Month: April 2021

Today we’ve had the penultimate class this semester. The class was very special. We had a guest lecture by Professor Viktoria HSE Robertson from the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien), who talked about ‘Competition Law in Digital Markets’.

The class was particularly unique because Professor Robertson brought with her her LLM students from Vienna. Hence, it was a joint class with some exciting group work among students from both Universities. And it all worked well 😊

Vielen Dank Frau Professorin Robertson and great many thanks to your students too! It was very nice to (virtually) host you all!

Today we had a great pleasure to virtually host Professor Kati Cseres from the University of Amsterdam. Professor Cseres delivered a guest seminar exploring the role of competition law enforcement. She explicitly focused on the questions of democracy and institutional design, thereby engaging with some of the most topical issues currently discussed in the area of competition law and policy. When doing so, Professor Cseres drew from her significant work on competition law systems in the EU, with a particular focus on Hungary as a case study.

We remain indebted to Professor Cseres for being generous with her time and expertise!  

It seems that this year student evaluation of this module took place earlier than usual. I am delighted to report that the module recevied very high teaching scores, witht the overall score 4.7 out of 5.

Needless to say– I am very glad students continue finding this class engaging, despite the challenges of the pandemic which, despite best efforts on students and my end, impacts on what we can do.

In free text comments, in terms of ‘good teaching practice that should be more widely adopted’ students listed:

‘Regularly encouraged group participation by facilitating class discussions and small group projects‘
‘Recap slide of key terms and issues covered in previous lecture at start of new class.’
‘Use of current events and developments relative to the course material (less academic sources in some cases)‘
‘The feedback loop section for essay support is outstanding‘

It is good to see that these techniques contune doing their job. I will continue with them 👍

One of the students wrote ‘loved this class teaching and the engagement and the support was brilliant the whole way through. ‘ What can I say? Thank you! 😊😍