About
Dr Hedvig Schmidt is an Associate Professor in EU Law within 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 Law School at the University of 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载. Dr Schmidt is an expert in competition law and intellectual property rights and the Co-Director for the Research Centre for Law and Technology.
Research
Research groups
Research interests
- Competition Law and Policy
- Antitrust Law
- Intellectual Property Law
- Digital economy markets
- Interface between competition law and IP rights
Current research
Dr Hedvig Schmidt’s main fields of interest are competition law and policy (with expert knowledge of EU competition law and US antitrust), intellectual property law and European Union law. She is currently working on two projects:
1) assessing the competition rules' definition of relevant markets in relation to innovation, the digital economy markets and intellectual property rights; and
2) competition law and AI.
Publications
Teaching
Hedvig teaches on modules at both undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate levels (PG):
Public Law, Intellectual Property Law (UG)
International Competition Law and Policy and Intellectual Property in a Global World (PG)
External roles and responsibilities
Biography
Having attained her BSc Business Administration and Commercial Law at Copenhagen Business School in 2000, Dr Schmidt was awarded her LLM in European Union Law in 2001 (with Distinction) and her PhD in 2008 from the University of Essex.
Dr Schmidt was a Junior Research Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London in 2004-2005, and was also a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Essex between 2002