dr. Inge Graef

Bio

Inge Graef is Associate Professor of Competition Law at Tilburg University. She is affiliated to the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) and the Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC).

Expertise

Inge holds expertise in the areas of competition law, platform regulation and the governance of data-driven innovation. She is particularly interested in the interaction of competition law with other legal regimes, such as intellectual property, data protection and consumer law.

She also regularly comments and advises on new legislative and policy initiatives with regard to the regulation of digital services, innovation and data.

Courses

• Seminar Governance of Innovation
• Competition Law and Technology Industries
• International Competition Law

Collaboration

Inge co-chairs the Digital Clearinghouse initiative, which aims to facilitate exchange of insights between regulators across Europe and beyond in the areas of competition, data protection and consumer law. She is also appointed as a member of the European Commission's expert group to the EU Observatory on the Online Platform Economy.

Currently, Inge acts as associate editor of the Journal of Competition Law & Economics and TechReg.

She has been involved in various policy studies commissioned by the European Commission, the Belgian, Dutch and German government on topics such as the regulation of innovation in the platform economy, data sharing, fairness in platform-to-business relationships, net neutrality, and the position of over-the-top services within electronic communications law.

Inge held visiting appointments at the Institute of European and Comparative Law of Oxford University (2018) and at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich (2014).

Recent publications

1. Collective data harms at the crossroads of data protection and compet…

   Graef, I., & van der Sloot, B. (2022). Collective data harms at the crossroads of data protection and competition law: Moving beyond individual empowerment. European Business Law Review, 33(4), 513-536.

2. Consumer protection & competition policy - An overview of EU and nati…

   Graef, I. (2022). Consumer protection & competition policy: An overview of EU and national case law. Concurrences, 2022(Special issue: Consumer protection), 1-10. [105992]. https://www.concurrences.com/en/bulletin/special-issues/consumer-protection/consumer-protection-competition-policy-an-overview-of-eu-and-national-case-law-en

3. ‘The good, the bad and the ugly’ van het nieuwe recht op toegang tot …

   Graef, I. (2022). ‘The good, the bad and the ugly’ van het nieuwe recht op toegang tot data in de Dataverordening. Markt en Mededinging, 2022(4), 117-122.

4. What the Dutch Apple case can teach us about future challenges for co…

   Graef, I. (2022). What the Dutch Apple case can teach us about future challenges for competition enforcement. Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, 10(3), 570-582.

5. Study for developing criteria for assessing “reasonable compensation”…

   Monti, G., Tombal, T., & Graef, I. (2022). Study for developing criteria for assessing “reasonable compensation” in the case of statutory data access right: Study for the European Commission Directorate-General Justice and Consumers : final report. Publications Office of the European Union.