Biography
Maciej Bernatt is a Full Professor of Law at the University of Warsaw. He holds the Chair in European Economic Law at the Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw and he is the director of the Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies and the co-director of ASCOLA Central Europe Chapter.
Maciej holds a Habilitation, PhD and MA titles in law and a second MA title in international relations. He held visiting appointments at the Bocconi University, the University of Chicago, the University of Melbourne, the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, the UNSW, and the Loyola University Chicago. In autumn 2025, Maciej is a Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. In the past he worked as a référendaire in the Polish Supreme Court and in the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland as well as a lawyer and the coordinator of Strategic Litigation Program in the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights.
Maciej's research interests lie at the intersections of competition law and constitutional law, administrative law and EU law. His publications appeared in, inter alia, the Common Market Law Review, the European Law Journal, the European Law Review, the Georgia Law Review, the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, the Columbia Journal of European Law, and the Yearbook of European Law. He is also an author of three monographs and numerous articles in Polish journals as well as a co-author of two leading commentaries to the Polish Competition Act and Polish Unfair Competition Act. His last book, published in 2022 by the Cambridge University Press, discusses the illiberal influence of populist governments on the competition law system.