Justin Hurwitz, a student at the Chicago Law School, has won the $10,000 William E. Swope Antitrust Prize offered by Jones Day.  Justin wrote a paper on the issues raised in the process of setting industry standards between antitrust and patent law.  The competition is limited to law students and recent graduates.  William E. Swope or Bill Swope was admired and recognized for his approach to antitrust analysis focused on facts and the workings of specific markets in the real world.  His approach varied greatly from the traditional approach to antitrust law based on hard rules, surveys, and rigid theories.  Bill Swope’s approach of factual analysis towards antitrust law has now become the industry standard.

Jones Day held a prize giving ceremony at its Washington office.  Other candidates who found honorable mentions were Oliver Zhong, a student of the Michigan Law School, and Christopher Grengs, a recent graduate working as Attorney Advisor at the Federal Trade Commission.  The winners have been invited by Jones Day to the Spring Meeting of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Section being held this week.

Jones Day is an international law firm with more than 2,200 lawyers working from 30 locations across the world.

Complete rules for the annual competition are available at www.jonesday.com/swope/.