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Professor Herbert Hovenkamp

Highlights

  • "The Obama Administration and Section 2 of the Sherman Act," ___ Boston Univ. L.Rev. ___ (2010)
  • "Competition Policy in Crisis, 1890-1955," ___ Minn.L.Rev. ___ (2009) (in press)
  • "The Law of Vertical Integration and the Business Firm: 1880-1960,"___ Iowa L.Rev. ___ (2009) (in press)
  • "The Coase Theorem and Arthur Cecil Pigou," ___ Ariz.L.Rev. ___ (2009)
  • "Neoclassicism and the Separation of Ownership and Control," ___ Virginia J.L. & Bus. ___ (2009)
  • Antitrust Law (with the late Phillip E. Areeda & the late Donald F. Turner) (23 volumes, 1978-2009)
  • IP and Antitrust: An Analysis of Antitrust Principles Applied to Intellectual Property Law (with Mark D. Janis, Mark A. Lemley, and Christopher Leslie (2d ed. 2009))

Herbert Hovenkamp

Ben and Dorothy Willie Chair

  • BA, Calvin College, 1969
    MA, University of Texas, 1971
    PhD, University of Texas, 1976
    JD, University of Texas, 1978
  • Email  herbert-hovenkamp@uiowa.edu
  • Phone  319-335-9079
  • Office 475 Boyd Law Building
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Professor Hovenkamp joined the Iowa law faculty in 1986. Before coming to Iowa, Professor Hovenkamp was Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and prior to that he was Instructor, Department of History and American Civilization, University of Texas.

Professor Hovenkamp has taught Antitrust, Antitrust & Economics, Law in American History, Torts, IP Survey, Introduction to Intellectual Property, and Real Property. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been the Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, Harvard Law School; Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, Harvard Law School; Faculty Scholar, University of Iowa; Presidential Lecturer, University of Iowa; and has been the recipient of the University of Iowa Collegiate Teaching Award.

In 2008 Professor Hovenkamp received the John Sherman Award from the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. The award is presented approximately once every three years to "a person or persons for their outstanding achievement in antitrust law, contributing to the protection of American consumers and to the preservation of economic liberty."

Professor Hovenkamp's publication include some 80 articles and approximately 50 essays and book reviews, as well as a dozen books. Of these, Enterprise and American Law, 1800-1860 (1991) received the Littleton-Griswold Prize of the Ameican Historical Association; and Science and Religion in America: 1800-1860 (1978) received the Choice Award. He is the senior surviving author of Antitrust Law (formerly with Phillip Areeda & Donald Turner), currently 22 volumes.

 

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