Anne Witt

Lecturer in European Law
First State Examination in Law (Freiburg i. Brsg.), LLM (Virginia), Ass. jur. (Cologne), PhD (Kent), PGCHE (Kent)

E-mail: anne.witt@le.ac.uk
Telephone: 0116 252 2337 

Anne gained her first law degree from the University of Freiburg in Germany, and went on to work as a research and teaching fellow at the University of Jena. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to attend the LL.M. programme at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. Anne did her professional legal training at the Cologne Court of Appeal, and subsequently worked at the European Parliament in Brussels, before relocating to the UK. She gained her PhD (‘The More Economic Approach to EC Competition Law’) from Kent Law School, where she also worked as an associate lecturer, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate modules in European Union law both at the Canterbury campus and the Brussels School of International Studies. Anne joined the University of Leicester and took up her current position of Lecturer in European Law in 2012.

Research Interests

EU competition law and US antitrust law; EU internal market law; EU constitutional law.

Selected publications

• ‘From Airtours to Ryanair - is the more economic approach really about more economics?’ (2012) 49(1) CML Rev 217–246;
• ‘The Commission’s Guidance Paper on Abusive Exclusionary Conduct - more radical than it appears?’ (2010) 35(2) E.L. Rev. 214–235.