Zephyr Teachout is a Senior Advisor at the American Economic Liberties Project and a Professor at Law at Fordham Law Schoo, where her research focuses on antimonopoly law and democratic theory. Her most recent book, Break ’em Up (2020), makes a case for reimagining the relationship between democracy and antimonopoly law. Her prior book, Corruption in America (2014), argued that the American constitutional system has an embedded anti-corruption principle that has been discarded by the modern Court. Her popular writings have appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, New York Review of Books, Washington Post, The Nation and The New Republic. She recently served as Special Advisor and Senior Counsel for Economic Justice at the New York Attorney General’s Office.
She has run for office three times, receiving over a third of the vote in a Democratic primary against Andrew Cuomo in 2014, as the Democratic nominee in New York’s 19th Congressional District in 2026, and for the office of New York Attorney General, where she came in second and received the endorsement of the New York Times. Prior to becoming a law professor she was a nonprofit executive and has continued to be deeply involved in economic justice organizing.