REBECCA HAW ALLENSWORTH Vanderbilt University Law School 131 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37203 rebecca.allensworth@vanderbilt.edu; c: 617.309.9497 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Vanderbilt University Law School Assistant Professor, 2011 to 2014; Associate Professor, 2014 to present Courses: contracts, antitrust, and Richard A. Posner seminar Research interests: antitrust implications of occupational licensing and other forms of professional self-regulation Curriculum Committee 2011-12; Lateral Appointments Committee, 2012-13 Hall-Hartman Outstanding Professor Award, 2015 Harvard Law School Climenko Fellow, 2009 to 2011 Course: Legal Research and Writing EDUCATION Harvard Law School J.D. magna cum laude (2008) HARVARD LAW REVIEW, Articles Editor Research Assistant to Professors Bruce Hay (2007) and Elizabeth Warren (2006) Cambridge University M.Phil in American Literature (2005) Thesis: Melville s Adventures in Genre: Fact, Fiction, and Truth in Mardi and Moby- Dick Yale University B.A. in English, cum laude (2001) CLERKSHIP Hon. Richard A. Posner, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 2008-09 Term PUBLICATIONS & WORKS IN PROGRESS On Foxes and Hens: Professional Licensing in the United States (in progress). The New Antitrust Federalism, forthcoming in VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW (2016). The Commensurability Myth in Antitrust, 69 VAND. L. REV. 1 (2016).
Letting Dentists Feel the Bite of Competition, WALL STREET JOURNAL Mar. 2015: A13-A13 (with Aaron Edlin). Law & The Art of Modeling: Are Models Facts? 103 GEO. L.J. 825 (2015) The Influence of the Areeda-Hovenkamp Treatise in the Lower Courts and What it Means for Institutional Reform in Antitrust 100 IOWA. L. REV. 1919 (2015) Delay and Its Benefits for Judicial Rulemaking Under Scientific Uncertainty, 162 B.C. L. REV. 331 (2014) Casting a FRAND Shadow: The Importance of Legally Defining Fair and Reasonable and How Microsoft v. Motorola Missed the Mark, 22 TEX. INTELL. PROP. L.J. 235 (2014) Cartels by Another Name: Should Licensed Occupations Face Antitrust Scrutiny? 162 U. PA. L. REV. 1093 (2014) (with Aaron Edlin) (cited in North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. FTC, 574 U.S. (2015); received the Jeremy Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Fund Writing Award, 2015) Adversarial Economics in Antitrust Litigation: Losing Consensus in the Battle of the Experts, 106 NW. U. L. REV. 1261 (2012) Amicus Briefs and the Sherman Act: Why Antitrust Needs a New Deal, 89 TEX. L. REV. 1247 (2011) Note, Prediction Markets and Law: A Skeptical Account, 122 HARV. L. REV. 1217 (2009) Case Comment, Cunningham v. California, 121 HARV. L. REV. 225 (2007) Recent Case, Geertson Farms, Inc. v. Johanns, 120 HARV. L. REV. 2222 (2007) PRESENTATIONS State Center Conference on NC Dental, spoke to state antitrust enforcers about the impact of NC Dental on state regulation, Washington, DC, April 2016. American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Antitrust and the State New York, NY, January 2016 White House Roundtable on Occupational Licensing, spoke about my research and the impact of the NC Dental case, Washington, DC, June 2015. Yale/Harvard Junior Faculty Forum, presented forthcoming article The Commensurability Myth in Antitrust Cambridge, MA, June 2015. American Bar Association Antitrust Section Annual Meeting, Panel Discussing the NC Dental Case, Washington, DC, April 2015. American Bar Association, North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners Amici: The Scope of State Action Immunity Teleconference, March 2015; discussed the Dental Examiners opinion. University of Tilburg, TILEC Seminar, The Commensurability Myth in Antitrust, Tilburg, The Netherlands, January 2015 American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Competition Policy in Health Care Washington, DC, January 2015
American Bar Association, Taking Stock of the State Action Doctrine In Light of North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners v. FTC Teleconference, December 2014 Iowa Law Review Symposium Honoring Herbert Hovenkamp, The Influence of the Areeda-Hovenkamp Treatise in the Lower Courts and What it Means for Institutional Reform in Antitrust Iowa City, October 2014 Federalist Society Teleforum Conference Call, Regulating the Regulators: North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal Trade Commission October 2014 American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, Cartels By Another Name: Should Licensed Occupations Face Antitrust Scrutiny? Chicago, May 2014 Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Antitrust Law and the Art of Modeling: Are Models Facts? Chicago, April 2014 Federal Trade Commission, Cartels By Another Name: Should Licensed Occupations Face Antitrust Scrutiny? Washington, DC, April 2014 United States House of Representatives, Small Business Committee, Barriers to Opportunity: Do Occupational Licensing Laws Unfairly Limit Entrepreneurship and Jobs? Washington, DC, March 2014 FRAND Symposium at University of Texas, Casting a FRAND Shadow: The Importance of Legally Defining Fair and Reasonable and How Microsoft v. Motorola Missed the Mark, Austin, February 2014 NYU Next Generation of Antitrust Scholarship Conference, Antitrust Law and the Art of Modeling: Are Models Facts? New York City, January 2014 Georgia State University College of Law, Junior Faculty Exchange, Delay And Its Benefits For Judicial Rulemaking Under Scientific Uncertainty, Atlanta, September 2013 Heath Lecture and FRAND Workshop at University of Florida, Casting a FRAND Shadow: The Importance of Legally Defining Fair and Reasonable and How Microsoft v. Motorola Missed the Mark, Gainsville, September 2013 SEALS Annual Conference, New Scholars Colloquium, Delay and Its Benefits for Judicial Rulemaking Under Scientific Uncertainty, Palm Beach, August 2013 Tennessee Workers Compensation Conference, Letting It All In: Medical Expert Evidence in Workers Compensation Claims Under the 2013 Amendments, Nashville, June 2013 Vanderbilt Law School, Cartels By Another Name: Should Licensed Occupations Face Antitrust Scrutiny? Nashville, April 2013 NYU Next Generation of Antitrust Scholarship Conference, Adversarial Economics in Antitrust Litigation: Losing Consensus in the Battle of the Experts, New York City, January 2012 Law and Society Conference, Amicus Briefs and the Sherman Act: Why Antitrust Needs a New Deal, Chicago, May 2010
Harvard Law School Climenko Fellow Workshop, Amicus Briefs and the Sherman Act: Why Antitrust Needs a New Deal, Cambridge, March 2010 Harvard Law School Climenko Fellow Workshop, Economic Arguments in Antitrust Cases: Findings of Fact in the District Court, Issues of Law in the Circuit Court, Cambridge, October 2009 Harvard Law School Criminal Justice Seminar, Can an Information Market Combat Terrorism? Cambridge, March 2008 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE American Association of Law Schools Member, Executive Committee, Section on Antitrust & Economic Regulation, 2012-present PEER REVIEW SERVICE SEARLE CIVIL JUSTICE INSTITUTE Completed a peer review for an article on the judicial treatment of Daubert motions. June 2015 ANTITRUST LAW JOURNAL Completed a peer review for an empirical piece measuring the anticompetitive effect of pharmaceutical reverse payments. November 2014 JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES Completed a peer review for an article on the error rate Daubert factor. February 2014 JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE & LAW Completed a peer review for an article on the epistemology of expert evidence. October 2013 STANFORD JOURNAL OF COMPLEX LITIGATION Completed a peer review for an article on expert evidence in antitrust class action cases. September 2013 WOLTERS KLUWER LAW & BUSINESS Completed a peer review for a proposed antitrust treatise. March 2013 OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE Federal Public Defender, San Francisco Law Clerk, Summer 2007 Chambers of Judge Charles R. Breyer, N.D. Cal. Extern, Summer 2006 UC Berkeley Department of English Teaching Assistant for undergraduate Milton course, 2004 Research Assistant to Professor Alan Nelson, 2004
UC Berkeley Extension Program Assistant, 2002 to 2004 California School for Professional Psychology Project Manager, 2002 The Meadows Flower Shop, Berkeley CA Floral Designer, 2002 Vanguard Packaging Company, San Leandro, CA Sales Associate, 2001 HOBBIES Cycling, boxing, gardening, drawing, indoor rock climbing.