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Lina Khan

Lina Khan is a Columbia law professor whose work links competition and consumer-protection law to AI policy. After graduating from Williams College in 2010, she studied market concentration at New America and wrote “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox,” an article about digital market power. As FTC chair from 2021 to 2025, she said existing laws apply to AI. The FTC opened an inquiry into generative-AI partnerships with cloud providers. At Columbia Law School, she teaches and writes about antitrust, infrastructure industries, the antimonopoly tradition, and law and political economy.

Works
21
Citations
1,314
h-index
9

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.

Photo of Lina Khan

Timeline

  1. 2010

    Studying market concentration

    After graduating from Williams College in 2010, she became a fellow in New America’s Open Markets program. She researched consolidation in the book, airline, and agricultural industries.

  2. 2017

    A broader antitrust lens

    While at Yale Law School, she published “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox” in The Yale Law Journal. The article argued that price-centered antitrust analysis missed harms from digital companies’ market dominance.

  3. 2018–2020

    Taking the case to Congress

    She joined Columbia Law as an academic fellow in 2018 and took leave in March 2019 to work on the House antitrust subcommittee. As a lead counsel, she helped steer its investigation into Big Tech practices and co-wrote its 2020 report on competition in digital markets.

  4. Since 2020

    Teaching at Columbia

    She is an associate professor at Columbia Law School, where she teaches and writes about antitrust, infrastructure industries, the antimonopoly tradition, and law and political economy.

  5. June 2021–January 2025

    Leading the FTC

    She chaired the Federal Trade Commission from June 2021 to January 2025. Its priorities included antitrust and consumer-protection enforcement, noncompete clauses, protection from unchecked surveillance of sensitive data, and access to affordable, high-quality healthcare.

  6. January 2024

    Questioning AI partnerships

    The FTC ordered five companies to share information on investments and partnerships involving AI developers and major cloud providers. Khan said the inquiry would shed light on whether dominant firms’ deals could distort innovation and fair competition.

  7. February 2024

    Making room for AI competition

    In a Harvard Law interview, she described market inquiries as a way to identify problems early in fast-moving AI markets. She said the FTC wanted to preserve opportunities for competition and disruption in AI.

Sources and credits

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  1. Antitrust Scholar Lina Khan Joins Faculty | Columbia Law School law.columbia.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. In Katzmann Lecture, Lina Khan talks about reinvigorating the FTC | NYU School of Law law.nyu.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. Lina Khan | Columbia Law School law.columbia.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. Lina M. Khan | Federal Trade Commission search.ftc.gov. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. FTC orders AI companies to dish on investments, partnerships and meetings | TechCrunch techcrunch.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. FTC Chair Lina Khan discusses AI antitrust concerns at Harvard Law School | Harvard Law School hls.harvard.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.