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Mark Grady
Director, UCLA School of Law Center for Law and EconomicsProfessor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles
Biography
Mark Grady is the director of the UCLA School of Law Center for Law and Economics and a professor of law at UCLA.
He was an undergraduate at UCLA where in 1970 he received an AB in Economics summa cum laude. Professor Grady also attended law school at UCLA and received his JD in 1973.
Following law school Grady worked at the Federal Trade Commission where he was appointed Director of the Office of Policy Planning and Evaluation in 1975. He was responsible for evaluating the FTC's consumer protection and antitrust programs and also for recommending new programs to the agency. In 1977 Grady took a leave from the FTC and was a Law and Economics Fellow at the University of Chicago. He left the Federal Trade Commission in 1978 and joined a Washington consulting group that performed economic and policy analysis studies for the federal government. Grady then joined the staff of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee where he worked on antitrust legislation.
Professor Grady began his academic career at the University of Iowa College of Law in 1980. During the summer of 1982 he was a Civil Liability Fellow at the Yale Law School. He joined the Northwestern University law faculty in 1985. During 1991, he was the first John M. Olin visiting Professor of Law and Economics at the Duke Law School.
Between 1992 and 1997 Professor Grady taught Torts, Antitrust, and Intellectual Property at the UCLA Law School. He became Dean of the George Mason University School of Law in June 1997.
