Jonathan Nuechterlein is a Distinguished Scholar at George Washington University’s Competition Law Center, a lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Law and an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law School, where he has taught seminars in antitrust and telecommunications law.
In December 2024, Nuechterlein retired from Sidley Austin after nearly nine years as a partner and co-leader of the firm’s telecom and internet competition practice. From 2013 to 2016, he served as general counsel of the Federal Trade Commission, where he oversaw the commission’s appellate litigation activities and provided legal counsel on a range of antitrust and consumer protection issues. His extensive government experience also includes positions as deputy general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission (2000-01), assistant to the solicitor general (1996-2000), and law clerk to D.C. Circuit Judge Stephen Williams (1990-91) and Supreme Court Justice David Souter (1991-92). He is a graduate of Yale Law School and Yale College.
Nuechterlein is the author, with Howard Shelanski, of “Digital Crossroads: Telecommunications Law and Policy in the Internet Age” (MIT Press 3d ed. 2026).