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Biographical Note

Professor Dibadj writes about corporate and securities law, antitrust, regulation and administrative law, and social welfare theory. Two themes are emerging in his writing, one methodological and the other substantive. The first involves the application of new tools, such as network theory, to legal analysis. The second is an exploration of how the modalities of government intervention (via corporate or administrative law, for example) can be improved to mediate the increasingly complex intersection of democracy and capitalism. Dibadj is the author of Rescuing Regulation, in which he provides novel answers to questions of why and how governmental regulation should be used, and several academic articles and op-ed pieces.

Education

SB, Harvard University
MBA, Harvard University

Scholarship

Reza Dibadj's SSRN Page

Selected Works of Reza Dibadj on bepress

Books

Rescuing Regulation (SUNY Press, 2006). [Zief Law Library catalog record]

Articles

"Tacit Cartels, Oligopolies and the Problem of Conscious Parallelism" [SSRN abstract]

"Networks of Heightened Scrutiny in Corporate Law," 46 San Diego Law Review 1 (2009). [SSRN abstract]

"Networks of Fairness Review in Corporate Law," 45 San Diego Law Review 1 (2008). [SSRN]

"Panglossian Transnationalism," 44 Stanford Journal of International Law 253 (2008). [SSRN]

"Anti-Monopolization Workarounds," 17 Competition 207 (2008). [SSRN]

"The Political Economy of Commercial Speech," 58 South Carolina Law Review 913 (2007) (symposium issue: "Commercial Speech in an Era of Emerging Technology and Corporate Scandal"). [SSRN abstract]

"Article 82: Gestalt, Myths, Questions," 23 Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal 615 (2007) (symposium issue: "Cross-Border Legal Challenges in High Tech Law"). [SSRN]

"Postmodernism, Representation, Law," 29 University of Hawaii Law Review 377 (2007). [SSRN]

"Attractive Polarities, Narrow Boundaries," LSE STICERD Conference Proceedings (2007). [SSRN abstract]

"From Incongruity to Cooperative Federalism," 40 University of San Francisco Law Review 845 (2006) (symposium issue: "Federalism in Securities Regulation: Rethinking the Balance"). [SSRN]

"The Misguided Transformation of Loyalty into Contract," 41 Tulsa Law Review 451 (2006) (special issue: "What's Left of Fiduciary Duties for an Unincorporated Business?"). [SSRN]

"Weasel Numbers," 27 Cardozo Law Review 1325 (2006). [SSRN]

"Delayering Corporate Law," 34 Hofstra Law Review 469 (2005). [SSRN]

"Reconceiving the Firm," 26 Cardozo Law Review 1459 (2005). [SSRN]

"Saving Antitrust," 75 University of Colorado Law Review 745 (2004). [SSRN abstract]

"Beyond Facile Assumptions and Radical Assertions: A Case for 'Critical Legal Economics'," 2003 Utah Law Review 1155. [SSRN]

"Regulatory Givings and the Anticommons," 64 Ohio State Law Journal 1041 (2003). [SSRN]

"Competitive Debacle in Local Telephony: Is the 1996 Telecommunications Act to Blame?," 81 Washington University Law Quarterly 1 (2003). [SSRN]

"Toward Meaningful Cable Competition:   Getting Beyond the Monopoly Morass," 6 New York University Journal of Legislation & Public Policy 245 (2003). [SSRN]

Academic Book Reviews

"The Process-Welfare Nexus," 33 Oklahoma City University Law Review 837 (2008). [SSRN abstract]

"A Modest Enterprise," 10 Lewis & Clark Law Review 415 (2006). [SSRN]

"The Limits of Utilitarianism," 6 Nevada Law Journal 201 (2005). [SSRN]

Review ofAntitrust Law: Economic Theory and Common Law Evolution, 28 World Competition Law and Economics Review 619 (2005).

Review of Antitrust Law: Economic Theory and Common Law Evolution, 50 Antitrust Bulletin 223 (2005). [SSRN]

Markets Need Viable Rules, National Law Journal, Feb. 16, 2009, at 22.
Reprinted in: The Recorder, Feb. 20, 2009, at 4.

Can Postmodernism Save World?, Baltimore Sun, April 12, 2007, at 19A.

State Corporate Law: No Regulatory Muscle, National Law Journal, Apr. 10, 2006. at 27.
Reprinted in: Broward Daily Business Review, Apr. 17, 2006; Miami Daily Business Review, Apr. 17, 2006; Palm Beach Daily Business Review, Apr. 17, 2006.

Government Is Bad, Isn't It?, San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 8, 2005, at B9.
Excerpted in: Christian Science Monitor, Sept. 14, 2005, at 9.
Reprinted in: USF In the News, Spring 2006, at 3.

Now, How to Pay for It, San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 18, 2005, at B9.

Monopoly v. Municipality, National Law Journal, Feb. 14, 2005, at 26.
Reprinted in: New Jersey Law Journal, Feb. 21, 2005.

FCC Must Turn Back to Basic Principles of Law, Economics San Francisco Daily Journal, Feb. 2, 2005, at 6.
Los Angeles Daily Journal, Feb. 2, 2005, at 6.

Small Firms, Speak Up Loudly For Innovation, San Jose Mercury News, Jan. 30, 2005, at 5P.

First We're Overprotected, Then Shoved Out the Door, Wall Street Journal, Nov. 18, 2004, at A19 (letter responding to Nobel laureate Edward Prescott).

At 90, Time to Reform, National Law Journal, Oct. 11, 2004, at 23.

Rescuing Broadband in America Requires a New Path San Francisco Daily Journal, Sept. 30, 2004, at 4. Los Angeles Daily Journal, Sept. 30, 2004, at 6.
Reprinted in: USF In the News, Spring 2005, at 5.

Let's Revitalize Regulation, National Law Journal, Sept. 29, 2003, at 26.
Reprinted in:   New Jersey Law Journal, Oct. 6, 2003; Miami Daily Business Review, Oct. 6, 2003; Palm Beach Daily Business Review, Oct. 6, 2003.

Now Is the Time to Reshape America's Regulators, Financial Times (London), Sept. 26, 2003, at 6.

Excesses of Burst Economic Bubble Persist in Aftermath, Los Angeles Daily Journal, Sept. 25, 2003, at 6.

Deregulation: A Tragedy in Three Acts, Washington Post, Sept. 13, 2003, at A21.
Reprinted in: O Estado do Sao Paolo, Sept. 18, 2003 (translated into Portuguese).

Comments to FCC on Long Distance Industry Regulations (2003).

Comments to FCC on Joint Staff Paper Regarding Unlicensed Devices and Associated Regulatory Issues (2003).

Comments to FCC on Spectrum Policy Task Force Report (2002).

Ex Parte Comments to FCC on Experimental Economics Study Examining Horizontal Concentration in the Cable Industry (2002).

"Tacit Cartels, Oligopolies, and the Problem of Conscious Parallelism," USF School of Law Faculty Teaching and Scholarship Workshop Series

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