Director headed an elite Chicago Law School antitrust network from 1953 to 1957

Evidence

As with other distinctively neoliberal projects, the Antitrust Project had its fair share of MPS members (Aaron Director and John Jewkes) and future members (Edward Levi, John McGee, and William Letwin). Headed by Director and assisted by Levi, the Antitrust Project comprised both postdoctorate and post-juris doctorate students and visiting professors: a Chicago Law School graduate, Robert Bork, a Committee on Social Thought Ph.D. graduate, William Letwin, a former Department of Justice employee, Ward S. Bowman, a Ph.D. graduate from Vanderbilt University, John S. McGee, and a visiting scholar from Britain, John Jewkes43 (Kitch 1983, 201-202). From 1953 to 1957,44 these individuals collaborated to produce a prodigious number of articles and one book: 1. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1122

Categorization

• SEED: The roster of Chicago School antitrust members (Bork, McGee, Bowman, Levi, Letwin, Jewkes) that came through Director’s project could anchor a profile of how a single seminar seeded a generation of influential antitrust doctrine.
• XREF: connects to: The Chicago Antitrust Project’s founding group dispersed by 1957. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1192; The Chicago Antitrust Project seeded figures who later shaped US jurisprudence — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1187

Broader Connections

• The Chicago Antitrust Project’s founding group dispersed by 1957. #corroborates (0.90) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1192
• The Chicago Antitrust Project seeded figures who later shaped US jurisprudence #expands (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1187