1. Lina Maliha Khan was born on March 3,1989 and is a British-born American legal scholar who served from 2021 to 2025 as chair of the Federal Trade Commission.
28 Facts About Lina Khan
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Lina Khan was born on March 3,1989, in London, to a British family of Pakistani origin.
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Lina Khan grew up in Golders Green in the London Borough of Barnet.
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At Mamaroneck High School, Lina Khan was involved in the student newspaper.
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Lina Khan was an undergraduate visiting student at Exeter College, Oxford.
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Lina Khan served as editor of the Williams College student newspaper and wrote her senior thesis on Hannah Arendt.
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Lina Khan graduated in 2010 with a Bachelor of Arts.
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From 2010 to 2014, Lina Khan worked at the New America Foundation, where she engaged in anti-monopoly research and writing for Barry Lynn at the Open Markets Program.
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Lina Khan served as a submissions editor for the Yale Journal on Regulation.
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Lina Khan went on to graduate from Yale in 2017 with a Juris Doctor degree.
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The title of Lina Khan's piece was a reference to Robert Bork's 1978 book The Antitrust Paradox, which established the consumer-welfare standard that Lina Khan critiqued.
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For "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox", Khan won the Antitrust Writing Award for "Best Academic Unilateral Conduct Article" in 2018, the Israel H Peres Prize by Yale Law School, and the Michael Egger Prize from the Yale Law Journal.
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Lina Khan 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.
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In July 2020, Lina Khan joined the school's faculty as an associate professor of law.
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Lina Khan has described herself as belonging to the New Brandeis movement, a political movement that seeks a revival in antitrust enforcement.
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In 2018, Lina Khan worked as a legal fellow at the Federal Trade Commission in the office of Commissioner Rohit Chopra.
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On March 22,2021, Joe Biden announced that he was nominating Lina Khan to be a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission to a term ending September 26,2024.
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Lina Khan was confirmed with bipartisan support, mainly attributed to her "influential anti-Amazon views" being widely reflected in Congress.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren and other supporters of Lina Khan argued that the recusal demands amount to an attempt by these companies to intimidate Lina Khan in order to curtail regulatory scrutiny.
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Lina Khan has been outspoken about potential perils from business monopolies, and expanding anti-trust regulation and enforcement, among merger filings, of which only two percent receive added scrutiny.
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In July 2023, Republicans had Lina Khan testify before the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee.
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Similarly, Gaetz noted that Kochava has been selling customer's personal data, and asked Lina Khan to continue investigating, and to let Congress know what new laws might be needed.
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Lina Khan was noted by both critics and supporters for her aggressive approach to regulation as FTC chair, invoking novel arguments and pursuing non-traditional cases but risking more losses in court.
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Lina Khan said it was a priority to improve staff morale following the initial Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey results during congressional testimony in July, 2023.
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Ankush Khadori of New York magazine wrote in December 2023 that failed lawsuits against Meta and Microsoft led to reduced morale and high attrition among FTC employees; however, Lina Khan has gained praise for her tactics from members of both the Democratic and Republican parties.
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Lina Khan was born in London to Pakistani parents who immigrated to the United States in 2000.
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Lina Khan is married to Shah Rukh Ali, a cardiologist at Columbia University.
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In January 2023, Lina Khan gave birth to her first child.