Katherine Van Dyck, Senior Fellow
Ms. Van Dyck joins the Civil Justice Research Initiative after serving as an Attorney-
Advisor in the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Policy Planning, where she grew
and ran the agency’s amicus program. Her research at CJRI focuses on how judicial
deference to corporate interests has eroded the Seventh Amendment right to a civil jury
trial.
Ms. Van Dyck is also a senior legal fellow at American Economic Liberties Project, a
member of the steering committee for the American Antitrust Institute’s recently
launched Appellate Project, and the founder of KVD Strategies PLLC. She is a seasoned
practitioner, having litigated class actions and individual lawsuits on behalf of plaintiffs
for almost 20 years before moving into the policy and advocacy space.
Other areas of research interest include the intersection of sports, antitrust, and labor
law; price discrimination and pricing algorithms; and broader anti-monopoly concerns.
She is a frequent speaker at various conferences and symposia focused on pressing
antitrust issues in the United States.
Publications:
Price Discrimination and Power Buyers: Why Giant Retailers Dominate the Economy and
How to Stop It, 53 U. BALT. L. REV. 297 (Spring 2024)
The Case Against Live Nation-Ticketmaster, AMERICAN ECONOMIC LIBERTIES PROJECT (Jan. 4,
2024)
Playing by the Rules: Bringing Law and Order to the NCAA, AMERICAN ECONOMIC LIBERTIES
PROJECT (Nov. 30, 2023)
A Model Junk Fee Prevention Act, AMERICAN ECONOMIC LIBERTIES PROJECT (Aug. 21, 2023)