Herbert Hovenkamp (born 1948[2]) is an American legal scholar known for his studies of and expertise in United States antitrust law.
He also attended the University of Texas School of Law, receiving a Juris Doctor degree in 1978.
[5] In each of the last ten antitrust cases heard by the United States Supreme Court, either the petitioner or the solicitor general pointed to Hovenkamp as supporting the position the justices were being urged to take.
Thomas Hungar, deputy solicitor general of the United States from 2003 to 2008, has called Hovenkamp one of the prime shapers of antitrust legal interpretation by U.S.
[6] In 2008, Hovenkamp received the John Sherman Award from the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice.