Biography

Dr Firat Cengiz is Lecturer in EU and Competition Law at Liverpool Law School in the UK.
Previously she worked as assistant professor at European and International Public Law Department of Tilburg Law School in the Netherlands. In 2008-2009 Firat held a Max Weber fellowship at the European University Institute. Previous to that, Firat received a PhD degree from the University of East Anglia.
Her doctoral research was jointly and fully funded by the British Government and the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of East Anglia. Firat’s primary research interests are in competition policy and multi-level governance in the EU and the US.
She is the author of ‘Antitrust Federalism in the EU and the US’ (Routledge, 2012). Firat has an emerging research interest in Europeanization and EU democratic conditionality in Turkey. Firat has taught various courses in EU law, governance, competition law and legal methodology. She is also a fully qualified attorney in Turkey.