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Dirk Auer

Senior Fellow, Law & Economics

Dirk Auer joined ICLE as a Senior Fellow in October 2018. His work focuses on the law and economics of antitrust, with an emphasis on innovation policy, digital markets and European competition law. Dirk is also a guest lecturer at the EDHEC business school in France, where he teaches a course on advanced competition law, and at UCLouvain in Belgium, where he teaches an introduction to American law course.

Before joining ICLE, Dirk worked as a research fellow at the Liège Competition and Innovation Institute (LCII). During this time, he worked on a PhD which discusses the “innovation defense” under European and US antitrust laws. His dissertation concludes that competition enforcers should systematically assess whether their enforcement might chill firms’ incentives to innovate. Dirk’s research has been published in a number of influential law journals. Prior to that, he worked for the competition practices of two
leading law firms in Brussels.

Dirk holds a master’s degree in law from UCLouvain in Belgium. He also earned two LLMs, at the University of Liège and at University of Chicago Law School. During his PhD, Dirk completed several economics courses, focusing on industrial organization and competition policy. He also attended the IP² Summer Institute organized by Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.

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Scholarship

August 11, 2020

The Deterioration of Appropriate Remedies in Patent Disputes

Geoffrey A. Manne & Kristian Stout & Julian Morris & Dirk Auer
Property rights are an essential economic institution. As the great UCLA economist Harold Demsetz famously argued, property rights spur specialization, investment, and competition, which in turn increase productivity, innovation, and wealth throughout the economy.
Intellectual Property
February 27, 2020

Making Sense of the Google Android Decision

Dirk Auer
The European Commission’s recent Google Android decision will go down as one of the most important competition proceedings of the past decade. Yet, in-depth reading of the 328-page decision leaves…
Antitrust & Consumer Protection
August 7, 2019

Governing the Patent Commons

Dirk Auer & Julian Morris
We suggest that antitrust authorities and courts should draw inspiration from acclaimed scholarship regarding both the evolution of cooperation and the management of common-pool resources.
Intellectual Property
March 25, 2019

Is European Competition Law Protectionist? Unpacking the Commission’s Unflattering Track record

Dirk Auer & Geoffrey A. Manne
Last month, the European Commission slapped another fine upon Google for infringing European competition rules (€1.49 billion this time). This brings Google’s contribution to the EU budget to a dizzying total of €8.25 billion (to put this into perspective, the total EU budget for 2019 is €165.8 billion).
Antitrust & Consumer Protection
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September 12, 2020

TPRI Conference on Technology and Declining Economic Dynamism Acquisitions by Dominant Firms

August 31, 2020

tl;dr - Do injunctions for patents promote or impede innovation?

August 11, 2020

The Deterioration of Appropriate Remedies in Patent Disputes

March 9, 2020

ICLE Comments Regarding European Commission Guidelines on Certain State Aid Measures in the Context of the System for Greenhouse Gas Emission Allowance Trading Post 2021

February 27, 2020

Making Sense of the Google Android Decision

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