John Newman is the Herff Chair of Excellence at the University of Memphis School of Law, where he researches and writes about a wide range of anti-monopoly issues, with a particular focus on digital zero-price markets. He currently serves as a member of the advisory boards of the American Antitrust Institute, the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, and the Academic Society for Competition Law. Newman has had the honor of serving in both federal antitrust enforcement agencies, first as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and, more recently, as deputy director of the Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Competition. In that role, he led the Bureau-wide project to identify and draft guidance on enforcement priorities under FTC Chair Lina Khan, helped to oversee the agency’s monopolization case against Meta Inc., and played a central role in building the agency’s ongoing monopolization case against Amazon.com Inc. Newman received his J.D. from the University of Iowa College of Law and his B.A. in Political Science from Iowa State University.