LOCATION

Paul Brest Hall, Stanford Campus, 555 Salvatierra Walk
Stanford, CA, 94305

PROGRAM

Introductory Remarks (14:00 to 14:10)

• Thibault Schrepel (Associate Professor at the VU Amsterdam & Non-residential Fellow at Stanford CodeX Center)

Panel 1: Computational Antitrust in 2025 (14:10 to 15:00)

This panel is dedicated to the current, most-advanced state of computational antitrust in courts, agencies, law firms, and academia.

• Paula Blizzard (Senior Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Section of the California Attorney General’s Office)
• Alexandre Cordeiro Macedo (President of CADE, Brazilian Competition Authority)
• John LaBarre (General Counsel at Harvey AI)
• Koren W. Wong-Ervin (Partner at Jones Day)
• Moderator: Thibault Schrepel (Associate Professor at the VU Amsterdam & Faculty Affiliate at Stanford CodeX Center)

Panel 2: Computational Antitrust in 2030 (15:00 to 15:50)

This panel focuses on the future of computational antitrust, i.e., what is likely to become technically achievable, legally permissible, and institutionally accepted.

• Susan Athey (The Economics of Technology Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business)
• Harry Borovick (General Counsel at Luminance)
• Florence Guillaume (Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Neuchâtel)
• Maria Manuelle Palacio Villarreal (JSD Candidate at Stanford University)
• Sandy Pentland (Fellow Stanford HAI’s Digital Economy Lab & Professor Post Tenure of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT)
• Moderator: Teodora Groza (Ph.D. student and lecturer at Sciences Po Paris)

Concluding Remarks (15:50 to 16:00)

• Teodora Groza (Ph.D. student and lecturer at Sciences Po Paris)
• Thibault Schrepel (Associate Professor at the VU Amsterdam & Non-residential Fellow at Stanford CodeX Center)

RECORDINGS

Panel 1

Panel 2

SPEAKERS

Susan Athey

Susan Athey is The Economics of Technology Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business. She received her bachelor’s degree from Duke University and her PhD from Stanford. She previously taught at the economics departments at MIT, Stanford, and Harvard. In 2022, she took leave from Stanford to serve as Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division. Professor Athey is the 2023 President of the American Economics Association, where she previously served as vice president and elected member of the Executive Committee.

Paula Blizzard

Ms. Blizzard is the Senior Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Section of the California Attorney General’s Office. She leads the Antitrust Section, supervising all the AG’s non-healthcare competition matters, including those against Google, Amazon, Apple, Kroger, JetBlue, Live Nation, RealPage and others. Prior to joining the AG’s Office, she was a Deputy Bureau Chief for Enforcement at the Federal Communications Commission, a partner at Keker, Van Nest and Peters in San Francisco, and a trial attorney at the US Department of Justice Antitrust Division. Before becoming a lawyer, Ms. Blizzard had a career in aerospace as a NASA contractor working on space station design and NASA’s early use of the internet.

Harry Borovick

Harry Borovick is the General Counsel and AI Governance Officer at Luminance, a leading provider of advanced AI for legal document analysis and review. In addition to working at the forefront of AI development for legal operations, Harry lectures on applied legal AI and AI ethics at King’s College London and Queen Mary University of London. He serves as an AI advisor to the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CiArb) and is the author of AI and The Law: A Practical Guide to Using AI Safely.

Alexandre Cordeiro Macedo

Alexandre Cordeiro Macedo is the President of the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) since July 2021. Prior to becoming the head of CADE, Cordeiro was the Superintendent General of CADE for four years. He also previously served as a Commissioner at CADE. President Cordeiro holds a PhD in Law from the University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). He is a Visiting Scholar and International Fellow of the Global Antitrust Institute of the Antonin Scalia Law School. Cordeiro is a Professor at several federal universities in Brazil and abroad. He has had his articles published in books, magazines and newspapers, and has given a number of lectures at national and international events and universities, including at Harvard Law School and Northwestern University.

Teodora Groza

Teodora Groza is a Ph.D. student and lecturer at Sciences Po Paris. Her areas of interest are AI governance, the relationship between innovation and regulation, the impact of new technologies on regulatory techniques, and law and economics. She is also a research fellow for the Track AI project, an initiative co-hosted by Sciences Po Law School and CodeX, The Stanford Centre for Legal Informatics. Additionally, she has served as editor and curator for the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology Digest and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Computational Antitrust Journal.

Florence Guillaume 

Florence Guillaume has been a Full Professor of Civil Law and Private International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Neuchâtel since 2006. She served as Dean of the Faculty of Law from 2011 to 2014 and is currently a member of the University Council. Professor Guillaume was also a Visiting Professor at Stanford University (CodeX) in 2022 and served as Seconded Professor to the Hague Conference on Private International Law from 2014 to 2015. Before embarking on her academic career, she practised law as an attorney in Geneva and Zurich (2000–2006). She also served as Deputy Head of the Private International Law Section at the Federal Office of Justice in Bern in 2006.

John LaBarre

John is General Counsel at Harvey, a platform that makes generative AI useful and accessible to lawyers and other professionals. Prior to Harvey, John was Vice President, Deputy General Counsel at Snowflake Inc. Prior to that, he was a senior member of the patent team at Google LLC where he was the head of Google’s consumer hardware patents team responsible for all patent-related issues relating to Google’s consumer hardware business (e.g., its Pixel phones, chromebooks, and Home devices, as well as its Nest products) including issues relating to Standard Essential Patents.Before joining Google, John was a patent litigator in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

Maria Manuella Palacio Villarreal 

María Manuela Palacio Villarreal is a JSD Student, former 2023 SPILS Fellow, and Master of the Science of the Law at Stanford Law School. Her professional experience is in antitrust/competition law, public procurement, contracts, and economic analysis of the law. As an enforcer, she has studied a range of markets and industries in Colombia, including the infrastructure, transportation, health, payments, and telecommunications sectors. She has also researched the evolution of the digital economy across multiple industries, and emerging digital platform regulations in Colombia, the LAC region, and abroad.

Sandy Pentland

Professor Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland has helped create and direct the MIT Media Lab and the Media Lab Asia in India, and is  a HAI Fellow at Stanford. He is one of the most-cited  computational scientists in the world, and Forbes declared him one of the “7 most powerful data scientists in the world” along with Google founders and the Chief Technical Officer of the United States. He is a member of advisory boards for the UN Secretary General, the UN Foundation, Consumers Union, and formerly the OECD, American Bar Association, Google, AT&T, and Nissan. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and council member within the World Economic Forum.

Thibault Schrepel

Dr. Thibault Schrepel, LL.M., conducts research at the intersection of digital market dynamics and regulation, which he explores through the lens of complexity science. He is an Associate Professor of Law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute) and a Faculty Affiliate at Stanford University (CodeX Center), where he founded the “Computational Antitrust” project, now bringing together over 75 antitrust agencies. He is also the founder of the Network Law Review and the host of the “Scaling Theory” podcast.

Koren W. Wong-Ervin

Koren Wong-Ervin has more than 20 years of experience in government, private practice, and as in-house counsel, including representing defendants and plaintiffs in high-stakes litigations and representing companies in domestic and foreign merger and conduct investigations. While at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Koren served as an Attorney Advisor to a Commissioner and as Counsel for Intellectual Property & International Antitrust. She is a recognized thought leader who has testified before Congress on domestic and international antitrust issues.

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