(I read the panel discussion with him on "Big Box Stores" and it was a good discussion if anyone wants to check it out. He at least is aware of the issues that concern many Dems about Walmart gouging farmers and the transition in how we eat today and how Grocery Consolidation has an effect on both rural and urban areas. It's a good read.)
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Howard Shelanski in the news:
Howard Shelanski Discusses Impact of ‘Big-Box’ Grocery Stores
Daily Yonder, January 5, 2011
http://www.dailyyonder.com/price-groceries/2011/01/04/3109
“One important contributor, other than mergers and acquisitions, to the increased volume and share of the top 20 retailers over the past two decades has been the rapid growth of what are often called nontraditional grocery retailers like Walmart, Target and Costco.”
Howard Shelanski Says New Administration Will Pursue Antitrust Law Enforcement
Forum with Michael Krasny, May 12, 2009 Host Michael Krasny
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R905120900
“I think what we see now is a clear statement by the Justice Department that it will be less concerned about the stakes of over-enforcement; that it is more concerned by the stakes of under-enforcement, and will pursue monopolization conduct more aggressively than in the past.”
Howard Shelanski Calls New UCDC Law Program “Indispensable”
The BLT: The Blog of LegalTimes, March 9, 2009 by Eric Barendsen
http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/03/cali-law-interns-find-career-options-in-dc.html
“They get the opportunity to see their law degree as something that would help them be involved with policymaking, not simply litigation, not simply advocacy,” says professor and founder of the program Howard Shelanski of U.C. Berkeley School of Law.
Christopher Edley, Stephen Bundy, and Howard Shelanksi Say New Faculty Hire Will Help Boost Bar-Pass Rate
The Recorder, April 24, by Petra Pasternak
http://www.law.com/jsp/ca/PubArticleCA.jsp?id=1208947728506
“Though our first-time pass rates remain markedly higher than the overall pass rate for ABA-accredited law schools, we do not regard the 2007 results as acceptable,” Edley wrote in a memo to third-year students and LL.M.s on April 17. “We do not yet know whether those results reflect statistical variation or real changes in preparedness among our graduates.”
Howard Shelanksi noted that 82 percent is not bad compared with the overall pass rates for the California bar. But that’s little comfort to Boalt students, he added. “We want to push back up to our historic levels of bar-pass.”
“The bar is the mother of all closed-book in-class exams,” Bundy said. “I think the hiring of Kristen [Holmquist] provides a chance for us to look at the way these issues play out through the curriculum.”
Howard Shelanski Predicts Close Scrutiny of Microsoft-Yahoo Deal
TheStreet.com, Feb. 1, by Alexei Oreskovic
http://www.thestreet.com/s/microsoft-yahoo-await-antitrust-scrutiny/newsanalysis/technet/10401720.html?puc=_tscs
Howard Shelanski says that regardless of whether the Microsoft-Yahoo deal is ultimately approved, the deal’s size and complexity means it will likely prompt regulators to extend the initial 30-day review period for an additional six months…. “These firms are both major players, and there’s certainly some horizontal overlap,” says Shelanski. “There are many other markets involved here” … and each market needs to be evaluated on its own merits.
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