Hoover IP² Convenes Inaugural Summer Teaching Institute

Is the current term for US patent protection too long and does it stifle or encourage innovation? Do mergers restrain trade and commerce? How does one regulate a monopoly and establish parameters for pricing? How does one even identify a monopoly? These questions are among the many that twenty-one recent law school and public policy school graduates and students are grappling with over a two-week period in the inaugural Hoover IP² summer teaching institute on the economics and politics of regulation.