Spencer Weber Waller

Spencer Weber Waller is the John Paul Stevens Chair in Competition Law, Director of the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, and Professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where he teaches antitrust, intellectual property, civil procedure, and international litigation courses. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the American Antitrust Institute, as well as the editorial boards of the Antitrust Law Journal, World Competition Law and Economics Review, and other scholarly journals. Professor Waller is the author, co-author, or editor of eight books and over 100 articles on United States and international antitrust, including Antitrust and American Business Abroad, the leading treatise in the field, and the first full-length biography of Thurman Arnold, the founder of modern antitrust enforcement in the United States. His recent scholarship focuses on antitrust, brands, class actions, high-tech industries, innovation, and intellectual property. He is the recipient of the 2014 Concurrence Antitrust Writing Award. Professor Waller previously taught and served as associate dean at Brooklyn Law School. In 2022 Professor Spencer Weber Waller served as a senior advisor to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chair Lina Khan. He is also a member of American Law Institute where he has participated in projects relating to Consumer Protection and Foreign Relations Law.