Awards

Titled Professor - 2025

Rosen Professorship

About Max Huffman

Max Huffman joined the McKinney School of Law faculty in 2008, was voted tenure and full professor in 2013, and became Vice Dean on July 1, 2022. In 2025, Huffman was awarded the Samuel R. Rosen Endowed Professorship.

Huffman teaches Antitrust, Comparative and International Antitrust, Secured Transactions, Bankruptcy, and Payment System. He is a three-time winner of the Faculty Leadership Award, as well as awards for his teaching.

Vice Dean Huffman has published his scholarship on antitrust, consumer law, bankruptcy, and related topics in a wide variety of books and law journals. His recent work has focused on the artificial intelligence and the gig economy, with attention to issues of cartel behavior, labor organization, and algorithmic pricing. He is a regular speaker on antitrust and consumer law topics both in the U.S. and overseas.

Huffman is an Order of the Coif graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of Law and earned his undergraduate degree in mathematics at Cornell University. Before returning to the academy, Professor Huffman served in both private and Federal Government practice in Washington D.C. and clerked for Judge Stephen Trott on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.