Dr. Dutra works on issues involving antitrust, competition, and merger cases in various countries and industries.
Washington, DC
Jéssica Dutra works with antitrust and competition over a wide range of industries, including healthcare, natural gas, copyright, and music. She specializes in the application of economic principles and state of the art quantitative methods in the context of litigation and damage calculation.
Dr. Dutra has taught advanced undergraduate courses in the economics of antitrust, industrial organization, and microeconomics at the University of Kansas. She is continuously engaged in both the academic and practitioner environments, serving on the American Bar Association, delivering presentations at economics conferences, publishing and peer reviewing papers on academic journals.
She is fluent in Portuguese and English, and advanced French and Spanish.
Competition and Market Structure of the U.S. Cannabis Industry
Although the FTC and DOJ retain jurisdiction to apply federal competition law, the continued federal illegality of cannabis under the Controlled Substances Act has created institutional uncertainty regarding the scope and propriety of federal engagement. In practice, most competition disputes in the sector have been addressed by state attorneys general and private litigants.
2025 Annual Review of Antitrust Law Developments
Managing Director Michael Koenig, Director Jéssica Dutra, and Director Pablos Varas contributed to the “2025 Annual Review of Antitrust Law Developments” from the ABA Antitrust Law Section.
Understanding Difference-in-Differences and Choosing The Best Tool For Antitrust Economic Analyses
Econometrics, the application of statistical methods to economic data, can be instrumental in the identification of anticompetitive behavior by assisting in analyses including the assessment of market power, the evaluation of competitive effects resulting from alleged anticompetitive conduct, and the quantification of damages.