The American Antitrust Institute (AAI) is pleased to announce that it will present Robert H. Lande with the 2026 Alfred E. Kahn Award for Antitrust Achievement for his significant contributions to antitrust policy and enforcement. Lande will receive the award on June 4, 2026, at AAI’s 27th Annual Policy Conference: Competition Policy, Journalism, and “the Promotion of Truth Regarding Public Matters” at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
“We are thrilled to present this special award to Professor Lande,” said AAI President Randy Stutz. “Bob is a giant in our field whose extraordinary scholarly achievements are matched only by his generosity, humility, and moral clarity. Throughout his remarkable career, he has been steadfast in his commitment to public service and to ensuring the antitrust laws work on behalf of those they are designed to protect. Nobody is more deserving of this recognition.”
Robert H. Lande is the Venable Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Baltimore School of Law, and is a co-founder and Director of the American Antitrust Institute. He previously worked at Jones Day and at the Federal Trade Commission. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 publications, thirteen of which have been republished or significantly excerpted in books or collections of articles. His article demonstrating that efficiency is not the sole goal of antitrust has been republished or significantly excerpted seven times.
Lande was the two-time winner or co-winner of the Cohen Foundation Award for best annual Antitrust & Trade Regulation scholarship, Concurrences’ award for best academic article on private enforcement, and the FTC’s annual award for best trade regulation scholarship by an employee.
Professor Lande has been quoted hundreds of times in the media on competition issues, and has discussed antitrust issues on television in the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and China. He has testified before subcommittees of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, the Antitrust Modernization Commission, and the U.S. antitrust enforcement agencies. He has advised competition enforcement officials in several countries and delivered antitrust presentations in Italy, Spain, Japan, England, Belgium, Venezuela, and Peru. He is a past chair of the Association of American Law Schools’ Antitrust Section and has held many positions in the ABA Antitrust Section.
“Bob’s influential scholarship, advocacy, and decades of leadership at AAI, have made a lasting impact on antitrust law, making him the ideal honoree for AAI’s Kahn Award for Antitrust Achievement,” said Pamela Gilbert, Chair of AAI’s Board of Directors. “Antitrust enforcement is stronger and better because of Bob’s significant contributions.”
The AAI Alfred E. Kahn Award for Antitrust Achievement, first presented in 2000, honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of antitrust. Professor Lande joins the following past honorees: Joel Klein, Robert Pitofsky, F.M. Scherer, Alfred E. Kahn, Lloyd Constantine, Thomas B. Leary, Senators Herb Kohl and Mike DeWine, Maxwell Blecher, John Shenefield, Eleanor M. Fox, Steven Salop, Mario Monti, Roger G. Noll, Kathleen Foote, John M. Connor, Donald I. Baker, Jonathan W. Cuneo, William J. Baer, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Stephen Calkins, Albert A. Foer, Robert Skitol, Senator Richard Blumenthal, Colorado Attorney General Philip Weiser, Peter C. Carstensen, and Nancy L. Rose.
