Dr. Baskaran Balasingham

Biography

Baskaran Balasingham is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International and European Law at Utrecht University School of Law. He is a member of the Utrecht Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe (RENFORCE). His areas of expertise include competition law, European Union law, and World Trade Organization (WTO) law, with a primary research focus on competition law. Prior to joining Utrecht University, Baskaran was a lecturer at Macquarie University and Deakin University in Australia, as well as at Maastricht University. He completed his PhD at King’s College London, where he was awarded a full scholarship from the Centre of European Law. During his PhD, he briefly worked at the UK Competition and Markets Authority and completed a traineeship at the Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission. In Spring 2016, Baskaran received the International Scholar-in-Residence scholarship from the American Bar Association, enabling him to conduct research on antitrust law at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington D.C. He is also the founder of the Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Competition Law Moot and has held visiting researcher positions at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich, Germany, and Hannan University in Osaka, Japan.

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