Harry First

NYU School of Law

Harry First is the Charles L. Denison Professor of Law at New York University School of Law and Co-Director of the law school's Competition, Innovation, and Information Law Program. He was twice a Fulbright Research Fellow in Japan and taught antitrust as an adjunct professor at the University of Tokyo. From 1999-2001 he served as Chief of the Antitrust Bureau of the Office of the Attorney General of the State of New York.  Professor First’s recent scholarly writing includes a study of the Microsoft litigation, The Microsoft Antitrust Cases: Competition Policy for the Twenty-first Century (co-authored with Andrew Gavil), the casebook Free Enterprise and Economic Organization: Antitrust (co-authored with John Flynn and Darren Bush), and various book chapters and law review articles.  Professor First is a contributing editor of the Antitrust Law Journal, foreign antitrust editor of the Antitrust Bulletin, a member of the Executive Committee of the Antitrust Section of the New York State Bar Association, a member of the Advisory Board and a Senior Fellow of the American Antitrust Institute, and a Fellow of the Innovators Network Foundation.