Public Law Working Paper Series, no. 202. Working Paper.
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"Were Standard Oil's Railroad Rebates and Drawbacks Cost Justified?" S. Cal. L. Rev. 85, no. 3 (2012): 559-72.
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​"Tying and Consumer Harm." Competition Pol'y. Int'l. 8, no. 2 (2012).
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Co-editor. The Making of Competition Policy: Legal and Economic Sources. H. Hovenkamp, co-editor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

"Search Neutrality and Referral Dominance." J. Competition L. & Econ. 8, no. 3 (2012): 459-68.
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"Search Neutrality as an Antitrust Principle." Geo. Mason L. Rev. 19, no. 5 (2012): 1199-209.
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"IP's Advantage Over Antitrust." In The Global Limits of Competition Law, edited by I. Lianos and D. Sokol, 117-26. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press, 2012.

"Has the Obama Justice Department Reinvigorated Antitrust Enforcement?" Stan. L. Rev. Online 65 (2012): 13-20.
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"A Neo-Chicago Perspective on Antitrust Institutions." Antitrust L. J. 78, no. 1 (2012): 43-65.
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Co-author. "Toward a Unified Theory of Exclusionary Vertical Restraints." G. Miralles, co-author. S. Cal. L. Rev. 84, no. 3 (2011): 605-60.
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The Institutional Structure of Antitrust Enforcement. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2011.

"Rethinking Merger Efficiencies." Mich L. Rev. 110, no. 3 (2011): 347-91.
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"Provigil: A Commentary." Hastings Sci. & Tech. L. J. 3, no. 2 (2011): 453-7.
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"The Economics of Antitrust Enforcement." In The Law and Economics of Antitrust, edited by K. Hylton, 1-22. Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, 2nd ed., vol. 4. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010.

Co-author. "Settling an Antitrust Case." J. J. Simons, co-author. In Settlement Agreements in Commercial Disputes: Negotiating, Drafting & Enforcement, edited by R. A. Rosen, vol. 2, 31-1 to 31-44. [New York]: Aspen Publishers, 2010.

"Reflections on Section 5 of the FTC Act and the FTC's Case Against Intel." Competition Pol'y Int'l Antitrust Chron. 2, no. 2 (2010).
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"Per Se Illegality for Reverse Payment Settlements?" Review of "Unsettling Drug Patent Settlements: A Framework for Presumptive Illegality." M. A. Carrier. Mich. L. Rev. 108, no. 1 (2009): 37-80. Ala. L. Rev. 61, no. 3 (2010).
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"Patent Pools, RAND Commitments, and the Problematics of Price Discrimination." In Working within the Boundaries of Intellectual Property: Innovation Policy for the Knowledge Society, edited by R. C. Dreyfuss, H. First, and D. L. Zimmerman, 371-94. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2010.
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"Optimizing Private Antitrust Enforcement." Vand. L. Rev. 63, no. 2 (2010): 675-723.
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Co-author. Global Issues in Antitrust and Competition Law. E. Fox, co-author. American Casebook Series. St. Paul, Minn.: West, 2010.

"Does Monopoly Broth Make Bad Soup?" Antitrust L. J. 76 (2010).
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"Did We Avoid Historical Failures of Antitrust Enforcement During the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis?" Antitrust L. J. 77, no. 1 (2010): 219-28.
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E. Fox, co-author. Introduction to Global Issues in Antitrust and Competition Law, by E. Fox and D. A. Crane, co-authors, 1-3. American Casebook Series. St. Paul, Minn.: West, (2010).

"Substance, Procedure, and Institutions in the International Harmonization of Competition Policy." Chi. J. Int'l L. 10, no. 1 (2009): 143-59.
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"Private Enforcement against International Cartels in Latin America: A US Perspective." In Competition Law and Policy in Latin America, edited by E. M. Fox and D. D. Sokol, 325-50. Portland, OR: Hart, 2009.
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"Pangloss Responds." Tex. L. Rev. See Also 87 (2009): 43.
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"Obama's Antitrust Agenda." Regulation 32, no. 3 (2009): 16-20.
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"linkLine's Institutional Suspicions." Cato Sup. Ct. Rev. 2008-2009 (2009): 111-32.
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"Intellectual Liability." Tex. L. Rev. 88, no. 2 (2009): 253-300.
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"Chicago, Post-Chicago, and Neo-Chicago." Review of How Chicago Overshot the Mark: The Effect of Conservative Economic Analysis on U.S. Antitrust, by B. Pitofsky, editor. U. Chi. L. Rev. 76, no. 4 (2009): 1911-33.
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Co-author. "Can Bundled Discounting Increase Consumer Prices Without Excluding Rivals?" J.Wright, co-author. Comp. Pol'y. Int'l. 5, no. 2 (2009): 209-20.
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"Bargaining in the Shadow of Rate-Setting Courts." Antitrust L.J. 76, no. 1 (2009): 307-28.
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Professor

Activities

Presented paper for centennial anniversary of Standard Oil decision at George Washington University, June 2011.

Lectured on intellectual property and competition law, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal, May 2011.

Presented "Search Neutrality as an Antitrust Principle," University of Haifa, May 2011.

Participated in panel discussion on Section 5 of the FTC Act, ABA Antitrust Section Spring Meeting, April 2011.

Presented papers on merger efficiencies and intellectual property, University of Zurich, December 2010.

Presented paper on merger efficiencies, University of East Anglia, December 2010.

Organized conference on "Antitrust and the Wider Economy," University of Michigan, October 2010.

Lectured on merger review, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2010.

Keynote speaker, Conference on Multi-Agency Governance, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, June 2010.

Presented "Toward a Unifying Theory of Exclusionary Vertical Restraints" at the Conference on Vertical Restraints, Norwich Law School Centre for Competition Policy, East Anglia University, Norwich, England, June 2010.

Presented "Too Big to Fail: The New Curse of Bigness in Comparative Perspective" at the University of Michigan International Law Workshop, January 2010.

Presented "Too Big to Fail: The New Curse of Bigness in Comparative Perspective" at the University of Michigan International Law Workshop, January 2010.

Presented "Intellectual Liability" at the University of Michigan Intellectual Property Workshop, January 2010.

Invited panelist, Federal Trade Commission/Department of Justice Horizontal Merger Guidelines Revisions Workshop, Chicago, December 2009.

Presented "Optimizing Private Antitrust Enforcement" at the University of Toronto Law and Economics Workshop, November 2009.

Panelist, Conference on EU Policy on Vertical Restraints, University College London, October 2009.

Presented "Rules Versus Standards in Antitrust Adjudication" at the LEAR Conference in Rome, June 2009.

Presented "Antitrust During Times of Crisis" at the International Competition Network in Zurich, Switzerland, June 2009.

Presented "Monopoly Broth Makes Bad Soup" at the Haifa University Conference on Abuse of Dominance, May 2009.

Presented "Optimizing Private Antitrust Enforcement" at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, May 2009.

Presented "Optimizing Private Antitrust Enforcement" at the University of Chicago Law School, January 2009.

 
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