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Lina Khan and Barry Lynn explained how the current antitrust standard lets big corporations dominate the industries they’re in.
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Lina Khan was quoted in Vox’s piece on Trump vs. Bezos.
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Lina Khan explains how Amazon, a company famous for low prices, can still behave in an anticompetitive manner on Derek Thompson’s podcast “Crazy/Genius.”
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David Leonhardt recommended Lina Khan’s Yale Law Review article, 2017 Times op-ed, and Open Market Institute’s letter on Amazon’s business practices in his article about “the growing power of gigantic technology firms like Amazon” and “the larger problems that Big Tech behemoths are causing.”
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After attending University of Chicago’s antitrust and competition conference, Rana Foroohar cited Lina Khan’s Yale Law paper on Amazon as a “must read.”
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Lina Khan published “The New Brandeis Movement: America’s Anti-monopoly Debate,” which identifies key tenets of the new anti-monopoly movement, in the Journal of European Competition Law & Practice.
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Lina Khan published an op-ed in the New York Times explaining how the Ohio v. American Express Supreme Court case could shield tech corporations like Amazon, Google, and Facebook from antitrust scrutiny.
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Amazon, Khan told me, should be viewed “as an infrastructure company.” And as a group, big tech “are utilities on which other companies depend,” equating to the 19th century railroads, which their owners exploited to outsized profit advantage because they could.
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The company has established its level of dominance because of the failings of our current antitrust laws. To understand why, you first need to understand the scope of Amazon’s power.
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Amazon is the titan of twenty-first century commerce. In addition to being a retailer, it is now a marketing platform, a delivery and logistics network, a payment service, a credit lender, an auction house, a major book publisher, a producer of television and films, a fashion designer, a hardware manufacturer, and a leading host of cloud server space. Although Amazon has clocked staggering growth, it generates meager profits, choosing to price below-cost and expand widely instead.
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Lina Khan
Director of Legal Policy
Lina Khan is Director of Legal Policy with the Open Markets Institute. She researches antitrust law and competition policy and identifies potential legal reforms.
Khan’s work has been published by the Yale Law Journal and the Harvard Law & Policy Review, as well as by the New York Times, Politico, and Washington Post. Her piece “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox” won the Yale Law Journal’s Michael Egger Prize and the Yale Law School’s Israel H. Peres Prize. Her antitrust work has been cited by The Atlantic, Bloomberg, The Economist, Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal, and she has appeared on C-SPAN, NPR, and Fox Business News.
From 2015-2017 Khan litigated on behalf of homeowners against financial institutions through Yale’s Mortgage Foreclosure Litigation Clinic, and spent summers litigating at Gupta Wessler PLLC, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She received a B.A. magna cum laude from Williams College and a J.D. from Yale Law School.