Biography
Niels Philipsen studied Economics (with a specialization in competition policy) at Maastricht University. He obtained his Ph.D. degree on the thesis “Regulation of and by pharmacists in the Netherlands and Belgium: An economic approach” at the UM Faculty of Law. Philipsen is Associate Professor in Law and Economics at the Maastricht European Institute for Transnational Legal Research (METRO), where he is also Vice-Director (0.8 FTE). In July 2016 he was appointed extraordinary Professor of Shifts in Private and Public Regulation at the Erasmus School of Law (0.2 FTE); and in November 2016 he was appointed Adjunct Professor of the School of Law and Economics at the China University of Political Science and Law.
Philipsen conducted research for inter alia the European Commission, OECD, several Dutch ministries and the International Bar Association. He also worked as temporary agent for the European Commission (DG Competition), and was a visiting researcher at Peking University and the University of Illinois. From January 2013 until April 2016 he was a member of the FP7 Collaborative Project EFFACE (EU action to fight environmental crime). Philipsen wrote several books and articles.
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Work
- Kena Zheng & Niels Philipsen (2025) - - Journal of Competition Law and Economics, 1-26 - doi:
- Niels Philipsen, Sarah Schoenmaekers, Louis Visscher & Franziska Weber (2025) - -
- Niels Philipsen, Sarah Schoenmaekers, Louis Visscher & Franziska Weber (2025) - -
- Lichao Wu, Lili Wang, Niels J. Philipsen & Xinyi Fang (2025) - - Environment, Development and Sustainability, 27 (4), 9211–9232 - doi: -
- Qian Li & Niels Philipsen (2024) - - doi:
- Huizi Ai & Niels Philipsen (2023) - - Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, 11 (3), 491-508 - doi: -
- Qian Li, Niels Philipsen & Caroline Cauffman (2023) - - China-EU Law Journal, 9 (1-4), 51-72 - doi:
- Niels Philipsen (2023) - - China-EU Law Journal, 9 (1-4), 1-2 - doi:
- Qian Wu & Niels Philipsen (2023) - - China-EU Law Journal, 9 (1-4), 97-109 - doi:
- Qian Li & Niels Philipsen (2023) - - 财经法学 (Law and Economy), (4), 82-102 -
- Q. Wu & N.J. Philipsen (2023) - - Journal of Competition Law and Economics, 19 (1), 103-122 - doi:
- Niels Philipsen (2022) - -
- Qian Li & Niels Philipsen (2022) - -
- Huizi Ai & Niels Philipsen (2022) - -
- Niels Philipsen (2022) - -
- Niels Philipsen (2021) - -
- Qian Wu & Niels Philipsen (2021) - - [link]
- Niels Philipsen & Michael Faure (2021) - - Zeitschrift Für Sozialreform/Journal of Social Policy Research, 66 (3), 285-316 - doi:
- Michael Faure, R Germani, Niels Philipsen & A Castaldo (2020) -
- Niels Philipsen (1 March 2023) - PhD defense Qian Wu
- Niels Philipsen (29 June 2022) - Faure and Philipsen present at 70th anniversary CUPL
- Niels Philipsen (18 February 2022) - How do we keep tech giants like Facebook and Amazon at bay?
- Niels Philipsen (27 June 2019) - Lectures at CUFE and CUPL
- Niels Philipsen (2025) - Precautionary Principle: Does it Play a Role in EU Decision-making (Examiner)
Activity: Examination ? Academic - Niels Philipsen (2024) - Against all odds: Mobilization for large-scale collective action in the case of climate change (Examiner)
Activity: Examination ? Academic - Niels Philipsen (2024) - Digital Arms for Digital Consumer Harms: Mapping Legal and Technical Solutions for Dark Patterns in EU Consumer Law (Examiner)
Activity: Examination ? Academic - Niels Philipsen (2024) - AI-enabled price discrimination: A competition law and economics perspective (Examiner)
Activity: Examination ? Academic - Niels Philipsen (2024) - Ex ante Contracts to Arbitrate Tort Claims: A law and economics perspective (Examiner)
Activity: Examination ? Academic - Niels Philipsen (2023) - A comparative study of legal developments concerning platforms in the EU, US, and Korea. Focused on abuse of dominant position and creating a level playing field (Examiner)
Activity: Examination ? Academic - Niels Philipsen (2023) - Rethinking Environmental Salvage and Salvage Law: Towards an Efficient Mechanism for Environmental Emergency Response in Maritime Accidents? (Examiner)
Activity: Examination ? Academic - Niels Philipsen (2023) - Patent Aggregation, Innovation and EU Competition Law (Examiner)
Activity: Examination ? Academic - Niels Philipsen (2023) - Tying in Digital Platforms under the Competition Legal Framework in China and the EU: A Comparative Law and Economics Perspective (Examiner)
Activity: Examination ? Academic - Niels Philipsen (2023) - Regulating FinTech: The Perspectives of Law, Economics, and Technology (Examiner)
Activity: Examination ? Academic
Maastricht University
- Start date approval
- December 2017
- End date approval
- December 9999
- Place
- MAASTRICHT
- Description
- Vice-Director METRO + Assoc. prof + ITN proj.man.