A. Douglas Melamed is a nationally known American legal scholar who is currently Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Intel Corporation

Intel Corporation

Intel Corporation is an American multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation headquartered in Santa Clara, California, United States and the world's largest semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue. It is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most...

. He is famous in the field of law and economics

Law and economics

The economic analysis of law is an analysis of law applying methods of economics. Economic concepts are used to explain the effects of laws, to assess which legal rules are economically efficient, and to predict which legal rules will be promulgated.-Relationship to other disciplines and...

 for his views on the natural evolution

Evolution

Evolution is any change across successive generations in the heritable characteristics of biological populations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.Life on Earth...

 of property rights and co-authored with Guido Calabresi a classic law review article on the different types of property rights accorded by tort rules and property rules in Property Rules, Liability Rules and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral

Property Rules, Liability Rules and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral

Property Rules, Liability Rules and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral is an article in the scholarly legal literature , authored by Judge Guido Calabresi and A...

. He served in the Justice Department

United States Department of Justice

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's antitrust

Antitrust

The United States antitrust law is a body of laws that prohibits anti-competitive behavior and unfair business practices. Antitrust laws are intended to encourage competition in the marketplace. These competition laws make illegal certain practices deemed to hurt businesses or consumers or both,...

 division under Joel Klein

Joel Klein

Joel Irwin Klein was Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, the largest public school system in the United States, serving more than 1.1 million students in more than 1,600 schools...

during the Clinton Administration.

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