Biography

Nicolas Petit is Joint Chair in Competition Law at the Department of Law and at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. He is also invited Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges.

He will be on special leave from the Law School of the University of Liege (ULiege) where he has been full Professor since 2007 and where he received his Phd. Prior to joining the EUI, Nicolas Petit has held a public office position as a part-time judge with the Belgian competition authority, and has also worked in private practice with a leading US law firm in Brussels.

Nicolas Petit is the author of Big Tech and the Digital Economy: The Moligopoly Scenario (Oxford University Press, 2019), co-author of EU Competition Law and Economics (Oxford University Press, 2012) and author of Droit européen de la concurrence (Domat Montchrestien, 2013 and 2018), a monograph which was awarded the prize for the best law book of the year at the Constitutional Court in France. In 2005 he was a member of Harvard Law School’s Visiting Researchers Programme. Nicolas Petit’s work has appeared in numerous journals including the Antitrust Law Journal, the European Law Review, the Review of Industrial Organization, the Columbia Journal of European Law and the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal. Nicolas Petit is the 44th top ssrn author in the category “Law”. Since 2017 he is a member of the European Commission High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence.

Research Projects and Working groups

• An Automated Detector of Potentially Unfair Clauses in Online Terms of Service
• Competition Law Working Group

Supervisees

• Anouk Van Der Veer
• Isaure Langlois D'Estaintot
• Linus Hoffmann
• Lola Montero Santos
• Miguel Mota Delgado
• Natalia Moreno Belloso
• Sara Guidi
• Selcukhan Ünekbaş
• Teresa Oriani
• Yeliz Doker

Fields of expertise

• Antitrust Law
• Artificial intelligence (AI)
• Intellectual property (IP), intellectual property rights
• Law and technology
• Law and economics

Recent research output

• MANNAN, Morshed (ed/s), COVASSI, Beatrice; PETIT, Nicolas; MAYDELL, Eva (2022), The 'Brussels effect' : governance vs technology?, Video
• PETIT, Nicolas; PADILLA, Jorge (2020), Competition policy and the Covid-19 opportunity, Other
• PETIT, Nicolas; TEECE, David J. (2020), Taking ecosystems competition seriously in the digital economy : a (preliminary) dynamic competition/capabilities perspective, Working Paper
• BORGHETTI, Jean-Sébastien; NIKOLIC, Igor; PETIT, Nicolas (2021), FRAND licensing levels under EU law, Article
• PETIT, Nicolas; TEECE, David J. (2021), Innovating big tech firms and competition policy : favoring dynamic over static competition, Article
• PETIT, Nicolas (2022), Understanding market power, Working Paper

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