Marios Iacovides

Marios Iacovides is an Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in European Law at Uppsala University, Sweden, and Academy Researcher of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters. He obtained an LLB from King’s College London, an LLM in European Integration Law from Stockholm University and an LLD in European Law from Uppsala University. Upon completion of his doctoral studies, he was a research fellow at the University of Oxford’s Institute of European and Comparative Law and an assistant professor in EU law at Stockholm University. He has also worked as legal counsel at the Swedish Competition Authority, an expert advisor on competition law and sustainability for the Hellenic Competition Commission, as a non-governmental advisor for DG Competition in the International Competition Network, and as of-counsel for a Swedish boutique competition law firm.

The Historically Diverse Goals of European Competition Recommend a New Emphasis on Democracy

Marios Constantine Iacovides discusses his and Konstantinos Stylianou’s empirical investigations into how the goals of competition policy have evolved over time. They find that a multitude of goals have always been present in judicial and regulatory decisions, but the emphasis on certain goals has vacillated in response to the concerns of the time. Contemporary concerns about the health of democracy suggest a revival of ordoliberalism and protection of the competitive process.

Why Aligning Antitrust Policy With Sustainability is a Moral Imperative 

The looming ecological disaster means that it is time for competition researchers, policymakers, lawyers, and economists to devise competition policies that focus on the...

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