Professor
LLB (Hull), LLM (Exeter), PhD (Kent), Barrister of The Middle Temple

Email : erika.szyszczak@le.ac.uk
Telephone: 0116 252 2368

Erika Szyszczak is the Jean Monnet Professor of European Law ad personam, Professor of European Competition and Labour Law and Director of the Centre for European Law and Integration. She delivered her Inaugural Lecture, entitled "Public Services: Competitive Markets", on 29 April 2002. Erika sits on the editorial board of The Modern Law Review, The International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, and European Law Review. She was a member of the Board of the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) Budapest and its Chair from 2007-2008. From 1996 - 2000 she acted as the legal consultant for Eurodeuce producing the Annual Equal Opportunities Report for the European Commission. In 2000 Erika was invited to attend the Women of the Year, Millennium Celebrations of Women's Work, and in 2001 the Women of the Year Luncheon, in recognition of her outstanding services to higher education.

Research Interests

European Union Law, Governance of the EU, Internal Market Law and the Regulation of State Intervention in the Market ( State Aids, Privatisation and Liberalisation , Control of Monopolies, Procurement, Competition Law).

Selected Publications

• “Controlling Dominance in European Markets” (June 2010) Vol 3. 6 Fordham International Law Journal pp 1738 -1775
• Jim Davies and Erika Szyszczak, “ADR: Effective Protection of Consumer Rights?” (2010) 5 European Law Review 695-706
• “Modernising Healthcare: Pilgrimage for the Holy Grail?” in M. Krajewski, U. Neergaard and J. van de Gronden (eds), The Changing Legal Framework for Services of General Interest in Europe”, (TMC Asser Press, The Hague, 2009 )
• “Lisbon-Kyoto-Moscow: Joining the Dots” (2009) Fordham Environmental Law Review 287
• "Legal Tools in the Liberalisation of Welfare Markets" in Ruth Nielsen et al (eds), Integrating Welfare Functions into EU Law - From Rome to Lisbon (DJOF Pub, Copenhagen, 2009)
• "Antidiscrimination Law in the European Community (2009) 32.2. Fordham International Law Journal 624
• "The United Kingdom" in R. Blanpain and A. Swiatkowski, The Laval and Viking Cases: Free Movement of Services and Establishment v Industrial Conflict in the European Economic Area and Russia (Kluwer, 2009).
• The Regulation of the State in Competitive Markets in the European Union (Hart Pub. Oxford, 2007)
• The Regulation of Sport in the EU (joint editor with B. Bogusz and A. Cygan) (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2007)
• "Sport and Competition" (2007 European Law Review)
• “Experimental Governance: The Open Method of Coordination”  (2006) 12.4. European Law Journal  486

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