Ahson Azmat is an attorney at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and an adjunct professor of law at Fordham Law School. He earned his bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from Princeton University, his JD cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was the Articles Co-Chair of the Harvard Law Review, and his PhD in philosophy from Harvard University. After law school, Ahson clerked for Judge Amalya Kearse on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Ahson’s practice includes antitrust, securities, and complex commercial litigation in both federal and state courts, where he has tried cases before juries and in bench trials. His academic research focuses on statutory torts in the securities law context, and on the Supreme Court’s business law jurisprudence more generally. His prior work in private law theory has been published by Oxford University Press and the Journal of Tort Law, and his article-in-progress- on causation in the law was recently selected for the 2025 Harvard/Yale/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum.