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Professor Niamh Dunne

Professor Niamh Dunne

Professor of Law

ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law School

Telephone
020-7106-1159
Room No
Cheng Kin Ku Building 7.05
Languages
English
Key Expertise
Law

About me

Niamh Dunne is a Professor, teaching in the areas of competition and EU law. Before coming to ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ in September 2015, she was a Lecturer at King's College London, and a Fellow in Law at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. She has also worked in competition enforcement for the Competition Authority of Ireland, and as a consultant in competition policy, primarily for the OECD. She holds law degrees from the University of Cambridge (BA, PhD), NYU School of Law (LLM) and King's College London (MA). She is qualified as a solicitor in Ireland and in England & Wales (both non-practising), and as an attorney in New York State.

Administrative support: Law.Reception@lse.ac.uk

Research interests

Niamh's research interests encompass, broadly, the areas of competition policy and market regulation. Work to date has explored the relationship between competition law and economic regulation; public and private aspects of antitrust enforcement; EU internal market liberalisation; and aspects of competition policy in the digital economy.

Teaching

Books

Jones & Sufrin's EU Competition Law: Texts, Cases, Materials 8th ed. (Oxford University Press, 2023) (with Alison Jones and Brenda Sufrin)

The complete guide to EU competition law, combining key primary sources with expert author commentary. The most comprehensive resource for students on EU competition law; extracts from key cases, academic works, and legislation are paired with incisive critique and commentary from an expert author team.


 

Competition Law and Economic Regulation (Cambridge University Press, 2015)

Niamh Dunne undertakes a systematic exploration of the relationship between competition law and economic regulation as legal mechanisms of market control. Beginning from a theoretical assessment of these legal instruments as discrete mechanisms, the author goes on to address numerous facets of the substantive interrelationship between competition law and economic regulation. She considers, amongst other aspects, the concept of regulatory competition law; deregulation, liberalisation and 'regulation for competition'; the concurrent application of competition law in regulated markets; and relevant institutional aspects including market study procedures, the distribution of enforcement powers between competition agencies and sector regulators, and certain legal powers that demonstrate a 'hybridised' quality lying between competition law and economic regulation. Throughout her assessment, Dunne identifies and explores recurrent considerations that inform and shape the optimal relationship between these legal mechanisms within any jurisdiction.

 

Articles

  • 'Antitrust and the Golden Thread: Balancing the Presumption of Innocence with the Public Interest in Competition Enforcement' in O. Andriychuk,  (Hart Publishing, 2023)
  •  The Antitrust Bulletin 21 March 2022
  • 80 Cambridge Law Journal 274-307 (2021)
  • 58 Common Market Law Review 1229-48 (2021)
  • 44 World Competition 287-306 (2021)
  • 42 European Competition Law Review 638-44 (2021)
  •  84 Modern Law Review 230-64 (2021)
  • ' in A. MacCulloch, B. Rodger and P. Whelan (eds), The UK Competition Regime: A Twenty-Year Retrospective, Oxford University Press (2021)
  •   9 Journal of Antitrust Enforcement 244-69 (2021)
  •  11 Journal of European Competition Law & Practice 423 (2020)
  • 'Algorithms in Contemporary EU Competition Enforcement: Evolution before Revolution?' CPI Antitrust Chronicle, July 2020
  •  65 Antitrust Bulletin 376 (2020)
  •  65 Antitrust Bulletin 256 (2020)
  •  16 Journal of Competition Law & Economics 74 (2020)
  • ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law Working Paper Series 14/2019
  • 'Liberalisation and the Pursuit of the Internal Market' European Law Review (2018) 43 (6) pp.803-836 
  •  Modern Law Review (2018) 81 (5)  pp.874-905 
  • Background Note for the Competition Committee of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), DAF/COMP(2018)3
  • Yearbook of European Law (forthcoming, 2018)
  • 'Competition Law (and its Limits) in the Sharing Economy' in Nestor Davidson, John Infranca & Michèle Finck (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Law and Regulation of the Sharing Economy (Camridge University Press, forthcoming 2018) [a pre-edited version is available online here: ]
  •  (Roger van den Bergh), 41 World Competition (2018) 41 pp.485-487 
  • 'Why Protect the Potential Competitor?' Concurrences (2017) No.2-2017  [a pre-edited version is available online here: ]
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  • (Magnus Strand), 54 Common Market Law Review  (2017) 54 pp.1910-1912
  • ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Legal Studies Working Paper No. 6/2017
  • (2016) 53 Common Market Law Review, Issue 2, pp. 453-492
  • Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (2016)
  • 40 European Law Review  581-587 (2015)
  • Book review of Regulatory Competition in the Internal Market. Comparing Models for Corporate Law, Securities Law and Competition Law (Barbara Gabor), 74 Cambridge Law Journal 175-179 (2015)
  •   Vol.16 Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies 2013-14 143-187 (2014)
  • 10 (2) Journal of Competition Law & Economics 399-444 (2014)
  • 'Between Competition Law and Regulation: Hybridised Approaches to Market Control' 2 Journal of Antitrust Enforcement 225-269 (2014)
  • 77(2) Modern Law Review 254-276 (2014)
  • 'It never rains but it pours? Liability for umbrella effect in EU competition law after Kone' 51 Common Market Law Review 1813-1828 (2014)
  • 73 Cambridge Law Journal 510-513 (2014)
  • Book review of Building New Competition Law Regimes: Selected Essays (David Lewis (ed.)), 73 Cambridge Law Journal 643-646 (2014)
  • 72 Cambridge Law Journal 273-276 (2013)
  • Book review of Research Handbook on International Competition Law (Ariel Ezrachi (ed.)), 72 Cambridge Law Journal 458-461 (2013)
  • 'Margin Squeeze: Theory, Practice Policy, Parts I & II' 33 European Competition Law Review 29-39 & 61-68 (2012) [ ]
  • 70 Cambridge Law Journal 34-37 (2011)
  • 16 Columbia Journal of European Law 427-463 (2010)