Phillip Elias Areeda (January 28, 1930 – December 24, 1995)[1] was an American legal scholar known for his scholarship on U.S. antitrust law.
[2] He studied economics at Harvard University, graduating in 1951 with an A.B., summa cum laude.
[4] As Assistant Special Counsel, he helped draft and research White House staff studies dealing with economic and legal matters.
In 1961 he accepted a position on the Harvard Law School faculty, and published a book, Antitrust Analysis, in 1967.
In the autumn of 1974 and winter of 1975, he briefly served as an assistant White House counsel in the Ford Administration.