Aaron Edlin holds the Richard Jennings Chair and professorships in both the economics department and law school at UC Berkeley and is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Edlin is a leading expert in antitrust economics, antitrust law, and law and economics. He is also an entrepreneur and co-founded bepress, a SaaS provider to academia and formerly an academic publisher. He has published in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and numerous other venues. He is co-author of one of the leading casebooks on antitrust with P. Areeda & L. Kaplow: “Antitrust Analysis: Problems, Text, and Cases.” He served on the 2008 Obama Presidential campaign’s competition policy committee, and as Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers in the Clinton White House covering industrial organization, regulation and antitrust.
