Eun Hye Kim

Profile

I am an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Business Law and Practice, where I pursue my research agenda on the dynamics of jurisprudential change in competition law and the role of diverse actors in its evolution. I am currently writing a monograph on the topic, which is under contract with Cambridge University Press.

I previously taught EU Competition law at the University of Copenhagen, as well as several workshops on the use of empirical and quantitative methods in legal research at various universities. At the University of Copenhagen, I was involved in the project Judging under the influence: a critical review of the influence of legal actors on the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union – a collaborative research project which created a large database consisting of 3776 hand-coded judgments decided by the European Court of Justice since 1952. I am also a contributor to the IUROPA CJEU Database.

My research seeks to leverage competition law expertise and proficiency in quantitative methods. I possess in-depth experience in hand-coding, the drafting of codebooks and statistics for data analysis, and have, as part of my training, completed several university-level courses on various statistical methods. My broader interests span topics related to the theory and practice of judicial decision-making, judicial review of administrative decisions, the empirical study of how precedent emerges and evolves and conceptualisation and measurement in the social sciences. I have also written doctrinal pieces on recent developments in EU and Korean competition law.

From 2021 to 2022, I spent several months as a visiting fellow at the DFG Graduate School DynamInt at Humboldt University Berlin. I also received a prestigious award from the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association to conduct empirical legal research at Georgetown University in 2023.

I defended my doctoral thesis titled “The Advocate General as an Actor of Change – or Resistance- in EU Competition Law” at the European University Institute in Florence (EUI). My thesis was awarded a prize from the European Law Faculties Association.

I hold an LL.M. in Competition Law from King’s College London, a Maîtrise en Droit in European Law from the University of Paris, Panthéon-Assas and an LL.M. in Comparative, European and International Laws from the EUI. During her studies at King’s College London, I worked as a legal assistant in the Competition Law Department of Linklaters LLP London. I also went on internships at Linklaters LLP Berlin and Noerr LLP Berlin and worked as a student assistant to Professor Christoph G. Paulus while studying at the Humboldt European Law School (ELS), which I completed after three years with the German State Examination.

Qualifications

• PhD in Law, European University Institute Florence (EUI)
• LL.M. in Comparative, European and International Laws, EUI
• LL.M. in Competition Law, King's College London
• Maîtrise en Droit, Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2)
• German State Examination

Professional memberships

• Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA)
• Society of Legal Scholars (SLS)

Student education

I presently teach competition law, European law and quantitative legal methods.