Howard Langer

Howard Langer serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, teaching antitrust law since 2001. He concurrently operates as senior partner at Langer, Grogan & Diver, P.C., specializing in complex commercial litigation with national recognition for landmark antitrust and consumer fraud recoveries including In re Linerboard Antitrust Litigation and Faloney v. Wachovia Bank ($150 million for 700,000 victims).

His research integrates antitrust theory with public interest litigation, focusing on economic justice through consumer protection frameworks and competition law enforcement. Langer bridges academic scholarship with real-world impact via his influential treatise The Competition Law of the United States (4th ed., 2019) and international engagements at Oxford University (2009) and University of Tokyo (2014).

His honors include:

• American Antitrust Institute’s Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement (2016)
• Equal Justice Award from Community Legal Services
• Social Justice Award from Jewish Social Policy Network
• Pro Bono Award from Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society

Langer co-founded a pioneering commercial/public interest law model at his firm, featured in the Penn Carey Law Journal, which established the Langer Grogan & Diver Social Justice Fellowship using litigation recoveries to fund public interest legal education.