Dr Andrea Katharina Gideon
Research Fellow
1 August 2018 - 31 July 2019

Andrea is a permanent member of academic staff at the University of Liverpool. She adjourned this position from August 2015 to February 2017 to pursue a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the National University of Singapore jointly funded by the EW Barker Centre for Law and Business and the Competition and Consumer Commission Singapore (CCCS) during which time she was also appointed a non-governmental advisor to the International Competition Network by CCCS. She is now taking leave of absence from her post in Liverpool again to work on another research project at the EW Barker Centre for Law and Business. Before joining Liverpool, Andrea received her PhD from the University of Leeds which she passed without corrections and which was shortlisted (top five) for the Jean Blondel PhD Prize 2015. An extended and up-dated version has been published as a monograph in 2017 (A Gideon 'Higher Education Institutions in the EU: Between Competition and Public Service' (Springer/TMC Asser 2017)). Andrea has published widely in the topic area of her PhD research (EU competition law influences on higher education and research) and recently given evidence to an all-party parliamentary group roundtable on the influence of the EU Web Accessibility Directive on the UK higher education sector. However, since her postdoc her research focus is concentrated on competition law in ASEAN. In this context, she was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Malaya in March 2018 for which had been awarded competitive funding from the University of Liverpool's Early Career Researcher Fund.

Research areas

At the EWBCLB, Andrea will conduct comparative legal research on competition law in ASEAN. Firstly, she plans to compare Singapore's competition law and EU competition law. She aims to develop a method for comparison of the transplant and its origin based on inter-disciplinary insight to understand the social, cultural, political and economic perspectives of the differences as well as on theoretical underpinnings on legal transplant and comparative law. As the second part of her project she will investigate the individual competition systems in the whole of ASEAN further in order to assess if they could be mapped into clusters.