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Liana Japaridze is a Lecturer in Competition Law at the University of Glasgow, having joined in 2025. She teaches both Competition Law and European Union Law and has previously lectured at the University of Sussex and tutored at the University of Oxford. Her academic career began in 2017 as a legal advisor on EU competition law matters at the Ministry of Justice and the Competition and Consumer Agency in her homeland, Georgia. Liana’s educational background includes a Master’s and Doctoral degrees from the University of Oxford, as well as a joint MA in Public Administration from Speyer University of Administrative Science in Germany and an LLB from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. Her research expertise focuses on international comparative competition law policy, exploring legal transplants, the goals and limits of competition policy, and the institutional design of competition enforcement. Currently, her principal research interest concerns the digital revolution's impact on the effectiveness of competition frameworks across major economies. Additionally, she coordinates the Jean Monnet Module on European Comparative Competition Law Policy at Tbilisi State University and contributes to the development of competition law resources in her native language.