Zephyr Teachout

Zephyr Teachout

Zephyr Teachout is a professor at law at Fordham Law School, where she focuses on the intersection of corporate power and political power. She teaches corporations, election law, antitrust, and prosecuting white collar crime. Her most recent book, Break 'em Up, makes a case for reimagining the relationship between democracy and anti-monopoly law. Her public writings have appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, New York Review of Books, the Washington Post, the Nation and the New Republic. Prior to joining Fordham, Teachout had a career as a digital consultant and nonprofit entrepreneur and represented clients on death row in North Carolina. She was a law clerk to then-Chief Judge Edward R. Becker., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Teachout holds a B.A. from Yale University, an M.A. from Duke University, and a J.D. from Duke Law School