Staff Profile
Professor Oles Andriychuk
Professor
- Telephone: 0 191 208 7624
- Personal Website: https://www.youtube.com/@digital.markets
Prof. Andriychuk specialises in Competition Law & Digital Markets and in the Constitutional 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 scrutinising Ukraine's application to join the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
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-2028 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 500 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, ‘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, ‘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, ‘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, ‘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 is the Convenor of an LLM Programme 'Competition Law and the Digital Economy'
His is also Newcastle Law School Postgraduate Degree Programmes Co-director
Academic Editor, North East Law Review, Newcastle Law School
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 of 'Concurrences' On Topic Special Issue 'Competition Overdose', 2022– https://www.concurrences.com/en/review/issues/no-1-2022/dossier/new-article-no105307
Guest Editor of CLASF Competition Law Review, 2023 – http://clasf.org/browse-the-complrev/
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 Newcastle Law School Prof. Andriychuk worked in different positions (ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader) at University of Strathclyde Law School, Glasgow, University of Stirling Law School and Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia. He was a co-director (and then director) of the Strathclyde Centre for Internet Law & Policy and a vice-chair of the Strathclyde Centre for Antitrust Law and Empirical Study (SCALES).
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.
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Prospective PhD students interested in a postgraduate research (or our current Newcastle 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.
Main research areas
- UK and EU competition law and policy
- digital competition
- telecommunications
- regulation of digital markets
- Law&Tech
- Algorithms & network economy
- Jurisprudence
I am engaged in several research and knowledge exchange projects aiming to understand, conceptualise, inform and steer the ongoing regulatory reforms in digital markets in the UK and EU. I also contribute to the discussion on recalibrating competition law and policy of Ukraine.
In 2022 I acted as a guest editor of "Concurrences" On Topic Special Issue "Competition Overdose" https://www.concurrences.com/en/review/issues/no-1-2022/dossier/new-article-no105307
In 2022/2023 I acted as a guest editor of CLASF Competition Law Review http://clasf.org/browse-the-complrev/
In 2022/2023 I have also proudly edited a book dedicated to a magnum opus of one of the leading authorities in the area of competition law and policymaking Professor Giuliano Amato 'Antitrust and the Bounds of Power – 25 Years On', Hart Publishing 2023. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/antitrust-and-the-bounds-of-power--25-years-on-9781509962136/ This collected volume features the work of the prominent competition law scholars, reflecting on the book of Giuliano Amato 'Antitrust and the Bounds of Power'.
In 2022 my 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.
I have systematised all my ideas about the nature and functioning of economic, political and cultural competition and their role in shaping liberal democracy in a 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 my 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 I am always interested in hearing a feedback or engaging in discussion on the issues articulated in paper.
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Prospective PhD students interested in a postgraduate research (or our current Newcastle 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.
Law, Digital Markets & Competition (PGT, Module Coordinator)
Law & Ethics (UG, Seminars)
EU Law (UG, Seminars)
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Prospective PhD students interested in a postgraduate research (or our current Newcastle 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.
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Articles
- Andriychuk O. EU Digital Competition Law: The Socio-legal Foundations. Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies 2023, 25, Epub ahead of print.
- Andriychuk O. The Digital Markets Act Proposal: Key Elements & Smart Features. European Competition Law Review 2022, 43(1).
- Andriychuk O. Shifting the digital paradigm: Towards a sui generis competition policy. Computer Law and Security Review 2022, 46, 105733.
- Andriychuk O. Between Microeconomics and Geopolitics: On the Reasonable Application of Competition Law. Modern Law Review 2022, 85(3), 598-634.
- Andriychuk O. The Digital Markets Act: A New Philosophy of Regulating Competition in the EU. Economy of Ukraine 2021, 2021(8), 26-37.
- Andriychuk O. The concept of sustainability in eu competition law: A legal realist perspective. Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies 2021, 14(23), 11-37.
- Andriychuk O. Shaping the new modality of the digital markets: The impact of the DSA/DMA proposals on inter-platform competition. World Competition 2021, 44(3), 261-286.
- Andriychuk O. (Why) did eu net neutrality rules overshoot the mark? internet, disruptive innovation and eu competition law & policy. Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies 2018, 11(18), 227-239.
- Andriychuk O. Exclusive Legal Positivism and Legal Autopoiesis: Towards a Theory of Dialectical Positivism. Rechtstheorie 2015, 46(1), 37-70.
- Andriychuk O. The Dialectics of Competition Law: Sketching the Ordo-Austrian Approach to Antitrust. World Competition 2012, 35(2), 355-384.
- Andriychuk O. The Concept of Perfect Competition as the Law of Economics: Addressing the Homonymy Problem. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 2011, 62(4), 523– 538.
- Andriychuk O. Rediscovering the Spirit of Competition: On the Normative Value of the Competitive Process’. European Competition Journal 2010, 6(3), 575-610.
- Andriychuk O. Dialectical Antitrust: An Alternative Insight into the Methodology of the EC Competition Law Analysis in a period of Economic Downturn. European Competition Law Review 2010, 31, 155-164.
- Andriychuk O. Does competition matter? An attempt of analytical ‘unbundling’ of competition from consumer welfare: A response to miąsik. Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies 2009, 2(2), 11-26.
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Authored Book
- Andriychuk O. The normative foundations of European competition law: Assessing the goals of antitrust through the lens of legal philosophy. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2017.
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Book Chapters
- Andriychuk O. Towards a New Digital Competition Policy of Ukraine: The EU Matrix. In: Richter, H, ed. Competition and Intellectual Property Law in Ukraine. Berlin: Springer, 2023, pp.173-191.
- Andriychuk O. Direct Effect. In: Healey, D; Kovacic, W; Treviscan, P; Whish, R, ed. The Global Dictionary of Competition Law. Concurrences, 2022.
- Andriychuk O. Administered Prices. In: Healey, D; Kovacic, W; Treviscan, P; Whish, R, ed. The Global Dictionary of Competition Law. Concurrences, 2022.
- Andriychuk O. Thinking inside the box: Why competition as a process is a sui generis right - a methodological observation. In: The Goals of Competition Law. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2012, pp.95-117.
- Andriychuk O. Sports Broadcasting Rights in the Digital Epoch: Balancing between Traditional and Alternative Subjects of the Market from the Perspective of the European Competition Law. In: Blackshaw, I; Siekmannm, RCR; Cornelius, S, ed. TV Rights and Sport. T.M.C. Asser Press, 2009, pp.81-105.
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Digital or Visual Media
- Andriychuk O. The Pros and Cons of the Digital Markets Act: Interview with Oles Andriychuk. The Competition Authority, 2021. Podcast.
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Online Publications
- Andriychuk O. On the Political Nature of Competition Law: A Critical Essay. Munich, Germany: Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, 2022. Available at: https://www.ip.mpg.de/en/. In Press.
- Andriychuk O. How Big Media Handed Digital Advertising to Big Tech. Promarket, 2022. Available at: https://www.promarket.org/2022/02/03/big-media-google-facebook-duopoly-advertising-digital-platforms/.
- Andriychuk O. Così Big Tech ha distrutto il mercato della pubblicità digitale. Domani, 2022. Available at: https://www.editorialedomani.it/economia/big-tech-mercato-pubblicita-digitale-mjq6y0z5.
- Andriychuk O. Will the Digital Markets Act Deliver?. 2021. Available at: https://chillingcompetition.com/2021/10/26/chillincompetition-dma-symposium-will-the-dma-deliver-on-carrots-and-sticks-and-some-magic-tricks-by-oles-andriychuk/.
- Andriychuk O, Garnier MS. On the Political Nature of Competition Law: Interview with Oles Andriychuk. Competition Forum, 2020. Available at: https://competition-forum.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/art.-n%C2%B0-0002.pdf.
- Andriychuk O. Moligopoly as the Coexistence of Structural Monopoly with Cognitive Oligopoly or An Inquiry into the Theory of the Apologetic Com(Petit)ion. Chillin'Competition, 2020. Available at: https://chillingcompetition.com/moligopoly-as-the-coexistence-of-structural-monopoly-with-cognitive-oligopoly-or-an-inquiry-into-the-theory-of-the-apologetic-competition-by-oles-andriychuk/.
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Reports
- Andriychuk O. Cooperation. Not Supervision. 'An Inquiry into the Work of Digital Regulators' : House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee Inquiry into Digital Regulation [Written Evidence DRG0004]. London, UK: House of Lords, 2021. DRG0004.
- Andriychuk O. A New Pro-competition Regime for Digital Markets: Individual Submission by Oles Andriychuk. Glasgow, UK: University of Strathclyde, 2021.
- Andriychuk O. Putting the Genie Back in the Bottle – or Adapting to the New Reality?. London: Competition and Markets Authority, 2020.
- Andriychuk O. On the Theoretical Framework of the EU New Competition Tool. EU Commission Publishing Service, 2020. EU Commission NCT Impact Assessment.
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Review
- Andriychuk O. Competition Overdose: How Free Market Mythology Transformed Us from Citizen Kings to Market Servants by Maurice E Stucke and Ariel Ezrachi [Book review]. Legal Studies 2021, 41(3), 519-525.
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Working Paper