Lina Khan
American legal scholar and jurist
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| 2025 | Khan completes her term as FTC chair. |
| March 2025 | Concluded her term as chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). |
| 2024 | Khan adopted the 'click to cancel' rule for consumers to efficiently end subscription services. |
| 2024 | JD Vance, a Senator from Ohio and the 2024 Republican Vice Presidential nominee, cited Khan's campaigns against large technology companies as a success for antitrust efforts in the U.S. |
| December 2024 | The FTC successfully blocked Kroger's attempted acquisition of Albertsons in court. |
| November 2024 | The FTC won a court challenge blocking Tapestry, Inc.'s attempted acquisition of Capri. |
| August 2024 | The non-compete regulation was struck down by a federal court, ruling it as an overreach of statutory authority. |
| August 2024 | The non-compete regulation was struck down by a federal court, which ruled it was an overreach of the FTC's statutory authority. |
| April 2024 | FTC issued a landmark regulation banning the enforcement of existing non-compete agreements for non-senior executives and prohibiting new non-compete agreements. |
| April 2024 | The FTC issued a landmark regulation banning the enforcement of existing non-compete agreements for all employees except senior executives. |
| 2023 | During her tenure as FTC Chair, Khan successfully influenced corporate behavior by scrutinizing major corporate mergers, leading to the withdrawal of Lockheed Martin's attempted acquisition of Aerojet and Sanofi's attempted acquisition of Maze Therapeutics. |
| 2023 | Employee satisfaction shows improvements, with the FTC reclaiming over half of its morale decline since 2021. |
| 2023 | Successfully deterred multiple corporate mergers through FTC scrutiny, including Lockheed Martin's attempted acquisition of Aerojet and Sanofi's attempted acquisition of Maze Therapeutics, which were both withdrawn following her intervention. |
| December 2023 | The FTC won its first major court challenge by blocking Illumina's acquisition of Grail after a 3-year legal battle. |
| December 2023 | Ankush Khadori of New York magazine reported that Khan's FTC faced challenges due to failed lawsuits against Meta and Microsoft, which impacted employee morale. |
| July 2023 | Testified before the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, where Republicans and Democrats debated her regulatory approach. Some Republicans, including Rep. Ken Buck and Rep. Matt Gaetz, publicly supported her investigations into corporate practices like Ring Doorbell and Kochava's data handling. |
| July 2023 | Testified before the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, where Republicans and Democrats debated her policies and role as FTC Chair. Republicans like Ken Buck and Matt Gaetz offered nuanced support, discussing tech company investigations and regulatory approaches. |
| July 2023 | During congressional testimony in July, Khan prioritizes improving staff morale following the initial Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey results. |
| February 2023 | Republican FTC Commissioner Christine Wilson announced her plan to resign from the agency, citing opposition to Khan's leadership. |
| January 2023 | Lina Khan gave birth to her first child. |
| 2022 | FTC employee satisfaction continues to decline, with favorable views of senior leadership further dropping to 46.6%. The FTC switches from ranking first in favorable views to first in unfavorable views among federal agencies. |
| 2022 | Khan initially bans public speaking for FTC staff, a decision that was widely unpopular and later retracted with an apology. |
| 2021 | Under Lina Khan's leadership, the FTC voted unanimously to enforce the right to repair policy and consider action against companies limiting independent repair work. |
| 2021 | While at Yale Law School, Khan publishes the influential essay 'Amazon's Antitrust Paradox', establishing her reputation in antitrust and competition law. |
| 2021 | Khan was appointed chairperson of the FTC, becoming the third Asian-American to serve in that role. |
| 2021 | Under Khan's leadership, the FTC voted unanimously to enforce the right to repair as policy. |
| 2021 | Lina Khan's appointment as FTC Chair leads to a significant decline in employee satisfaction, with favorable views of senior leadership dropping from 94.3% in 2020 to 51.7%. |
| June 2021 | Khan becomes the youngest FTC chair ever after her confirmation, serving from 2021 to 2025. |
| June 2021 | The Senate confirmed Khan's nomination as an FTC commissioner with a vote of 69 to 28, garnering bipartisan support. |
| June 2021 | Lina Khan was confirmed and became the youngest chair of the Federal Trade Commission in history. |
| June 2021 | Khan becomes the youngest FTC chair ever after her confirmation. |
| March 2021 | President Joe Biden nominates Lina Khan to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). |
| March 22 2021 | Joe Biden announced the nomination of Lina Khan to be a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for a term ending September 26, 2024. |
| July 2020 | In July 2020, Lina Khan joined the faculty of Columbia Law School as an associate professor of law. |
| 2019 | Khan began serving as counsel to the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law, where she led the congressional investigation into digital markets. |
| 2018 | Lina Khan received the Antitrust Writing Award for 'Best Academic Unilateral Conduct Article' for her work 'Amazon's Antitrust Paradox'. |
| 2018 | Lina Khan was recognized by Politico as a 'leader of a new school of antitrust thought' in its 'Politico 50' list of influential thinkers. |
| 2018 | Lina Khan was also the recipient of the Michael Egger Prize from the Yale Law Journal for her article 'Amazon's Antitrust Paradox'. |
| 2018 | Lina Khan worked as a legal fellow at the Federal Trade Commission in the office of Commissioner Rohit Chopra. |
| 2018 | Khan was listed by New York magazine as 'indisputably the most powerful figure in the anti-monopoly vanguard'. |
| 2018 | Khan was awarded the Israel H. Peres Prize by Yale Law School for her influential article 'Amazon's Antitrust Paradox'. |
| 2017 | Khan graduated from Yale Law School with a Juris Doctor degree. |
| 2017 | During her third year at Yale Law School, the Yale Law Journal published Lina Khan's student article 'Amazon's Antitrust Paradox', which significantly impacted American legal and business circles and was described by The New York Times as 'reframing decades of monopoly law'. |
| 2014 | Khan was offered admission into Yale Law School, which she ultimately chose to attend. |
| 2014 | Khan graduated from the New America Foundation and was offered a reporting position at The Wall Street Journal. |
| 2010 | Khan graduated from Williams College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. |
| 2010 | Lina Khan began working at the New America Foundation, where she engaged in anti-monopoly research. |
| 2010 | Graduated from Williams College with a Bachelor of Arts in political science, after serving as editor of the student newspaper and completing a senior thesis on Hannah Arendt. |
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