Ashley Baker

Ashley Baker  is the Director of Public Policy at the Committee for Justice. Her focus areas include the Supreme Court, regulatory policy, antitrust, and judicial nominations. Her writing has appeared in Fox News, USA Today, The Boston Globe, The Hill, RealClearPolitics, The American Spectator, and elsewhere. She is also the founder of the Alliance on Antitrust coalition and has testified before the United States Senate on the topic of antitrust law. Baker is an active member of the Federalist Society, where she serves as a member of the Regulatory Transparency Project’s Antitrust & Consumer Protection and Cyber & Privacy working groups. As a member of the Republican National Lawyers Association, she has served as a speaker on the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary. As an expert on the judicial nominations process, Baker worked closely on the efforts to confirm Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett.

Protecting Intellectual Property for National Security: A Transition Report for the New Administration

By Kirti Gupta, Andrei Iancu, Walter G. Copan, and Chris Borges This report was originally published on March 26th with CSIS. Download the full report here. Executive Summary The United States is undergoing a generational shift in how economic policy intersects with national security. Decades of globalization have exposed
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The United States Cannot Afford Disarray as China Strengthens Its Biopharmaceutical Industry

By Sujai Shivakumar, Charles Wessner, and Julie Heng For years, China has played a leading role in manufacturing active pharmaceutical ingredients and generic drugs. While securing the supply chain for active pharmaceutical ingredients is increasingly recognized as a national security priority by policymakers, China’s growing role in biotechnological innovation has
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Explainer: A Brief History of the International IP Regime

By Julie Heng, Arrizka Faida, and Chris Borges In a globalized economy, businesses rely on rules protecting intellectual property (IP) to safeguard their ideas and products against counterfeiting, piracy, and theft and to forge international partnerships. To this end, the United States and its partners have long invested in a system of multilateral treaties and international
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