Jennifer Dixton

Lecturer in Law at University of California Los Angeles

Speaker

Jennifer Dixton is a lecturer at law, and teaches Antitrust Law and Antitrust and Intellectual Property at University of California Los Angeles. She also teaches at Loyola Marymount Law School and Loyola Law School Chicago. Ms. Dixton is a frequent speaker on the intersection of antitrust law and intellectual property, technology, and standards development. Ms. Dixton served as an antitrust enforcer for over 20 years at the United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division. Ms. Dixton is a former Assistant Chief in the Competition Policy & Advocacy Section and Special Counsel for Policy & Intellectual Property. During her long career in government service, Ms. Dixton worked on a variety of civil and criminal antitrust investigations and policy and appellate matters. Her work has focused on the intersection of antitrust law and intellectual property rights, standards setting, artificial intelligence and other technology, as well as antitrust compliance. In addition, Ms. Dixton has served as a government representative in the American National Standards Institute. Ms. Dixton was awarded the Assistant Attorney General’s Honorary Award in 2021 for her work on the COVID-19 Antitrust Advising Team and the Assistant Attorney General’s Award of Distinction in 2012 and the Internal Revenue Service Excellence Award in 2014 for her work on the municipal bond investigation.

In addition, Ms. Dixton has held numerous leadership positions in the American Bar Association Antitrust Section, contributed to publications including the ABA’s Antitrust Compliance handbook, Perspectives and Resources For Corporate Counselors, and has co-published articles in the Competition Policy International Antitrust Chronical, among other publications.

Ms. Dixton received her LL.M. from the George Washington University Law School in 2004 (intellectual property), her J.D. (magna cum laude) from the Catholic University Columbus School of Law in 2000, and her B.A. in Political Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1997 (cum laude)