• Master programme 'European Competition Law and Regulation

Katalin Cseres obtained her university degree in law (1999, cum laude) at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Hungary.

In 2004, she obtained her Ph.D. title from the University of Utrecht. Her Ph.D. thesis deals with the topic 'Competition Law and Consumer Protection'. She is an associate professor of law at the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG). At the ACELG she is a co-program leader of the research program 'Compound Constitution(s) of Europe'. She is the academic coordinator for the Master programme 'European Competition Law and Regulation', as well as a fellow of the Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics (ACLE).

Her main fields of interest are  competition law, consumer protection (empowerment) and market regulation. Her research focuses on law enforcement and the institutional design of public and private market supervisory models. She analyses the Europeanization of competition law enforcement in the Central and Eastern European Member States and examines which governance mechanisms frame the interactions between EU and national, for example in the case of the European Competition Network. Dr. Cseres also investigates the legal rules concerning the role of consumers in activating competition and regulating markets with emphasis on consumers' access to justice as a key component to their access and participation in markets.

Key Publications

• Cseres, K.J.  & J. Mendes (2014). Consumers’ access to EU competition law procedures: outer and inner limits. Common Market Law Review, 51 (2), 483-521.[go to publisher's site]
• Cseres, K.J. (2014). Accession to the EU’s Competition Law Regime: A Law and Governance Approach. Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, 7 (9), 31-66.

Cseres, K.J. and Balogh, V. (2013), ‘Institutional Design in Hungary: A Case Study of the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive’, Journal of Consumer Policy 361, pp. 343-365.

Cseres, K.J. (2010), ‘Comparing laws in the enforcement of EU competition law’, European Journal of Legal Studies 3(1), pp. 7-44.

Cseres, K.J. (2010), ‘The impact of Regulation 1/2003 in the New Member States’, Competition Law Review 6(2), pp. 77-121.

Cseres, K.J. (2008), ‘What has competition done for consumers in liberalised markets?’, Competition Law Review 4(2), pp. 77-121.

Cseres, K.J. (2007), ‘The controversies of the consumer welfare standard’, Competition Law Review 3(2), pp. 121-173.

Cseres, K.J. (2007), ‘Multijurisdictional competition law enforcement: the interface between European competition law and the competition laws of the new Member States’, European Competition Journal, 3(2), pp. 465-502.

Books

Criminalization Of Competition Law Enforcement (2006)

Competition Law and Consumer Protection (2005)

• Competition Law and Consumer Protection

Dr. Cseres' research focuses on law enforcement and the institutional design of public and private enforcement. She analyses the Europeanization of competition law enforcement in the Central and Eastern European Member States and examines the governance mechanisms that frame the interplay between EU and national law, , for example in the case of the European Competition Network. Dr. Cseres also investigates the legal rules concerning the role of consumers in activating competition and regulating markets with emphasis on consumers’ access to justice as a key element of their access to and participation in markets.

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