“One of the effects of antitrust becoming a more technocratic enterprise and arcane over the last few decades has been that in the public, antitrust was no longer seen as a key set of laws that were designed to protect the public. And I think that had a spillover effect in law schools as well.”

Pakistani-British-American legal scholar, FTC chair from 2021 to 2025

Lina Maliha Khan is a Pakistani-British-American legal scholar and regulator who served as chair of the Federal Trade Commission from 2021 to 2025. She is also an associate professor at Columbia Law School. Khan is known for her work on antitrust and competition policy, and for helping shape debates over the power of large firms and the role of government oversight. Her writing and public statements often focus on market concentration, regulation, and how legal rules affect competition.