Who awaits you
Our lecturers are leading law and economics professors as well as renowned practitioners with many different backgrounds—from officials of the European Commission and national competition authorities to lawyers from international law firms, international organizations and multinational companies.
Dr. Michael Albers, Belgium
Competition Law and Competition Law Authorities in Developing Countries (Module 4)
Dr. Albers advises competition authorities in Europe and Asia on the development of competition policy and on the enforcement of competition law. Before starting his private colsultency firm, he worked as a Hearing Officer at the European Commission and did policy and case work for the German competition authority (“Bundeskartellamt”), as well as the Directorate-General for Competition of the EU Commission. He was one of the first to control mergers at the Commission and contributed to the preparation of Reg.1/2003 as well as the development of the 'more economic approach' (Art.102 TFEU). He headed the units for Energy and Telecommunication at the time providers entered into cross-border competition with each other in the common energy market.
Dominik Arncken, Germany
Advanced European and International Business and Competition Law (Module 5)
Dominik Arncken is an Associate at Morrison & Foerster's competition law practice group in Berlin. Previously, he worked as a research assistant for international law firms in Berlin and Brussels and the European Commission, and as a law clerk for the High Court of Berlin. He studied law in Marburg (Germany), Cambridge and Norwich (UK) and holds an LL.M. from VU Amsterdam (Netherlands). His research interest include competition law, media law and the digital sector, and he is proficient in English and Dutch, aside from his native German.
Agnieszka Ason, UK
International Dispute Resolution (Module 1)
Agnieszka Ason specialises in energy law and international dispute resolution. She is an Honorary Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, a Guest Teacher at the London School of Economics, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES). Agnieszka has particular expertise in LNG (liquefied natural gas) supply contracts and a decade of experience in LNG pricing disputes in European and Asian markets. Agnieszka has published high-impact research on LNG contracting, energy investments and challenges to arbitral awards. She is the editor of the Oil, Gas & Energy Law (OGEL) Special Issue on Changing Markets and Contracts (published in May 2020). Her recent speaking engagements focus on the impact of COVID-19 on LNG contracts and include presentations for the OIES, United States Energy Association (USEA), Institute of Energy Economics Japan (IEEJ), and S&P Global Platts.
Prof. Dr. David Bailey, UK
European Competition Law (Art. 101 TFEU, incl. BER) – Fundamentals (Module 3)
David Bailey is a Professor of Practice in Competition Law at King’s College London. He is also a Barrister at Brick Court Chambers. Prior to being called to the Bar, David was a Référendaire at the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal, having previously been a Solicitor at the law firm, Linklaters LLP.
He has appeared in cases before the English High Court and Court of Appeal, the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal, the General Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union. He is Standing Counsel to the UK Competition and Markets Authority and the Hong Kong Competition Commission.
He is the co-author (with Emeritus Professor Whish) of the 7th, 8th and 9th Eds. of “Competition Law”; he is a general editor of the 7th and 8th Eds. of “Bellamy and Child European Union Competition Law”.
Dr. Fabian Bickel, Germany
International Trade and Investment Law (Module 1)
Fabian Bickel works in the antitrust, competition and trade group at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Fabian’s prior experience include working as a visiting lecturer at King's College London, a research assistant at the Freie Universität Berlin and working in a boutique law firm that specialises on International Economic Law. He is a fully qualified German lawyer and holds degrees from King’s College London, the Humboldt University Berlin and the University Passau. Fabian’s research interests are in international trade and competition law.
Prof. Daniel Crane, USA
The IP/Antitrust Interface (Module 4)
A University of Chicago and Wheaton College graduate, Mr Crane is current Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School and a counsel in the Litigation Department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. Prior to that, he was professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
He has been a visiting professor at NYU and the University of Chicago and a Fulbright Scholar at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
He is a qualified attorney in NY, a member of the advisory board of the American Antitrust Institute and an editor of the Antitrust Law Journal. Together with Eleanor Fox he co-edited “Antitrust Stories” (2007).
Mr Crane has an ample experience in antitrust and complex litigation matters, areas on which he has written extensively. Among his most appreciated works is “The Institutional Structure of Antitrust Enforcement”, published by OUP.
Dr. Angelos Dimopoulos, UK
EU External Relations/Investment Treaties (Module 1)
Angelos Dimopoulos is a senior lecturer in Law at Queen Mary University in London since 2013. Prior to that, he was assistant professor at Tilburg University where he also acted as Research Coordinator of the Tilburg Law and Economics Centre (TILEC) as well as teaching EU law at Utrecht University.
Dr Dimopoulos holds a PhD from the European University Institute since 2010 and is a qualified and experienced Barrister in Greece.
While researching for his PhD he was also a visiting scholar at Columbia University and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (Cambridge).
His academic focus revolves around EU international relations and investment law, areas in which he has published extensively both articles in specialised journals and chapters of books. Among his most praised works is “EU Foreign Investment Law” published by the OUP in 2011.
Dr. Henner Gött, Germany
International Trade and Investment Law (Module 1)
Henner Gött is a legal counsel with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (Department of External Economic Policy) in Berlin, Germany. He is also a co-convener of the European Society of International Law’s Interest Group on the European and International Rule of Law. Previously, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Göttingen, Germany. Besides being a practitioner, Henner teaches, researches and publishes in international law (with a focus on international economic law, international organizations and international labour law), on EU and German constitutional law and selected issues of German administrative law. He is a fully qualified German lawyer and holds law degrees from the Universities of Göttingen, Cambridge/UK and Münster.
Dr. Joanna Piechucka
Market Definition and Market Power (Module 2)
Competitive Effects of (Horizontal) Mergers (Module 2)
Joanna Piechucka is Economist at the Chief Economist Team of DG COMP at the European Commission. She previously worked as Research Associate at the Firms and Markets Department at DIW Berlin and as an economist in a Paris-based competition economics consultancy.
As a member of the Chief Economist Team at DG COMP, Joanna provides guidance on methodological issues of economics and econometrics in the application of EU competition rules. She has experience in the context of complex merger, antitrust and State aid cases. She also contributes to the evaluation and the development of competition policy instruments.
Joanna holds a Ph.D. from the Paris School of Economics. In her research, Joanna focuses on the empirical assessment of competition policy, including merger control. Her work has been published in leading journals including the International Journal of Industrial Organization, or the Journal of Competition Law and Economics.
Dr. Moritz Jakobs, Germany
Abuse of dominant market positions (Art. 102 TFEU) (Module 3)
Dr. Moritz Jakobs is currently a Member of the Legal Service of the European Commission as a Seconded National Expert from the Bundeskartellamt (German Competition Authority). At the Bundeskartellamt, he was a Case Manager/Rapporteur in several Decision Divisions with a focus on the interface between sustainability and competition law. He was formerly shortly active as an EU Afffairs Manager at Deutsche Telekom. Prior to joining the Bundeskartellamt in 2015, he worked for two years as a Brussels-based attorney in the Antitrust Group of the international law firm Noerr. He studied law in Göttingen (Germany), Dijon (France) and Florence (Italy). He passed the First State Exam in 2008 and the Second State Exam in 2013. Since 2011, he holds a doctorate from the University of Göttingen and a LL.M. of the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium). He was awarded the Walter-Hallstein-Preis of the German Embassy in Belgium and the Mayer Brown Legal Business Prize in 2011. Prior to his studies, he spent his community service at a residential care home for people with disabilities.
Dr. Annika Stöhr
Economic Fundamentals of Competition Law (Module 2)
Annika Stöhr completed her PhD on "Economic Evaluation and Reform Implications of German Competition Policy" with a focus on merger control and in particular on non-economic effects and so-called public interests in competition policy. Her research operates at the intersection of competition economics, competition law and competition policy, with her most recent work dealing with the regulation of large digital ecosystems, e.g., through Section 19a GWB and the DMA and DSA, as well as with the regulation of algorithmic recommender systems.
Her research benefits from more than two years of professional experience at the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action. Since April 2023, she is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Economic Theory at Ilmenau University of Technology.
In addition to numerous publications in economics and law journals, Annika is active in various academic associations and has extensive teaching experience, including at Erasmus University Rotterdam and the College of Europe Bruges.
Florian Deuflhard, Ph.D.
Market Power and Market Definition (Module 2)
Abusive Behaviour and Dominant Firms (Module 2)
Florian Deuflhard is a member of the Chief Economist Team of DG COMPETITION at the European Commission since 2022 working on mergers and state aid. He was previously a Consultant at NERA Economic Consulting in Berlin. As a member of the Chief Economist Team, Florian provides guidance on methodological issues of competition economics and financial evaluation in the application of EU competition rules. His case experience covers a wide range of sectors including software, FMCG, banking, transport, energy, and broadband. Florian holds a Ph.D. in Economics and Finance from Goethe University Frankfurt and previously studied in Tilburg, New York, and Berlin. He specializes in Industrial Organization, Household Finance, and Crypto Antitrust. His work has been published in the Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Competition Law & Economics, European Competition Journal, and Competition Policy International.
Dr. Liliane Giardino-Karlinger, Belgium
Market Power and Market Definition (Module 2)
Abusive Behaviour and Dominant Firms (Module 2)
Liliane is Antitrust Coordinator at the Chief Economist Team of the European Commission (DG COMP), where she leads the economic analysis performed in antitrust cases in the digital and energy sectors. She holds a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy), a B.Sc. in Economics from Vienna University of Economics and Business (Vienna, Austria), and obtained graduate training in economics at the Institute for Advanced Studies (Vienna, Austria) and University of Rochester (NY, USA). Prior to joining the European Commission in 2016, she held positions as Assistant Professor at the economics department of University of Vienna and of LUISS University in Rome. Liliane’s research interests are in antitrust economics, Industrial Organization, and applied game theory. Her work was published, among others, in the Journal of Industrial Economics, the International Journal of Industrial Organization, and World Development.
Prof. Dr. Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan, UK/Germany
International Intellectual Property Law and Policy (including TRIPS) (Module 5)
Prof. Dr. Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan is a University Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King’s College. In Cambridge, Prof. Dr. Grosse Ruse-Khan is Co-Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law and a Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. He also holds positions at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich (Germany) and the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (McGill University, Montreal). For 2016, Prof. Dr. Grosse Ruse-Khan has been elected as Distinguished Senior Fellow at Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki (Finland).
His research and teaching focuses on international intellectual property protection and development issues, world trade and investment law, as well as on interfaces among distinct legal orders in international law. Next to a recent monograph on international IP protection (OUP, 2016), Prof. Dr. Grosse Ruse-Khan has published widely in peer-reviewed academic journals, NGO policy papers and research handbooks.
Prof. Dr. Grosse Ruse-Khan teaches IP and WTO Law at the University of Cambridge and further at the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI, Strasbourg), the Munich Intellectual Property Law Centre (MIPLC), the University of Berlin and the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki. He is member of the editorial board of the International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law (IIC) and co-founder of the international IP network at the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL). He has advised international organisations, NGOs as well as developing- and developed country governments on international IP, WTO and investment law issues and has worked as a legal expert for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on IP and development on several occasions.
Thomas Henze, Luxembourg
EU Fundamental Market Freedoms (Part I – Cases) (Module 1)
Mr Henze studied law and European legal integration at Georg-August University Göttingen, the University of Rouen Normandie and Leibniz University Hannover. He has held teaching positions with the German Judicial Academy, the German Federal Financial Academy and the Vienna University of Economics and Business.
He has published extensively on tax law and ECJ litigation and has worked for the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy, the European Court of Justice (as Référendaire) and has represented the Federal Republic of Germany before the European Courts since 2010.
His lecture on “EU Fundamental Market Freedoms” focusses on the development of the EU internal market, the mechanisms of freedoms, violation and justification and the free movement of goods and capital.
Dr. Sára Hoffman, USA
Introduction to the Economic Fundamentals of Competition Law (Module 2)
Preparatory exercises for the module examination (Module 2)
Dr. Sára Gabriella Hoffman is Privacy Product Counsel at Stripe. Previously, she worked at an international law firm advising clients on all aspects of European privacy and data protection law, e-commerce, and antitrust law. She is an expert on compliance requirements, encryption standards, and cloud architecture. Prior to that, she worked as a law clerk with the High Court of Berlin.
Sára holds a law degree and a Ph.D. in law from Humboldt-University of Berlin and her dissertation examined how cloud services are regulated under U.S. and EU antitrust, competition, and privacy laws. As a Microsoft fellow at Stanford Law School, she studied the technical and legal aspects of setting up data centers and protecting information from a data security perspective. Sára is an adjunct lecturer at Free University of Berlin and the Technical University of Berlin. She is a frequent speaker on cybersecurity, encryption laws, economics, and ISO certifications for cloud service providers.
Massimiliano Kadar, Belgium
Advanced Competition Law – Competition Law and Policy in the Digital Market (Module 4)
Massimiliano Kadar is the Deputy Head of Unit A.1 at the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission, in charge of antitrust policy and case coordination. Between 2011 and 2020, Massimiliano worked as case handler and manager on both antitrust and merger control cases in a variety of sectors at the European Commission, and before then in private practice at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP and Gianni Origoni Grippo Cappelli & Partners. He is a visiting lecturer at Freie Universität Berlin and has published several articles on competition policy, with a particular emphasis on merger control and Article 102 enforcement in the information technology sector.
Ralf Kanitz, Germany
EU Law - The Fundamental Freedoms (Module 1)
Ralf M. Kanitz teaches the course EU Law: Fundamental freedoms. He is senior legal counsel at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action in Berlin, Germany, and is part of the EU Litigation Unit. He represents Germany before the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg, both during the written procedure and the oral hearing. His areas of focus include Union state aid, direct taxation, Union citizenship, free movement and migration law. He studied law in Tours (France), New York (USA), and Berlin. He holds law degrees from both Humboldt University Berlin and New York University School of Law. Before working for the German federal government he was a research fellow at Walter Hallstein Institute for European Constitutional Law at Humboldt University Berlin. His wider research interests include European Law and Comparative Constitutional law.
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kerber, Germany
Economic Foundations of Innovation and Intellectual Property (Module 5)
Wolfgang Kerber is Professor of Economics at University of Marburg (Germany) since 1997. He was Visiting Scholar at the Law Schools of University College London, Queen Mary University of London, University of California (Irvine), Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy), and Hauser Global Fellow at NYU Law School.
He has done research in competition policy, evolutionary and innovation economics, law and economics, and European integration. His current main fields of research are (1) competition law and economics, (2) law and economics of innovation and IP, and (3) regulatory problems of the digital economy (competition, data governance, and privacy).
His most recent publications are about the assessment of innovation effects in competition law (esp. in merger cases), interoperability in the digital economy, copyright exhaustion of digital goods, digital markets and privacy, data ownership, data rights, and data governance (e.g., access to in-vehicle data in connected cars), data access in competition law, interplay between competition law and data protection law (The German Facebook Case: The Law and Economics of the Relationship between Competition and Data Protection Law, European Journal of Law and Economics 54, 2022, 217-250, coauthored with Karsten Zolna); Digital Markets Act, and the Data Act (Governance of IoT Data: Why the Data Act will not Fulfill its Objectives, GRUR International 72(2), 2023, 120-135).
Dr. Robert Klotz, Belgium
Basic Principles of Access Control and Grid Charge Price Regulation – Procedure in Cases of Abusive Practices (Module 6)
Robert Klotz is partner in the Antitrust & Competition Practice Group in the Brussels office of of Steptoe LLP, which he joined in 2024. Previously he worked in various other international law firms in Brussels. From 1998 to 2007 he was an EU official within DG Competition of the European Commission, dealing with high level antitrust cases in regulated industries, such as telecommunications and energy. In his current role as private practitioner, he advises a wide range of international clients on all aspects of EU and German competition and regulatory law, also representing them before the European Commission and national authorities, with a particular focus on network industries, such as energy, telecommunications, post and transport. In addition, he is a frequent speaker at public events, academic lecturer in several German universities, co-editor and co-author of a standard competition law treatise (Schröter/Klotz/von Wendland, ed. NOMOS) and managing editor of a quarterly competition law review (CoRe, ed. Lexxion). He has been acknowledged as a leading lawyer for competition law by “Who's Who Legal”, JUVE, Legal 500 Europe, and Chambers Global for several years.
Dr. Oliver Koch, Belgium
Merger Regulation (Module 3)
Energy Regulation from a European Perspective (Module 7)
Dr. Oliver Koch is Deputy Head of Unit in the Internal Market Unit of the Commission's Energy Directorate-General. His team is responsible for the creation of the regulatory framework for an integrated EU electricity and gas market. His Unit is notably co-ordinating the so-called "Market Design Initiative", i.e. the legislative proposal for a comprehensive review and update of the current internal market legislation on electricity. He also coordinates the legal work of the Unit, notably concerning the enforcement of EU rules vis-à-vis Member States, as well as the teams dealing with external aspects of the internal energy market (e.g. negotiations with Switzerland, Norway, the Energy Community or Russia). In 2015 he has led the team setting up a new security of supply Unit within DG Energy.
Before joining DG Energy, he worked in DG Competition in the field of energy antitrust (2007 – 2012) and merger control (2003 – 2007), where he has dealt with antitrust and merger cases in the field of energy and other sectors and was involved in several policy projects concerning energy and competition law.
Prior to joining the Commission, he worked as a lawyer in private practice (White & Case, Hamburg/Brussels, Freshfields/Düsseldorf) and as an assistant lecturer (University of Göttingen).
He publishes regularly on energy and competition policy.
Dr. Carsten Koenig, Germany
Reasons for a Regulatory Law in Network Industries (Module 6)
Dr. Carsten Koenig, LL.M. (Harvard) is post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Cologne, where he is affiliated with the Chair of Civil Law, Competition Law, Regulatory Law, Law of the Digital Economy held by Professor Dr. Torsten Koerber, LL.M. (Berkeley) as well as with the Institute for Energy Law (EWIR). He studied law and European studies at Humboldt University of Berlin, European University Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder, and Harvard Law School, and he completed his practical legal training (“Referendariat”), inter alia, at the Higher Regional Court of Duesseldorf. the European Commission’s DG Energy, and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. Before joining the University of Cologne, he held similar academic positions at Freie University Berlin, Technical University of Berlin, and the University of Goettingen.
His research interests include all aspects of competition law, regulatory law (in particular energy law), the law of digital markets, corporate law theory, and law & economics. He wrote his doctoral thesis on “Congestion Management in German and European Electricity Supply” (in German), which was published in 2013. Notable publications in English include “An Economic Analysis of the Single Economic Entity Doctrine in EU Competition Law”, 13 J Comp L & Econ 281 (2017), and “Towards a Data Sharing Economy – The Legal Framework for Access to Data”, forthcoming in Anne Looijestijn-Clearie, Catalin S. Rusu, Marc Veenbrink (eds.), Digital Markets in the EU (2018).
Dr. Torsten Kraul, Germany
International and EU Law of Media and Internet Regulation (Module 7)
Torsten Kraul is an experienced practitioner in the field of digital transformation and its implications for the legal system, in particular in the industry, trade, IT, telecommunications, energy, health, and media sectors. He holds a PhD from Regensburg University (Universität Regensburg) and an LL.M. in IP law from the University of London.
Since November 2015, Dr. Kraul is an attorney at law (Rechtsanwalt) at Noerr LLP in Berlin. Prior to that, he was at international law firms in Berlin, London, and Dallas.
His most recent publication is “Geistiges Eigentum und IT-Aspekte in der Carve-out-Transaktion und Transitional Services Agreements” in: Lappe/Gattringer (Hrsg.), “Carve-out-Transaktionen” (with Dr Tobias Bosch).
Dr. Matthias Lang, Germany
Energy Regulation – German Perspective (Module 7)
Dr. Matthias Lang is a partner at law firm Bird & Bird in Düsseldorf and is a member of Bird & Bird’s International Energy & Utilities Sector Group and Regulatory & Administrative Practice Group.
He advises German and international clients on energy, regulatory, and environmental law as well as issues arising from public commercial law. He has additional expertise in corporate law, administrative, European and real estate law, as well as standardisation.
Matthias has a PhD degree completed at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin in 1995 and is a regular contributor to conventional and online legal publications. He writes the section on permits for conventional power plants and wind farms for the “Berlin Commentary on Energy Law”. He commentates on international company law in the “Beck Online Commentary on the Limited Liability Company Act”. He has also published articles about disclosure and information obligations for sellers, buyers and banks in contaminated site transactions, on state aid to the coal sector, grid expansion and environmental protection in the extra high voltage grid, on the permitting regime for HVDC lines and the new 2014 Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG). Matthias also runs the German Energy Blog and frequently speaks at national and international seminars and conferences. He is proficient in English and French, aside from his native German.
Prof. Dr. Bertram Lomfeld, Germany
The Principles of an Economic System/Economic Constitution (Module 1)
Prof. Dr. Lomfeld studied law at the University of Heidelberg, Cambridge University, University of Paris (Sorbonne), University of Vienna and the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest and obtained his PhD from Goethe University Frankfurt. He has been a researcher with UNIDROIT in Rome, the Institute of European Competition Law with the University of Heidelberg and for Civil Law and Legal Theory with the University of Cologne. Furthermore, Prof. Lomfeld has been a lecturer at Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli in Rome, Goethe University Frankfurt, the University of Rostock and the law faculty of the Sciènce Po, Paris.
Additionally to his academic background, Prof. Lomfeld has practiced law at the law firm Wolf, Theiss & Partner in Vienna (international arbitration and business law) and Unverzagt von Have in Berlin. Furthermore, he has worked for the Heinrich-Böll Foundation, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, advised the parliamentary group Bündnis 90/Die Grünen and is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of ‘polar – journal for political philosophy and culture’ and coordinator of the transnational network ‘Private Law Theory’.
In his lecture on ‘The Principles of an Economic System/Economic Constitution’, Professor Lomfeld focusses on different theories regarding market economy (Classical Economics, Game Theory, Institutional Economics), the core institutions of markets (contracts, property, tort, etc.) and their connection to political values (behavioural law, political economy and more).
Dr. Sebastian Louven, Germany
EU Telecommunications Law (Module 7)
Sebastian Louven advises innovative companies on matters of antitrust law of the information society and telecommunication law. Before he started working as a lawyer, he was a legal counsel at a large fibre network operator. Sebastian Louven has published various articles and chapters on antitrust law and network regulation. His dissertation thesis deals with antitrust innovation theory for digital platforms. He completed his legal studies in Jena, Thessaloniki and Münster, followed by legal clerkship in Düsseldorf Area, containing a visiting station at Federal Cartel Office.
Dr. Diogo Magalhaes, USA
Introduction to EU Law and the Internal Markets (Module 1)
Diogo Magalhaes is the Assistant Dean for International and Graduate Programs, and Adjunct Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law. Prior to joining Seattle University, Diogo was the Academic Director of the Master of Science in Legal Studies program at Cornell Law School, where he also served as a Lecturer of Law. He holds a Doctorate in the Science of Law (JSD) from Cornell Law School, which he earned in 2019, and has taught at Cornell Law School, Chicago-Kent School of Law, Freie Universität Berlin, and the Catholic University of Portugal’s School of Law in Lisbon. Among other courses, Diogo has taught Conflicts of Law; International Trade Law; Introduction to Business and Financial Concepts; European Union Law; European And International Business and Contract Law; and Law, Markets and Globalization.
While completing his doctorate in European Integration Theory, Diogo also worked on issues of pro-social corporate governance. He helped to create and to launch the non-profit Ethical Shareholder Initiative. Exploring new paradigms within ethical and sustainable corporate governance have become part of his research interests, in addition to his passion for all things EU Law.)
Dr. Juliane Mendelsohn, Germany
Introduction to the EU and EU Law (Introductory Week)
Ms Mendelsohn is Junior Professor of "Law and Economics of Digitization" at the Ilmenau University of Technology. Her research interests include law and economics, competition law, digitization, private law and financial market regulation. She holds a PhD from Freie Universität Berlin (Prof. Dr. Heike Schweitzer) on the topic of systemic risk and financial market regulation.
Prof. Giorgio Monti, Netherlands
Antitrust Law in EU and US (Module 4)
National Antitrust Law in Comparison with EU and US Antitrust Law (Module 4)
Giorgio Monti is Professor of Competition Law at Tilburg Law School. Previously, he was Head of and professor at the competition law department at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Although an Italian national, he has developed most of his academic career in the UK, where he taught Competition law first in Leicester University (1993-2001) and then at the London School of Economics and Political Science (2001-2010). He has supervised numerous successful Ph.D dissertations, always trying to reconcile theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches in the research. Prof Monti is a prolific author in the field of economic law in particular competition law and utilities regulation, where some of his works such as “EC Competition law” are unavoidable texts both for practitioners and scholars alike. Some of his most recent publications are “Umbrella Pricing as a sword” (2014) and “Behavioural Remedies for Antitrust Infringements – Opportunities and Limitations” (2016). More recently, he co-authored "European Union Law: Text and Materials" (2019), one of the major texts on the subject.
Leonila Papa, France
Competition Law in Developing Countries (Module 4)
Leni Papa works with the Competition Division of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). She also teaches competition law at the Graduate School of Law of San Sebastian College, Manila.
Leni was a consultant for the Asian Development Bank, the Centre for Competition Policy of the University of East Anglia (UK), and the OECD on topics of regulatory and competition policy. She was also an Assistant Director and Spokesperson of the Philippine Competition Commission, a legal counsel of Samsung Electronics, and a Senior Associate in Angara Abello Concepcion Regala & Cruz (ACCRALAW), advising on Public-Private Partnerships, public procurement, M&As, and investments. She received her Master of Laws degree on EU and International Business, Competition, and Regulatory Laws from Freie Universität Berlin, Germany and is a Fulbright US-ASEAN Visiting Scholar.
Tito Rendas, Portugal
EU Copyright Law in the context of competitive markets (Module 5)
Tito Rendas is Executive Dean and Assistant Professor at Católica Global School of Law, where he also co-coordinates the LL.M. Law in a Digital Economy. He holds a law degree and a Ph.D. from Católica and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School.
His Ph.D. thesis, on the topic of exceptions in EU copyright law, has recently been published by Kluwer Law International and his research articles have featured in international journals, including the International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, the Journal of Internet Law, the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, and the European Intellectual Property Review. He has been a speaker at conferences and seminars at several institutions worldwide, including the European Parliament, Yale Law School, Tel Aviv University, and the University of Cape Town. He also holds visiting appointments at Freie Universität Berlin and at Stockholm University.
Tito has been an agent for the Portuguese Republic before the Court of Justice of the European Union in several preliminary reference procedures in the areas of intellectual property and online intermediary liability.
Before taking up the deanship position, he was Head of Intellectual Property at CCA Law Firm. In that capacity, he advised major tech companies, startups, telecom operators, streaming providers and TV broadcasters, having been distinguished by Iberian Lawyer as ‘Professional of the Year’ in the field of Copyright in 2021.
Dr. Luca Rubini, Italy
EU State Aid Law (Module 4)
Luca Rubini is a competition and trade lawyer, with a special interest in the regulation of the State intervention in the economy. He is the author of the first theoretical analysis of the definition of subsidy in the WTO and EU. More recently, he has extended his focus from subsidy law and policy to the analysis of the various linkages between energy, trade and climate change, and to an historical analysis of the regulation of subsidies in the 20th and 21st centuries. He has also started projects exploring the competition implications of the digital economy as well as the case for including competition laws in the WTO. Luca has been invited to present in institutional, academic and policy venues, in the UK and abroad, and is cooperating with various academic institutions, NGOs and policy actors.
Dr. Ansgar Schönborn, Germany
Unbundling Regimes (Module 8)
Dr. Schönborn studied law and obtained his doctorate in law in Berlin and London. He worked first as a Research Fellow at the Institute for German and European Business, Competition and Regulatory Law of Freie Universität Berlin and then as a lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in the Corporate/M&A practice group in Berlin and Dusseldorf until 2012. From 2012 until 2016, Dr. Schönborn was Senior Legal Counsel Corporate and M&A at Axel Springer SE. Thereafter, he joined Zalando SE as Director Legal, responsible for the global legal function of the Zalando Group. Since 2020 he is back at Axel Springer, responsible for corporate, M&A and antitrust topics.
Prof. Dr. Lydia Scholz, Germany
International and European Framework for Energy Trade/Energy Trade – Contracts (Module 8)
Lydia Scholz is Professor of Economic Law at the Business Faculty of the Bremen City University of Applied Sciences. She is a specialist in energy law - her main research focus. Before teaching in Bremen, Prof. Scholz was Professor at the Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau in Brandenburg and between 2008 and 2013 DAAD-Lecturer at the University of Warwick (United Kingdom).
Prof. Scholz has completed her PhD degree at the Freie Universität Berlin. Apart from her teaching experience (University of Warwick, FU Berlin, TH Wildau and HS Bremen), she has also worked for four years in the energy sector in Berlin and Brussels.
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schwalbe, Germany
Introduction to the Economic Fundamentals of Competition Law (Module 2)
Ulrich Schwalbe studied economics and political science at Freie Universität Berlin. After completing his studies, he held a teaching and research position at the chair for economic theory. After receiving his PhD from Freie Universität Berlin, he served as associate professor at the institute of economic theory at the University of Mannheim from 1990 through 1996. In 1996, he completed his habilitation thesis on The Core of Economies with Asymmetric Information and served as acting professor at the universities of Mannheim, Bonn, and Essen before he accepted a position as a senior lecturer at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. From 1999 to 2024 he held the chair for Microeconomics and Industrial Organization at the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart. His major research interests comprise microeconomics with a special focus on industrial organization, competition theory and policy, game theory and general equilibrium theory. Ulrich Schwalbe has published widely on all aspects of competition theory and policy as well as on game theory and general equilibrium theory. He is research professor at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), a member of the scientific advisory board of the FIW, of the editorial board of NZKart, and a member of the expert group of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology on the 8th amendment of the German Competition Law.
Stefan Siebert, Belgium/Germany
Merger regulation (Module 3)
Stefan Siebert is advising the Director-General of DG Competition on HR related questions since 2021. He joined DG Competition almost 20 years ago and worked as Deputy Head of Unit in a Merger Control Unit and a State aid unit of DG Competition. His team was responsible for analysing multinational merger cases under the European Merger Control Regulation in a variety of sectors including energy, automotive or IT. In addition, he also led teams who worked on procedural infringement cases in mergers.
Before managing merger cases, he worked in DG Competition in the field of energy antitrust (2007-2011) and merger control (2004-2006) where he has dealt with antitrust and merger cases in the field of energy and other sectors and was involved in several policy projects concerning competition law.
Prior to joining the Commission, he worked for the German National Competition Authority Bundeskartellamt and as an assistant lecturer (University of Munich). He holds law degrees from the University of Munich and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Dr. Vasil Stoynov, Belgium
European Energy Law (Module 8)
Vasil Stoynov is legal and policy officer in the Unit ‘Renewables and Energy System Integration Policy’ of the Commission's Energy Directorate-General. His unit is responsible for developing and coordinating policies to foster decarbonising the energy system and fostering EU’s industrial leadership in renewable energy, notably through the Renewable Energy Directive. He is responsible for the topic of financing renewables and manages few EU instruments for cooperation and investment in renewable energy projects, as well as for the legal enforcement of the Renewable Energy Directive.
Before joining DG Energy, he worked in the ministry of energy of Bulgaria and was member of the team of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council (2018), where he was involved in the work on the Clean Energy Package and was in charge of the negotiation and adoption of the Regulation on the Governance of the Energy Union.
He is an alumni from the MBL program (class of 2015/2016) and holds a PhD from Sofia University with a topic on state aid in the energy sector.
Dr. Julian von Lucius, Germany
International and EU Law of Media and Internet Regulation (Module 7)
Dr. Julian von Lucius is Senior Associate in the sectors of Telecommunications and Regulation & Governmental Affairs of Noerr LLP in Berlin. He completed his legal studies in Berlin, Paris und New York and is specialist in public and regulatory law. Before he assumed his position at Noerr LLP, he was active since 2012 in Berlin at an international Law firm. He has published several articles on telekommunications and internet regulation and is proficient in English and French, aside from his native German.
Dr. Christoph Wünschmann, Germany
Art. 101 TFEU – Specific Problems and Cases (Module 3)
Dr. Christoph Wünschmann is a partner of the international law firm Hogan Lovells based in Munich. He is a recognized practioner in the fields of German and European antitrust and merger control law.
Dr. Wünschmann handles all competition aspects of German and international transactions. He advises on joint ventures, cooperations, distribution, R&D, technology transfer as well as abuse of dominance and antitrust compliance issues. He represents companies in antitrust investigations and court proceedings, including follow-on damages claims.
He regularly publishes articles on European and German antitrust developments.