John Newman

Professor Newman is an expert on antitrust and competition law, with a primary focus on the economics and regulation of digital markets. He has served as deputy director of the Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Competition and as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division. Professor Newman currently sits on the advisory boards for the American Antitrust Institute and the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, is an assistant editor of the Antitrust Law Journal, and was a fellow with the Thurman Arnold Project at Yale.

Professor Newman’s scholarly articles have appeared or are forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review, Texas Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Washington University Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, George Washington Law Review, and other leading academic journals. His commentary on antitrust enforcement has been featured by a variety of popular media outlets, including CBS News, PBS NewsHour, CNBC, the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, the Sunday Times of London, NPR, Bloomberg, Politico, and more. Professor Newman has been invited to testify before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights; to submit commentary to the U.S. House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law; to speak before the Federal Trade Commission; to brief U.S. Senate policy staff, and to deliver lectures at leading academic institutions and conferences within the United States and abroad. 

During his academic career, Professor Newman has received a number of honors and awards, including the Academic Society for Competition Law Best Junior Paper Award, the SEALS Call-for-Papers Award, the Farris Bobango Faculty Scholarship Award, and (by student vote) Professor of the Year.

While earning his J.D. with highest honors from the University of Iowa College of Law, Professor Newman served as research assistant to Herbert Hovenkamp, was managing editor of the Iowa Law Review, and published student notes in journals at the University of Iowa and the University of Virginia.

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