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The Evolution of the Case Law on ‘Abuse’ of Dominance in EU Competition Law

04
jun 2024
Seminars

The Evolution of the Case Law on ‘Abuse’ of Dominance in EU Competition Law

Speaker - Pinar Akman
Venue - Hybrid
Pinar Akman (LLB, LLM, PhD) is a Professor of Law specialising in competition law at the School of Law, University of Leeds. Outside of academia, she is a judge at the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal and a member of the Financial Conduct Authority’s Innovation Advisory Group. Previously, she was a Director at the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in Digital Governance funded by the European Commission (2019-2023), and the Director of the Centre for Business Law and Practice at the University of Leeds (2017-2020). She has degrees in law from the University of Ankara and the University of East Anglia. She is a foreign qualified lawyer. She has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and is the author of the sell-out monograph The Concept Abuse in EU Competition Law: Law and Economic Approaches (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2012; reprinted, 2015). She is a Non-Governmental Advisor to the UK and to Turkey for the International Competition Network’s (ICN) Unilateral Conduct Working Group and Cartels Working Group, respectively. In 2017, Pinar Akman was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize (£100,000) by the Leverhulme Trust for her research into the application of competition law in digital technology markets. In 2018, she was awarded a Women of Achievement Award by the University of Leeds. Pinar Akman has presented her research in over twenty countries around the world and regularly advises and/or works with international organisations including the IMF, International Trade Centre (UN/WTO) and World Economic Forum.

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