Agenda

United States v. Microsoft:  Ten Years Later
Conference Agenda

For participant bios, please see this page. You can also download the conference program as a PDF.

Friday, September 12, 2008

2:00 – 3:00 p.m.    --   Registration (Austin East Classroom, Austin Hall)

3:00 – 3:15 p.m.    --   Welcome
                                        Elena Kagan, Dean, Harvard Law School

3:15 – 3:30 p.m.     --   Opening remarks [Video]
                                        Phil Malone, Clinical Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

3:30 – 4:15 p.m.    --   Generativity, Innovation and US v. Microsoft [Video]
                                        Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

4:15 – 4:30 p.m.    --   Break

4:30 – 6:00 p.m.   --    Panel 1  -- Integrating Substantive Law, Strategy and Trial Tactics In a Complex Monopolization Case [Video]

                • John Cove, Partner, Boies, Schiller & Flexner
                • Karma Giulianelli, Partner, Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott
                • Steve Houck, Partner, Menaker & Herrmann LLP
                • Tam Ormiston, Iowa Attorney General’s Office

6:00 – 7:15 p.m.    --   Opening Reception
                                        John Chipman Gray Room of Pound Hall

Saturday, September 13, 2008

  8:00 – 8:30 a.m.    -- Coffee, Registration (Austin East Classroom)

  8:30 – 9:45 a.m.  --    Panel II  -- Integration, Product Improvement and Tying: Access or Code; Liability or Remedy [Video]

                • Moderator: Andrew Chin, Associate Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law
                • David Heiner, VP and Deputy General Counsel, Microsoft
                • Edward Felten, Professor of Computer Science and Public
                  Affairs, Princeton University
                • Steve Holtzman, Partner, Boies, Schiller & Flexner                                

9:45 – 10:00 a.m.  --    Break

10:00 – 11:00 a.m. --   Keynote Address and Discussion [Video]
                                         Brad Smith
                                         Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Microsoft Corp.

11:00 – 12:30 p.m. --     Panel III  -- Assessing Market Power and Anticompetitive Conduct in Dynamic, Innovation Driven Markets: Economic and Legal Lessons from US v. Microsoft [Video]

                • Frank Fisher, Jane Berkowitz Carlton and Dennis William Carlton Professor of Microeconomics, Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Chairman Emeritus, CRA International
                • Harry First, Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
                • Keith Hylton, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law 
                • Doug Melamed, Partner, Wilmer Hale (former Acting AAG, Antitrust Division, US DOJ)

12:30  –  1:30 p.m. --   Lunch (provided)
                                        Hark South, 2nd Floor of Harkness Commons

  1:30  –  2:15 p.m. --  Remarks and Discussion – David Boies, Partner, Boies, Schiller & Flexner [Video]

  2:15 –   3:15 p.m. --  Panel IV – U.S. v. Microsoft and The Media [Video]    

                • Rajiv Chandrasekaran, National Editor, Washington Post 
                • Joe Nocera, New York Times and Fortune Magazine 
                • John Wilke, Wall Street Journal
                • Mark Murray, General Manager, Corporate Public Relations & Public Affairs, Microsoft Corp

    3:15 – 4:00 p.m.  --  Remarks and Discussion – “Minding the Gap,” Andy Gavil, Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law [Video]

    4:00-- 4:15 p.m. --    Break

     4:15 – 6:00 p.m.  --    Roundtable Discussion [Video]

                • Moderator:  Einer Elhauge, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
                • Brad Smith, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Microsoft Corp.
                • Doug Melamed, Partner, Wilmer Hale 
                • Keith Hylton, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law

  6:00 p.m. --     Closing Remarks

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