Lina M. Khan

Lina Khan is one of the most consequential legal minds of her generation, and I find her trajectory genuinely striking. She wrote Amazon's Antitrust Paradox as a Yale law student in 2017, and that single essay reframed how an entire field thinks about big tech and competition. Then she went from writing the theory to wielding it as chair of the Federal Trade Commission from 2021 to 2025, one of the youngest people ever to hold the role. To me that's rare: an academic idea that actually moved into power and policy. Whatever one thinks of her approach, she clearly forced the antitrust conversation to evolve.

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Name (English)

Lina M. Khan

Name (Japanese)

リナ・カーン

Reading

りな・かーん

Born

March 3, 1989 (age 37)

Origin

London, United Kingdom

Occupation

lawyer / legal scholar

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Snake

High school

Mamaroneck High School

University

Yale University

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://www.linamkhan.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/linakhanFTC
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina%20Khan
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56523534

Tags

• lawyer
• legal scholar

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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