Katalin Cseres obtained her university degree in law (1999, cum laude) at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Hungary.

In 2004, she obtained her Ph.D. title from the University of Utrecht. Her Ph.D. thesis deals with the topic 'Competition Law and Consumer Protection'. She is an Associate Professor of law at the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG). She is theme leader in the Law Faculty Research Priority Area Law and Justice across Borders, sub-theme Markets and Society of the . She is the academic coordinator for the Master programme ' European Competition Law and Regulation', as well as a fellow of the Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics (ACLE). She is teh chairwoman of the Board of Studies for the English language Masters.

She also acts as Non-governmental adviser to the Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM).

Her current research focuses on the question of how EU law supports consumers in public services markets. In her research she investigates the legal criteria in the Liberalization Directives and new EU legislative proposals (for example, postal services, energy, telecommunications)  that have a bearing on the different types of consumers i.e. the definition and normative concept (average-vulnerable) of the consumer.How does EU law conceptualize the relationship between universal service provisions and consumer provisions? How should the provisions on universal service provision and user protection respond to technical developments such as the digitalization of public services? What is the role of national regulatory authorities and their cooperation concerning postal consumers’ legal position? How should this institutional framework respond to the technological developments?How can consumer responsibility (in EU law) be conceptualized in  a way that explains the role of consumers in achieving public policy goals such as sustainability, competitiveness or data protection.

She continues to investigate the role of consumers in EU competition law focusing on effective judicial protection of consumers in public and private competition law enforcement and their institutional design.

She also analyses the Europeanization of competition law enforcement in the Central and Eastern European Member States and examines the governance mechanisms that frame the interplay between EU and national law, for example in the case of the European Competition Network.

Key Publications

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 (2017). Consumer protection in: Amtenbrink, F. Curtin, D. de Witte, B. Kuijper, P.J. McDonnell, A. Van den Bogaert, S. (eds.) The Law of the European Union and the European Communities: Kapteyn-Verloren Van Themaat, 2017.

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.  & 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), ‘Comparing laws in the enforcement of EU competition law’, European Journal of Legal Studies 3(1), pp. 7-44.

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)

Her current research focuses on the question of how EU law supports consumers in public services markets. In her research she investigates the legal criteria in the Liberalization Directives and new EU legislative proposals (for example, postal services, energy, telecommunications)  that have a bearing on the different types of consumers i.e. the definition and normative concept (average-vulnerable) of the consumer. How does EU law conceptualize the relationship between universal service provisions and consumer provisions? How should the provisions on universal service provision and user protection respond to technical developments such as the digitalization of public services? What is the role of national regulatory authorities and their cooperation concerning postal consumers’ legal position? How should this institutional framework respond to the technological developments?How can consumer responsibility (in EU law) be conceptualized in  a way that explains the role of consumers in achieving public policy goals such as sustainability, competitiveness or data protection.

Kati continues to investigate the role of consumers in EU competition law focusing on effective judicial protection of consumers in public and private competition law enforcement and their institutional design. She is working on this theme now within the Re-Jus project.

She is currently investigating how the current rule of law challenges in specific EU Member States influence the enforcement of (EU) competition law and more specifically, how these challenges could be addressed within teh framework of the European Competition Network.