Maurice Stucke

Douglas A. Blaze Distinguished Professor of Law
Maurice Stucke
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Expertise
  • Antitrust Law
  • Behavioral Economics
  • Evidence
  • Privacy Law

Maurice Stucke

Douglas A. Blaze Distinguished Professor of Law

Maurice Stucke is the Douglas A. Blaze Distinguished Professor of Law at the College, where he teaches antitrust, privacy, business torts, law and economics, and evidence. He is the author or co-author of, among other works,

  • Big Data and Competition Policy (Oxford University Press 2016),
  • Virtual Competition (Harvard University Press 2016, paperback 2019),
  • Competition Overdose: How Free Market Mythology Transformed Us from Citizen Kings to Market Servants (HarperCollins 2020),
  • Breaking Away: How to Regain Control Over Our Data, Privacy, and Autonomy (Oxford University Press 2022), and
  • How Big-Tech Barons Smash Innovation—and How to Strike Back (HarperCollins 2022).

With twenty-five years experience handling a range of competition policy issues in both private practice and as a prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice, Stucke testified before, and provided expert reports for, multiple governments and inter-governmental agencies, including the World Bank, United Nations, European Commission, and Federal Trade Commission.

Professor Stucke served as a senior advisor to the Federal Trade Commission during the Biden administration. He has also served on the advisory boards of the Open Markets Institute, Academic Society for Competition Law, American Antitrust Institute, and the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, and as one of the United States’ non-governmental advisors to the International Competition Network.

Professor Stucke received a Fulbright Scholar grant in 2010-2011 to teach at China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing. In 2012, he was a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne. In 2015 and 2017, he visited University of Oxford, where he was an Academic Visitor at its Institute of European and Comparative Law, a Fellow at its Centre for Competition Law and Policy, and a Senior Associateship at Pembroke College.

He also received several awards for his scholarship, including the Carden Award for Outstanding Scholarship, the 2016 Antitrust Writing Award by Concurrences Review and George Washington University, the Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Award, presented annually for the best antitrust scholarship, the College’s W. Allen Separk Faculty Scholarship Award, the Marilyn V. Yarbrough Award for Writing Excellence, and the Chancellor’s Honors Award for Research and Creative Achievement—Professional Promise.

He has been quoted, and his research has been featured, in numerous media outlets including Agence France-Presse, Associated Press, Atlantic, Australian, BBC, Bloomberg, Business Insider, CNBC, CNN-Money, The Economist, Fast Company, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, The Guardian, Harvard Business Review, Market Watch, MIT Technology Review, New Republic, New Scientist, New York Review of Books, New York Times, The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, Politico, Reuters, Science, Scotsman, Slate, Times Higher Education, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Wired.

He has also appeared on BBC Radio, CNBC, Fox News, Radio 3 Hong Kong, and Wharton Business Radio.

  • Education & Experience
  • Publications

J.D., (magna cum laude), 1994, Georgetown University

A.B., 1987, Georgetown University

Books

Big Data and Competition Policy (Oxford University Press 2016)

Virtual Competition (Harvard University Press 2016, paperback 2019)

Competition Overdose: How Free Market Mythology Transformed Us from Citizen Kings to Market Servants (HarperCollins 2020)

Breaking Away: How to Regain Control Over Our Data, Privacy, and Autonomy (Oxford University Press 2022)

How Big-Tech Barons Smash Innovation—and How to Strike Back (HarperCollins 2022)

Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

Full list of SSRN scholarly papers