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Wayne State University Law School
468 W Ferry St
Detroit,
Michigan
48202
Phone: (313)577-9312
Fax: (313)577-9379
Executive Committee Member
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Stephen Calkins is a professor of law at the law school, where he teaches courses and seminars in antitrust and trade regulation, consumer law, and torts. He has taught at the Universities of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Utrecht (The Netherlands) and University College Dublin, and served as Wayne State University's associate provost and the law school’s interim dean. Mr. Calkins served almost four years in Ireland as a commissioner of its Competition and Consumer Protection Commission. While in Ireland he served as adjunct professor at University College Dublin Sutherland College of Law and returned as a Sutherland Fellow for a semester in 2020. During 1995-97, Mr. Calkins served as General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission. Mr. Calkins lectures widely throughout the U.S. and abroad, is a journal editor and has authored many publications on competition and consumer law and policy and related subjects, including the coauthored 5th edition of Antitrust Law and Economics in a Nutshell and the coedited Consumer Protection Law Developments. He is a life member of the American Law Institute, a fellow of the European Law Institute and a life fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and a member of the Academic Society for Competition Law and the advisory board of the American Antitrust Institute (which in 2019 bestowed on him the Alfred E. Kahn Award for Antitrust Achievement). Mr. Calkins served three three-year terms on the Council of the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law and is a former member of the Council of the American Bar Association Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice. He is also a former chair of the Association of American Law School's Antitrust and Economic Regulation Committee.