PD Dr. Carsten König, LL.M. (Harvard)
News
- Publication: The Boundaries of the Firm and the Reach of Competition Law, in: Marco Corradi & Julian Nowag (eds), Intersections Between Corporate and Antitrust Law, Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp. 63-85
- Presentation: Personalized Pricing from the Perspective of Competition Law and Economics, Young Scholar's Workshop on Algorithmic Price Discrimination in Financial Services, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, 17 May 2023
- Presentation: Towards a Private Rights-Based Approach for the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD): Less Neo-Colonialism, More Legal Certainty, Symposium "Colonisation in, of and through Business & Human Rights", Tilburg University (online), 26 April 2023
Areas of interest
Private law (in particular tort law), German and European competition law, corporate law, regulatory law (in particular energy law), law of the digital economy, comparative law, law & economics
Curriculum vitae
| since 2022 | Temporary professorships at the University of Cologne (summer 2022), Goethe-University Frankfurt (winter 2022/23) and JMU Würzburg (summer 2023); Fellowship at Harvard Law School (winter 2023/24) |
| 2022 | Habilitation at the University of Cologne |
| since 2017 | Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Chair for Civil Law, Competition Law, Regulatory Law, Law of the Digital Economy held by Prof. Dr. Torsten Körber, LL.M. (Berkeley) at the University of Cologne |
| 2016-2017 | Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Chair for Civil Law, Competition Law, Regulatory Law, Insurance Law and Corporate Law held by Prof. Dr. Torsten Körber, LL.M. (Berkeley) at the University of Goettingen |
| 2015-2016 | LL.M. studies at Harvard Law School as an ERP scholar of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation |
| 2015 | Research fellow at TU Campus EUREF of Technical University Berlin |
| 2014 | Second State Exam (German bar exam), Düsseldorf |
| 2012-2014 | Practical legal training at the Regional Court of Düsseldorf with traineeships at the European Commission (DG Energy) and the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf (amongst others) |
| 2012 | Dr. iur (German PhD equivalent) at Freie University Berlin |
| 2009-2013 | Research fellow at the Institute for German and European Business Law, Competition Law and Regulatory Law led by Prof. Dr. Dr. Dres. h.c. Franz Jürgen Säcker at Freie University Berlin |
| 2009 | First State Exam, Berlin |
| 2004-2009 | Law studies at Humboldt University of Berlin |
Selected publications
1. The Boundaries of the Firm and the Reach of Competition Law: Corporate Group Liability and Sanctioning in the EU and the US, in: Intersections Between Corporate and Antitrust Law, edited by Marco Corradi & Julian Nowag, Cambridge University Press, May 2023
2. Competition Law Sanctions in Germany, in: The Cambridge Handbook of Competition Law Sanctions, edited by Tihamér Tóth, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 381-406 (with Fernanda Luisa Bremenkamp)
3. Form, Effects, or Both? The More Economic Approach and the European Commission’s Decision in Google Search, 44(5) European Law Review 680-693 (2019)
4. The Imposition of "Follow-on Penalties" on Managers and Employees, 13(2) Competition Law Review 139-161 (2018)
5. An Economic Analysis of the Single Economic Entity Doctrine in EU Competition Law, 13(2) Journal of Competition Law & Economics 281-327 (2017)
(List of publications [in German], SSRN page)
Selected presentations
1. Antitrust Concerns of Digitalisation, Presentation at the International Summer School in IT Law at the Leibniz University Hannover, Germany, 25 July 2019
2. Taming the Tech Titans – Competition Law and Digital Markets in Germany, Presentation at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University Budapest, Hungary, 4 October 2018
3. Form, Effects, or Both? Confusions About the More Economic Approach After the European Commission’s Decision in Google Search, Presentation at the workshop “Antitrust at the Intersection of Law and Economics” of the Competition Law Scholars Forum (CLaSF) at the University of Graz, Austria, 19 April 2018
Functions
Lecturer at Freie University Berlin, Master's programme "Master of Business, Competition and Regulatory Law" (MBL-FU)
Lecturer at the University of Goettingen, Master's programme "European and Transnational Law of Intellectual Property and Information Technology" (LIPIT)
Lecturer at Technical University Berlin, Master's programme "European and International Energy Law (MBL)" and "Energy Management (MBA)"
Country Correspondent (Germany), European Competition and Regulatory Law Review (CoRe)
National Rapporteur (Germany), LIDC Congress 2018
Memberships
German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR)
European Law & Economics Association (EALE)
German Law & Economics Association (GLEA)
German Corporate Law Association (VGR)
Robotics & AI Law Society (RAILS)