Kati Cseres is an Associate Professor of Law at the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG), University of Amsterdam. She is a Senior Fellow of the Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics (ACLE) and the academic coordinator for the Master's programme European Competition Law and Regulation.

She is editor of the Journal Legal Issues of Economic Integration. She is also member of the Advisory Board, Loyola Chicago Consumer Law Review.

Kati has been Non-governmental adviser to the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) between 2014 and 2020. In 2017 she was appointed as external expert by the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science for determining and adopting of selection lists for the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) according to the Decision on Archives.

She is also a Board Member of Stichting Ontwikkelingen Mededingingsrecht.  

Kati has considerable experience in  training national judges in EU competiton law, consumer law and EU state aid law within the framework of Re-Jus project and the EEUStAID project 'Building Central and Eastern European judicial capacities for the enforcement of EU State aid law'.

In 2018 she was working as Distinguished Guest Fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. Her project was titled 'Consumers in public services markets in the EU and Hungary'. She is an external research fellow at the Center for Social Sciences,  Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence, Budapest.

In 2019, she was awarded a Bilateral Mobility Project with Rita Sik-Simon (Czech Academy of Sciences) Project title: Revisiting the definition and the normative concept of the consumer, case studies in four EU Member States .

Also in 2019 and together with Or Brook (Leed University) she was awarded the UK’s  ESRC Impact Acceleration Account for their 'Priority Setting Project'.

Kati’s research expertise lies in EU competition law and consumer law, where she investigates how legal rules, formal and informal institutions of consumer and competition laws are connected and reinforced in market design and oversight. Her research agenda focuses on fundamental transformations in societies and economies that disrupt prevailing models of competition law enforcement and consumer law. She is currently working on two projects: ‘Priority Setting Project’,  that studies the legal, economic and institutional factors that influence setting enforcement priorities by all 28 national competition authorities in the EU. The project uses a novel empirical methodology and systematically analyses the competition authorities’ priority-setting policies and practices.

‘Revisiting the definition and the normative concept of the consumer’, a project investigating how the underlying concept of the consumer within EU law and policy be recast in a more inclusive direction. 

Key Publications

Cseres, K. J. (2020). “Acceptable” cartels at the crossroads of EU competition law and the common agricultural policy, A legal inquiry into the political, economic and social dimensions of (strengthening farmers’) bargaining power, Antitrust Bulletin, pp.1-22.

Cseres, K. J. (2019). Rule of Law Challenges and the enforcement of EU competition law, A case-study of Hungary and its implications for EU law. Competition Law Review, Vo.14(1). pp. 75-99.

O.Brook, Cseres, K. J. (2019). Member States’ Interest in the Enforcement of EU Competition Law. In: Varju, M, (ed.) Between Compliance and Particularism: Member State Interests and European Union Law. International, Foreign & Comparative Law . Springer , pp. 147-170. ISBN 978-3-030-05782-4.

Cseres, K. J. (2018). The active energy consumer in EU law. European Journal of Risk Regulation, 9(1).

Cseres, K. J. (2017). Universal Service and Consumer Protection: a paradigm shift in EU law. European Competition and Regulatory Law Review, 4, 1-18.

K.J. Cseres (2017). Rule of law values in the decentralized public enforcement of EU competition law In: The Enforcement of EU Law and Values: Ensuring Member States’ Compliance, Jakab, A. Kochenov, D. (eds.), Oxford University Press, pp.182-199.

K.J. Cseres, Outhuisje, A. (2017) Parallel enforcement and accountability: the case of EU competition law, in: M. Scholten and M. Luchtman (eds.), Law Enforcement by EU Authorities. Political and judicial accountability in a shared legal order, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.

Cseres, K. J. (2017). Universal Service and Consumer Protection: a paradigm shift in EU law. European Competition and Regulatory Law Review, 4, 1-18.

Cseres, K.J.  (2017). Rule of law values in the decentralized public enforcement of EU competition law In: The Enforcement of EU Law and Values: Ensuring Member States’ Compliance, Jakab, A. Kochenov, D.(eds.),Oxford University Press, pp.182-199.

Cseres, K.J., Outhuisje, A. (2017) Parallel enforcement and accountability: the case of EU competition law, in:M. Scholten and M. Luchtman (eds.), Law Enforcement by EU Authorities. Political and judicial accountability in a shared legal order, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 82-114.

Cseres, K.J. (2016). Competition Law Enforcement Beyond the Nation-State: A Model for Transnational Enforcement Mechanisms? In: Micklitz, H-W, Weschler, A. (eds.),The transformation of enforcement, Hart Publishing. 2016, pp.319-339.

Cseres, K.J. (2016) ‘The Regulatory Consumer in EU and National Law? Case Study of the Normative Concept of the Consumer in Hungary and Poland’ Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, pp.9-42.

Cseres, K.J.  & J. Mendes (2014). Consumers’ access to EU competition law procedures: outer and inner limits. Common Market Law Review, 51 (2), 483-521. [go to publisher's site]

Cseres, K.J. (2014). Accession to the EU’s Competition Law Regime: A Law and Governance Approach. Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, 7 (9), 31-66.

Cseres, K.J. and Balogh, V. (2013), ‘Institutional Design in Hungary: A Case Study of the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive’, Journal of Consumer Policy 361, pp. 343-365.

Cseres, K.J. (2010), ‘The impact of Regulation 1/2003 in the New Member States’, Competition Law Review 6(2), pp. 77-121.

Cseres, K.J. (2008), ‘What has competition done for consumers in liberalised markets?’, Competition Law Review 4(2), pp. 77-121.

Cseres, K.J. (2007), ‘The controversies of the consumer welfare standard’, Competition Law Review 3(2), pp. 121-173.

Cseres, K.J. (2007), ‘Multijurisdictional competition law enforcement: the interface between European competition law and the competition laws of the new Member States’, European Competition Journal, 3(2), pp. 465-502.

Books

Criminalization Of Competition Law Enforcement (2006)

Competition Law and Consumer Protection (2005)

Teaching

Master's programme European Competition Law and Regulation

European Competition Law, MA

Advanced EU Competition Law, MA

EU Regulated Markets, MA

Law and Justice in the EU, Minor 

Kati’s research expertise lies in EU competition law and consumer law, where she investigates how legal rules, formal and informal institutions of consumer and competition laws are connected and reinforced in market design and oversight. Her research agenda focuses on fundamental transformations in societies and economies that disrupt prevailing models of competition law enforcement and consumer law. She is currently working on two projects: ‘Priority Setting Project’, that studies the legal, economic and institutional factors that influence setting enforcement priorities by all 28 national competition authorities in the EU. The project uses a novel empirical methodology and systematically analyses the competition authorities’ priority-setting policies and practices.

‘Revisiting the definition and the normative concept of the consumer’, a project investigating how the underlying concept of the consumer within EU law and policy be recast in a more inclusive direction.