| Job Title | Contact | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Lecturer |
P dot Akman at uea dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 2932 |
Blackdale Annex 0.17 |
Dr Pinar Akman
LLB, LLM, PhD
Dr Pinar Akman is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the UEA Law School and is a Faculty Member of the ESRC Centre for Competition Policy. Prior to taking up her current position at UEA Law School Pinar worked at the University of Ankara Law School, Department of Commercial Law and qualified as a lawyer in Turkey.
Pinar has both a Degree in Law and a Masters in Law from University of Ankara Law School. She was ranked first overall in her undergraduate degree. Following her Masters studies, she was awarded an ORSAS (Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme) Scholarship funded by the UK Secretary for Education and a UEA Scholarship to conduct her doctoral studies at UEA Law School. Her PhD focused on the topic of abuse of a dominant position in EU competition law.
Pinar has published her research in both renowned specialist competition law journals and generalist law journals (including Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and Modern Law Review). She is the author of the research monograph The Concept of Abuse in EU Competition Law: Law and Economic Approaches (Hart Publishing, 2012). In 2010, she was named as one of the top ten up-and-coming female competition law professors in the world by a leading international competition blog run by Professor Daniel Sokol of University of Florida.
Pinar is a peer-reviewer for Oxford Competition Law, an innovative national case law reporting service to be launched by Oxford University Press in 2013. She has also been involved in many externally funded research projects. She was one of the eight investigators who applied for the second five-year funding of the ESRC Centre for Competition Policy in 2009 which obtained over £4 million. Some of the other work she has undertaken have been commissioned by, for example, the UK Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, energywatch and the Irish Competition Authority. Pinar is a non-governmental advisor to the UK for the International Competition Network's (ICN) Unilateral Conduct Working Group.
She has presented her work at prestigious national and international institutions, including the University of Cambridge, Max-Planck-Institute and the Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association. Outside of academia, her work has been relied upon by institutions such as the OECD and the International Competition Network.
Pinar’s main research interests are in EU competition law, law and economics, consumer law and contract law. Pinar is particularly interested in the interface between legal and economic concepts underlying competition law and in particular Article 102 TFEU. She is also interested in the historical origins of EU competition law and the interplay between competition law and other areas, such as consumer law, contract law and behavioural economics.
Pinar was nominated by her students for the UEA excellence in teaching award in 2010-2011. Currently, Pinar teaches on various competition law courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and on the undergraduate contract law course. Pinar would be interested in supervising research students in all areas of EU and UK competition law, in particular issues of abuse of dominance and the relation and intersection between competition law and other areas, such as consumer law, contract and unfair competition law.
Books
The Concept of Abuse in EU Competition Law: Law and Economic Approaches (Hart Publishing, 2012)
Journal Articles
‘The Role of “Freedom” in EU Competition Law’ (2013) 33 Legal Studies forthcoming
"When Are Excessive Prices Unfair?" (2011) 7 Journal of Competition Law and Economics, 403-426 (with L Garrod)
"The European Commission's Guidance on Article 102TFEU: From Inferno to Paradiso?" (2010) 73 Modern Law Review, 605-630
"Consumer versus Customer: the Devil in the Detail" (2010) 37 Journal of Law and Society 315-44
"Myths and Myth Making in the Institutionalization and Interpretation of EU Action: The Case of EU Competition Policy" (2010) 48 Journal of Common Market Studies 111-132 (with H Kassim)
“‘Consumer Welfare’ and Article 82EC: Practice and Rhetoric” (2009) 32 World Competition Law and Economics Review 71-90
“Searching for the Long-Lost Soul of Article 82EC” (2009) 29 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 267
“To Abuse, or not to Abuse: Discrimination between Consumers” (2007) 32 European Law Review 492-512
“Article 82 Reformed? The EC Discussion Paper on Exclusionary Abuses” [2006] Journal of Business Law 816-829
“A Most-Favoured-Customer Clause with a Twist” (2005) 2 European Competition Journal 57-86 (with M Hviid)
Chapters in Books
"Criticisms and Suggestions: the Reform of Abuse of Dominance in Light of the Commission Guidance on Article 102TFEU” in KC Sanli (ed) Abuse of a Dominant Position: Problems and Suggestions for Solutions (forthcoming) (Istanbul, XII Levha Publications) (in Turkish)
“Exploitative Abuse in Article 82EC: Back to Basics?” (2009) 11 Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies 165-188.
Reports
M Harker P Akman L Lovdahl Gormsen J Mehta and C Waddams “Benchmarking the Performance of the UK Framework Supporting Consumer Empowerment through Comparison against Relevant International Comparator Countries” A Report prepared for Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, 2008 (523 pp)
http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file50027.pdf
C Waddams M Harker K Pham and P Akman “Pros and Cons of Prepayment Meters” A Report for energywatch by ESRC Centre for Competition Policy, May 2007 (76 pp)
SH Hargreaves AD Scott A Gaudeul and P Akman “An Analytical Framework for Media Mergers in Ireland” A Report to the Irish Competition Authority, 2006 (120 pp)
Working Papers and Work in Progress
P Akman and L Garrod “Behavioural Economics and Operationalising the Prohibition of Unfair Pricing under Article 82EC” forthcoming ESRC Centre for Competition Policy Working Paper
P Akman “Exploitative Abuse in Article 82EC: Back to Basics?” ESRC Centre for Competition Policy Working Paper No 09-1
P Akman ‘“Consumer” versus “Customer”: the Devil in the Detail’ ESRC Centre for Competition Policy Working Paper No 08-34
P Akman “‘Consumer Welfare’ and Article 82EC: Practice and Rhetoric” ESRC Centre for Competition Policy Working Paper No 08-25
P Akman “Searching for the Long-Lost Soul of Article 82EC” ESRC Centre for Competition Policy Working Paper No 07-5
P Akman “To Abuse, or not to Abuse: Discrimination between Consumers” ESRC Centre for Competition Policy Working Paper No 06-18
Others
P Akman (Case Comment) “The Court of Appeal dismisses an appeal seeking to strike out a damages claim brought against a company that was not the addressee of a EU Commission decision: an encouragement towards more private litigation in England? (Toshiba Carrier)” The e-Competitions Bulletin, No 50850, February 2013-II
P Akman (Book Review) The Foundations of European Union Competition Law: The Objective and Principles of Article 102 by R Nazzini (2013) 50 (1) Common Market Law Review 298-301
P Akman (Book Review) Identifying Exclusionary Abuses by Dominant Undertakings under EU Competition Law: The Spectrum of Tests by E Østerud (2012) 37 (3) European Law Review 363-365
P Akman (Book Review) Article 82 EC: Reflections on its Recent Evolution A Ezrachi (ed) 2011 (36) (1) European Law Review 148-150
P Akman (Book Review) European Competition Law Annual 2007: A Reformed Approach to Article 82 EC CD Ehlermann and M Marquis (eds) (2009) 5 (2) European Competition Journal 491-504
P Akman (Case Comment) “The Turkish Competition Board finds that a price beating guarantee given to consumers by a supermarket falls outside competition law (Carrefour)” The e-Competitions Bulletin, No 26130, May 2009-I
P Akman (Case Comment) “The Turkish Competition Board confirms lack of anticompetitive conduct in the bio-tech pharmaceuticals market despite evidence of bid rigging brought by criminal proceedings (Roche)” The e-Competitions Bulletin, No 24234, February 2009-II
P Akman (Case Comment) “The Turkish Competition Board grants individual exemption to an exclusive distribution agreement (GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer)” The e-Competitions Bulletin, No 22336, November 2008-I
P Akman (Case Comment) “The Turkish Competition Board confirms fine on only one cartel member for price fixing in the ready mixed concrete market (Lafarge)” The e-Competitions Bulletin, No 20662, August 2008-II
P Akman (Case Comment) “The Turkish Competition Board orders Amadeus to terminate use of loyalty-enhancing bonus schemes with travel agents (Amadeus)” The e-Competitions Bulletin, No 17652, May 2008-I
P Akman (Case Comment) “The Turkish Competition Board rejects a consumer complaint alleging restriction of competition on the market for PC operating systems and application software (Duzgit v HP, Teknosa and Penta)” The e-Competitions Bulletin, No 15762, February 2008-II
P Akman (Book Review) The Law and Economics of Article 82 EC by R O’Donoghue and AJ Padilla (2007) (March) Journal of Business Law 219-221
P Akman “The EC Discussion Paper on the Application of Article 82” Comment to the European Commission on the Public Consultation on discussion paper on the application of Article 82 to exclusionary abuses (March 2006)http://ec.europa.eu/comm/competition/antitrust/art82/004.pdf
P Akman (Book Review) Article 82 EC: Reflections on its Recent Evolution A Ezrachi (ed) 2011 (36) (1) European Law Review 148-150
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