Ms Luz Daniel-Cruz

Luz Daniel is a PhD candidate in Law at the University of Cambridge, a Cambridge Trust Scholar and a member of St John’s College. Her doctoral research examines how competition and consumer law take account of differences between consumers, including how they navigate markets and the knowledge, resources and circumstances that inform their choices. It considers how assumptions about those differences shape legal analysis and remedies. She argues that courts and authorities applying these laws may abstract from consumers by leaving out detail, but should not idealise them by attributing capacities they may not possess.

Before coming to Cambridge, Luz completed a Master of the Science of Law (JSM), with honours, through the Stanford Program in International Legal Studies at Stanford Law School. Her research there examined consumer literacy and decision-making in Chile’s private health insurance market. She previously spent nearly four years as a research analyst in the Market Studies Division of the Fiscalía Nacional Económica, Chile’s competition authority. Working alongside economists, she contributed to studies of essential markets, including medicines, household gas and public procurement. She also helped develop legal and regulatory recommendations and presented them to government ministries, committees of the Chilean Congress and the OECD.

Luz holds a lectureship in Competition and Consumer Law at the Universidad de Chile and supervises Competition Law for the Cambridge Law Tripos. She has also taught workshops on abuse of dominance for the Cambridge LLM, and Jurisprudence tutorials at Oxford for visiting US undergraduates. She co-founded and co-convenes the Cambridge Competition Law Discussion Group.