Ken Glazer

I received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1982 and a law degree from Stanford University in 1985. I practiced antitrust law continuously from 1985 until retiring at the end of 2016. In my legal career I worked in law firms, a corporate law department, and the government. Specifically, I was the senior antitrust counsel for The Coca-Cola Co. in Atlanta, Georgia, the Deputy Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition, and partner at several law firms. When I retired in 2016, I was a senior partner at Sidley & Austin, an international law firm with offices worldwide. 

In the course of my career, I participated in jury trials (I was in one of the longest antitrust jury trials in history) and appellate cases, including before the U.S. Supreme Court. As the Deputy Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition, I oversaw numerous investigations of potentially anticompetitive conduct and mergers, and I represented the U.S. government in international bodies, such as the OECD and the International Competition Network, and many foreign competition-law agencies, including the European Union’s Competition Directorate, often coordinating with other U.S. agencies such as the U.S. Department of Justice. In private practice, I represented clients in a wide range of matters, from multi-billion-dollar transactions being reviewed by antitrust agencies around the world to litigation involving hundreds of millions of dollars and issues such as monopolization and illegal coordination. My clients came from many different industries and many countries and included a number of industry giants and household names. 

After retiring from the law, I wrote a book about Oedipus Rex (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) and became a graduate student in the philosophy department of the University of Maryland. I am interested in all aspects of philosophy, with a particular focus on mind and language.