Andrew Gavil

Andrew I. Gavil is a senior of counsel in Crowell & Moring’s Washington, D.C., office and is a member of the firm’s Antitrust & Competition Group. His considerable antitrust experience extends to all aspects of antitrust law, competition policy, and antitrust litigation. He has particular capabilities in matters concerning exclusionary conduct by dominant firms, analysis of theories of competitive harm, regulatory responses to new and disruptive firms and business models, and international and comparative aspects of competition policy.

Andy is a leading academic authority on antitrust law and offers decades of experience as a practitioner, professor, and former director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission. He has been a member of the faculty at the Howard University School of Law since 1989, where he teaches courses on antitrust law, federal regulation, civil procedure, and complex litigation. He has written, lectured, and commented extensively on antitrust law, jurisdiction, and procedure in the U.S. and abroad.

He has also co-authored several books, including a leading antitrust casebook and "Microsoft and the Globalization of Antitrust Law: Competition Policy for the Twenty-First Century." He has been recognized by the Section of Antitrust Law of the American Bar Association for his contributions to the work of the Section, and has served on the Council of the Section and as a frequent speaker at Section events. He is a Senior Editor and former Chair of the Editorial Board of the Antitrust Law Journal and the Chair of the Section’s International Scholar in Residence Selection Committee.

Andy earned his J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law, where he was a member of the Law Review, and earned his B.A. magna cum laude from Queens College of the City University of New York.