Nicolas Petit (academic)
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Nicolas Petit | |
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| Born | December 29, 1978 Paris, France |
| Occupations | Joint Chair in Competition Law and Professor at the European University Institute |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Liege |
| Thesis | Oligopolies and Tacit Collusion in European Law (2007) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Law |
Nicolas Petit (born 29 December 1978 in Paris, France) is a French Belgian academic specializing in competition policy, economic regulation, law and technology. He is Joint Chair in Competition Law at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy, in the Department of Law and at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies.[1]
Petit studied law at University of Paris Descartes (Paris V) and the University of Paris II Pathéon-Assas before receiving his LL.M from the College of Europe.[1] He completed his PhD in law at the University of Liege in 2007.[2][3][4]
Petit has been full professor at the Law School of the University of Liege and part-time/panel judge of the Belgian Competition Authority.[2] He was also an Associate at Howrey LLP, Brussels and Clerk at the Commercial Chamber of the French Supreme Court.[2][3] He became a member of Harvard Law School’s Visiting Researcher Programme in 2005 and was a visiting fellow at Stanford University Hoover Institution.[1][2]
In 2020, Petit joined the European University Institute as Joint Chair in Competition Law and professor at the European University Institute’s Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies (RSCAS).[2] He is also a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges.[5]
From 2018 to 2020, Petit has been a member of the European Commission High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence.[6]
Petit is the founder of the specialist blog Chillin'Competition and of the Brussels School of Competition, and organization which develops educational programs in competition law and economics as well as artificial intelligence policy.
