Associate Professor Heiko Gerlach
School of Economics, Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, UQ.
Areas of Expertise: Competition Policy; Industrial Organization; Regulation; Intellectual Property; Law and Economics .
Associate Professor Heiko Gerlach is is a leading international expert in Industrial Organisation, Competition Policy, and Law and Economics. He has published extensively in highly ranked international journals such as The RAND Journal of Economics, American Economic Journal and the International Economic Review. He holds Economics degrees from the Universities of Mannheim (MEcon, PhD) and Toulouse (DEEQAM, PhD) where he worked under the supervision of Nobel Prize winner Jean Tirole. Before joining the University of Queensland, he held positions at INSEAD Business School (France), Ecole Polytechnique (France), Berkeley (US), Auckland (NZ) and Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain). He held visiting positions at Northwestern University (US), Harvard (US) and Tilburg (Netherlands).
Heiko has a long track record of working with and for competition authorities (including the ACCC, the New Zealand Commerce Commission, the Japanese Fair Trade Commission, the Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets, and the European Commission DG IV), policymakers (Australian Treasury and Productivity Commission) and consultancies. He has secured several large research grants in Europe, New Zealand, and Australia. He was recently awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) grant on “Data Protection and Competition Policy” (2024-2027). He has taught competition policy and regulation for over twenty years in different jurisdictions and won numerous teaching awards at School, Faculty and University level. Heiko is currently editor of Games and preparing a special issue on “Games and Competition Policy”.
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Dr Barbora Jedlickova
Senior Lecturer, TC Beirne School of Law, Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, UQ. Affiliate of Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law & Affiliate of Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law.
Areas of Expertise: Competition Law (Australian Competition Law, EU Competition Law, US Antitrust Law); Law and Economics; Commercial and Corporate Law; Law and Humanities; Law, Science and Technology; Legal Theory and Jurisprudence.
Dr Barbora Jedlickova is an internationally recognised scholar. She is a Senior Lecturer in Law at The University of Queensland, where she teaches and researches competition law. Her principal research interests lie in competition-law theories, competition law in the digital economy and comparative competition law informed by Australian, US and EU competition / antitrust law regimes. Her research has explored various topics, including cartels, vertical restraints, the concepts of ‘bargaining power’ and ‘power’ in competition law, sustainability and competition law, AI and competition law, and economic and jurisprudential theories in competition law. Barbora's engagement and research are both internationally- and nationally-oriented. Her work has been published in highly reputable, leading law journals and by internationally well-respected publishers. She has conducted research in Australia (The University of Melbourne), in Europe (the Court of Justice of the European Union, University of Glasgow) and the USA (University of Iowa, Boston University and the Department of Justice), and has engaged with and presented her research across the globe, including in Asia. Previously, she worked as a lawyer in the Czech Republic, the UK and in Brussels in Belgium.
Barbora has served as an Editor of the Oceania Column of Competition Policy International (CPI) and as a General Editor of the LAWASIA Journal. Barbora is a member of the Competition and Consumer Committee of the Law Council of Australia, as well as several international associations. She led the establishment of the International League of Competition Law (LIDC) Australia and New Zealand, which is the first LIDC group and the first association of competition-law experts in Australia and New Zealand. She is also the President of this chapter of the LIDC, which is affiliated under the long-standing International League of Competition Law (LIDC) based in Switzerland and linked to the University of Queensland’s Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law (CPILC). Barbora has been involved in co-delivering and co-designing professional workshops on competition law, including training officials operating in Pacific Island States, such as judges, high-ranking officials from national competition authorities and from competition-related divisions within Ministries of Trade. Barbora was awarded a PhD in Law from the University of Glasgow (UK), LL.M. with Commendation in International Competition Law and Policy from the University of Glasgow and Masters in Law and Legal Studies from Masaryk University in the Czech Republic.
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