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Christopher L. Sagers

James A. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Law

LB228
216-687-2319

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BIO

Chris Sagers, the Charles R. Emrick Jr.- Calfee Halter & Griswold Prof. of Law, joined the faculty in the fall of 2002. He has taught courses in Antitrust, Banking Regulation, Business Organizations, Law & Economics, Administrative Law, Legislation and the Regulatory State, Torts, and a seminar concerning the theory of the firm. 

Sagers has testified before the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Antitrust Modernization Commission, and the Ohio legislature. During 2023 Sagers was appointed a Visiting Senior Fellow at the U.S. Surface Transportation Board, where he directly advised the Board’s Chairman on matters of rail regulatory reform. He is author of United States v. Apple:  Competition in America (Harvard Univ. Press 2019) and Antitrust Examples & Explanations, co-author (with Theresa Gabaldon of George Washington University) of a casebook on business organizations from Aspen Publishing, and co-author of Sullivan, Grimes & Sagers, The Law of Antitrust, a leading hornbook. His articles have appeared in the Georgetown Law Journal, UCLA Law Review, and other leading journals. He has been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Cleveland Plain Dealer, National Public Radio, and many other outlets. He is a frequent panelist and lecturer.

He frequently participates in important antitrust litigation, by consulting with plaintiffs and enforcement officials pro bono and authoring briefs amicus curiae in federal courts of appeals. He is a Senior Fellow of the American Antitrust Institute, a Fellow of the Thurman Arnold Project at Yale University, and has held leadership positions in the ABA Antitrust Section and the AALS Section on Antitrust & Economic Regulation. In 2015 he was awarded the University's campus-wide Distinguished Research Award for Faculty. The law school's alumni association has awarded him the Walter G. Stapleton Award for Faculty Excellence and he has twice been elected Teacher of the Year by the students at large.

Before joining the faculty, Professor Sagers practiced law for four years in Washington, D.C., first at Arnold & Porter and then at Shea & Gardner. He earned his law and public policy degrees at the University of Michigan and was an editor of the Michigan Law Review. Hailing originally from the peaceful obscurity of small-town Iowa, Professor Sagers lives with his wife and two sons in the nicest little town in America, Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

Education

  • BA
    University of Iowa
  • MPP
    University of Michigan
  • JD
    University of Michigan

Research Areas

  • Administrative Law
  • Antitrust
  • Law and Economics
  • Business Organizations
  • Finance and Securities Regulation

Courses

  • Antitrust Law
  • Law Review
  • Corporations
  • Legislation & Regulatory State
  • Agency/Partnership
  • Solo Practice Incubator