Biography
Nicolas Petit is Professor of Competition Law at the Department of Law of the European University Institute (EUI). His research in recent years has focused on EU and US competition law, competition and innovation, law and economics, and law in a context of technological change. Nicolas Petit uses mixed approaches including law and economics, doctrinal and empirical legal methods.Nicolas Petit’s research focuses on a range of topics, including the application of economic analysis to competition law, the intersection between competition law and intellectual property, and the regulation of digital markets. He is known for his contributions to the development of the "more economic approach" to competition law and policy, which emphasizes the use of economics and empirical evidence in antitrust analysis.
Nicolas Petit is an author and scholar who has written several academic books including Big Tech and the Digital Economy: The Moligopoly Scenario, EU Competition Law and Economics, as well as Droit européen de la concurrence.
Nicolas Petit has published his scholarly research in top journals including the Antitrust Law Journal, European Law Review, Review of Industrial Organization, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Common Market Law Review, Columbia Journal of European Law and Berkeley Journal of Law & Technology. The SSRN rankings position Nicolas Petit at number 23 among the top 3000 LAW authors.
Nicolas Petit, a former full Professor at the University of Liege and holder of a PhD from there, will be taking special leave to join EUI. He has previously worked as an assessor with the Belgian competition authority and in private practice for a prominent US law firm based in Brussels. He was also a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School in 2005, and served on the European Commission High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence from 2017 to 2020. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution (Stanford University) in 2018, and has been a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe since 2019. In 2022, he co-founded the Dynamic Competition Initiative (“DCI”) with UC Berkeley.