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Joe Bauer

"I came to Notre Dame in 1973, having lived virtually my whole life on the East Coast, and expected to stay for two or three years before returning ‘home.’ Instead, I am now in my 35th year on the Law School faculty. In this more than a third of a century, I have found that Notre Dame is a special place. The University has tremendous resources that have enabled me to develop and mature as a teacher and scholar. My colleagues are intelligent and supportive, and the students are bright and great fun to teach. For me and my family, this is clearly now ‘home.’"

Joseph P. Bauer

Professor of Law

Office Number: 308 Law School
Telephone: 574.631.6514
Fax: 574.631.4197
Email: Joseph.P.Bauer.1@nd.edu
Staff Assistant:
Ann McGuigan Jones

Joseph P. Bauer, an expert in the field of antitrust, joined the Notre Dame Law School faculty in 1973 as an assistant professor, becoming an associate professor in 1977 and a full professor in 1980. He teaches the required first-year course in civil procedure, and also teaches antitrust, copyright and trademarks, and conflict of laws. During his tenure, he has served the Law School in numerous ways, including as co-director of the London Law Programme (1975-76, 1989-90), as associate dean (1985-88, 1991, 1996), as elected representative to the Provost’s Advisory Committee (1993-99), as elected vice chair of the Law School’s Appointments Committee for more than 10 years, and as elected vice chair of the Law School’s Promotions Committee. He earned his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1965 and his J.D. from the Harvard Law School in 1969.

A member of the New York bar since 1970, he worked as an associate at the New York City law firm of Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler (1969-72), and served as an instructor at the University of Michigan (1972-73). During the spring and summer of 2002, he was on leave, working in an Of Counsel Status at Kirkland & Ellis in Washington, D.C. He has also held a visiting professorship at Emory Law School (spring, 2004) and at the University of North Carolina (1981-82).

Since 1985, Professor Bauer, with the late Earl W. Kintner until his death some years ago, has prepared the annual updates to a seminal work in antitrust law, Kintner and Bauer, Federal Antitrust Law, volumes I-XI. In 2002, he published, with Professor William Page of the University of Florida College of Law as his co-author, the revised edition of Volume II of this series, which concentrates on sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act. This is the fifth volume in this series written by Professor Bauer. Professor Bauer has also served as a consultant to the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition (1977-78), and has served on the AALS Antitrust Section Executive Committee (member 1984-89, chair 1987-89). He is a member of the Board of the American Antitrust Institute. He has testified on numerous occasions before Senate and House committees and subcommittees and in judicial proceedings, and he has served as an expert or consultant for a number of antitrust and intellectual property matters.

LAW60308, Civil Procedure

LAW70117, Antitrust Law

LAW70131, Copyright and Trademark

LAW70371, Conflict of Laws

Faculty Expertise Areas

Antitrust
Civil procedure
Copyright law
Federal courts and federal litigation
Intellectual property
Trademarks

Books

2 Federal Antitrust Law: Practices Prohibited by the Sherman Act, with Wm. Page (rev. 2d ed.) (Anderson Publishing Co. 2002).

11 Federal Antitrust Law: Relief, Defenses, Prior Adjudication, and Statutes of Limitations (Anderson Publishing Co. 1998).

10 Federal Antitrust Law: State Action Doctrine, Noerr-Pennington Doctrine, Miscellaneous Exemptions, with E.W. Kintner (Anderson Publishing Co. 1994).

9 Federal Antitrust Law: Antitrust Exemptions, with E.W. Kintner (Anderson Publishing Co. 1989).

3 Federal Antitrust Law: The Robinson-Patman Act, with E.W. Kintner (Anderson Publishing Co. 1983).

Book Segments

Supplements to Volumes I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X and XI of Federal Antitrust Law, with E.W. Kintner (Lexis NexisPublishing Co. 2007), prepared and updated annually since 1985.