Published on Aug 13, 2025
Dozens of federal judges attended seminars in idyllic locales like Hawaii and Portugal held by a George Mason University (GMU) law school organization that received Big Tech funding, a Capitol Forum review of public records found.
The university’s Antonin Scalia Law School, one of the country’s leading conservative legal institutions, has a long history of educating judges on the application of economics to their cases. Records obtained under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act show that nearly 60 federal district and appeals court judges—many of whom are now overseeing major antitrust cases—attended antitrust economics seminars in destinations that also included Florence, Italy; Madrid, Spain; Napa, California; and Austin, Texas, among others, over the last several years.
GMU’s law school and one of its affiliated legal education entities, the Global Antitrust Institute (GAI), are just one element in a network…
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