Professor Marina Lao joined the Seton Hall law faculty in 1994 after over a decade of practice experience in government and in the private sector. She currently teaches courses on Antitrust, Business Associations, and Administrative Law. She has written, lectured, and commented extensively on antitrust law and policy. From January 2015 to June 2016, Professor Lao served as the Director of the Office of Policy

Planning at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission while on leave from the Law School. She has offered invited testimony to the House Judiciary Committee, and presented at hearings and workshops convened by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Professor Lao was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in 2007-2008 to the University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich, Germany, where she taught U.S. Antitrust Law.

Professor Lao currently serves on the Board of Advisors of the American Antitrust Institute, of the Loyola (Chicago) School of Law’s Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies. She was also Chair of the Section of Antitrust and Economic Regulation of the Association of American Law Schools. 

Professor Lao began her legal career with the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, as a trial attorney under the Honors Program following graduation from Albany Law School on a generous award of a full scholarship.