Peter Whelan

Professor Peter Whelan is a Professor of Law at the School of Law, University of Leeds, where he is the Director of the Centre for Business Law and Practice. He has degrees in law from Trinity College Dublin and a PhD in Law from St John's College, University of Cambridge. A qualified US Attorney-at-Law, Peter is an expert in competition law and criminal law. He sits on the Editorial Boards of five law journals and has published widely in specialist competition law journals, as well as in generalist law journals (including Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Cambridge Law Journal, and Modern Law Review). His work on competition law has been cited in European, African and South American judgments. He is a Non-Governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network and is a member of the United Nations Working Group on Cross-Border Cartels. On two occasions, Peter has provided oral evidence to the New Zealand Parliament on cartel criminalisation. He also provided oral evidence to the Competition Law Review Committee, which was set up by the Indian Government to review and propose amendments on its competition law regime. He has provided training in EU competition law to the Romanian judiciary and has delivered workshops on cartel enforcement at the National Economic Prosecutor’s Office of Chile, the Competition Tribunal of Chile, the Omani competition authority, the Eswatini Competition Commission, and the Peruvian competition authority. Peter is currently the Managing Editor of Oxford Competition Law and sits on the Council of the Society of Legal Scholars. To date Peter has presented his research in over thirty countries, across six continents.