Zephyr Teachout
Anti-monopoly and anti-corruption law (Fordham).
Zephyr Teachout is a law professor at Fordham University who teaches antitrust, election law, and corporations, and a prominent anti-monopoly and anti-corruption scholar. She is the author of Corruption in America (2014) and Break 'Em Up (2020). She has run for public office in New York (governor, Congress, and attorney general) and as of 2026 writes on antitrust and democracy via her Substack and the American Economic Liberties Project.
The strongest case
Concentrated economic power is a threat to democracy itself; reviving antimonopoly and anti-corruption law—treating monopoly and money-in-politics as constitutional-order problems rather than mere consumer-price questions—is necessary to protect self-government.
And against
Critics from the consumer-welfare antitrust mainstream argue her 'big is bad' structuralism risks penalizing efficiency and scale without clear consumer harm, and that her expansive readings of 'corruption' and 'monopoly' are more political philosophy than administrable legal standards.
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