Rate My Professor John Newman

John Newman is a professor of law at the University of Miami School of Law, specializing in antitrust and competition law with a focus on digital markets. He holds a J.D. with highest honors from the University of Iowa College of Law, where he served as managing editor of the Iowa Law Review and worked as a research assistant to antitrust scholar Herbert Hovenkamp. Before joining the Miami Law faculty, Newman was an assistant professor at the University of Memphis School of Law from 2014 to 2018. His distinguished government career includes serving as a trial attorney in the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division and as Deputy Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition from 2021 to 2023 under Chair Lina Khan. In these roles, he contributed to high-profile investigations and enforcement actions against platform monopolies including Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and American Express.

Newman’s scholarship has shaped modern antitrust thought, appearing in premier journals such as the Stanford Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Texas Law Review, and Washington University Law Review. Notable publications include Antitrust in Zero-Price Markets: Foundations (164 U. Pa. L. Rev. 149, 2015), Antitrust in Digital Markets (72 Vand. L. Rev. 1497, 2019), The Myth of Free (86 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 513, 2018), Antitrust in Attention Markets: Objections and Responses (59 Santa Clara L. Rev. 743, 2020), and the forthcoming Attention Capitalism: The Law and Political Economy of Attention Markets (78 Stan. L. Rev., 2026). He co-authored an antitrust law casebook in 2025 and published The Forgotten Anti-Monopoly Law: The Second Half of Clayton Act § 7 (103 Tex. L. Rev. 785, 2025, with Robert H. Lande and Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter). Newman has testified before U.S. Senate subcommittees, spoken at Penn Law, UC Irvine Law, and the EU Institute, served as a panelist at the ABA Antitrust Fall Forum, and helped draft amicus briefs in cases like Epic Games v. Google. His analyses have been featured in The Atlantic, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, PBS NewsHour, CNBC, and Politico. At Miami Law, he teaches antitrust courses, hosted FTC Chair Lina Khan for a student talk, and participates in faculty workshops and events.