Peter Carstensen
George H. Young-Bascom Professor of Law
E-mail: pccarste@wisc.edu
Telephone: 263-7416
Office: Room 7101, Law School
Education:
M.A., Yale University
LL.B., Yale Law School;
Teaching Areas:
Antitrust
Energy Law
Insurance Law
Torts
Biography
Peter C. Carstensen is the George Young-Bascom Professor of Law. From 1993 to 2002 he served as Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development at the UW Law School. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, and received his law degree and a master's degree in economics from Yale University. From 1968 to 1973, he was an attorney at the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice assigned to the Evaluation Section, where one of his primary areas of work was on questions of relating competition policy and law to regulated industries. He has been a member of the faculty of the UW Law School since 1973.
His scholarship and teaching have focused on antitrust law and competition policy issues. He has published a number of articles in the field, including a number analyzing aspects of the relationship of antitrust law and regulation. He has also done extensive research on the operation and regulation of markets for agricultural commodities. He served as co-editor and primary author of four chapters of the ABA Antitrust Section's monograph, Federal Statutory Exemptions from Antitrust Law (2007).
His other areas of teaching and scholarly interest are tort law, energy law and insurance law.
