Christopher L Sagers
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 Title: Professor
 Dept: Law
 Office: LB 228
 Phone: 216-687-2319
 Email: C.SAGERS@csuohio.edu
 Address: 2121 Euclid Ave. LB 228, Cleveland, OH 44115

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Research Keywords:
Administrative law, antitrust, law and economics, business organizations, securities regulation, legal history
 
Education:
B.A., University of Iowa
M.P.P., University of Michigan
J.D., University of Michigan
 
Brief Bio:
Chris Sagers is the James A. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Law at Cleveland State University, where he has taught courses in antitrust and business law since 2002.  He has given testimony on these matters before the U.S. Congress and the Antitrust Modernization Commission.  He is author of United States v. Apple: Competition in America, published by Harvard University Press; co-author of Sullivan, Grimes & Sagers, The Law of Antitrust, a leading treatise; co-author, with Theresa Gabaldon of George Washington University, of a casebook on business organizations from Aspen Publishing; and author of Antitrust Examples & Explanations. His many articles have appeared in the Georgetown Law Journal, UCLA Law Review, and other leading journals. He writes and is quoted frequently in the press, including the New York Times, L.A. Times, Wall Street Journal, Slate, CNBC, Fox Business, and National Public Radio, and he is a frequent panelist and lecturer. He participates in important antitrust litigation by consulting with plaintiffs and enforcement officials pro bono and authoring briefs amicus curiae in the Supreme Court and federal courts of appeals.  He is a member of the American Law Institute and has held leadership positions in the American Antitrust Institute and the ABA Antitrust Section.  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, two sons, and a three-legged dog in the nicest little town in America, Cleveland Heights, Ohio.