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Thom Lambert

Thom Lambert
  • Environmental law
  • Antitrust law
  • Business organizations
  • Insider trading
  • Smoking bans
  • Food labeling
  • Workplace safety
Associate Professor of Law

BA summa cum laude (1993), Wheaton College
JD cum laude (1998), University of Chicago

  • Phone Number: (573) 882-6558
  • Room Number: 316 Hulston Hall
  • E-Mail Address:
  • Blog: Truth on the Market
  • SSRN Page

Professor Lambert joined the faculty in the fall of 2003 from the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin LLP, where he practiced antitrust litigation from 2000 to 2003.

Prior to entering law school, Professor Lambert was an environmental policy analyst at the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington University in St. Louis. He then attended the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a Bradley Fellow and served as Comment Editor of the Law Review. After graduating with honors in 1998, he clerked for Judge Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He then spent a year as the John M. Olin Fellow at Northwestern University Law School.

Professor Lambert's scholarship focuses on regulatory theory and business law. He is a regular contributor to "Truth on the Market," a weblog devoted to "academic commentary on law, business, economics, and more."

Professor Lambert teaches Contracts, Business Organizations, Antitrust Law, and Environmental Law. He is a recipient of the Graduate Professional Council's Gold Chalk Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Recent Publications

Book Chapters/Collected Works

A Middle-Ground Position in the Insider Trading Debate: Deregulate the Sell Side, in INSIDER TRADING: GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS AND ANALYSIS, (eds. Paul U. Ali and Greg N. Gregoriou, CRC Press 2008).
| SSRN | Routledge |

Regulatory Barriers to Consumer Information with Philip G. Peters, in LABELING GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD: THE PHILOSOPHICAL AND LEGAL DEBATE, (ed. Paul Weirich, Oxford University Press, 2007).
| Oxford University Press | Catalog |

Weblogs

Truth On The Market with Josh Wright, Keith Sharfman and Geoffrey Manne, at http://www.truthonthemarket.com
| Truth On The Market |

Academic Journals

Dr. Miles is Dead. Now What?: Structuring a Rule of Reason for Minimum Resale Price Maintenance, 50 WILLIAM AND MARY LAW REVIEW 1937 (2009).
| SSRN | Westlaw | Keycite ® | LexisNexis | Shepard's ® |

Antitrust (Over-?) Confidence with Joshua D. Wright, 20 LOYOLA CONSUMER LAW REVIEW 219 (2008).
| SSRN | Westlaw | Keycite ® | LexisNexis | Shepard's ® |

Weyerhaeuser and the Search for Antitrust's Holy Grail, 2006-07 CATO SUPREME COURT REVIEW 277.
| SSRN | Westlaw |

Tweaking Antitrust's Business Model (Review Essay), 85 TEXAS LAW REVIEW 153 (2006).
| SSRN | Westlaw | Keycite ® | LexisNexis | Shepard's ® | HeinOnline |

Overvalued Equity and the Case for an Asymmetric Insider Trading Regime, 41 WAKE FOREST LAW REVIEW 1045 (2006).
| SSRN | Westlaw | Keycite ® | LexisNexis | Shepard's ® | HeinOnline |

The Case Against Smoking Bans, 13 MISSOURI ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY REVIEW 94 (2006).
| SSRN | Westlaw | LexisNexis |

Professional Journals

The 'Failure to Mitigate' Defense in Antitrust, 51 no.3 THE ANTITRUST BULLETIN: THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN AND FOREIGN ANTITRUST AND TRADE REGULATION 569 (2006).

Additional Publications

Four Lessons from the Whole Foods Case, 31 no.1 REGULATION 22 (Spring 2008).
| SSRN | online |

Ignoring the Lessons of Von's Grocery: Some Thoughts on the FTC’s Opposition to the Whole Foods/Wild Oats Merger, eCCP: eSAPIENCE CENTER FOR COMPETITION POLICY (June 2007).
| online |

Observations On The Leegin Argument, eCCP: eSAPIENCE CENTER FOR COMPETITION POLICY (April 2007).
| online |

The Case Against Smoking Bans, 29 no.4 REGULATION 34 (WINTER 2006).
| online |

Against Restaurant Smoking Bans, WASHINGTON POST (October 23, 2006).
| online |

Working Papers

Antitrust Analysis of Bundled Discounts, U of Missouri-Columbia School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2006-39 (2006).
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