Speaker Biographies

JONATHAN H. ADLER is the inaugural Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, and Director of the Center for Business Law & Regulation at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where he teaches courses in environmental, administrative, and constitutional law. Professor Adler is the author or editor of seven books, and over a dozen book chapters. He has testified before Congress a dozen times, and his work has been cited in the US Supreme Court. A 2016 study identified Professor Adler as the most-cited legal academic in administrative and environmental law under age 50. Professor Adler is a senior fellow at the Property & Environment Research Center in Bozeman, Montana and at the Center for the Study of the Administrative State at the George Mason University School of Law. He also serves on the academic advisory board of the Cato Supreme Court Review, the NFIB Small Business Legal Center Advisory Board, the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment, and the Environmental Law Institute’s Environmental Law Reporter and ELI Press Advisory Board. Prior to joining the faculty at Case Western Reserve, Adler clerked for the Honorable David B. Sentelle on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. From 1991 to 2000, Adler worked at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market research and advocacy group in Washington, DC, where he directed CEI’s environmental studies program. He holds a BA, magna cum laude, from Yale University, and a JD, summa cum laude, from the George Mason University School of Law.

AUGUST HORVATH is a partner in Foley Hoag’s Advertising & Marketing practice.  He counsels clients on how to substantiate and defend marketing claims they wish to make for their products and services, helps them challenge false and disparaging advertising by their competitors, and assists them in managing relationships with competitors, customers, and suppliers without running afoul of antitrust laws.  August provides representation in private false advertising and deceptive practices litigation before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), state Attorneys General, and the National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus, and litigates in courts across the country. He has helped many companies in fields such as pharmaceuticals, retailing, sporting and other consumer goods, and online Internet services reach their marketing, distribution, and competitive goals while overcoming complex challenges of advertising law and antitrust barriers.