Kate Conlow

Kate Conlow is an Academic Fellow at the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator for Political Economy and Regulation. Her research focuses on antitrust, NPU, and antimonopoly law. She is interested in how corporations leverage and manipulate legal frameworks to entrench economic and political power, and how such strategies impact fair markets and democratic institutions. Conlow’s writing has appeared in the Iowa Law Review, Arizona State Law Journal, and Berkeley Business Law Journal.

Before joining Vanderbilt, Conlow clerked two terms on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, first for Judge Michael J. Melloy and then for Judge Jane L. Kelly, and she served as a law clerk to FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya. She has also worked in antitrust enforcement at the Iowa Attorney General’s Office and the Federal Trade Commission. Conlow earned her J.D. with Highest Distinction from the University of Iowa College of Law, where she received the Hancher-Finkbine Medallion and served as Editor in Chief of the Iowa Law Review. A graduate of Vassar College, she previously spent a decade as a writer and editor, including as Managing Editor of The Iowa Review.