Advisory Board

Barry Rodger is a professor at Strathclyde Law School, Glasgow and has published widely in competition law. His co-authored textbook (with A MacCulloch) Competition Law and Policy in the EU and UK (Routledge) is in its 6th edition, and he has published numerous articles in journals such as the European Competition Law Review, the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, and the Antitrust Law Journal. Many of his publications have focused on private enforcement, including his comprehensive studies of all competition-related litigation in the UK courts (ECLR 2006, GCLR 2009) and Competition Law and Article 234: An Analysis (Kluwer, 2008), which focused on all competition law Article 234 preliminary rulings. He coordinated an AHRC-funded project into comparative private enforcement and collective redress in the EU (www.clcpecreu.co.uk and Competition Law Comparative Private Enforcement and Collective Redress Across the EU, Kluwer Law International, 2014). He has considerable experience in leading EU-wide research projects and is co-editor of The EU Antitrust Damages Directive, Transposition in the Member States, published by OUP in December 2018. His recent publications include: co-edited with A MacCulloch and P. Whelan, Twenty Years of UK Competition Law: a Retrospective (OUP 2021); co-ed with Prof A Stephan, Brexit and UK Competition Law (Routledge, 2022) and Research Handbook on Private Enforcement of Competition law in the EU (co-eds M Sousa Ferro and F Marcos, Edward Elgar, 2023). Professor Rodger is the Chair of the Competition Law Scholars’ Forum (www.clasf.org) and co-editor of the Competition Law Review.

Or Brook is an associate professor of Competition Law and Policy and the deputy director of the Centre for Business Law and Practice (CBLP) at the Law School of the University of Leeds. She specialises in international, EU and comparative competition law and regulation and empirical legal research (particularly systematic content analysis of legal text). Her main research focus has been the boundaries of competition law and its interface with other public policy considerations (e.g., sustainability, digital platforms, financial stability, and workers’ rights), how competition authorities and other economic regulators set their enforcement priorities, and how procedural and institutional aspects of the enforcement inform the substantive scope of the law. She also explores the use of research methods more generally, and the law and politics behind empirical legal research. Dr Brook published a book titled Non-Competition Interests in EU Antitrust Law: An Empirical Study of Article 101 TFEU (Cambridge University Press, 2022), in which she systematically examined the role of public policy considerations in the enforcement of Article 101 TFEU on the basis of a large database of 3,100 cases. She has published articles in leading journals, such as the Modern Law Review, Common Market Law Review, and the Journal of Competition Law and Economics, making use of novel empirical methodologies. She is coordinating the Priority Setting Project, which studies enforcement priorities rules and practices of competition authorities, for which she has received funding from the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Impact Acceleration Accounts and the Michael Beverley Innovation Fellowship, and is supported by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Research Partnership Project. Dr Brook acts as the director of the UK’s branch of the International Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA).

Maciej Bernatt is a professor at the University of Warsaw. He holds a habilitation, PhD and MA in Law and MA in International Relations (Political Sciences). He is the director of the Centre of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies and the head of the Department of European Economic Law, Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw (Poland). He is also the editor-in-chief of the Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies as well as the director of ASCOLA Central Europe Chapter. He held visiting fellow appointments at the University of Melbourne, the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Munich), the UNSW (Sydney), and the Loyola University Chicago. He has received scholarships and research grants from several institutions, including the Polish-US Fulbright Commission, the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education, and the Polish National Science Centre. His publications appeared in, inter alia, the Common Market Law Review, the European Law Review, the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, the Columbia Journal of European Law, and World Competition. He is also the author of two monographs as well as a co-author of two leading commentaries on the Polish Competition Act and the Polish Unfair Competition Act. In the past, he worked as a référendaire in the Polish Supreme Court and in the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland, as well as in the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, where he coordinated the Strategic Litigation Program. His litigation experience involves cases before the European Court of Human Rights and Polish courts.

Francisco Marcos is a professor of law at IE Law School (Spain), where he teaches business law, competition law, and law & economics. He holds a law degree from Universidad de Oviedo, an LLM from Berkeley [Fulbright scholar (1994-1995)] and a PhD from the University of Bologna. He is a member of the Editorial Board of World Competition (Kluwer), the European Business Organization Law Review (TMC Asser) and of European Company Law (Kluwer). Author of numerous academic works, including four books, he also has written more than one hundred contributions to collective books or law-review publications. He serves on the Boards of the Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA) and the Competition Law Scholars Forum (CLaSF). He has worked all over the world as an independent consultant for the Asian Development Bank, the Centro American Bank for Economic Integration, the European Commission, and the World Bank, advising governments, companies, and firms on different matters in the area of market regulation and antitrust law. He served as the Client and Users’ Ombudsman at SGAE, the main copyright-collecting society for composers and music publishers in Spain, and as General Director of Competition Policy at the Regional Antitrust Authority in Madrid. Nowadays, he is the academic consultant of CCS.

Annalies Outhuijse is an associate at Stibbe Amsterdam in the area of Administrative law. Here, she specialises in environmental law. Before this, she conducted a PhD research explaining the high rates of litigation and successful litigation in the case of Dutch cartel fines on the basis of an analysis of Dutch enforcement practice, comparative research with nine other EU Member States and four other Dutch market supervisors and interviews with practitioners, judges, and NCAs. For this research, Annalies was also a visiting researcher at the European University Institute under the supervision of Prof. Dr Giorgio Monti in 2017. This research was successfully defended on 25 June 2019. Alongside her PhD, Annalies undertook many other academic activities such as attending, organising and presenting at conferences, writing the yearly chronicle on Dutch competition law judgments for the Journal of European and Economic Law (SEW), advising the board of the journal AB Rechtspraak Bestuursrecht and several teaching activities. She lectured on competition law enforcement in the Dutch and English versions of the Master’s course ‘Competition Law’, provided training and consulted to the Fijian Competition and Consumer Commission and gave tutorials in the second year LLB course ‘Europeanisation of Public Law’. In 2015, she graduated with an LLM in Dutch Law with a specialisation in Constitutional and Administrative Law (summa cum laude) and the LLM Research Master (cum laude). After her LLB and LLM studies, she was a research and teaching assistant at the Department of Administrative Law from April 2012.

Miguel Sousa Ferro is a professor at the University of Lisbon Law School, where he lectures courses within the Economic Law Department. His main areas of specialisation are EU Law, Competition Law and Nuclear Law. He obtained his PhD and his LLB from the University of Lisbon, and an LLM in European Studies from the College of Europe. He is a practising lawyer and Managing Partner at Sousa Ferro & Associados. He has published widely with national and international publishers and periodicals, including the books The EU Antitrust Damages Directive: Transposition in the Member States (Oxford University Press) and Market Definition in EU Competition Law (Edward Elgar). He is co-director of the Portuguese Competition & Regulation Journal and a member of several associations, foundations, and research institutes. He is a Judge at the European Nuclear Energy Tribunal.