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Aurelien Portuese

Director of Antitrust & Innovation Policy
Information Technology & Innovation Foundation

Born in France, Aurelien studied law at the University of Aix-en-Provence before traveling to Europe in order to gain the LL.M. European Master in Law & Economics from the universities of Bologna, Gent, and Hamburg. He further developed his interdisciplinary skills when he graduated from Sciences Po Paris and from the London School of Economics with an MSc in European Political Economy. Finally, he holds a Ph.D. in law from the University of Paris II Pantheon-Assas (Sorbonne) on a doctoral dissertation about “The Principle of Economic Efficiency in the European Case-law.”

Aurelien started his academic career at Sciences Po Paris, then taught in some UK universities (Westminster, King’s College London, Leicester De Montfort, St Mary’s). He has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford. He passed the Paris Bar Exam.
When Brexit started to materialize, he landed a position of associate professor of law at the Brussels School of Governance of the Free University Brussels (VUB).

Additionally, Aurelien is currently the Director of Antitrust & Innovation Policy at the think tank Information Technology & Innovation Foundation. He also holds teaching positions at George Mason University and the Catholic University of Paris.

Scholarship

October 30, 2018

The Case for an Innovation Principle: A Comparative Law and Economics Analysis

Aurelien Portuese
After the rise of the precautionary principle (or approach) in the late 1990s in a number of jurisdictions, the economic consequences of this newly created principle of law have unfolded.
Innovation & The New Economy
July 15, 2018

Fine is Only One Click Away

Aurelien Portuese
In a US Senate Hearing in 2011, Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO, stated that ‘competition is only one click away’. On 27 June 2017, the European Commission fined Google €2.42 billion for allegedly ‘abusing dominance as search engine by giving illegal advantage to own comparison shopping service’. Ruthlessly, a fine is only one click away too.
Antitrust & Consumer Protection

Other Resources

October 30, 2018

The Case for an Innovation Principle: A Comparative Law and Economics Analysis

October 1, 2018

ICLE response to the European commission’s public consultation on “shaping competition policy in the era of digitisation”

July 15, 2018

Fine is Only One Click Away

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