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Education:
J.D., Vanderbilt University Law School
B.A., Wellesley College
Beth Farmer is a professor of law at Penn State’s Dickinson School of Law, where she teaches in the fields of U.S.
and comparative antitrust, criminal law, and gender and the law. She has also taught in the United Kingdom, where she
directed The Dickinson Law School Semester in London program in 2003 and 2004, and has lectured in Turkey, Italy, Belgium,
Austria, and France, and has participated in numerous conferences throughout the United States. She is actively engaged in
researching and writing about U.S. and foreign antitrust and trade regulation law, including issues of federalism and
comparative competition policy. She participated in the seventh annual International Competition Network conference in
Kyoto, Japan, as a non-governmental advisor.
She was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to research and lecture on antitrust law at the University of International
Business and Economics (UIBE) in Beijing, China for the spring semester 2008. At UIBE, she participated in a seminar on
intellectual property and antitrust law, sponsored by the UIBE Competition Centre, and other activities of the Centre. As
a Fulbright scholar, she lectured on antitrust and American legal issues at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
and East China University of Political Science and Law in Shanghai; Northwest University of Political Science and Law in
Xi’an; and the Nanjing University of Science and Technology in Nanjing.
Her recent articles include papers on the Chinese pre-merger notification guidelines and an analysis of U.S. and European
multi-jurisdictional competition enforcement. Her articles “The European Experience with Merger and
Deregulation” in Competition Policy and Merger Analysis in Deregulated and Newly Competitive Industries, for
which she is a co-editor, and "Global Competition: Implications for Enforcement" in Harmonizing Law in an Era of
Globalization, are also available on SSRN.
Professor Farmer is an affiliated member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Competition Law and Policy at Queen Mary
College, University of London, and former chair of the Association of American Law School's (AALS) section of Antitrust
Law and Economic Regulation. In that capacity, she planned and moderated the AALS program "Competition Without
Borders: Antitrust Law and the Challenge of Globalization" and the AALS Scholars' Showcase program at the American
Bar Association (ABA) Antitrust Section. In addition to these professional activities, Professor Farmer serves on the
advisory board of the American Antitrust Institute; the board of the Center for State Enforcement of Antitrust and Consumer
Protection Law, and in leadership roles on several committees of the ABA Antitrust and Administrative Law and Regulatory
Practice Sections.
After graduation from law school, where she was an executive editor of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law,
she served as an antitrust law enforcement attorney with the New York attorney general's office and as a counsel with the
National Association of Attorneys General in Washington, D.C.
Contact Information:
Email:
sbf2@psu.edu
Phone: (814) 863-4616
Resume
Papers
available via SSRN
Selected Publications:
"The European Experience with Merger and Deregulation"
in Competition Policy and Merger Analysis in Deregulated
and Newly Competitive Industries, Peter Carstensen,
and Beth Farmer, eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming
2008.
"Harmonizing Competition Law & Enforcement"
in Harmonizing Law in an Era of Globalization:
Convergence, Divegence and Resistance, Larry C.
Backer, ed., Carolina Academic Press, 2007.
"Global Competition: the Implications for Enforcement,"
49 Amicus Curiae, (Sept/Oct. 2003).
"State Criminal Antitrust Law Enforcement,"
Chapter 7 in State Antitrust Enforcement (ABA
2003).
"Guilds at the Millennium: Antitrust and the
Professions: Introduction," 14 Loyola Constitutional
Law Review 377 (2002).
"More Lessons from the Laboratories: Cy Pres
Distributions in Parens Patriae Antitrust Actions
Brought by State Attorneys General," 68 Fordham
Law Review 361 (1999).
"Altering the Balance Between State Sovereignty
and Competition, the Impact of Seminole Tribe on the
Antitrust State Action Immunity Doctrine," 23
Ohio Northern University Law Review 1403 (1997).
"Balancing State Sovereign Immunity and Competition:
An Analysis of the Impact of Seminole Tribe on the
Antitrust State Action Immunity Doctrine," 42
Villanova Law Review 111 (1997).
"Hill Street Blues," Chapter 2 in Prime
Time Law: Fictional Television as Legal Narrative,
Robert M. Jarvis & Paul R. Joseph, eds. Carolina
Academic Press, 1998.
"Market Power and the National Association of
Attorneys General Horizontal Merger Guidelines,"
60 Antitrust Law Journal 839 (1992).
"State Antitrust Enforcement," 18 Journal
of Reprints for Antitrust Law & Ecnomics,
(1988).
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