Julie Webb, Amy Gilbert, and Stephanie Pearl
These awards are presented to members of the Section's leadership team for their outstanding performance in leading the section forward.
Antitrust Awards & Fellowships
We recognize our Section members' achievements through fellowships, competitions, and awards such as:
2023 Lifetime Achievement Awards
During the 2023 Spring Meeting, we are pleased to honor Deborah P. Majoras (former Chief Legal Officer and Secretary of The Procter & Gamble Company) for her life of achievement and service to the cause of promoting competition and protecting consumers.
Meet the - RecipientsCongratulations to the 2023 Outstanding Performance Award Winners!
Outstanding Performance Award
View the prior winners of the Outstanding Performance Award and the incredible contributions they've made as members of leadership.
Antitrust Student Diversity Stipend Program
Antitrust has launched an inaugural diversity program to encourage law students to pursue government and not-for-profit careers in antitrust, privacy and consumer protection law, awarding nine law students with stipends of $5,000 each to foster their career paths, the Antitrust Law Student Diversity Stipend Program.
Antitrust Law Section Bar Service Award
This award seeks to recognize a Section member who is an accomplished practitioner in the field of antitrust or consumer protection and who has distinguished himself or herself through his or her dedication to and passion for service to the Section and/or, more generally, to the Association.
Antitrust Law Section Distinguished Public Service Award
This award seeks to recognize a Section member who has distinguished himself or herself through his or her dedication to and passion for public service in the field of antitrust or consumer protection. For purposes of this award, “public service” is defined as government service (state or federal; legislative, executive, or judicial branch; foreign competition or consumer protection authorities); teaching or research in an academic or other nonprofit setting; or service on a non-profit entity. For purposes of this award, a Section member’s record of public service may reflect one or more of the preceding categories of service.
Antitrust Law Section Lifetime Achievement Awards
The Antitrust Law Section honors those individuals for their lives of achievement and service to the cause of promoting competition and protecting consumers.
Antitrust Law Section Young Lawyer Innovative Service Award
All young lawyer members of the Antitrust Law Section qualify as potential recipients of this award. There are no limitations on the nature or duration of the service that qualifies a young lawyer member for award consideration; for example, the service may relate to a particular Section project or event undertaken within a given bar year or it may reflect sustained contributions to the Section over the span of two or more bar years. What matters is the character of the service—does the service stand out as being singularly creative or innovative, and particularly useful or valuable to the Section? This award seeks to highlight the contributions of an individual young lawyer member although those contributions may have been made in a team environment or group setting.
The Harvey Saferstein Consumer Protection Student Essay Contest
This project provides an opportunity to expand the role of the ABA in the area of Consumer Protection among law students, professors and practitioners by inviting students to participate in a discussion on hot topics in consumer protection.
International Scholar-in-Residence Program
This program provides funding for two international scholars per year to visit the United States to pursue their competition policy-related research. Applications are invited from junior faculty members (those who have been engaged in full-time teaching for five years or less) as well as current or recent Ph.D. students who have a demonstrated interest in the study of competition policy. Recipients have been from France, Italy, Brussels, Australia, England, and Norway.
Janet D. Steiger Fellowship
This eight to ten-week paid Fellowship provides law students an opportunity to work in the consumer protection and antitrust departments of state and territorial offices of Attorneys General throughout the United States. This consumer protection outreach initiative introduces law students to the rewards of legal careers in public service.
Robert Pitofsky Student Writing Competition
The Robert Pitofsky Student Writing Competition rewards law student articles on antitrust law, competition policy and consumer protection law.
Women.Connected Committee’s Hall of Fame-inism
Women.Connected’s Hall of Fame-inism honors those who have made contributions as role models and in promoting women in the antitrust, consumer protection, and data privacy fields.