Elizabeth Froehling Horner Professor of Law, Pritzker School of Law, Northwestern University

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Jim Speta is Elizabeth Froehling Horner Professor of Law at Northwestern University. Jim has been a member of the faculty since 1999. Jim is an experienced academic leader. He is currently Co-President of the Law Schools Global League, a consortium of 32 global and globally-minded law schools. At Northwestern Law, Jim served as Interim Dean during the pandemic, and previously as Vice Dean, Senior Associate Dean for International Initiatives, and Senior Associate Dean for Curriculum. Jim oversaw significant DEI initiatives, curriculum reform, new international and cross-campus joint degree programs and partnerships, and other programmatic improvements. At the University, Jim has served on the University's Global Council and as an Ambassador for the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. His research interests include telecommunications and Internet policy, antitrust, administrative law, and market organization. Jim authored among the first legal academic articles on net neutrality and has continued that research into platform markets and the metaverse. He teaches across the curriculum, from Administrative Law and Antitrust to Telecommunications and Internet Policy to Torts. A 1991 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, Speta joined the Northwestern faculty following a one-year visit. He had previously clerked for Judge Harry T. Edwards on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and practiced appellate, telecommunications, and antitrust law with the Chicago firm of Sidley & Austin.