James G. Dinan University Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School and the Wharton School
Herbert Hovenkamp is the James G. Dinan University Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School and the Wharton School. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2008 won the Justice Department’s John Sherman Award for lifetime contributions to antitrust law. His writing includes Antitrust Law, 20 vols. (with the late Phillip E. Areeda and the late Donald F. Turner); Antitrust Policy Design (MIT, 2026, forthcoming); Tech Monopoly (MIT, 2024); The Opening of American Law, 1870-1970 (Oxford, 2015); The Antitrust Enterprise (Harvard, 2006); Enterprise and American Law, 1836-1937 (Harvard, 1991);; and Federal Antitrust Policy: the Law of Competition and its Practice (7th ed. 2024); IP and Antitrust (with Mark D. Janis, Mark A. Lemley, Christopher Leslie, and Michael Carrier) (2 vols., 3d ed. 2022). He teaches a variety of antitrust classes at Wharton and the UPenn Carey Law School. He lives with his partner in Haverford, Pennsylvania, and has two adult sons.