年仅32岁的法学学者出任这一机构的主席！

当地时间周二（6月15日），美国参议院确认年仅32岁的莉娜·可汗（Lina Khan）为联邦贸易委员会（FTC）专员后，拜登立刻任命其为该委员会主席。身为哥伦比亚大学法学副教授的莉娜·可汗也由此成为FTC史上最年轻主席。

年龄并不是莉娜·可汗最引人注目的噱头。多年来，莉娜·可汗总是直言不讳地批评科技巨头权力过大。2017年，还在读书的莉娜·可汗在《耶鲁法学杂志》发表文章《亚马逊的反垄断悖论》，在法律界和政界引发巨大反响。她也由此被视为反垄断运动的主导人物之一。

在莉娜·可汗看来，亚马逊等科技巨头无与伦比的主导地位表明，需要重写反垄断相关的法规以遏制权力滥用。她主张阻止过多公司合并，积极打击垄断行为，并拆分一些美国大型公司。

掠夺性定价是莉娜·可汗特别关注的话题。她认为虽然短期内面向消费者的价格降低，但这会导致有能力负担低价的公司迅速获得市场份额，削弱市场竞争。

莉娜·可汗出生于伦敦，父母是巴基斯坦人，11岁时移民美国，先后毕业于威廉姆斯学院和耶鲁法学院。此前她曾在众议院司法委员会反垄断小组担任法律顾问一职，帮助撰写了一份449页的报告，指控亚马逊、苹果、Facebook和谷歌滥用市场主导地位。

Lina Khan

Associate Professor of Law

Full-time Faculty

Education

J.D., Yale Law School, 2017

B.A., Williams College, 2010

Areas of Study

Constitutional Law, Regulation, and Public Policy

Intellectual Property and Technology

Areas of Specialty

Antitrust and Competition

Lina Khan teaches and writes about antitrust law, infrastructure industries law, the antimonopoly tradition, and law and political economy. Several of her writings have focused on the ways that dominant digital platforms freshly reveal the shortcomings of the current approach to antitrust.

Khan’s work has been published by the Columbia Law Review, Harvard Law Review,The University of Chicago Law Review, and The Yale Law Journal. The New York Times has described Khan’s scholarship as having “reframed decades of monopoly law,” and Politico has called her “a leader of a new school of antitrust thought.” Her article “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox” was awarded the 2018 Antitrust Writing Award for Best Academic Unilateral Conduct Article, her article “The Separation of Platforms and Commerce” won the 2019 Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Fund’s Best Antitrust Article on Remedies, and her co-authored article “The Case for ‘Unfair Methods of Competition’ Rulemaking” received the 2020 Antitrust Writing Award for Best General Antitrust Academic Article.

Khan’s scholarship has also been profiled or discussed by The Atlantic, Bloomberg, The Economist, Financial Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. She has been named to the Politico 50, Foreign Policy magazine’s Global Thinkers, Prospect magazine’s Top 50 Thinkers, WIRED25, National Journal 50, and Time magazine’s Next Generation Leaders.

Prior to joining Columbia Law, Khan served as counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law, where she helped lead the Committee’s investigation into digital markets and the publication of its landmark report. She has also served as legal adviser to Commissioner Rohit Chopra at the Federal Trade Commission and legal director at the Open Markets Institute.

Khan is currently on leave serving in the federal government.

Courses

Spring 2021

L8110 S. Antimonopoly Reading Group

L7778 The Law of Infrastructure Industries

Fall 2020

L8109 S. The Antimonopoly Tradition: Law, Policy & History

Publications

“The End of Antitrust History Revisited,” 133 Harvard Law Review 1655 (2020)

“The Case for ‘Unfair Methods of Competition’ Rulemaking,” 87 The University of Chicago Law Review 357 (2020) (with Rohit Chopra)

“The Separation of Platforms and Commerce,” 119 Columbia Law Review 937 (2019)

“A Skeptical View of Information Fiduciaries,” 133 Harvard Law Review 497 (2019) (with David E. Pozen)