Mamdani transition team co-chair Lina Khan to lead new economic law center at Columbia

Mamdani transition team co-chair Lina Khan to lead new economic law center at Columbia

The former head of the Federal Trade Commission, who joined Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s transition team late last year, has found another chance to shape New York City’s legal community: leading Columbia Law School’s new push to teach students how law structures economic power.  Antitrust enforcer Lina Khan will bring her work taking on big business and tech to the next generation of lawyers as the director of Columbia’s Center for Law and the Econom…