Björn LundqvistProfessor

About me

Current Positions

Professor of European Law with a focus on Competition Law
Head of EU Law
 

Research Interests

My research focus: Competition, Innovation, Data, Property and Law. Some recent publications with a focus on the data-driven economy: 'Regulating Access and Transfer of Data' (CUP 2023);  ‘Competition Law for the Digital Economy’, edited by Björn Lundqvist with Michal Gal, Edward Elgar 2019; 'An Access and Transfer Right to Data from a Competition Law Perspective' The Journal of Antitrust Enforcement 2023; Cloud Service as the ultimate Gate(keeper) The Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, Volume 7, Issue 2, July 2019, Pages 220–248; Standardization for the Digital Economy: The Issue of Interoperability and Access Under Competition Law, The Antitrust Bulletin, 2017, Vol. 62(4) 710-725, and European Harmonized Standards as ‘Part of EU Law’: The Implications of the James Elliott Case for Copyright Protection and, Possibly, for EU Competition Law (2017) 44 Legal Issues of Economic Integration, Issue 4, 421–435. I have published two monographs, ‘R&D collaborations under the Competition Rules of the European Union and The Antitrust Laws of the United States’ (Edward Elgar monograph, pp. 303, May, 2015) and ‘Standardization under EU Competition Rules & US Antitrust Laws: The Rise and Limits of Self-Regulation’ (Edward Elgar monograph, pp. 496, May, 2014). 

Academic background

Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School (Denmark)  2012-2016

I hold a doctoral degree and MRes. from European University lnstitute in Florence, an LL.M. from University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, and an LL.M. and LL.B. from Uppsala University, Sweden.

Teaching

I teach at the master's program and at the under- and graduate law program. Course director for Basic EU Law, Competition Law, Legal Methods in Research and Practice, and Master Thesis in European Economic Law. I teach and supervise PhD researchers and students writing master theses.

Residential training at EUI in Florence under ENTraNCE for European Judges 2019.

In 2022, I held the lecture “Novel forms of abuses of dominance in digital and green economies” for the Competition Summer School for Asian officials, organised by College of Europe for the European Commission DG Competition, Competition Cooperation EU – ASEAN Partnership.

Visiting Scholar

Guest Professor, Aix-Marseille University, 2023
Leading Scholar, Higher School of Economics, Research University 2018-2021
Michigan Grotius Fellow, University of Michigan Law School 2006-2007
Visiting Fellow, UN Conference Trade and Development (UNCTAD) 2005 

Academic commissions of trust (selection)

Member of the SNS Economic Policy Council 2021 

I am member of the board for the Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA). A global association for competition law researchers. I have now been elected Nordic representative for Ascola and will build a joint Nordic organization for researcher exchange.

Director for  the Institute for European Law, and the Swedish Network for European Law Research. I am active in the Nordic network for competition law research. I am member of the board of the Association for Market and Competition Law.