Professor Oles Andriychuk

Prof. Andriychuk specialises in Competition Law & Digital Markets and in the Constitutional / Jurisprudential Aspects of Competition Policy. He is engaged in several research and knowledge exchange projects aiming to understand, conceptualise, inform and steer the ongoing regulatory reforms of competition in the digital economy in the UK, EU and some EU Member States. He also contributes to reforming of competition law and policy of Ukraine

Prof. Andriychuk is an OECD-appointed expert in reporting on Ukraine's system of competition law and policy 

He is the Principal Investigator for the UK in an AHRC & DFG (German Research Foundation) funded 3-year major grant "Shaping Competition in the Digital Age (SCiDA) – Principles, tools and institutions of digital regulation in the UK, Germany and the EU" examining the effectiveness of EU Digital Markets Act, UK Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act and amended German Competition Act – jointly with Prof. Rupprecht Podszun (the Principal Investigator for the German side) – 03/2024–03/2027

Prof. Andriychuk's research on the theory of competition law and on EU and UK reforms of competition policy in digital markets is widely cited. He is conducting a REF-2029 Impact Case Study with his research and engagement contribution to the process of the development, adoption and implementation of UK Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act and EU Digital Markets Act

In 2023 he concluded a major collaborative research as a co-investigator of the ROAST-IoT project funded by UK PETRAS National Centre of Excellence (2021–2023), examining the relationship between competition and privacy/data protection laws and policies. He also has experience with managing research projects funded externally by different industries and stakeholders

Prof. Andriychuk has founded and directs the Digital Markets Research Hub – an impactful professional YouTube channel with over 800 subscribers offering on a weekly basis in-depth discussions, webinars, panels and interviews with the leading authorities in the area of competition law and digital markets – https://www.youtube.com/@digital.markets 

His latest academic articles include:

Oles Andriychuk, 'The new EU and UK regimes for regulating competition in digital markets: we finally see what’s on the plate—but do we know how to eat it?', Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2024, https://academic.oup.com/antitrust/article/12/2/195/7665825 

Oles Andriychuk, ‘Digital Competition Law: The Socio-Legal Foundations’, Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, 2024 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-yearbook-of-european-legal-studies/article/eu-digital-competition-law-the-sociolegal-foundations/B894FD61D553AD48B32B8901663D53E3

Oles Andriychuk, ‘Comparing the incomparable: Analysing UK Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill through the prism of the DMA’, Concurrences, Vol. 21, No. 3, 2023, p. 1–12, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4507277

Oles Andriychuk, ‘Between Microeconomics and Geopolitics: On the Reasonable Application of Competition Law’, Modern Law Review, Vol. 85, No. 3, 2022, pp. 598–634, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-2230.12700

Oles Andriychuk, ‘Do DMA Obligations for Gatekeepers Create Entitlements for Business Users?’, Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2023, pp. 123–132, https://academic.oup.com/antitrust/article/11/1/123/6964483

Oles Andriychuk, ‘Shifting the Digital Paradigm: Towards a Sui Generis Competition Policy’, Computer Law & Security Review, Vol. 46, 2022, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0267364922000760

Prof. Andriychuk currently acts an External Examiner at the following institutions:

Edinburgh University, School of Law

Glasgow University, School of Law

KCL King's College London, the Dickson Poon School of Law

UCL University College London, Faculty of Laws

Prof. Andriychuk has the following additional external roles:

Member of Scientific Board, Market and Competition Law Review

Member of the Advisory Board for the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, Loyola, Chicago

Member, Advisory Council, EUI Robert Schuman Centre for a Digital Society, Florence

Director, Digital Markets Research Hub

Member, Value of Competition Programme, University of Oxford

Member, UNCTAD Competition Research Partnership Platform

Member, NOUS Network for Constitutional Economics and Social Philosophy

Member, ASCOLA Academic Society for Competition Law

Member, CLaSF Competition Law Scholars Forum

Guest Editor activities:

Guest Editor of the North East Law Review, Vol 10, 2024, 'New EU & UK Rules for Regulating Competition in Digital Markets: A Comparative Perspective' – https://research.ncl.ac.uk/nelr/volumes/ 

Guest Editor of CLASF Competition Law Review, 2023 – http://clasf.org/browse-the-complrev/

Guest Editor of 'Concurrences' On Topic Special Issue 'Competition Overdose', 2022– https://www.concurrences.com/en/review/issues/no-1-2022/dossier/new-article-no105307

General Editor activities:

General Editor of a book dedicated to a magnum opus of Professor Giuliano Amato 'Antitrust and the Bounds of Power – 25 Years On', Hart Publishing 2023. This volume features the work of ten prominent competition law scholars, reflecting on Giuliano Amato's book 'Antitrust and the Bounds of Power', 2023 – https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/antitrust-and-the-bounds-of-power--25-years-on-9781509962136/

Prior to joining the Exeter Law School Prof. Andriychuk worked in different positions (ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader and Professor) at Universities of Newcastle, Strathclyde, Stirling and UEA. 

Prof. Andriychuk's article, exploring the foundations of the Digital Markets Act ’Shifting the Digital Paradigm: Towards a Sui Generis Competition Policy’ received the Portuguese Competition Authority’s Award for academic work in Competition Policy. The article has been subsequently published at Computer Law & Security Review, Vol. 46, 2022.

Monograph "The Normative Foundations of European Competition Law: Assessing the Goals of Antitrust through the Lens of Legal Philosophy", Edward Elgar 2017 – https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/the-normative-foundations-of-european-competition-law-9781786436061.html

An article representing most comprehensively his approach to competition in digital markets is Oles Andriychuk, 'Between Microeconomics and Geopolitics: On the Reasonable Application of Competition Law', Modern Law Review, Vol. 85, No. 3, 2022, free access: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-2230.12700

He presents regularly at various UK and EU academic and policymaking fora in the field of competition law and the digital economy, reviews articles and book proposals for the leading specialist and genaralist law journals and publishers (such as inter alia Modern Law Review (Wiley), Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (Oxford University Press), Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies (Cambridge University Press), Journal of Competition Law & Economics (Oxford University Press), Journal of Antitrust Enforcement (Oxford University Press), EuCML – Journal of European Consumer & Market Law (Kluwer), Legal Studies, The Journal of the Society of Legal Scholars (Cambridge University Press), European Law Open (Cambridge University Press), Internet Policy Review – Journal on Internet Regulation, Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies (YARS), Competition Law Review (CLASF), Computer Law & Security Review (Elsevier) and others).

His 1st PhD examines application of EU competition law in sports, media, advertising and entertainment industries. It was defended successfully at Charles University in Prague.

His 2nd PhD examines the philosophical foundations of EU competition law. It was defended successfully at the European University Institute (EUI, Fiesole, Florence).

Prof. Andriychuk supervises PhD students with the focus of their research in various aspects of the reform of digital (communications) markets; inter-agency cooperation in the area of digital regulation; normative and epistemological foundations of competition law, economics and policy and concomitant fields.

Prof. Andriychuk coordinates the Digital markets research hub https://www.youtube.com/@digital.markets – a YouTube channel hosting on a weekly basis discussions on the functioning of competition in digital markets with the key thinkers and actors representing all stakeholders engaged in the process of regulating competition in digital markets. 

Prof. Andriychuk currently acts an External Examiner at the following institutions:

Edinburgh University, School of Law

Glasgow University, School of Law

KCL King's College London, the Dickson Poon School of Law

UCL University College London, Faculty of Laws

Peer reviewer for research councils:

ESRC Research Grant scheme

Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship Scheme

Chevening Scholarship

Peer reviewer for publishers (book proposals):

Sweet & Maxwell

Hart/Bloomsbury Publishing, Oxford

Routledge | Taylor & Francis Group

Edward Elgar Publishing

Peer reviewer for academic journals:

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (Oxford University Press)

Modern Law Review (Wiley)

Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies (Cambridge University Press)

Journal of Competition Law & Economics (Oxford University Press)

Antitrust Bulletin (Sage Journals)

Journal of Antitrust Enforcement (Oxford University Press)

EuCML – Journal of European Consumer & Market Law (Kluwer)

Legal Studies, The Journal of the Society of Legal Scholars (Cambridge University Press)

European Law Open (Cambridge University Press)

Internet Policy Review – Journal on Internet Regulation

Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies (YARS)

Competition Law Review (CLASF)

Computer Law & Security Review (Elsevier)

Concorrenza e Mercato (Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre)

Utrecht Law Review

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Prospective PhD students interested in a postgraduate research (or our current Exeter undergraduate students interested in focusing their dissertations on) analysing different aspects of UK and EU digital competition law (and their equivalents in other jurisdictions), regulation of digital markets, the EU Digital Markets Act, the UK Digital Markets Unit & A New Pro-Competition Regime for Digital Markets, inter-agency communication within the UK Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (or its equivalent in other jurisdictions), systems theory and legal autopoiesis, privacy & competition, data science & competition, behavioural aspects of regulatory dialogue, competition in digital advertising in general and programmatic advertising specifically, are welcome to approach me with enquiries about possible supervision.