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When an international cartel is exposed, the parties involved often face punishment by more than one authority for the same behaviour. There is very little international coordination in the actions of these authorities. Pieter Huizing claims that this can, and must, change. PhD defence on 10 March 2021. Pieter Huizing
Huizing works as a lawyer specialising in competition law at international law firm Allen & Overy in Amsterdam. In 2012 he was seconded to Allen & Overy in Washington where he worked on international cartel investigations. ‘I went there to work for John Terzaken, an American competition law lawyer who was the former Head of Criminal Enforcement at the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. In this position, Terzaken had gained experience on how international cartel investigations are carried out and how the coordination between authorities could be improved. Together, we wrote a s
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APART-GSK grant for Melanie Fink
Melanie Fink has been awarded the APART-GSK grant of the Austrian Academy of Sciences to carry out her research project ‘No right without a remedy: Making EU fundamental rights enforceable’ for a period of four years.
Similar to the NWO’s Veni grant, the APART-GSK is an open-topic funding programme for researchers who have recently obtained their PhD to develop their own research projects for a period of two to four years.
Melanie’s project ‘No right without a remedy: Making EU fundamental rights enforceable’ is a four-year project looking into the possibilities of a much needed reform of the EU’s remedies system. While we still often associate the EU with a dreary rule-maker, deciding on the shape of bananas and cucumbers, this does not reflect the EU’s actual role and impact on individuals’ lives. The EU today investigates and prosecutes crime, supervises banks, and deploys armed border guards to control the external