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Oles Andriychuk joined the CCP in 2009. He studied law in Kyiv, Prague (Charles University) and Florence (European University Institute). His main research is focused on the philosophical aspects of European competition law, exploring the phenomena of economic freedom and competition from the perspective of legal, political and moral philosophy. He has also published articles in the area of jurisprudence and legal theory, European law, antitrust law, constitutional law, media law and the theory of adjudication. After joining the CCP, Oles  was involved in the teaching of the following courses at the UEA Law School: Competition Law; Law and Morality (Jurisprudence) and EU law. His research has been recently presented at the various international (Bonn, EUI Florence, Frankfurt, Tilburg) and domestic (KCL, Oxford, UCL, QMUL) forums.

More specifically, his main fields of research include:

1. Normative aspects of European competition law:

* objective/s of competition law: freedom of competition and/or/as/vs. consumer welfare (historical background  and contemporary normative analysis);

* interdisciplinary similarities between the political (elections), cultural (free speech) and economic (antitrust) aspects of competition;

* “Article 101 (4) TFEU” (viz http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1781512).

2. Methodological aspects of European competition law:

* dialectical account of competition: economic freedom and its (self-) limitation;

* economics as the Reine Sprache of antitrust: pros and cons (Ronald Dworkin – Richard Posner exchanges; deontological vs. utilitarian approach to competition);

* mechanics of balancing: analysing different communicative strategies of the conflicting values and the algorithms of their eventual reconciliation via the decision-making process.

3. Jurisprudence

* positivism and autopoiesis: the coupling points between legal philosophy and legal sociology;

* dialectics of law: a positivistic perception of the ideal law;

* indeterminacy of law, legal interpretation and argumentation.

His main publications include:

Oles Andriychuk, ‘The Dialectics of Competition Law: Sketching the Ordo-Austrian Approach to Antitrust’, World Competition: Law and Economics Review (forthcoming).

Oles Andriychuk, 'The Constitutional Foundations of Competition: Economic Freedom and Its (Self-) Limitation', (monograph, final preparation).

Oles Andriychuk, 'Rediscovering the Spirit of Competition: On the Normative Value of the Competitive Process', European Competition Journal, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2010 (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1781512).

Oles Andriychuk, 'Dialectical Antitrust: An Alternative Insight into the Methodology of the EC Competition Law Analysis', European Competition Law Review, Vol. 31, No. 4, 2010 (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1592987)

Oles Andriychuk, 'The Concept of Perfect Competition as the Law of Economics: Addressing the Homonymy Problem', Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, Vol. 62, No. 4, 2011

Oles Andriychuk, 'Thinking Inside the Box: Why Competition as a Process is a Sui Generis Right – a Methodological Observation', in Daniel Zimmer (ed.), 'The Goals Of Competition Law', ASCOLA Competition Law series, Edward Elgar, 2012.

For full list of publications see 'Publication' section.