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Dr Peter Whelan is a Lecturer in Law at the UEA Law School and is a Faculty Member of the ESRC Centre for Competition Policy (CCP).

Peter holds both a Degree in Law and French and a Master of Laws from Trinity College Dublin. During his primary degree, and under the Erasmus programme, he spent a university year studying French law at the Université de Poitiers, France. Peter came first overall in his class in his Senior Freshman year at Trinity. Peter also holds a PhD in Law from St John's College, University of Cambridge. Peter is a US Attorney-at-Law and is a registered member of the New York State Bar.

At the UEA Law School, Peter teaches a wide variety of legal subjects including competition law, tort law, contract law, criminal law, legal skills and US law. His research focuses primarily on competition law issues. In particular, he researches cartels, competition enforcement mechanisms, the objectives of competition law, legal regulation of distribution systems, the rights of the defence, and antitrust criminalisation. In 2009, Peter won the ‘Reddy Charlton McKnight Prize for Legal Scholarship', which was awarded by the Trinity College Law Review. Peter's work on antitrust criminalisation has also received judicial endorsement: his published research was quoted with approval by Mr Justice McKechnie in the Central Criminal Court (High Court) in Dublin in the leading Irish criminal cartel case of DPP v. Duffy and Duffy Motors (Newbridge) Ltd [2009] IEHC 208.

To date, Peter's research has also been relied upon by the Australian Senate, the Swiss Competition Commission, the Finnish delegation to the Competition Committee of the OECD, the International Competition Network, the (then) Chairman of the UK Competition Commission, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and researchers in the Ministry of Economic Development in New Zealand.

Peter is currently finalising a monograph analysing the theoretical, legal and practical challenges of European antitrust criminalisation, which will be published in due course by Oxford University Press as part of their series Oxford Studies in European Law.

Prior to taking up his position at UEA Law School, Peter was the Research Fellow in Competition Law at the Competition Law Forum of the British Institute for International and Comparative Law (BIICL) in London. In addition to conducting competition law research for BIICL, he also provided training in EU competition law to various consumer organisations across 14 different EU Member States.  Peter was also a Research Assistant (to Professor Sciarra) at the University of Cambridge and was the Managing Editor of the Cambridge Student Law Review.

Peter is an article referee for European Competition Journal, Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal and Melbourne Journal of International Law. He is also the Managing Editor of Oxford Competition Law, an innovative online national competition law case-reporting service operated by Oxford University Press which will become available in 2012.

Peter would be interested in supervising research students in all areas of EU and UK competition law, in particular those concerning anticompetitive agreements, international cooperation, and enforcement mechanism.