Rebecca Haw Allensworth holds the David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair in Law at Vanderbilt Law School, where she studies antitrust and professional licensing. Her antitrust scholarship focuses on competition law and policy for digital platforms. Her research on professional licensing explores how lawmakers should balance the need for expertise in regulating the professions with the problems that can arise from self-regulation. 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.
Published book:
The Licensing Racket: How We Decide Who Is Allowed to Work and Why It Goes Wrong (Harvard University Press, February 2025)
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