Eleanor Fox

Eleanor M. Fox is Professor of Law Emerita and Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation Emerita at New York University School of Law.  She is a scholar in antitrust law, international and comparative competition policy, developing country economic law (especially African law), European Union competition and market law, and globalization including digital markets. She writes on inequality, poverty, power and markets and the relationship between efficiency and equity.

Eleanor was a partner in the law firm Simpson Thacher and Bartlett. She joined the faculty of New York University School of Law in 1976. She served as a member of President Carter’s Antitrust Commission NCRALP (1978-79) and President Clinton’s international competition advisory committee ICPAC (1997-2000).  She is a non-governmental advisor to the International Competition Network. Her books include US and EU competition law casebooks (with Dan Crane and Damien Gerard respectively) and Making Markets Work for Africa with Mor Bakhoum.  Her awards include an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Paris-Dauphine and an inaugural Lifetime Achievement award by the Global Competition Review for “substantial, lasting and transformational impact on competition policy and practice.”