Lina Khan

Lina M. Khan is an American scholar specializing in antitrust and competition law in the United States. She is an associate professor of law at Columbia Law School.

Lina M. Khan
Lina Khan in 2016
Born1989 (age 31–32)
London, England[1]
Alma materWilliams College (BA 2010), Yale University (JD 2017)
Known for
Websitewww.linamkhan.com

Early life and education

Khan was born in London to Pakistani parents and moved with them to the United States when she was 11 years old. She graduated from Williams College in 2010 where she wrote her thesis on Hannah Arendt. She was also the editor of the student newspaper at Williams. After graduating she went to work at the New America Foundation, where she did anti-monopoly research and writing for the Open Markets Program. She received her JD from Yale University in 2017.[1]

Amazon's Antitrust Paradox

While still a law student at Yale University, she became a public figure in 2017 when her article in the Yale Law Journal, Amazon's Antitrust Paradox, made a significant impact in American legal and business circles. The New York Times described it as "reframing decades of monopoly law".[1]

In the article, Khan argued that the current American antitrust law framework, which focuses on keeping consumer prices down, cannot account for the anticompetitive effects of platform-based business models such as that of Amazon. She proposed alternative approaches for doing so: "restoring traditional antitrust and competition policy principles or applying common carrier obligations and duties."[2]

Career

Khan researched and published on market consolidation issues at the New America Foundation until 2014, when she began law school at Yale.[1] While at Yale, Khan was a co-student director of Yale's Mortgage Foreclosure Litigation Clinic, where she represented homeowners who were being improperly foreclosed on by financial institutions.[3] She also spent a summer working at Gupta Wessler, a firm specializing in public interest and plaintiff-side appellate litigation.[4]

After completing her studies, Khan worked as legal director at the Open Markets Institute, which was spun off from New America after Khan and her team criticized Google's market power, prompting pressure from Google, which was a funder of New America.[5] During her time at OMI, Khan met with Senator Elizabeth Warren to discuss anti-monopolistic policy ideas.[6] In 2018, Khan worked as a Legal Fellow at the Federal Trade Commission in the office of Commissioner Rohit Chopra.[7]

Khan joined Columbia Law School as an academic fellow, where she pursued research and scholarship on antitrust law and competition policy, especially relating to digital platforms.[3] She published The Separation of Platforms and Commerce in the Columbia Law Review, making the case for structural separations that prohibit dominant intermediaries from entering lines of business that place them in direct competition with the businesses dependent on their networks.[8]

In 2019, Khan began serving as counsel to the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law, where she has been leading the congressional investigation into digital markets.[9] In July 2020, Columbia Law School Dean Gillian Lester announced that Khan would be joining the school's faculty as an Associate Professor of Law.[10]

Awards and recognition

For Amazon's Antitrust Paradox, Khan won the Antitrust Writing Award for "Best Academic Unilateral Conduct Article" in 2018,[3] the Israel H. Peres Prize by Yale Law School,[3] and the Michael Egger Prize from the Yale Law Journal.[3]

In 2018 Politico named Khan to the Politico 50, its list of thinkers whose ideas are driving politics, describing Khan as "a leader of a new school of antitrust thought."[3]

Khan has also been named to Foreign Policy's "Global Thinkers,"[11] The Prospect's "Top 50 Thinkers,"[12] the WIRED25,[13] the National Journal 50,[14] Washingtonian's list of most influential women,[15] and Time's "Next Generation Leaders."[16]

Khan's scholarship has attracted significant public attention around the world. She has been profiled by The Washington Post,[1] Washington Monthly,[17] The Atlantic,[18] The New York Times,[19] Wired,[13] The Financial Times,[20] Time,[16] Manager Magazin,[21] El País,[22] and Le Figaro.[23]

Personal life

Khan is married to Shah Ali, a cardiologist.[1]

References
  1. Streitfeld, David (7 September 2018). "Amazon's Antitrust Antagonist Has a Breakthrough Idea". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  2. Khan, Lina M. "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox". Yale Law Journal. 126 (3). Archived from the original on 29 December 2020. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  3. "Lina Khan". Source of the Week. 4 January 2019. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
  4. "Lina Khan". Lina Khan. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  5. Meyer, Robinson (12 June 2018). "How to Fight Amazon (Before You Turn 29)". The Atlantic. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  6. Kolhatkar, Sheelah (20 August 2019). "How Elizabeth Warren Came Up with a Plan to Break Up Big Tech". The New Yorker. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  7. "About". Lina Khan. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  8. Khan, Lina M. (2019). "The Separation of Platforms and Commerce". Columbia Law Review. 119 (4): 973.
  9. Lohr, Steve (8 December 2019). "This Man May Be Big Tech's Biggest Threat". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  10. Columbia Law School (6 July 2020). "Dean Gillian Lester announced that Lina Khan will join the Columbia Law faculty as an associate professor of law this fall. Khan is one of the leaders of an antitrust movement challenging some of the world's most powerful corporations". Twitter. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  11. "Foreign Policy's 100 Global Thinkers". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  12. Team, Prospect. "The world's top 50 thinkers 2019". Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  13. "WIRED25: Stories of People Who Are Racing to Save Us". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  14. "Lina Khan – National Journal 50". nj50.nationaljournal.com. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  15. "Washington's Most Powerful Women". Washingtonian. 1 October 2019. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  16. Semuels, Alana. "This Legal Scholar Has Some Bold Ideas For How to Take on Major Companies Like Amazon". TIME.com. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  17. Longman, Martin; Edelman, Gilad (29 October 2017). "The Democrats Confront Monopoly". Washington Monthly. November/December 2017. ISSN 0043-0633. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  18. Meyer, Robinson (12 June 2018). "How to Fight Amazon (Before You Turn 29)". The Atlantic. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  19. Streitfeld, David (7 September 2018). "Amazon's Antitrust Antagonist Has a Breakthrough Idea". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  20. "Lina Khan: 'This isn't just about antitrust. It's about values'". www.ft.com. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  21. premium, manager magazin. "Zerschlagung von Amazon, Facebook, Google: Lina Khan im Interview". manager magazin premium (in German). Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  22. Galindo, Cristina (6 October 2019). "¿Hay que trocear los gigantes tecnológicos?". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  23. Braun, Elisa (2 January 2019). "Lina Khan, la juriste qui fait trembler Amazon". Le Figaro.fr (in French). Retrieved 11 May 2020.
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