FTC, George Mason To Host Public Departure Ceremony for Josh Wright Friday
The FTC and George Mason University School of Law will host a public departure ceremony for former FTC Commissioner Josh Wright Friday in the Robert Levy Atrium of Hazel Hall on George Mason’s Arlington campus, 9:30-11 a.m., a George Mason…
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news release said. FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez, George Mason University Dean Henry Butler, Freshfields Bruckhaus antitrust attorney Jan Rybnicek and former FTC Competition Bureau Assistant Director Jeff Perry, now a partner at Weil Gotshal, will give formal remarks, it said. Wright, who became an FTC commissioner in 2013 and resigned in August, was the “driving force behind new guidelines for the Unfair Methods of Competition provisions of Section 5 of the FTC Act,” the release said. Wright’s “call for evidence-based decisions has been a welcome reminder of that crucial element of sound policy,” said former FTC Chairman Timothy Muris, also a George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law.