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Kenneth G. Elzinga is the Robert C. Taylor Professor of Economics at the University of Virginia. He received his B.A. from Kalamazoo College in 1963 and his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1967. He has served on the faculty at Virginia since 1967.

Professor Elzinga has served in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice at the policy level, and he has been retained as an expert in antitrust cases by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice. He has lectured on antitrust economics on several occasions to federal judges, and he served as a consultant to Judge Kaplan in the Sotheby's-Christie's art auction antitrust case. He is on the editorial board of The Antitrust Bulletin and has been president of the Industrial Organization Society and the Southern Economic Association. He has published numerous articles on antitrust economics. Professor Elzinga has provided expert witness testimony in a wide range of cases involving price fixing, vertical restraints, mergers, monopolization, and predatory pricing. The Supreme Court has cited his work in antitrust economics, and he was the economic expert in three prominent antitrust cases that have been heard by the Court. (Matsushita Elec. Industrial Co. v. Zenith Radio, 475 U.S. 574 (1986); Brooke Group v. Brown & Williamson, 509 U.S. 209 (1993); and Leegin Creative Leather Products v. PSKS, Inc., 551 U.S. 877 (2007).)

Professor Elzinga has received the Thomas Jefferson Award, the highest honor conferred by the University of Virginia, and numerous teaching awards. He was the original recipient of the Cavaliers' Distinguished Teaching Professorship at the University of Virginia.