ICLE Welcomes Four New Scholars
PORTLAND, Ore. (Nov. 5, 2025) – International competition-law scholars Giuseppe Colangelo, Selçukhan Ünekbas and Dario Oliveira Neto and U.S. telecommunications-policy expert Jeffrey Westling have joined the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) as senior scholars, ICLE announced today.
A long-time ICLE academic affiliate, Colangelo also serves as the Jean Monnet Professor of European Innovation Policy at the University of Basilicata. His primary research focuses on innovation policy, intellectual property, competition policy, market regulation, and the economic analysis of law. He joins the team as a senior scholar of competition policy.
In addition, he is an adjunct professor at Luiss University and Bocconi University, and a Transatlantic Technology Law Forum (TTLF) Fellow at Stanford University, and previously served as the Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute. He holds an LL.M. in competition law and economics from the Erasmus University of Rotterdam and a Ph.D. in law and economics from Luiss University.
Ünekbas likewise joins as a senior scholar of competition policy. In addition, he is a Ph.D. researcher at the European University Institute and a research fellow at both the Dynamic Competition Initiative and the Tusher Strategic Initiative for Technology Leadership.
He was previously a visiting scholar at Georgetown University Law Center, an international scholar-in-residence at the American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section, and an associate at Dentons. He received his bachelor’s from Anadolu University and his LL.M. from the European University Institute.
Oliveira Neto, ICLE’s third new senior scholar of competition policy, brings extensive experience from the regulatory sector, having served as head of the Technical Advisory Unit to the Office of the President at Brazil’s Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica (CADE).
Before joining ICLE, he was director of the Global Antitrust Institute’s Latin America Competition Advocacy Program. He holds an LL.M. in international business and economic law (IBEL) from Georgetown University, with a focus on competition and digital markets regulation, and is currently a Ph.D. student in commercial law at the University of São Paulo (USP).
Westling joins ICLE as a senior scholar of innovation policy. His work focuses on telecommunications policy, particularly on reducing barriers to broadband deployment and improving spectrum-management processes.
He previously served as director of technology policy at the American Action Forum, a fellow at the R Street Institute, and a law clerk at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He also served as a member of the FCC’s Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee. He holds a J.D. from the University of Colorado Law School.
About ICLE
The International Center for Law & Economics is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center working with a roster of more than one-hundred academic affiliates and research centers from around the globe. ICLE scholars promote the use of law and economics methodologies to inform public policy debates.