Background

Travis Wheeler represents corporations in high-stakes antitrust litigation as both plaintiffs and defendants, civil and criminal. He counsels clients on all manner of antitrust issues, including horizontal and vertical restraints, resale price maintenance and price discrimination issues, mergers, and compliance. He has been selected a Midlands Legal Elite for Antitrust Law every year since the category was recognized (in 2016) and received the most votes of any attorney in 2018.  He serves as Vice Chair of the ABA Section of Antitrust Law’s Exemptions and Immunities Committee, making him the only South Carolinian currently in Section leadership.  Prior to coming to South Carolina, he practiced antitrust law with Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C. and clerked for the Honorable Reynaldo G. Garza of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. 

Selected Scholarship

Articles

• Embracing the Inevitable: Rethinking and Reshaping Antitrust Law re: Vertical Restraints, 35 Cumb. L. Rev. 472 (2017).
• An Economic Analysis of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, 63 Law & Contemp. Probs. 573 (2000).

Presentation

• Recent Developments in Antitrust and Competition Law (panelist, The Knowledge Group 2017).
• An Hour with Alden Abbott (commentator on antitrust portion, University of South Carolina Intellectual Property Law Society and Federalist Society 2015).

Education

• J.D., Duke University School of Law
• B.A., Wofford College

Courses Taught

• Law and Economics (LAWS 608)
• Antitrust Law and Trade Regulation (LAWS 711A)