Chris Sagers, the Charles R. Emrick Jr.- Calfee Halter & Griswold Prof. of Law at Cleveland State University, is a nationally recognized expert on American competition policy. He has testified before the U.S. Congress and the Antitrust Modernization Commission and is author of United States v. Apple: Competition in America (Harvard Univ. Press, 2019), Sullivan, Grimes & Sagers, The Law of Antitrust (West Publishing, 2015), Antitrust Examples & Explanations (Wolters Kluwer/Aspen, 2014) and, with Theresa Gabaldon of George Washington University, Business Organizations (Wolters Kluwer/Aspen Casebook Series, 2016; 3d ed. 2023). His articles have appeared in the Georgetown Law Journal, UCLA Law Review, and other leading journals. His press appearances include the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, L.A. Times, The Times of London, Slate, Agence-France Presse, CNBC, Fox News, and National Public Radio. He has served as member of the American Law Institute, the American Antitrust Institute, the Thurman Arnold Project of Yale Law School, and he has held leadership roles in the AALS and ABA Antitrust Sections. He has won several awards for teaching and scholarship, including CSU's campus-wide Distinguished Research Award, the law alumni association's Walter G. Stapleton Award for Faculty Excellence, and the student body's Teacher of the Year award. From 2014-2017 he served as founding Faculty Director of the Cleveland-Marshall Solo Practice Incubator. He has taught courses in Antitrust, Business Organizations, Securities Regulation, Legislation and the Regulatory State, Law & Economics, Administrative Law, Torts, Banking Regulation, and a seminar concerning the theory of the firm. Before joining the faculty, Professor Sagers practiced law for four years in Washington, D.C., first at Arnold & Porter and then at Shea & Gardner. He earned degrees in law and public policy at the University of Michigan and was an editor of the Michigan Law Review.
