Dr. hab. Maciej Bernatt, prof. UW

Maciej Bernatt is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Warsaw (profesor uczelni). He holds a Habilitation, PhD and MA titles in law and a second MA title in international relations (political sciences). Maciej is the director of the Centre of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies and a head of the Department of European Economic Law, Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies and the director of ASCOLA Central Europe Chapter. He held visiting fellow appointments at the University of Melbourne, the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Munich), the UNSW (Sydney), and the Loyola University Chicago. At the University of Warsaw he teaches EU economic law, competition law, as well as course in business and human rights. He has received scholarships and research grants from several institutions, including Polish-U.S. Fulbright Commission, the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education, the Polish National Science Centre, the Foundation for Polish Science, the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange. In the past he worked as a référendaire in the Polish Supreme Court and in the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland as well as in the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, where he coordinated the Strategic Litigation Program. He has been involved in cases litigated before the European Court of Human Rights and Polish courts. He has lectured at universities in Poland, the USA (Loyola University Chicago) and Ukraine (Ivan Franko National University, Lviv).
Maciej’s areas of interest include competition law, administrative law, constitutional law, and EU law, with a focus on enforcement of competition law and protection of fundamental rights (especially the right to a fair trial), as well as business-human rights relations. He has published two books and numerous articles in Polish journals. He is also a co-author of two leading commentaries to the Polish Competition Act and Polish Unfair Competition Act. His publications in English appeared in, inter alia, the Common Market Law Review, the European Law Review, the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, the Columbia Journal of European Law, World Competition, and the Review of European Administrative Law.

Strony internetowe:

LinkedIn: pl.linkedin.com/pub/maciej-bernatt/8/b3/8b6/

Social Science Research Network (SSRN): http://ssrn.com/author=1183912

Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=iJTHLjsAAAAJ

Academia.edu: https://uw.academia.edu/MaciejBernatt

Education

Habilitation in law (second-stage scientific degree), Institute of Legal Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, April 2018.

Doctorate in law defended with distinction at the Faculty of Law and Administration, Institute of Administrative Law, University of Warsaw, 2011; doctorate dissertation entitled: Procedural Fairness in the Proceedings before the Competition Authority.

Ph.D. studies at the Department of European Economic Law, Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw, 2007 to 2011.

Advanced Course on International Protection of Human Rights at the Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland, 2008.

Master studies in law at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw, 2001 to 2007; MA thesis entitled: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Light of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland.

Master studies in international relations at the Institute of International Relations, University of Warsaw, 2001 to 2006; MA thesis entitled: The Reform of EC Competition Law: Private Model of Enforcement of Competition Law and Its Application in the Proceedings before the National Court.

MA studies undertaken in the frame of the Centre for Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in the Humanities of the University of Warsaw (MISH UW).

Studies at the Centre for American Law Studies, a joint initiative of the University of Florida Levin College of Law and University of Warsaw Faculty of Law and Administration, 2006 to 2007.

Erasmus Exchange, Faculty of Law, Università Degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, Italy, 2003 to 2004.

Professional Experience

Professor of the University of Warsaw (profesor uczelni), July 2021 to Present
Teach EU Economic Law (lecture in Polish); European Business Law (course in English at the International Business Program); Competition Law; MA and BA seminars entitled: Business activity: Legal and Ethical Aspects (more than 50 theses completed); supervision of Phd students.

Director of the Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw, July 2020 to Present

Managing of activities of the law research centre, organization of conferences, supervision of work of sector-specific research laboratories, international cooperation, supervision of the Centre’s publishing program, expert opinions, see more https://cars.wz.uw.edu.pl/en/.

Head of Department of European Economic Law, Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw, September 2018 to Present

Organization of teaching and research activity within the Department.

Director of ASCOLA Central Europe Chapter, 2019 to Present

Managing of research and networking within the ASCOLA Central Europe Chapter, organization of conferences and webinars

Editor-in-Chief, Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, January 2018 to Present, www.yars.wz.uw.edu.pl

YARS is a double peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal, focusing on legal and economic issues of antitrust and regulation.

Visiting Research Fellow, University of New South Wales, Australia, January to February 2020

Visiting Research Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia, August to January 2020

Assistant Professor/Associate Professor (adiunkt/adiunkt z habilitacją), Department of European Economic Law (Jean Monnet Chair), Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw, August 2011 to June 2021

Teach EU Economic Law (lecture in Polish); Business and Human Rights (lecture in Polish open to all students of the University of Warsaw); European Business Law (course in English at the International Business Program); International and Comparative Antitrust (course in English at the International Business Program); Intellectual Property (course in English at the International Business Program; the course taught also at the Philosophy Institute of the University of Warsaw); MA seminar entitled: Business activity: Legal and Ethical Aspects (circa 25 MA theses completed) and similar BA seminar; as well as training for Polish competition authority official and judges of the Court of Competition and Consumer Protection on inspections, criminal standards in competition proceedings and various procedural challenges present in the competition proceedings.

Scientific Secretary, Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies of the University of Warsaw, March 2007 to June 2020 (Scientific Secretary since September 2014)

Responsibilities: researches and legal analyses in the scientific projects run by the Centre; coordination of CARS research initiatives; coordination of the electronic publication program; organisation of international and national conferences as well as guest lectures; in the past coordination of the works of working group concerning the proposals of revision of the Act on competition and consumer protection.

Scholarship holder, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Germany, Aug 2018 and Dec 2018-Feb 2019

Lecturer, Postgraduate Course on Competition and Consumer Law at the Institute of Legal Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Academic Years: 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-2019

Référendaire in the Supreme Court of Poland, June 2017 to November 2017

Responsibilities: researches and preparation of the materials in the competition law cases pending in the Supreme Court; analyses of the cases and proposals of the key-findings in the given case; preparation of the initial draft proposals of the judgements in the competition law cases assigned to the judge rapporteur.

Legal Specialist (Senior Référendaire) and the assistant of Chief Justice in the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland, July 2010 to December 2016

Responsibilities: researches and preparation of the draft materials in the cases pending in the Constitutional Court assigned to the judge rapporteur; analyses of the cases and proposals of the key-findings in the given case; preparation of the initial drafts of the judgements.

Visiting Professor in the School of American Law in Lviv, Ukraine (joint project of IIT/Chicago-Kent College of Law and Ivana Franko University in Lviv, May 2015; taught course Antitrust

Fulbright Visiting Scholar and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, September 2013-June 2014

Responsibilities: research on the judicial deference to competition agencies determinations in the U.S. and in the EU; taught course International and Comparative Antitrust.

Coordinator of the Strategic Litigation Program of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (the HFHR), Warsaw, May 2008-May 2010

Responsibilities: managing the strategic cases included into the Program and their pre-selection; representation of the HFHR in the judicial and administrative proceedings; preparation of the complaints and legal opinions (such as amicus curiae briefs) for the use in the proceedings before Polish courts (including Constitutional Court and Supreme Court) and the European Court of Human Rights; contacts with the HFHR pro-bono lawyers and media; lectures during trainings on human rights organized by the European Court of Human Rights and the National Council of Legal Advisers in Poland

Fellow in the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights (INTERIGHTS), London, in frame of the International Fellowship Programme of the European Foundation Centre, June-July 2009,

Responsibilities: research in the law of the Council of Europe and the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights.

Lawyer, the Strategic Litigation Program of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Warsaw, July 2006-May 2008

Responsibilities: legal analyses of the complaints and documents filed to the HFHR; preparation of the complaints and legal opinions (such as amicus curiae briefs) for the use in the proceedings before the Polish courts (including Constitutional Court and Supreme Court) and the European Court of Human Rights; trial monitoring and representation of the HFHR in the judicial and administrative proceedings.

Awards and Honors

Scholarship for Excellent Young Scholars granted for 3 years by Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, 2016-2019;

Scholarship, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Germany, Aug 2018 and Dec 2018-Feb 2019

Bekker Programme, National Agency of Academic Exchange, 2019 (related to 5-month research visit in Australia)

1st Degree Award for Scientific Excellence granted by Rector of University of Warsaw, 2015;
    Foundation for Polish Science Mentoring Program, February 2015 to September 2015;
    Fulbright Senior Award, Polish-U.S. Fulbright Commission, Academic Year 2013-2014;
    Foundation for Polish Science award, START Programme - Stipends for young researchers, 2013;
    Foundation for Polish Science award, START Programme - Stipends for young researchers, 2012;
    Distinction of monograph Sprawiedliwość proceduralna w postepowaniu przed organem ochrony konkurencji in the competition of the Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies: Nagroda CARS, 2012 and 2013;
    Scholarship for the best doctoral students at the University of Warsaw, Modern University Program, Academic Year 2009-2010;
    Scholarship of Polish Minister for Science and Higher Education for Academic Year 2006-07;
    The third place in Poland in the National Historical Competition, 2001, Gdańsk.

Membership and affiliations

    membership in the International Advisory Board Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, Loyola University Chicago School of Law;

    the status of the Non-Governmental Advisor within the International Competition Network (ICN) – global network of competition authorities;
    membership in the Editorial Board of Internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny;
    membership in the Advisory Board, Centre for Competition, Georgia;
    membership in the ASCOLA (Academic Society for Competition Law);
    membership in the Competition Law Scholars Forum (CLaSF), UK-based network of antitrust academics;
    membership in the Comparative Administrative Law Listserve at the University of Yale addressed to academics involved in comparative administrative law research;
    membership in the Polish Association of European Law (PSPA) – Polish association of EU law academics;
    membership in the Professor Zbigniew Hołda Association - an association focused on educating human rights to high school and university students;
    in the past cooperation with the Allerhand Institute in frame of its Human Rights and Business Program; with the Institute for Public Affairs (the report on the democracy in Poland in 2007-2009) and with the CSR.PL Centre (the project concerning the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Corporations).

Research Projects and Grants:

    Business to Business Data Sharing in EU Digital Market, National Science Centre research grant, OPUS 16, UMO-2018/31/B/HS5/01192; duration Nov 2019-Nov 2021;

    Jean Monnet Network EU Law Enforcement – EULEN (a coordinator of  competition law enforcement area, 2019-2023): M. Scholten (University of Utrecht), M. Maggiolino and F. Ghezzi (both Bocconi)

    Competition Law and the State, the UNCTAD RPP Project (co-investigator, 2019-2020): E. Fox (NYU), D. Healey (UNSW)

    The Limits of Judicial Assessment in Competition Law, National Science Centre research grant (Sonata 8, decision no. 2014/15/D/HS5/01562); duration: 3 years (2015-2018). I was a leader of the international research group I established (Ondrej Blazo - Comenius University Bratislava; Borbala Domotorfy, Stella Simon - Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Budapest). The aim of the project is to establish under what conditions the court is entitled to defer to competition authorities’ findings. The constitutional standards which govern judicial review in competition law as well as case-law in competition law cases are analysed.
    Embracing and Nurturing the Free Market: Lessons from Poland through the Lens of Competition Law and Policy, research under the grant awarded to Dr Marek Martyniszyn (Queen’s University Belfast, principal investigator) by Oxford Noble Foundation; duration 2017-2018. The project investigated the embracement and development of a free market economy in Poland following the fall of communism through the lens of Competition Law and Policy; it included in-depth interviews (with all former heads of the Polish competition agency, judges & practitioners) and the analysis of data and statistics (also secured via freedom of information requests). The results were published in the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement (available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/jaenfo/jnz016) and at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3391298
    Application of EU Competition Law by National Competition Authorities in the CEE Region. Together with co-investigators from abroad: M. Botta (University of Vienna) and A. Svetlicinii (University of Macau) I have been conducting a research project (since September 2014) concerning the application of EU competition law in Central and Eastern Europe. My participation in the project is financed from the University of Warsaw public research grant.
    Transposition of EU Private Damages Directive. I take part in a network academic project concerning the transposition of Directive 2014/104/UE of 26 November 2014 on certain rules governing actions for damages under national law for infringements of the competition law provisions of the Member States and of the European Union led by B. Rodger (University of Strathclyde), M. Sousa Ferro (Universidade de Lisboa) and F. Marcos (IE Law School Madrid); together with M. Gac I am responsible for research on transposition of the Directive in Poland. Our research report will be published in 2018 by Oxford University Press in the book The EU Antitrust Damages Directive: Transposition in the Member States, B. Rodger, M. Sousa Ferro, F. Marcos (eds.).
    Fines in competition and consumer law. I acted as a co-ordinator of the research project of the Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies commissioned by the Polish Competition Authority (November 2015 to May 2016). Its main goal was to analyse case-law concerning fines and factors that influence the level of those fines. As part of the project I prepared the study entitled Premises of the amount of fine in the Competition Act. I consulted the research questions and goals as well as final reports.
    A versenyjogi kikényszerítési rendszer reformjának alapvető kérdései [Fundamental principles of competition law enforcement]. I took part in the research project of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University, No. KAP-1.1-14/035, dedicated to fundamental rights in competition law. I prepared the study on the role of Article 6 ECHR in competition proceedings.
    Judicial Review in U.S. Antitrust Law. While in the U.S. (Fulbright Scholarship, October 2013 to June 2014) I ran a project in the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, Loyola University Chicago School of Law on judicial review of administrative action in the U.S. with special focus on the judicial review of the FTC decisions. My research involved consultations with the professors of New York University, Columbia University, Loyola University Chicago, DePaul University as well as with representatives of the FTC and the American Antitrust Institute.
    Corporate social responsibility. Employee perspective. I took part in the three-year project (2011-2013) conducted by the Trade Unions Forum and the Faculty of Management of the University of Warsaw financed from EU funds (Human Capital Program; POKL/2.2/2010). I acted as one of four experts as well as co-author of the report book describing the results of the first, qualitative part of the project (Raport z badań. Społeczna odpowiedzialność biznesu - perspektywa pracownika, K. Klincewicz (ed.), Warszawa – Bydgoszcz: Forum Związków Zawodowych i Wydział Zarządzania UW, 2013. I was one of the originators of this project.
    Airport Services in EU and in Poland – competition law and regulatory aspects (II). I took part in the research project of the Centre of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies commissioned by ‘Polish Airports’ State Enterprise (PPL), 2011-2012. I was responsible for the analysis concerning human rights aspects of airport services.

Languages

    Polish, mother tongue;
    English, proficiency level (legal English);
    Italian, advanced level (Certificate CELI 4 University of Perugia);
    German, pre-intermediate level;
    Spanish, pre-intermediate level.

Publications

Monographs, Edited Books and Authorship of Long Chapters:

-  Populism and Antitrust: The Illiberal Influence of Populist Government on the Competition Law System. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022, DOI

- Wyzwania dla ochrony konkurencji i regulacji rynku. Księga jubileuszowa dedykowana Profesorowi Tadeuszowi Skocznemu [Challenges for Competition Protection and Market Regulation. Jubilee Book in Honor to Professor Tadeusz Skoczny] (co-edited with A. Jurkowska-Gomułka, M. Namysłowska, A. Piszcz), C.H. Beck, Warszawa 2017;

- Commentary to the provisions of Polish Competition Act concerning procedure and inspections (Articles 47, 50, 60, 69-74, 81, 83, 91, 105a, 105e-105f, 105k, 105n, 105q of the Act on competition and consumer protection), in: Ustawa o ochronie konkurencji i konsumentów. Komentarz [Act on competition and consumer protection. Commentary], T. Skoczny (ed.), CH Beck, Warszawa 2014, pp. 900-908, 927-934, 960-963, 966-999, 1006-1012, 1034-1051, 1055-1064, 1086-1091, 1116-1122, 1199-1201, 1208-1233, 1252-1255, 1279-1280,1290-1296, 1302-1307, 1491-1513, 1517-1523, 1523-1526;

- Podstawy i zakres publicznoprawnej ochrony konkurencji [The basis and scope of the protection of competition] (co-author with A. Jurkowska-Gomułka and T. Skoczny), in: System prawa prywatnego, Prawo konkurencji [System of Private Law. Competition Law], vol. 15, M. Kepiński (ed.), C.H. Beck, Instytut Nauk Prawnych PAN, Warszawa 2013, pp. 719-773;

- Zakaz nadużywania pozycji dominującej [The prohibition of the abuse of dominant position] (co-author with A. Jurkowska-Gomułka and T. Skoczny), in: System prawa prywatnego, Prawo konkurencji [System of Private Law. Competition Law], vol. 15, M. Kepiński (ed.), C.H.Beck, Instytut Nauk Prawnych PAN, Warszawa 2013, pp. 965-1018;

- Commentary on Article 15 (Impediment to Market Access) in: Ustawa o zwalczaniu nieuczciwej konkurencji [Act on Unfair Competition, Commentary], J. Szwaja (ed.), C.H. Beck, Warszawa 2013, pp. 563-623;

- Skutki wyroków Trybunału Konstytucyjnego w sferze stosowania prawa, [The effects of the judgments of the Constitutional Tribunal for law enforcement] (co-edited with J. Królikowski, M. Ziółkowski), Wydawnictwa Trybunału Konstytucyjnego, Warszawa, 2013;

- Sprawiedliwość proceduralna w postępowaniu przed organem ochrony konkurencji [Procedural fairness in the proceedings before the competition authority], Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydziału Zarządzania Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa, 2011, pp. 1-376 (monograph), available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1982596;

- Społeczna odpowiedzialność biznesu. Krytyczna analiza [Corporate Social Responsibility. Critical Analysis], Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydziału Zarządzania Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa 2011 (co-editor with J. Bogdanienko and T. Skoczny);

- Społeczna odpowiedzialność biznesu. Wymiar konstytucyjny i międzynarodowy [Corporate Social Responsibility. Constitutional and International Perspective], Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydziału Zarządzania Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa 2009, pp. 1-192 (monograph);

- Commentary on Articles 69-73, 105e-105g, 105j-105k in: Ustawa o ochronie konkurencji i konsumentów. Komentarz [Act on competition and consumer protection. Commentary], T. Skoczny, A. Jurkowska, D. Miąsik (ed.), C.H. Beck, Warszawa 2009, pp. 1266-1307, 1589-1592;

- Prywatny model ochrony konkurencji oraz jego realizacja w postępowaniu przed sądem krajowym [Private antitrust litigation before the national courts], in: Nowe tendencje w prawie konkurencji UE [New tendencies in the EU Competition Law], E. Piontek (ed.), Wolters Kluwer 2008, Warszawa, pp. 299-354;

- Ochrona konkurencji i konsumentów [Competition and Consumer Protection] (co-author with A. Jurkowska and T. Skoczny), Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydziału Zarządzania Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa 2007, pp. 1-194;

Articles:

- Selectivity of State aid and progressive turnover taxes – Leaving the door (too) wide open?: Commission v. Poland, 59(1) Common Market Law Review (2022), co-author: Ł. Grzejdziak

- Mandate of Competition Agency in Populist Times [w:] Eleanor M. Fox Liber Amicorum, Antitrust Ambassador to the World, Concurrences 2021, ss. 391-402

- Implementing a Competition Law System—Three Decades of Polish Experience, 8(1) Journal of Antitrust Enforcement (2020), ss. 165-215, co-author: M. Martyniszyn, doi: 10.1093/jaenfo/jnz016, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3391298

- Poland [w:] EU Competition Law and the Digital Economy. Protecting Free and Fair Competition in an Age of Technological (R)evolution, the XXIX FIDE Congress in The Hague, Congress Publications Vol. 3, D. Mandrescu (ed.), Eleven International Publishing, 2020: 415-429, https://ssrn.com/abstract=3431641 i https://boeken.rechtsgebieden.boomportaal.nl/publicaties/9789462361300#615;

- Państwo jako gwarant praw podstawowych w działalności gospodarczej. Czas wyzwań [w:] Państwo a gospodarka. Zasady – instytucje – procedury. Księga Jubileuszowa dedykowana Profesor Bożenie Popowskiej, red. P. Lissoń, M. Strzelbicki, Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, Poznań 2020, ss. 47-56;

- O potrzebie refleksji nad ekonomicznymi aspektami populizmu w dyskusji o kryzysie demokracji liberalnych, [w:] Wokół kryzysu praworządności, demokracji i praw człowieka. Księga Jubileuszowa Profesora Mirosława Wyrzykowskiego, red. A. Bodnar, A. Ploszka, Wolters Kluwer, Warszawa 2020, ss 160-173

- Rule of Law Crisis, Judiciary and Competition Law, 46(4) Legal Issues of Economic Integration (2019): 345–362, https://ssrn.com/abstract=3431631;

- Statutory Anti-Constitutionalism, 28 Washington International Law Journal, co-author: M. Ziółkowski (2019), ss. 487-526, https://ssrn.com/abstract=3384304

- The Right of Defense in the Decentralized System of EU Competition Law Enforcement. A Call for Harmonization from Central and Eastern Europe 41(3) World Competition: Law and Economics Review (2018) (co-authors: M. Botta, A. Svetlicinii);

- Public Interest and a Place for Non-Competition Considerations in Polish Competition Law, Concurrences No. 1-2018, p. 1-7 (co-author with M. Mleczko), available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3056521;

- Exploring the Dark Matter: Decisions Adopted by the NCAs of the New EU Member States Which Escape the Duty of Notification under Art. 11 Reg. 1/2003, European Law Review, 43(3), 2018, p. 424-446; (co-author with M. Botta and A. Svetlicinii), available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3066627;

- Koncepcja powściągliwości sądowej w prawie ochrony konkurencji [The Concept of Judicial Deference in Competition Law], Państwo i Prawo 6, 2017, p. 36-54;

- McWane and Judicial Review of Federal Trade Commission decisions - Any Inspirations for EU Competition Law? European Competition Law Review 6, 2017, p. 285-291;

- Transatlantic Perspective on Judicial Deference in Administrative Law, Columbia Journal of European Law 22(2), 2016, p. 275-325, available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2648232;

- Administrative Sanctions: Between Efficiency and Procedural Fairness, Review of European Administrative Law 9(1), 2016, p. 5-32;

- Between Menarini and Delta Pekarny – Strasbourg View on Intensity Of Judicial Review in Competition Law, in: The Procedural Aspects of The Application of Competition Law: European Frameworks – Central European Perspectives, C. Nagy (ed.), Europa Law Publishing 2016, p. 4-19;

- Catching-up with EU due process standards? A case of Poland’s soft law guidelines, European Competition Law Review, 37(6), 2016, p. 247-252;

- Konstytucyjne aspekty sądowej kontroli działalności administracji (między efektywnością a powściągliwością) [Constitutional Aspects of Judicial Review of Administrative Action (between Effectiveness and Deference)], Państwo i Prawo 1, 2017, p. 34-51;

- Effectiveness of Judicial Review in the Polish Competition Law System and the Place for Judicial Deference, Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies 9(14), 2016, p. 97-124;

- Między pełną kontrolą sądową a poszanowaniem polityki karania organu administracji – o sądowej kontroli kar nakładanych w sprawach konkurencji [Between full judicial review and deference to competition authority’s fining policy: on judicial review of fines in competition law], Europejski Przegląd Sądowy 9, 2016, p. 18-24;

- Kontrola sądowa nad interpretacją prawa dokonaną przez organy władzy wykonawczej (perspektywa amerykańska) [Judicial review of statutory interpretation made by executive authorities (US perspective)], Państwo i Prawo 6, 2015, p. 39-52;

- W sprawie kontroli sądowej postępowania przed Prezesem UOKiK [On judicial review of the proceedings before the UOKiK President], Państwo i Prawo 3, 2013, p. 89-99;

-  Stosowanie reguł konkurencji UE przez polski, czeski i słowacki organ ochrony konkurencji [The Application of EU Competition Law by Polish, Czech and Slovak Competition Authorities], in: Prawo konkurencji. 25 lat [Competition Law. 25 Years], T. Skoczny (red.), Wolters Kluwer, Warszawa 2016, p. 220-236;

- The Assessment of the Effect on Trade by the National Competition Authorities of the “New” Member States: Another Legal Partition of the Internal Market? (co-author with M. Botta and A. Svetlicinii), Common Market Law Review 52(5), 1247-1276 (2015);

- Deferential Standard of Judicial Review in the light of Article 6 of the ECHR, in: Procedural Fairness in Competition Proceedings, P. Nihoul, T. Skoczny (eds.), Edgar Elgar, 309-327 (2015);

- Kontrola sądowa nad interpretacją prawa dokonaną przez organy władzy wykonawczej (perspektywa amerykańska) [Judicial review of statutory interpretation made by executive authorities (US perspective)], Państwo i Prawo 832(6), 39-52 (2015);

- On Convergence with Hiccups. Recent Amendments to Poland’s Competition Law (co-author with M. Martyniszyn), 36(1) European Competition Law Review 8-14 (2015);

- The Compatibility of Deferential Standard of Judicial Review in the EU Competition Proceedings with Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies Working Paper, Loyola University Chicago, available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2447884;

- Tailor-Made Rules Needed: A Balanced Approach to Imposition of Administrative Sanctions in Poland; New York University Jean Monnet Working Papers 22/2014, available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2460929;

-  Airport Security Controls: A Fundamental Rights Perspective, in: Polish Airports in the European Union - Competitive Challenges, Regulatory Requirements and Development Perspectives, F. Czernicki, T. Skoczny (eds.), Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydziału Zarządzania UW, Warszawa 179-203 (2013);

- Convergence of Procedural Standards in the European Competition Proceedings, Competition Law Review 3(8), 2012, pp. 255-282, available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2240899;

- Can the right to be heard be respected without access to information about the proceedings? Deficiencies of national competition procedure, Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, Vol. 2012, 5(6), pp. 91-110, available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2130858;

- Ustawa o ochronie konkurencji i konsumentów – potrzeba nowelizacji. Perspektywa sprawiedliwości proceduralnej [Need for revision of the Act on competition and consumer protection. A perspective of procedural fairness], internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny 1(1), 2012, pp. 85-96;

- Prawo do rzetelnego procesu w sprawach konkurencji i regulacji rynku (na tle art. 6 EKPC) [Right to a fair hearing in competition and market regulation proceedings (in the light of Article 6 ECHR)], Państwo i Prawo, 1(791) 2012, pp. 51-63;

- The powers of inspection of Polish competition authority. The question of proportionality, Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, Vol. 2011, 4(5), pp. 47-66, available at:  http://ssrn.com/abstract=2008725;

- Gwarancje proceduralne w sprawach z zakresu ochrony konkurencji i regulacji, mających charakter karny w świetle EKPCz. Glosa do wyroku SN z 14.04.2010 r. [Procedural guarantees in the cases concerning competition protection and market regulation – cases of criminal character in the light of the European Convention of Human Rights,  case comment to the judgement of the Supreme Court of 14 April 2010], Europejski Przegląd Sądowy, Vol. 2011, 6, pp. 40-45;

- Społeczna odpowiedzialność biznesu – charakter prawny? [Corporate Social Responsibility – Legal Character?] in: Społeczna odpowiedzialność biznesu. Krytyczna analiza [Corporate Social Responsibility. Critical Analysis], Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydziału Zarządzania Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa 2011 (eds. M. Bernatt, J. Bogdanienko and T. Skoczny), p. 29-48;

- Right to be heard or protection of confidential information? Competing guarantees of procedural fairness in proceedings before the Polish competition authority, Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, Vol. 2010, 3(3), pp. 53-70, available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1874796;

- The control of Polish courts over the infringements of procedural rules by the national competition authority. Case comment to the judgement of the Supreme Court of 19 August 2009 - Marquard Media Polska (No. III SK 5/09), Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, Vol. 2010, 3(3), pp. 300-305, available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1874797;

- Case comment to the judgement of the European Court of Justice in the case C-296/04  Vincenzo Manfredi, [in:] The jurisprudence of EC courts in the field of competition in 2004-2009, A. Jurkowska-Gomułka (ed.), Wolters Kluwer, Warszawa 2010, pp. 76-91 (publication in Polish);

- The right to a hearing within a reasonable time as the element of the right to court and the value of procedural fairness, [in:] P. Kładoczny, A. Pietryka, M. Bernatt, B. Grabowska, The commentary to the Act on Complaints for Violation of a Party’s Right to Trial within a Reasonable Time, Difin, Warszawa 2010, pp. 15-31 (publication in Polish);

- Trans-European Networks, [in:] European Policies: Policies of the infrastructural sectors. Legal aspects, A. Jurkowska, T. Skoczny (ed.), Instytut Wydawniczy EuroPrawo, Warszawa 2010, pp. 190-200 (publication in Polish);

- The use of pre-trial detention in Poland – structural problem – case comment to the ECtHR judgement of 3.02.2009 in the case Kauczor v Poland (co-author with A. Bodnar), Europejski Przegląd Sądowy, Vol. 2010, 6, pp. 48-53 (publication in Polish);

- Nature of services provided by Poland's third sector organizations and definition of economic and non-economic services in the EC law (co-author with A. Jurkowska), Studia Europejskie, 2 (50) 2009, pp. 105-127 (publication in Polish);

- System of justice in Poland (co-author with A. Bodnar), in: Democracy in Poland 2007-2009, L. Kolarska-Bobińska, J. Kucharczyk (ed.), Instytut Spraw Publicznych, Warszawa 2009, pp. 89-127 (publication in Polish);

- Formalism of the civil procedure and the right to due process in the jurisprudence of Constitutional Court in: Commercial Courts in Poland, A. Bodnar, M. Ejchart (ed.), Helsińska Fundacja Praw Człowieka, Warszawa 2009, pp. 26-35 (publication in Polish);

- The protection of business secret, in: Europe of Administrative Officers, Z. Brodecki (ed.), Lexis Nexis, Warszawa 2009, pp. 211-219 (publication in Polish);

- The legal status of an undertaking – should local governments be treated more favourably in relation to the penalties for breaching Polish antitrust law? Case comment to the judgment of the Supreme Court of  5 January 2007 – “City Ostrołęka” (Ref. No. III SK 16/06), Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies (YARS), Vol. 2008, 1(1), pp. 230-235 (publication in Polish).

Selected conference papers and presentations

    Anti‐institutional populism and antitrust: Setting the scene, 13th ASCOLA Conference: ‘The Effects Of Digitization, Globalization and Nationalism on Competition Law’, New York University School of Law, New York, June 21-23, 2018;
    Statutory Anti-Constitutionalism – conference ‘Lo Stato di Diritto in Europa: Crisi e Prospettive’, Universita degli Studi Federico II, Naples, 24 Nov 2017;
    Achieving Fairness without Sacrificing Expertise. A Case of Competition Law – conference ‘The Concept of Fairness in Law-Making’, Queens University Belfast, 19 May 2017;
    Embracing and Nurturing the Free Market: Lessons from Poland through the Lens of Competition Law and Policy (together with M. Martyniszyn) – the Competition Law Scholar Forum (CLaSF) Workshop ‘Reform of Regulation 1/2003 – Effectiveness of the NCAs and Beyond’, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 28 April 2017 and 12th ASCOLA Conference, University of Stockholm, 15-16 June 2017;
    Judicial Review of NCAs decisions – a case of Central-Eastern Europe, CLaSF Workshop “Reform of Regulation 1/2003 – Effectiveness of the NCAs and Beyond”, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 28.04.2017 and 12th ASCOLA Conference, University of Stockholm, 15-16 June 2017;
    The European Inquisition is not too Bad; The Application of the Right of Defense by the European Commission and the Competition Authorities of the New EU Member States (together with M. Botta, A. Svetlicinii), CLaSF Workshop “Reform of Regulation 1/2003 – Effectiveness of the NCAs and Beyond”, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 28 April 2017 and 12th ASCOLA Conference, University of Stockholm, 15-16 June 2017;
    Non-competition goals in Polish competition law and de-facto non infringement decisions in the CEE countries, workshop on ‘Public Interest Considerations in Competition Law’, Competition Law Research Center, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, 10 March 2017;
    Exploring the Dark Matter: Decisions Adopted by the NCAs of the New EU Member States Which Escape the Duty of Notification under Article 11 Regulation 1/2003 (together with M. Botta, A. Svetlicinii), 11th ASCOLA Conference, University of Leiden, 29 June  to 2 July 2016;
    The Judicial Review of FTC Decisions: Any Lessons for Europe? 2016 Next Generation of Antitrust Scholars Conference, American Bar Association, New York University School of Law, 22 Jan 2016;
    Judicial review in EU Competition Law: Anything to Learn from US?, CLaSF Workshop, LUMSA University, Rome, 10 Sep 2015 r.;
    The Assessment of the Effect on Trade by the National Competition Authorities of the “New” Member States: Another Legal Partition of the Internal Market? (together with M. Botta, A. Svetlicinii), CLaSF Workshop, LUMSA University, Rome, 10 Sep 2015 r.;
    The Compatibility of Deferential Standard of Judicial Review in the EU Competition Proceedings with Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, 9th ASCOLA Conference, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 26-28 June 2014, written version of the presentation published in the post-conference volume Procedural Fairness in Competition Proceedings, P. Nihoul, T. Skoczny (eds.), Edgar Elgar 2015, p. 309-327;
    Administrative sanctions - interplay between the requirement of effectiveness and procedural fairness. Constitutional perspective, seminar organized as part of the project Changing Landscape of Polish Public Law, European University Institute, Florence, October 2013, written version of the presentation published in the New York University Jean Monnet Working Papers, no. 22/14;
    Human Rights as a Source for Global Ethical Standards in Business, 5th International Society of Business, Economics, and Ethics World Congress 2012, Tradition and New Horizons: Towards the Virtue of Responsibility, Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego, Warszawa, 11-14 July 2012;
    A call for common European procedural standards in competition law, In Search of Effectiveness, Current Trends and Challenges in Competition Law Enforcement – University College Dublin, Sixth Annual Postgraduate Workshop, 22 March 2012.

Research stays abroad

    Research stay at Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Germany, research topic: Populism and Antitrust. Institutional and Enforcement Facets, Aug 2018 and Dec 2018-Feb 2019;
    Research visit at the University of Leeds School of Law (invitation by Professor Peter Whelan), lecture on Interpretation of 'effect on trade' in the new EU member states and its consequences, 24-26 Oct 2017;
    Research visit at the Freie Universität Berlin: consultation of the judicial deference research project with Professor Heike Schweitzer, presentation on judicial review in competition law in Central and Eastern Europe at the seminar attended by scholars from Germany, the UK and the Netherlands; library research, 18-27 Nov 2016;
    Research visit at the University College London: consultations with the representatives of the UK Competition and Market Authority as well as the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal, library research in the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, 20-25 June 2017;
    Research visit at the University of Oxford: consultation of my judicial deference research project with Professor Paul Craig, 5-6 May 2015;
    Research visit at the Queen’s University Belfast School of Law, presentation on judicial review in competition at the internal seminar as well as project consultation with Professor Brice Dickson; library research, 17-20 March 2015;
    Fulbright Visiting Scholar and Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Sep 2013 to June 2014, scientific cooperation and consultation with following professors: Spencer Waller, Michael Jacobs, David Gerber, Barry Sullivan and Christine Chabot;
    Research visit at the New York University School of Law and consultations with NYU professors (Eleanor Fox, Harry First) and Columbia University professors (Scott Hemphill, Andrzej Rapaczyński) as well as library research, New York, Feb 2014 to March 2014 (12 days);
    Research visit at the European University Institute and consultations with Professor Giorgio Monti and Professor Loic Azoluai; library research, Florence, May 2011 (7 days).

Organised Conferences

    Judicial Deference in Competition Law, Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, University of Warsaw, 11 October 2018;
    Reform of Regulation 1/2003 – Effectiveness of the NCAs and Beyond, Competition Law Scholars Forum, Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, University of Warsaw, 28 April 2017;
    Kontrola sądowa decyzji Prezesa UKE [Judicial review of Polish telecom regulator decisions], Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies at the University of Warsaw and Modzelewska & Paśnik Law Firm, 6 Dec 2016;
    Harmonisation of Private Antitrust Enforcement: A Central and Eastern European Perspective, Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies and Faculty of Law, University of Białystok, 2-4 July 2015, Supraśl;
    9th ASCOLA Conference Procedural Fairness in Competition Proceedings, Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA), 26-28 June 2014, Warsaw;
    Pobieranie tzw. opłat półkowych. Konieczność zmiany przepisów czy ich interpretacji? [Collection of slotting fees. The need for amendment or a change in interpretation?], Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, 19 March 2013, Warsaw;
    Implementacja Wytycznych ONZ ds. Biznesu i Praw Człowieka [Implementation of UN Principles on Business and Human Rights], Allerhand Institute, Ministry of Economy, 25 Jan 2013, Warsaw;
    Skutki wyroków Trybunału Konstytucyjnego w świetle orzecznictwa Naczelnego Sądu Administracyjnego, Sądu Najwyższego i Trybunału Konstytucyjnego [The effects of the Constitutional Tribunal judgements in the light of the case-law of the Supreme Administrative Court, the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Tribunal], Trybunał Konstytucyjny, 29 Nov 2012, Warsaw;
    Model kontroli sądowej w sprawach ochrony konkurencji i regulacji [The model of judicial review in competition and market regulation law], Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, Warsaw, 4 July 2012;
    Społeczna odpowiedzialność biznesu. Realne zobowiązanie przedsiębiorców? [Corporate Social Responsibility. A real obligation of companies?] Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, Warsaw, 21 June 2010.