Lina Khan
Published January 4, 2019
Updated April 15, 2021

Update: Lina Khan will be nominated to the Federal Trade Commission.

Lina Khan is an associate professor of law at Columbia Law School. She researches and writes on antitrust law and competition policy, with a particular focus on technology markets.

Khan’s scholarship has been published by or is forthcoming in the Columbia Law Review,  the Harvard Law Review, the Chicago Law Review and the Yale Law Journal. Her piece “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox” was awarded the 2018 Antitrust Writing Award for “Best Academic Unilateral Conduct Article,” the Yale Law School’s Israel H. Peres Prize, and the Yale Law Journal’s Michael Egger Prize. She was recently named to the Politico 50, a list of thinkers whose ideas are driving politics.

Khan previously served as a legal fellow in the office of Commissioner Rohit Chopra at the Federal Trade Commission and as Director of Legal Policy at the Open Markets Institute. From 2015-2017 Khan litigated on behalf of homeowners through Yale’s Mortgage Foreclosure Litigation Clinic.

Expertise: Competition policy, technology markets, antitrust law

Location: Dallas, Texas

Contact Information:

 Email: lkhan@law.columbia.edu

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