Rebecca Haw Allensworth is the David Daniels Allen chair at Vanderbilt Law School, where she studies antitrust and professional licensing. Her antitrust scholarship focuses on the recent intellectual history of competition law and policy, with a special focus on evolving attitudes towards tech platforms. She is the author of The Licensing Racket: How We Decide Who Is Allowed to Work and Why It Goes Wrong (Harvard University Press, February 2025), a deep dive into the pathologies of professional licensing in America. Professor Allensworth graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School before clerking for Judge Richard A. Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. At Vanderbilt Law she has won six teaching prizes, held the Tarkington Chair of Teaching Excellence, and served as Associate Dean for Research from 2023 to 2025. She teaches Contracts, Antitrust Law, and an advanced antitrust course on current issues in competition policy.
