2026-2027 Olin-Searle-Smith Fellow in Law
Forecasted
2026-2027 Olin-Searle-Smith Fellow in Law supports Bradley Niederschulte’s legal research connecting public-law methods with statutory interpretation to strengthen antitrust law and merger review.
Funder: Harvard Law School
Due Dates (Anticipated): January 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Not specified
Summary: The fellowship supports legal research connecting public-law methods with statutory interpretation, antitrust law, merger review, and agency discretion.
Description
The Olin-Searle-Smith Fellow in Law at Harvard Law School is represented for 2026–2027 by Bradley Niederschulte. His research uses methods developed in public-law debates to identify new paths for business law, focusing on how recovering existing statutory content can strengthen antitrust law and merger review.
Two current papers illustrate this work. Antitrust as Interpretation recovers the Sherman Act’s historical common-law content and examines how it strengthens antitrust law. The Missing Law of Mergers and Agency Discretion recovers standards in the Clayton Act and Administrative Procedure Act that strengthen merger review. Together, these projects connect public-law debates with questions of statutory interpretation and business law.
