Prof. Carli N. Conklin, Esq.
Carli Conklin was born and raised in Kirksville, Missouri. She received her B.S. in English (Magna Cum Laude, 1997) and M.A.E. in Education (1999) from Truman State University, where she was named Outstanding Graduate Student in Elementary Education. From 1999-2000, Conklin worked as an Intern and then Education Policy Assistant at Family Research Council in Washington, D.C. She then entered the Joint Degree Program in Legal History at the University of Virginia School of Law, where she was selected as a Dillard Fellow. Conklin graduated from Virginia with her J.D. in Law and M.A. in History in 2003, receiving the Roger and Madeleine Traynor Prize for outstanding written work by a graduating law student.
From 2003-2007, Conklin served as Assistant Professor of History and Co-Director of the Pre-Law Professional Program at John Brown University (JBU), where she was also the faculty founder and sponsor of JBU’s Campus Chapter of International Justice Mission. While at JBU, Conklin received the Alpha Chi Rookie of the Year Award for excellence in teaching, a Shipps Scholar Grant for research, and the JBU Faculty Excellence Award.
In 2009, Conklin returned to her home-state of Missouri, where she served as a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Missouri School of Law from 2009-2010. Conklin is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Missouri School of Law. Her courses include Non-Binding Methods of Dispute Resolution, Negotiation, and International Human Rights Law. Conklin’s research interests are in the fields of Dispute Resolution and Early American Legal History. Her article on early American dispute resolution was published in the American Journal of Legal History. She is currently completing her dissertation on the historical meaning of the language “the Pursuit of Happiness” in the Declaration of Independence.
Mr. Daniel Crane
Daniel Crane teaches contracts, antitrust, antitrust and intellectual property, and various advanced antitrust courses at the University of Michigan Law School. He was previously professor of law at Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and a visiting professor at New York University Law School and the University of Chicago Law School. In the spring of 2009, he taught antitrust law on a Fulbright Scholarship at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Lisbon. His recent scholarship has focused primarily on antitrust and economic regulation, particularly the institutional structure of antitrust enforcement, predatory pricing, bundling, and the antitrust implications of various patent practices. Prof. Crane’s work has appeared in the University of Chicago Law Review, the California Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, and the Cornell Law Review, among other journals. He is the author of several books on antitrust law, including The Institutional Structure of Antitrust Enforcement (Oxford University Press, 2011).
