Arthur Douglas Melamed (born December 3, 1945) is an American legal scholar specializing in

antitrust law Competition law is the field of law that promotes or seeks to maintain market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies. Competition law is implemented through public and private enforcement. It is also known as antitrust ...

. Since 2014, Melamed has been a professor, first visiting then professor of the practice, at

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.Biography
He was previously Senior Vice President and General Counsel at

Intel Corporation Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 series ...

and the chair of the Antitrust and Competition Practice Group at the law firm of

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.Intel Executive Bio
, Retrieved April 30, 2010

Early life and academics

Arthur Douglas Melamed was born on December 3, 1945, to Arthur C. Melamed and Helen Melamed in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Melamed graduated from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

with a

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degree in 1967, then from

Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (Harvard Law or HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States. Each class ...

with a

Juris Doctor The Juris Doctor (J.D. or JD), also known as Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D., JD, D.Jur., or DJur), is a graduate-entry professional degree in law and one of several Doctor of Law degrees. The J.D. is the standard degree obtained to practice law ...

degree in 1970, where he was an editor on the ''

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''.

Career

After law school, he clerked for one year with Judge Charles M. Merrill on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. By co-authoring a law review article on the different types of property rights accorded by tort rules and property rules in '' Property Rules, Liability Rules and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral'' with

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, he became well-known in the field of

law and economics Law and economics, or economic analysis of law, is the application of microeconomic theory to the analysis of law, which emerged primarily from scholars of the Chicago school of economics. Economic concepts are used to explain the effects of laws ...

for his views on the natural evolution of property rights. He served in the

Justice Department A justice ministry, ministry of justice, or department of justice is a ministry or other government agency in charge of the administration of justice. The ministry or department is often headed by a minister of justice (minister for justice in a ...

antitrust Competition law is the field of law that promotes or seeks to maintain market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies. Competition law is implemented through public and private enforcement. It is also known as antitrust l ...

division under

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and was later Acting Assistant Attorney General during the Clinton Administration. He then began working as the chair of the Antitrust and Competition Practice Group at the law firm of

. From 2009 to 2014, Melamed was the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Intel Corporation; there, he oversaw Intel’s legal, corporate affairs, and government affairs departments. In 2014, he became, and still is, a professor at

Publicity

Throughout his career, Melamed has been interviewed by the media, mainly about antitrust law. In 2015
Corporate Counsel
covered a story on Melamed titled '"The Michael Jordan" of Law now Focuses on Teaching'. From May 2019 to June 2019, in particular, Melamed was interviewed by a variety of news outlets, including

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, as some antirust academics, regulators, and members of the public became concerned by the threat to competition large tech platforms may pose.

References

Law and economics scholars Living people 1945 births Intel people Harvard Law School alumni Yale University alumni Lawyers from Minneapolis Scholars of competition law United States Assistant Attorneys General for the Antitrust Division {{US-law-bio-stub