CHICAGO, March 26, 2025 — The American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section will host its 2025 Antitrust Spring Meeting, the largest gathering of competition, consumer protection and data privacy professionals from around the world, April 2-4 at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, D.C. The conference features a host of top U.S., international and state enforcers and other officials from the private and public sectors, including new European Commissioner Teresa Ribera.
What:
2025 Antitrust Law Spring Meeting
Sponsored by the ABA Antitrust Law Section
When:
Wednesday-Friday, April 2-4
Where:
Marriott Marquis
901 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, D.C.
More than 3,700 academics, economists, government enforcement officials, private attorneys from plaintiffs and defense bars, in-house corporate counsel, judges and businesspeople from 70 countries are expected to attend the conference. Sessions cover a broad range of national and global antitrust, consumer protection and data privacy issues.
On Thursday, April 3, at 10:15 a.m. EDT, the Chair’s Showcase, “Have We Been Doing It All Wrong?,” will discuss complexity economics, chaos theory, dynamic competition, agent-based modeling and other economic views and their utility to antitrust enforcement.
Other highlights among the 70 sessions are:
- “2025 Big Tech Lawsuits/Enforcement Update”
- “Briefing With the State Enforcers”
- “Back to the Future? Antitrust Under Trump”
- “Consumer Protection: Year in Review”
- “Dealmaking in an Age of Antitrust Deterrence”
- “DOJ: Past, Present and Future”
- “FTC: Past, Present and Future”
- “Health, Privacy and AI”
- “Has Competition in the U.S. Been Declining?”
- “Hot Topics”
- “Hot-Button Issues in Class Action Litigation”
- “Views from the Bench”
- “Enforcers’ Roundtable”
The complete conference agenda is here. All sessions are open to the media, but reporters are required to register in advance by 2 p.m. EDT, Monday, March 31. For media registration, please contact Barbranda Walls at [email protected]. Reporters must meet the ABA media credentials policy. The ABA Antitrust Law Section reserves the right to limit the number of media per organization.
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