Provost E. Thomas Sullivan became Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at the University of Minnesota in July 2004 and has served in that role through January 2012.
He also served as the eighth dean of the University of Minnesota Law School from 1995 to 2002. Upon finishing his term as dean, he returned to full-time research and teaching. In June of 2003, he received the J. William Elwin, Jr., Award from the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education for leadership and contributions to law school development. At the University of Minnesota Law School, he has received the Stanley V. Kinyon Teacher of the Year Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2005, he was appointed the Julius E. Davis Chair in Law. He has chaired the ABA Section of Legal Education, and has chaired the Association of American Law Schools Section on Antitrust and Economic Regulation. On several occasions, he has been a consultant to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on judicial nominations to the Supreme Court, and to the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on mergers.
He is a nationally recognized authority on antitrust law and complex litigation, having authored ten books and over 50 articles. He and co-author Professor Richard Frase published Proportionality Principles in American Law: Controlling Excessive Government Actions (Oxford University Press, 2009). He is the co-author, with Professors Herbert Hovencamp and Howard Shelanksi of Antitrust Law, Policy, and Procedure (6th ed., 2009) and co-author with Professor Jeffrey Harrison of Understanding Antitrust and Its Economic Implications (5th ed. , 2009). Most recently, he published Complex Litigation with Professors Richard Freer, Doug Floyd and Brad Clary (2010). He also published Private Antitrust Actions (Little, Brown & Co., 1996) with Douglas Floyd. He is presently writing a book entitled The Arc of Due Process in American Constitutional Law.
On two occasions he has been a visiting faculty member at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. He twice has been a visiting scholar at Cambridge University in England. During the fall semester 2002, he was a visiting professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall). During 2012, he is a visiting faculty member at the University of Chicago and at New York University. Before coming to the University of Minnesota, Sullivan served for six years as dean of the University of Arizona College of Law and as associate dean at Washington University in St. Louis. He began his career in higher education as a faculty member at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Sullivan graduated magna cum laude from law school at Indiana University in 1973, where he served as an editor on the Indiana Law Review. After law school, he worked for a federal judge, in Miami Florida, and thereafter was a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice in the Attorney General’s Honors Program. Before entering Law School teaching in 1979, he was an antitrust litigator with the New York and Washington, D.C., firm of Donovan, Newton, Leisure and Irvine. Throughout his career he has continued to serve as a consultant on antitrust, complex litigation, and federal court matters.
In 2003 the Minnesota Law Review published a tribute issue on his deanship (Vol. 88), and Antitrust Bulletin named its symposium for him (Vol. 48).
For further information on Sullivan, please consult his curriculum vitae.
Complex Litigation (LexisNexis, 2010) (with Richard Freer, C. Douglas Floyd & Brad Clary)
Teacher's Manual for Complex Litigation (LexisNexis, 2010) (with Richard Freer, C. Douglas Floyd & Brad Clary)
Antitrust Law, Policy, and Procedure: Cases, Materials, Problems (LexisNexis, 6th ed., 2009) (Supp. 2010) (with Herbert Hovenkamp & Howard A. Shelanski)
Proportionality Principles in American Law: Controlling Excessive Government Actions (Oxford University Press, 2009) (with Richard Frase)
Understanding Antitrust and Its Economic Implications (Lexis/Nexis, 1st ed., 1988; 2d ed., 1994; 3d ed., 1998; 4th ed., 2003; 5th ed., 2009) (translated into Japanese and published in Japan, 2005) (with Jeffrey L. Harrison)
Private Antitrust Actions: The Structure and Process of Civil Antitrust Litigation (Little, Brown & Company, 1996) (Supps. 1998, 2001, 2005) (with C. Douglas Floyd)
Teacher's Problem Manual for Antitrust Law, Policy, and Procedure (Michie Co., 1st ed., 1989; 3d ed., 1994; Lexis/Nexis, 4th ed., 1999; 5th ed., 2003) (with Herbert Hovenkamp)
Federal Land Use Law: Limitations, Procedures, Remedies (Thomson West, 1986-2004) (looseleaf) (co-author 1986-2002) (with Daniel Mandelker & Jules Gerard)
Nonprice Predation under Section 2 of the Sherman Act (American Bar Association, 1991)
The Political Economy of the Sherman Act: The First One Hundred Years (Oxford University Press, 1991) (editor)
Antitrust Law: Policy and Procedure: Cases and Materials (Michie Co., 1984) (Supps. 1985, 1986, 1987) (with Herbert Hovenkamp)
Missouri Appellate Practice and Extraordinary Remedies (Missouri Bar, 3d ed., 1981) (Supps. 1982, 1983, 1985, 1987) (with others)
Book Chapters
Harmonizing Global Merger Standards, in The Political Economy of International Trade Law 248 (Daniel Kennedy & James Southwick, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2002)
The Antitrust Division as a Regulatory Agency: An Enforcement Policy in Transition, in Public Policy Toward Corporate Takeovers (Murray L. Weidenbaum & Kenneth W. Chilton, eds., Transaction Books, 1988)
Journal Articles
The Doctrine of Proportionality in a Time of War, 16 Minnesota Journal of International Law 457 (2007)
The Supreme Court and Private Law: The Vanishing Importance of Securities and Antitrust, 53 Emory Law Journal 1571 (2004), reprinted in 47 Corporate Practice Commentator 461 (2005) (with Robert Thompson)
Antitrust Regulation of Land Use: Federalism's Triumph Over Competition, The Last Fifty Years, 3 Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 473 (2000)
Can International Antitrust Be Saved for the Post-Boeing Merger World? A Proposal to Minimize International Conflict and to Rescue Antitrust from Misuse, 45 Antitrust Bulletin 55 (2000) (with Daniel Gifford)
Why the NCAA Does Not Exploit College Athletes, 8 Margin 61 (1992) (with Richard McKenzie)
Does the NCAA Exploit College Athletes? An Economics and Legal Reinterpretation, 32 Antitrust Bulletin 373 (1987), excerpted in Economics (David R. Kamerschen, Richard B. McKenzie & Clark Nardinelli, eds., Houghton Mifflin, 2d ed., 1989) (with Richard McKenzie)
The FTC's Deceptive Advertising Policy: A Legal and Economic Analysis, 64 Oregon Law Review 593 (1986), reprinted in 36 Law Review Digest 19 (1987) and 10 Advertising Law Anthology (1986) (with Brian Marks)
First Amendment Defenses in Antitrust Litigation, 46 Missouri Law Review 517 (1981), reprinted in 13 Journal of Reprints for Antitrust Law and Economics 907 (1982)
New Perspectives in Antitrust Litigation: Towards a Right of Comparative Contribution, 1980 University of Illinois Law Review 389 (1980), reprinted in 1981 Corporate Counsel's Annual 553 (1981)
Judicial Sovereignty: The Legacy of the Rehnquist Court, 20 Constitutional Commentary 171 (2003) (reviewing John T. Noonan, Jr., Narrowing the Nation's Power: The Supreme Court Sides with the States (University of California Press, 2002))
Price-Fixing in The Ivy League, Wall Street Journal, June 15, 1992, at A13 (letter)
The New Vertical Price-Fixing Stance, National Law Journal, Sept. 17, 1990, at 12 (letter)
Antitrust Law: Is It Dead?, National Law Journal Oct. 3, 1988, at 13
A New Role: In Reviewing Mergers, the Antitrust Division Has Become an Economic Regulator, National Law Journal, May 18, 1987, at 13
Merger Litigation Costs Are Too High, New York Journal of Commerce, Dec. 29, 1986
Is The NCAA a Cartel?, National Law Journal, May 5, 1986, at 13 (with Richard McKenzie)
Other Publications
Preface: This Dynamic Culture of Learning, in The City, the River, the Bridge: Before and after the Minneapolis Bridge Collapse (Patrick Nunnally, ed., University of Minnesota Press, 2011)
The Risks Posed by New Biomedical Technologies: How Do We Analyze and Regulate Risk?, 13 Medical Ethics 5 (2006)
Uncommon Dedication to Legal Education: Chairpersons' Reflections (Tribute to John A. Serbert), 47 Syllabus 4 (Spring 2006)
Is the Tail Wagging the Dog?: Institutional Forces Affecting Curricular Innovation, 1 Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors 184 (2002) (panel discussion)
