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Email

qbs20@cam.ac.uk

Education CV

Appointments

  • Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Competition and Private Law, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

Education

  • PhD Researcher in Law, University of Cambridge (2020-2024)
    • Wright Rogers Scholarship in Law (2020-2023)
    • Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, PhD Scholarship (2021-2023)
  • LLM (Commercial Law), University of Cambridge (First Class Honours) (2019-2020)
  • J.D. Exchange, Cornell Law School (2017-2018)
  • LLB, King's College London (First Class Honours) (2015-2019)

Teaching

Quentin teaches mainly on intellectual property and competition law modules at Strathclyde, including the following:

  • M7926 IP, Commerce, and Innovation (LLM)
  • M9314 Intellectual Property (UG)
  • M9318 Competition Law (UG)
  • M9418 Competition Law (Honours)

At Cambridge, Quentin has supervised the Equity and Intellectual Property papers at multiple colleges. He has also contributed to teaching on the Competition Law LLM paper.

Fields of research

Competition Law; Intellectual Property Law; Patent Law; Law & Technology; Artificial Intelligence; Law & Economics

 

Competition law liability for obtaining, maintaining, and exercising invalid or otherwise deficient intellectual property rights

Examiners

Professor Lionel Bently

Professor Niamh Dunne (LSE)

Representative Publications

  • Quentin B. Schäfer, “Reconsidering the Limits of EU Competition Law on the IP-Competition Interface” (2024) JECLAP 15(3) Journal of European Competition Law & Practice 188-196. Available open access at <https://doi.org/10.1093/jeclap/lpae021>.
    • Awards: Finalist, 4th Ruben Perea Competition Law Writing Award; Nominee, 2025 Antitrust Writing Awards, Category ‘Academic – Intellectual Property’.
    • Preprint:  Quentin B. Schäfer, “Reconsidering the Limits of EU Competition Law on the IP-Competition Interface” (2024) University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 14/2024. Available at <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4776301>, version of 5 October 2023.
  • Quentin B. Schäfer, “Case T-172/21 Valve v Commission - Revisiting the territorial character and probabilistic nature of intellectual property rights in competition enforcement” (2024) 45(5) European Competition Law Review 229-235. Available (closed access (Westlaw)) at : <https://uk.westlaw.com/Document/I00D06E90016111EFBD2DFAC45DB826DC/View/F....
  • Quentin B. Schäfer, “AI, IP, and Competition Policy: Adjusting Policy Levers to a new GPT” in A Abbott and T Schrepel (eds), Artificial Intelligence and Competition Policy (Concurrences 2024).
  • Quentin B. Schäfer, “Economic Regulation and the AI Act: Perspectives from Competition Law, Intellectual Property, and Data Protection” in N Forgo, C Pehlivan and P Valcke (eds), AI Governance and Liability in Europe: A Primer (Wolters Kluwer 2024).

Start Date

Oct 2020

Publications

 

Articles

"Article 5(2) DMA and the Pay-or-Consent Business Model at the Intersection of Public and Private Autonomy" CILJ

Co-Author/s:
Klaus Wiedemann
Citation:
CILJ
Published: Forthcoming

"Case T-172/21 Valve v Commission - Revisiting the territorial character and probabilistic nature of intellectual property rights in competition enforcement" (2024) 45(5) ECLR 229

Citation:
(2024) 45(5) ECLR 229
Published: May 2024

"Reconsidering the Limits of EU Competition Law on the IP-Competition Interface" (2024) 15(3) JECLAP 188-196

Citation:
(2024) 15(3) JECLAP 188-196
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1093/jeclap/lpae021
Published: Apr 2024

Book Chapters

"Economic Regulation and the AI Act: Perspectives from Competition Law, Intellectual Property, and Data Protection" in N Forgo, C Pehlivan and P Valcke (ed(s)), AI Governance and Liability in Europe: A Primer ), forthcoming

Published Forthcoming

"AI, IP, and Competition Policy: Adjusting Policy Levers to a new GPT" in A Abbott and T Schrepel (ed(s)), Artificial Intelligence and Competition Policy, 2024)

"Group Purchasing Organization" in D Healey, W Kovacic, P Trevisán, and R Whish (ed(s)), Global Dictionary of Competition Law, 2024)

"Article 88" in N Forgo, C Pehlivan and P Valcke (ed(s)), EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act: A Commentary), forthcoming

Published Forthcoming

"Article 89" in N Forgo, C Pehlivan and P Valcke (ed(s)), EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act: A Commentary), forthcoming

Published Forthcoming

Book Reviews

Innovation Paradox in Merger Control

Co-Author/s:
Selçukhan Ünekbas; Anouk van der Veer
Published Forthcoming

Reports

Written Evidence – House of Lords Digital Assets (etc) Bill

Co-Author/s:
Linus J Hoffmann
Published: Dec 2024

Comments on the draft Guidelines on Exclusionary Abuses of Dominance

On the Implementation of the Fan-Led Review of Football Governance

Co-Author/s:
Daniel Campos Pereira, Jeremy Lam, Quentin B. Schäfer, et. al.
Body / Institution:
Cambridge Pro Bono Project
Published: Jul 2022