Dr Peter O'Loughlin

MSc

Contact Details

Lecturer Above The Bar
School of Law
University of Galway
E: Peter.OLoughlin@universityofgalway.ie
 
researcher
 

Biography

Peter is a Lecturer in Company and Commercial Law, teaching undergraduate modules in Company Law, Commercial Law, and Business Law and postgraduate modules in European Consumer Law and Policy. His research interests lie in law and economics, company law, and the intersection of law, technology, and competition. His research has been published in flagship American law reviews as well as specialist European law journals.


Research Interests

Peter's research interests most recently lie at the intersection of law, technology, and competition. Digital platform technologies and the markets within which they operate have been subjected to rafts of enforcement actions across the European Union, United States, Australia, and Asia and regulatory authorities, practicing lawyers, and courts have often struggled to doctrinally accommodate the legal issues that arise within existing competition frameworks. Peter's most recent research has attempted to highlight these problems, critique existing legal frameworks, and proffer bases for new legal tests that might better capture the kind of potentially infringing conduct in these kinds of markets.