Professor Newman is an expert on antitrust and competition law, with a primary focus on the economics and regulation of digital markets. He has served with both the Federal Trade Commission (as Deputy Director of the Bureau of Competition) and the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (as trial attorney). Professor Newman has served on the advisory board for the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies and as a fellow with the Thurman Arnold Project at Yale. He currently serves on the advisory board of the American Antitrust Institute.
Professor Newman’s scholarly articles have appeared in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Washington University Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, George Washington Law Review, and other leading journals. His commentary on antitrust enforcement has been featured by a variety of popular media outlets, including CBS News, PBS NewsHour, CNBC, the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, the Sunday Times of London, NPR, USA Today, Business Insider, Bloomberg, Politico, and more. Professor Newman has been invited to submit commentary to the U.S. House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law; to speak before the Federal Trade Commission; to brief U.S. Senate policy staff, and to deliver lectures at leading academic institutions within the United States and abroad.
During his academic career, Professor Newman has received a number of honors and awards, including the Academic Society for Competition Law Best Junior Paper Award, the SEALS Call-for-Papers Award, the Farris Bobango Faculty Scholarship Award, and (by student vote) Professor of the Year.
While earning his J.D. with highest honors from the University of Iowa College of Law, Professor Newman served as research assistant to Herbert Hovenkamp, was managing editor of the Iowa Law Review, and published student notes in journals at the University of Iowa and the University of Virginia.
