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Babette E. Boliek

Professor of Law
Caruso School of Law
310.506.4963

Biography

Professor Babette Boliek joined the Pepperdine faculty in 2009 and conducts research in the fields of antitrust law, telecommunications, privacy law, and sports law. As an expert in the fields of economics, antitrust law, and communications law, Professor Boliek was selected and served as the Chief Economist of the Federal Communications Commission from 2018 to 2019, and as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis, Department of Justice, Antitrust Division in 2020 and 2021. Her research is published in academic journals and law reviews such as Boston College Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Fordham Law Review, Hastings Law Journal, and the Review of Industrial Organization. Professor Boliek earned her BA with distinction from California State University, Chico, her JD from Columbia University School of Law, and her PhD in Economics from the University of California, Davis. While at Columbia, she was both a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a John M. Olin Fellow for Law and Economics. Her doctoral, and much of her subsequent research, has focused on the theoretical and quantitative analysis of legal issues in the U.S. communications industry. 

Professor Boliek is an award-winning teacher at Pepperdine and is a Visiting Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.  Professor Boliek has also served as a Visiting Scholar for the American Enterprise Institute, a Senior Fellow at the Information Economy Project at George Mason University School of Law, and a Fellow for the Center for Communication Law and Policy, a joint research venture of the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law and the Annenberg School of Communication.  Professor Boliek clerked for the Honorable Michael B. Mukasey of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and is admitted to practice law in the State of New York.

Education

  • Ph.D., University of California, Davis
  • J.D., Columbia University
  • B.A., California State University, Chico

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    Articles

    • Babette E. Boliek, Antitrust and High-Tech: A Tale of Two Mergers, 71 EMORY L.J. 933 (2022) SSRN HeinOnline
    • Babette E. Boliek, Upgrading Unconscionability: A Common Law Ally for a Digital World, 81 MD. L. REV. 46 (2021) SSRN
    • Babette Boliek, Economics at the FCC 2018-19: Competition, Broadband Deployment, and Transaction Review, Review of Industrial Organization, edited by Lawrence White, Oxford (2019) (with K. Makuch, C. Matraves, and A. Yankelevich) (solicited) SSRN
    • Babette E.L. Boliek, Populist Antitrust and the 1927 Radio Act, Review of Industrial Organization, edited by Thomas W. Hazlett, Oxford (2018) (solicited) SSRN
    • Babette E.L. Boliek, Prioritizing Privacy in the Courts and Beyond, 103 CORNELL L. REV. 1101 (2018) SSRNHeinOnline
    • Babette E.L. Boliek, The Potential Reach of O'Bannon v. NCAA, 5 MISS. SPORTS. L. REV. 28 (2016) SSRNHeinOnline
    • Babette E.L. Boliek, The FCC's Evidentiary Problem, 12 I/S: J. L. & POL'Y FOR INFO SOC'Y 45 (2015) SSRN
    • Babette E.L. Boliek, Antitrust, Regulation and the "New" Rules of Sports Telecasts, 65 HASTINGS L.J. 501 (2014) SSRNHeinOnline
    • Babette E.L. Boliek, Agencies in Crises?: An Examination of State and Federal Agency Emergency Powers, 81 FORDHAM L. REV. 3339 (2013) SSRNHeinOnline
    • Babette E.L. Boliek, FCC Regulation Versus Antitrust: How Net Neutrality Is Defining the Boundaries, 52 B.C. L. REV. 1627 (2011) SSRNHeinOnline
    • Babette E.L. Boliek, Wireless Net Neutrality Regulation and the Problem with Pricing: An Empirical, Cautionary Tale, 16 MICH. TELECOMM. TECH. L. REV. 1 (2009) SSRNHeinOnline

    Book Chapters

    • Babette E.L. Boliek, The Economics of the Internet, in THE CAMBRIDGE HANDBOOK OF ANTITRUST, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, AND HIGH TECH (Roger D. Blair and D. Daniel Sokol eds., Cambridge University Press, 2017) WorldCat

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    Presentations

    • Babette E.L. Boliek, Panelist, Mega Mergers and Populist Antitrust, USC Marshall School of Business (Feb. 2019)
    • Babette E.L. Boliek, Panelist, Internet Platforms and Competition Policy, Silicon Flatirons Annual Conference at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO (Feb. 2019)
    • Babette E.L. Boliek, Panelist, Digital Democracy: The Threat and Promise of Technology for Democratic Institutions, University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, VA (Jan. 2019)
    • Babette E.L. Boliek, Panelist, Policy and Predictions in an Era of Rapid Technology Change, Regulating Computing and Code Conference at Silicon Flatirons, University of Colorado Law School, Boulder, CO (Feb. 2018)
    • Babette E.L. Boliek, Roundtable Participant, First Amendment in the Administrative State, Antonin Scalia Law School, Arlington, VA (Oct. 2017)
    • Babette E.L. Boliek, Discussant, Broadband Competition Policy, Boston NCTA INTX Academic Workshop, Boston, MA (May 2016)
    • Babette E.L. Boliek, Presenter, Cyberspace Policy at Home and Abroad: The Agenda for 2016 and Beyond, AEI Conference, Washington, D.C. (Jan. 2016)
    • Babette E.L. Boliek, Panelist, Future of Internet Regulation, The Ohio State University Moritz School of Law, Columbus, OH (Mar. 2015)

    Areas of Expertise

    • Telecommunications law and policy
    • Net neutrality
    • Antitrust matters
    • Sports telecasts

    Topics

    • Antitrust
    • Contract Law
    • Corporations
    • Law and Economics
    • Technology and Telecommunications Law

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