Daniel Francis
Daniel Francis is an Assistant Professor of Law at NYU. He writes and teaches about regulation and competition: particularly monopolization, mergers, and the theoretical foundations of antitrust. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia Law Review, the Duke Law Journal, the Antitrust Law Journal, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. He is the co-author, with Chris Sprigman, of Antitrust: Principles, Cases, and Materials (3d ed. 2025). In 2025, he won the Jerry S. Cohen Award for Antitrust Scholarship for his article “Monopolizing by Conditioning.” Francis has testified on multiple occasions in the U.S. Senate regarding antitrust policy. He is a Non-Governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network and has been appointed to the roster of the Fulbright Specialist Program by the U.S. State Department.
Before joining the NYU faculty, Francis served as Deputy Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition, where he earlier served as Associate Director for Digital Markets and Senior Counsel. He directed and managed a wide range of the FTC’s antitrust enforcement and policy activities, including in particular those in high-technology and platform markets, and oversaw a number of its divisions and offices. He also spent ten years practicing antitrust law with two multinational law firms in Washington DC, New York, and Brussels.
Francis has served as a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law School, and as a Furman Fellow and Emile Noël Global Fellow at NYU School of Law. He earlier served as a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School, as Associate Editor of the International Journal of Constitutional Law, and as an instructor on European Union constitutional law and political history at Harvard College. Francis holds a first law degree from Trinity College, Cambridge; a Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School; and a JSD doctorate from NYU School of Law, under the supervision of Gráinne de Búrca. He is admitted to the practice of law in New York and the District of Columbia.
