Peter O'Loughlin

Peter is a Lecturer in Company and Commercial Law, teaching undergraduate courses in Company Law, Commercial Law, Business Law and postgraduate courses in European Consumer Law and Policy and Law and Economics. His research interests lie in corporate law, law and economics, law and behavioural economics, andthe intersection of law, technology, and competition law. His research has been published in flagship American law reviews as well as specialist European law journals. Peter holds degrees from the University of Oxford, Columbia Law School, University College London (UCL), and Maynooth University. He has been the recipient of various academic prizes and awards, including the Valentine Korah Prize for Excellence in Competition Law at UCL. His DPhil at Oxford, whichwas awarded without corrections, focused on the interplay between digital platforms, behavioural economics, and antitrust enforcement. His thesis demonstrated how digital platform firms may be able to distort competition through subtle but powerful methods that leverage the bounded rationality and willpower of consumers in their decision-making. His work on this topic has since appeared in the Georgia State University Law Review and the European Competition Law Review. Before coming to academia, Peter worked in the UK's Competition and Markets Authority and in the Competition Law department of a Magic Circle law firm. He has held teaching fellowships across several Business Law coursesat UCL and was previously Departmental Lecturer in Law and Finance at Oxford, where he delivered tutorials for several Oxford colleges and the Law and Economics of Corporate Transactions and Principles of Financial Regulation courses for the Law Faculty.

Peter's research interests most recently lie at the intersection of law, technology, and competition. Digital platform technologies and the markets within which they operatehave been subjected to rafts of enforcement actions across the European Union, United States, Australia, and Asia and regulatory authorities, practicing lawyers, and courts have oftenstruggled to doctrinallyaccommodate the legal issues that arise within existing competition frameworks. Peter's most recent research has attempted to highlight these problems, critique existing legal frameworks, and proffer bases for new legal tests that might better capture the kind of potentially infringing conduct in these kinds of markets.