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
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  • Blog: Truth on the Market
  • SSRN Page
  • Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

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

Academic Journals

The Roberts Court and the Limits of Antitrust, 52 BOSTON COLLEGE LAW REVIEW 1 (2011).
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A Decision-Theoretic Rule of Reason for Minimum Resale Price Maintenance, 55 ANTITRUST BULLETIN 167 (2010).

Dr. Miles is Dead. Now What?: Structuring a Rule of Reason for Minimum Resale Price Maintenance, 50 WILLIAM AND MARY LAW REVIEW 1937 (2009).
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Additional Publications

The FTC's Stacked Deck Under Section 13(b): Does CCC Holdings Herald a Return to the S-C-P Paradigm?, GCP: THE ONLINE MAGAZINE FOR GLOBAL COMPETITION POLICY (Apri 2009).
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Review of The Law Market, by Erin A. O'Hara & Larry E. Ribstein, 10 no.2 ENGAGE: THE JOURNAL OF THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY'S PRACTICE GROUPS 132 (2009).
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Working Papers

The Roberts Court and the Limits of Antitrust, U of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2010-22.
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Antitrust Analysis of Bundled Discounts, U of Missouri-Columbia School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2006-39 (2006).
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