Notes on Contributors
András Tóth
is an associate professor and the Head of the Department of Digital and Technology Law at the Faculty of Law at the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary. From 2002 to 2007 he worked at the Hungarian Competition Authority. In 2007 he joined a leading American law firm in Brussels and Budapest. Since 2010 he has been the vice-president of the Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) and Chairman of the Competition Council. He is the editor in chief of the academic journal of the GVH, the ‘Competition Mirror’ (Versenytükör) and is a member of the editorial committees of the European Networks Law and Regulation Quarterly and the Public Governance, Administration and Finances Law Review.
Nuno Castro Marques,
Ph.D. is a Professor at the Faculty of Law of Lusíada University (Porto) and at the Faculty of Law of The Catholic University of Portugal (Porto). As a lawyer he specializes in regulation and competition and is also the Editor of Competition & Regulation Review, the author of “Contribution to the Autonomy of National Competition Law” (Almedina, 2019) and co-author of the “Competition and Regulation Manual” (Almedina, 2024).
Harry First
J.D. University of Pennsylvania, is the Charles L. Denison Professor of Law Emeritus at NYU School of Law. His teaching and writing have focused on antitrust law and regulation, intellectual property, and business crime.
Spencer Weber Waller,
J.D. 1982, is the John Paul Stevens Professor of Competition Law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. He teaches and writes in the areas of competition, consumer protection, regulatory, and civil procedure law.
Fülöp Beyer
is a lawyer who publishes on the themes of socio-economic change driven by internet intermediaries and big tech and adjacent regulatory philosophies. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE).
Zsolt Ződi
is a lawyer. He graduated from the University of Miskolc, earned a Ph.D. at the University of Pécs, and habilitated at Eötvös Loránd University Budapest. Besides his academic career, he worked in the professional publishing industry for 20 years, between 1995 and 2015. His recent fields of interest are the regulation of the information society and technology and the regulation of platforms and artificial intelligence. He is the author of 3 books and more than 110 articles.
Tihamér Tóth
was appointed as a professor at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in 2018, where he held the Jean Monnet Chair in Competition Law between 2019 and 2022. He is the author of numerous works and publications on competition law. He was appointed as a Judge at the General Court of the European Union on 6 July 2022.
Zoltán Marosi
is the co-head of the Competition and Antitrust practice group at DLA Piper Hungary. His main area of expertise lies in Hungarian and
András Pünkösty
is an associate professor at Pázmány Péter Catholic University and a senior research associate at the Institute of the Information Society at the Ludovika University of Public Service. He worked for the Hungarian Competition Authority between 2013 and 2018, dealing primarily with merger control. He is a member of the International Federation of European Law (FIDE) and an editor of the Hungarian Competition Authority’s journal Competition Mirror.
Belle Beems
is a Ph.D. candidate and lecturer at Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. She is working on a Ph.D. on the intersection between competition law, the DMA and the GDPR. Her research particularly focusses on cooperation between public enforcers.
Judit Firniksz,
Ph.D. is Senior Research Fellow at the Competition Research Centre of Pázmány Péter Catholic University. Her primary professional focus is on the development and regulation of the digital economy, the interaction between antitrust and consumer law, changes in the online value chain, and the role of the telecom sector in the digital economy. She has published a monograph (Regulation of Digital Markets – A Snapshot, Wolters Kluwer 2023) and numerous articles on the digital economy.
Pál Szilágyi
Ph.D. is the director of the Competition Law Research Centre and Associate Professor of Law and Political Science at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, where he teaches competition law & policy and European Union law. He obtained his law degree at PPKE JÁK, then obtained postgraduate diplomas in European law from the University of Cambridge and in competition law from King’s College London, as well as an LLM in Competition Law at King’s College. He is the program director of the PPKE JÁK competition law specialist training and is the author of numerous domestic and foreign publications.
Fanni Oroszi
specializes in
Kerem Cem Sanlı
is a full-time professor specializing in Civil Law and Competition Law. He currently serves as the Dean of the Faculty and the Director of the Competition Law and Policy Research Centre, recognized as a leading academic institution in the field. He has published numerous books and articles on competition law and law and economics, including pioneering studies such as Economic Analysis of Turkish Tort Law (2007) and Economic Analysis of Contract Law and Contractual Remedies (2015). He currently focuses on the intersection between technology and competition law, particularly the regulation of digital platforms. He holds LL.M. degrees from Marmara University (1999) and Harvard Law School (2000) and earned his Ph.D. from Marmara University in 2006.
Kadir Baş
is an associate professor of commercial law at Marmara University, School of Law. He was awarded a Doctorate in Law by Queen Mary University of London in 2013. He is particularly specialized in competition law and intellectual property law. His book titled The Substantive Appraisal of Joint Ventures under the
Zsófia Maka
is a Legal Counsel at Vodafone Procurement & Connectivity. She holds a Law degree from Pázmány Péter Catholic University and has furthered her expertise in competition and
Fatma Ceren Morbel
is a Ph.D. candidate at the Karoli Gaspar University of the Reformed Church in Hungary. Her research explores the intersection of
György Kovács,
Ph.D. is head of the graduate program on Digital Technology and Data Economy at Pázmány Péter Catholic University. He has published extensively on European Union law, intellectual property and constitutional law, including Liability of Internet Platforms for the Breach of Copyright (2024) and The Requirement of Balanced and Proportionate IPR Enforcement (2022).