Dr. hab. Maciej Bernatt
Maciej Bernatt is the head of the Department of European Economic Law (Jean Monnet Chair), Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw. He also acts as Scientific Secretary of the Centre of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies at the University of Warsaw and the Editor-in-Chief of the Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies. At the University he teaches EU economic law, international and comparative competition law, as well as courses in business and human rights. He has received scholarships and research grants from several institutions, including the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Polish-U.S. Fulbright Commission, the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education, the Polish National Science Centre, and the Foundation for Polish Science. In the past he worked as a référendaire in the Polish Supreme Court and in the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland as well as in the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, where he coordinated the Strategic Litigation Program. He has been involved in cases litigated before the European Court of Human Rights and Polish courts. He has lectured at universities in Poland, the USA (Loyola University Chicago) and Ukraine (Ivan Franko National University, Lviv).
Maciej’s areas of interest include competition law, administrative law, constitutional law, and EU law, with a focus on enforcement of competition law and protection of fundamental rights (especially the right to a fair trial), as well as business-human rights relations. He has published two books and numerous articles in Polish journals. He is also a co-author of two leading commentaries to the Polish Competition Act and Polish Unfair Competition Act. His publications in English appeared in, inter alia, the Common Market Law Review, the European Law Review, the Columbia Journal of European Law, World Competition, and the Review of European Administrative Law.
Strony internetowe:
LinkedIn: pl.linkedin.com/pub/maciej-bernatt/8/b3/8b6/
Social Science Research Network (SSRN): http://ssrn.com/author=1183912
Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=iJTHLjsAAAAJ
Academia.edu: https://uw.academia.edu/MaciejBernatt
Education
Habilitation in law (second-stage scientific degree), Institute of Legal Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, April 2018.
Doctorate in law defended with distinction at the Faculty of Law and Administration, Institute of Administrative Law, University of Warsaw, 2011; doctorate dissertation entitled: Procedural Fairness in the Proceedings before the Competition Authority.
Ph.D. studies at the Department of European Economic Law, Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw, 2007 to 2011.
Advanced Course on International Protection of Human Rights at the Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland, 2008.
Master studies in law at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw, 2001 to 2007; MA thesis entitled: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Light of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland.
Master studies in international relations at the Institute of International Relations, University of Warsaw, 2001 to 2006; MA thesis entitled: The Reform of EC Competition Law: Private Model of Enforcement of Competition Law and Its Application in the Proceedings before the National Court.
MA studies undertaken in the frame of the Centre for Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in the Humanities of the University of Warsaw (MISH UW).
Studies at the Centre for American Law Studies, a joint initiative of the University of Florida Levin College of Law and University of Warsaw Faculty of Law and Administration, 2006 to 2007.
Erasmus Exchange, Faculty of Law, Università Degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, Italy, 2003 to 2004.
Professional Experience
Head of Department of European Economic Law (Jean Monnet Chair), Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw, September 2018 to Present
Assistant Professor, Department of European Economic Law (Jean Monnet Chair), Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw, August 2011 to Present
Teach EU Economic Law (lecture in Polish); Business and Human Rights (lecture in Polish open to all students of the University of Warsaw); European Business Law (course in English at the International Business Program); International and Comparative Antitrust (course in English at the International Business Program); Intellectual Property (course in English at the International Business Program; the course taught also at the Philosophy Institute of the University of Warsaw); MA seminar entitled: Business activity: Legal and Ethical Aspects (circa 25 MA theses completed) and similar BA seminar; as well as training for Polish competition authority official and judges of the Court of Competition and Consumer Protection on inspections, criminal standards in competition proceedings and various procedural challenges present in the competition proceedings.
Scientific Secretary, Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies of the University of Warsaw, March 2007 to Present (Scientific Secretary since September 2014)
Responsibilities: researches and legal analyses in the scientific projects run by the Centre; coordination of CARS research initiatives; coordination of the electronic publication program; organisation of international and national conferences as well as guest lectures; in the past coordination of the works of working group concerning the proposals of revision of the Act on competition and consumer protection.
Editor-in-Chief, Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, January 2018 to Present, www.yars.wz.uw.edu.pl
Scholarship holder, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Germany, Aug 2018 and Dec 2018-Feb 2019
Lecturer, Postgraduate Course on Competition and Consumer Law at the Institute of Legal Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Academic Years: 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18
Référendaire in the Supreme Court of Poland, June 2017 to November 2017
Responsibilities: researches and preparation of the materials in the competition law cases pending in the Supreme Court; analyses of the cases and proposals of the key-findings in the given case; preparation of the initial draft proposals of the judgements in the competition law cases assigned to the judge rapporteur.
Legal Specialist (Senior Référendaire) and the assistant of Chief Justice in the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland, July 2010 to December 2016
Responsibilities: researches and preparation of the draft materials in the cases pending in the Constitutional Court assigned to the judge rapporteur; analyses of the cases and proposals of the key-findings in the given case; preparation of the initial drafts of the judgements.
Visiting Professor in the School of American Law in Lviv, Ukraine (joint project of IIT/Chicago-Kent College of Law and Ivana Franko University in Lviv, May 2015; taught course Antitrust
Fulbright Visiting Scholar and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, September 2013-June 2014
Responsibilities: research on the judicial deference to competition agencies determinations in the U.S. and in the EU; taught course International and Comparative Antitrust.
Coordinator of the Strategic Litigation Program of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (the HFHR), Warsaw, May 2008-May 2010
Responsibilities: managing the strategic cases included into the Program and their pre-selection; representation of the HFHR in the judicial and administrative proceedings; preparation of the complaints and legal opinions (such as amicus curiae briefs) for the use in the proceedings before Polish courts (including Constitutional Court and Supreme Court) and the European Court of Human Rights; contacts with the HFHR pro-bono lawyers and media; lectures during trainings on human rights organized by the European Court of Human Rights and the National Council of Legal Advisers in Poland
Fellow in the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights (INTERIGHTS), London, in frame of the International Fellowship Programme of the European Foundation Centre, June-July 2009,
Responsibilities: research in the law of the Council of Europe and the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights.
Lawyer, the Strategic Litigation Program of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Warsaw, July 2006-May 2008
Responsibilities: legal analyses of the complaints and documents filed to the HFHR; preparation of the complaints and legal opinions (such as amicus curiae briefs) for the use in the proceedings before the Polish courts (including Constitutional Court and Supreme Court) and the European Court of Human Rights; trial monitoring and representation of the HFHR in the judicial and administrative proceedings.
Awards and Honors
Membership and affiliations
Research Projects and Grants:
Languages
Publications
Monographs, Edited Books and Authorship of Long Chapters:
- Wyzwania dla ochrony konkurencji i regulacji rynku. Księga jubileuszowa dedykowana Profesorowi Tadeuszowi Skocznemu [Challenges for Competition Protection and Market Regulation. Jubilee Book in Honor to Professor Tadeusz Skoczny] (co-edited with A. Jurkowska-Gomułka, M. Namysłowska, A. Piszcz), C.H. Beck, Warszawa 2017;
- Commentary to the provisions of Polish Competition Act concerning procedure and inspections (Articles 47, 50, 60, 69-74, 81, 83, 91, 105a, 105e-105f, 105k, 105n, 105q of the Act on competition and consumer protection), in: Ustawa o ochronie konkurencji i konsumentów. Komentarz [Act on competition and consumer protection. Commentary], T. Skoczny (ed.), CH Beck, Warszawa 2014, pp. 900-908, 927-934, 960-963, 966-999, 1006-1012, 1034-1051, 1055-1064, 1086-1091, 1116-1122, 1199-1201, 1208-1233, 1252-1255, 1279-1280,1290-1296, 1302-1307, 1491-1513, 1517-1523, 1523-1526;
- Podstawy i zakres publicznoprawnej ochrony konkurencji [The basis and scope of the protection of competition] (co-author with A. Jurkowska-Gomułka and T. Skoczny), in: System prawa prywatnego, Prawo konkurencji [System of Private Law. Competition Law], vol. 15, M. Kepiński (ed.), C.H. Beck, Instytut Nauk Prawnych PAN, Warszawa 2013, pp. 719-773;
- Zakaz nadużywania pozycji dominującej [The prohibition of the abuse of dominant position] (co-author with A. Jurkowska-Gomułka and T. Skoczny), in: System prawa prywatnego, Prawo konkurencji [System of Private Law. Competition Law], vol. 15, M. Kepiński (ed.), C.H.Beck, Instytut Nauk Prawnych PAN, Warszawa 2013, pp. 965-1018;
- Commentary on Article 15 (Impediment to Market Access) in: Ustawa o zwalczaniu nieuczciwej konkurencji [Act on Unfair Competition, Commentary], J. Szwaja (ed.), C.H. Beck, Warszawa 2013, pp. 563-623;
- Skutki wyroków Trybunału Konstytucyjnego w sferze stosowania prawa, [The effects of the judgments of the Constitutional Tribunal for law enforcement] (co-edited with J. Królikowski, M. Ziółkowski), Wydawnictwa Trybunału Konstytucyjnego, Warszawa, 2013;
- Sprawiedliwość proceduralna w postępowaniu przed organem ochrony konkurencji [Procedural fairness in the proceedings before the competition authority], Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydziału Zarządzania Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa, 2011, pp. 1-376 (monograph), available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1982596;
- Społeczna odpowiedzialność biznesu. Krytyczna analiza [Corporate Social Responsibility. Critical Analysis], Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydziału Zarządzania Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa 2011 (co-editor with J. Bogdanienko and T. Skoczny);
- Społeczna odpowiedzialność biznesu. Wymiar konstytucyjny i międzynarodowy [Corporate Social Responsibility. Constitutional and International Perspective], Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydziału Zarządzania Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa 2009, pp. 1-192 (monograph);
- Commentary on Articles 69-73, 105e-105g, 105j-105k in: Ustawa o ochronie konkurencji i konsumentów. Komentarz [Act on competition and consumer protection. Commentary], T. Skoczny, A. Jurkowska, D. Miąsik (ed.), C.H. Beck, Warszawa 2009, pp. 1266-1307, 1589-1592;
- Prywatny model ochrony konkurencji oraz jego realizacja w postępowaniu przed sądem krajowym [Private antitrust litigation before the national courts], in: Nowe tendencje w prawie konkurencji UE [New tendencies in the EU Competition Law], E. Piontek (ed.), Wolters Kluwer 2008, Warszawa, pp. 299-354;
- Ochrona konkurencji i konsumentów [Competition and Consumer Protection] (co-author with A. Jurkowska and T. Skoczny), Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydziału Zarządzania Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa 2007, pp. 1-194;
Articles:
- The Right of Defense in the Decentralized System of EU Competition Law Enforcement. A Call for Harmonization from Central and Eastern Europe 41(3) World Competition: Law and Economics Review (2018) (co-authors: M. Botta, A. Svetlicinii);
- Public Interest and a Place for Non-Competition Considerations in Polish Competition Law, Concurrences No. 1-2018, p. 1-7 (co-author with M. Mleczko), available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3056521;
- Exploring the Dark Matter: Decisions Adopted by the NCAs of the New EU Member States Which Escape the Duty of Notification under Art. 11 Reg. 1/2003, European Law Review, 43(3), 2018, p. 424-446; (co-author with M. Botta and A. Svetlicinii), available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3066627;
- Koncepcja powściągliwości sądowej w prawie ochrony konkurencji [The Concept of Judicial Deference in Competition Law], Państwo i Prawo 6, 2017, p. 36-54;
- McWane and Judicial Review of Federal Trade Commission decisions - Any Inspirations for EU Competition Law? European Competition Law Review 6, 2017, p. 285-291;
- Transatlantic Perspective on Judicial Deference in Administrative Law, Columbia Journal of European Law 22(2), 2016, p. 275-325, available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2648232;
- Administrative Sanctions: Between Efficiency and Procedural Fairness, Review of European Administrative Law 9(1), 2016, p. 5-32;
- Between Menarini and Delta Pekarny – Strasbourg View on Intensity Of Judicial Review in Competition Law, in: The Procedural Aspects of The Application of Competition Law: European Frameworks – Central European Perspectives, C. Nagy (ed.), Europa Law Publishing 2016, p. 4-19;
- Catching-up with EU due process standards? A case of Poland’s soft law guidelines, European Competition Law Review, 37(6), 2016, p. 247-252;
- Konstytucyjne aspekty sądowej kontroli działalności administracji (między efektywnością a powściągliwością) [Constitutional Aspects of Judicial Review of Administrative Action (between Effectiveness and Deference)], Państwo i Prawo 1, 2017, p. 34-51;
- Effectiveness of Judicial Review in the Polish Competition Law System and the Place for Judicial Deference, Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies 9(14), 2016, p. 97-124;
- Między pełną kontrolą sądową a poszanowaniem polityki karania organu administracji – o sądowej kontroli kar nakładanych w sprawach konkurencji [Between full judicial review and deference to competition authority’s fining policy: on judicial review of fines in competition law], Europejski Przegląd Sądowy 9, 2016, p. 18-24;
- Kontrola sądowa nad interpretacją prawa dokonaną przez organy władzy wykonawczej (perspektywa amerykańska) [Judicial review of statutory interpretation made by executive authorities (US perspective)], Państwo i Prawo 6, 2015, p. 39-52;
- W sprawie kontroli sądowej postępowania przed Prezesem UOKiK [On judicial review of the proceedings before the UOKiK President], Państwo i Prawo 3, 2013, p. 89-99;
- Stosowanie reguł konkurencji UE przez polski, czeski i słowacki organ ochrony konkurencji [The Application of EU Competition Law by Polish, Czech and Slovak Competition Authorities], in: Prawo konkurencji. 25 lat [Competition Law. 25 Years], T. Skoczny (red.), Wolters Kluwer, Warszawa 2016, p. 220-236;
- The Assessment of the Effect on Trade by the National Competition Authorities of the “New” Member States: Another Legal Partition of the Internal Market? (co-author with M. Botta and A. Svetlicinii), Common Market Law Review 52(5), 1247-1276 (2015);
- Deferential Standard of Judicial Review in the light of Article 6 of the ECHR, in: Procedural Fairness in Competition Proceedings, P. Nihoul, T. Skoczny (eds.), Edgar Elgar, 309-327 (2015);
- Kontrola sądowa nad interpretacją prawa dokonaną przez organy władzy wykonawczej (perspektywa amerykańska) [Judicial review of statutory interpretation made by executive authorities (US perspective)], Państwo i Prawo 832(6), 39-52 (2015);
- On Convergence with Hiccups. Recent Amendments to Poland’s Competition Law (co-author with M. Martyniszyn), 36(1) European Competition Law Review 8-14 (2015);
- The Compatibility of Deferential Standard of Judicial Review in the EU Competition Proceedings with Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies Working Paper, Loyola University Chicago, available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2447884;
- Tailor-Made Rules Needed: A Balanced Approach to Imposition of Administrative Sanctions in Poland; New York University Jean Monnet Working Papers 22/2014, available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2460929;
- Airport Security Controls: A Fundamental Rights Perspective, in: Polish Airports in the European Union - Competitive Challenges, Regulatory Requirements and Development Perspectives, F. Czernicki, T. Skoczny (eds.), Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydziału Zarządzania UW, Warszawa 179-203 (2013);
- Convergence of Procedural Standards in the European Competition Proceedings, Competition Law Review 3(8), 2012, pp. 255-282, available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2240899;
- Can the right to be heard be respected without access to information about the proceedings? Deficiencies of national competition procedure, Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, Vol. 2012, 5(6), pp. 91-110, available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2130858;
- Ustawa o ochronie konkurencji i konsumentów – potrzeba nowelizacji. Perspektywa sprawiedliwości proceduralnej [Need for revision of the Act on competition and consumer protection. A perspective of procedural fairness], internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny 1(1), 2012, pp. 85-96;
- Prawo do rzetelnego procesu w sprawach konkurencji i regulacji rynku (na tle art. 6 EKPC) [Right to a fair hearing in competition and market regulation proceedings (in the light of Article 6 ECHR)], Państwo i Prawo, 1(791) 2012, pp. 51-63;
- The powers of inspection of Polish competition authority. The question of proportionality, Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, Vol. 2011, 4(5), pp. 47-66, available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2008725;
- Gwarancje proceduralne w sprawach z zakresu ochrony konkurencji i regulacji, mających charakter karny w świetle EKPCz. Glosa do wyroku SN z 14.04.2010 r. [Procedural guarantees in the cases concerning competition protection and market regulation – cases of criminal character in the light of the European Convention of Human Rights, case comment to the judgement of the Supreme Court of 14 April 2010], Europejski Przegląd Sądowy, Vol. 2011, 6, pp. 40-45;
- Społeczna odpowiedzialność biznesu – charakter prawny? [Corporate Social Responsibility – Legal Character?] in: Społeczna odpowiedzialność biznesu. Krytyczna analiza [Corporate Social Responsibility. Critical Analysis], Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydziału Zarządzania Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa 2011 (eds. M. Bernatt, J. Bogdanienko and T. Skoczny), p. 29-48;
- Right to be heard or protection of confidential information? Competing guarantees of procedural fairness in proceedings before the Polish competition authority, Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, Vol. 2010, 3(3), pp. 53-70, available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1874796;
- The control of Polish courts over the infringements of procedural rules by the national competition authority. Case comment to the judgement of the Supreme Court of 19 August 2009 - Marquard Media Polska (No. III SK 5/09), Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, Vol. 2010, 3(3), pp. 300-305, available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1874797;
- Case comment to the judgement of the European Court of Justice in the case C-296/04 Vincenzo Manfredi, [in:] The jurisprudence of EC courts in the field of competition in 2004-2009, A. Jurkowska-Gomułka (ed.), Wolters Kluwer, Warszawa 2010, pp. 76-91 (publication in Polish);
- The right to a hearing within a reasonable time as the element of the right to court and the value of procedural fairness, [in:] P. Kładoczny, A. Pietryka, M. Bernatt, B. Grabowska, The commentary to the Act on Complaints for Violation of a Party’s Right to Trial within a Reasonable Time, Difin, Warszawa 2010, pp. 15-31 (publication in Polish);
- Trans-European Networks, [in:] European Policies: Policies of the infrastructural sectors. Legal aspects, A. Jurkowska, T. Skoczny (ed.), Instytut Wydawniczy EuroPrawo, Warszawa 2010, pp. 190-200 (publication in Polish);
- The use of pre-trial detention in Poland – structural problem – case comment to the ECtHR judgement of 3.02.2009 in the case Kauczor v Poland (co-author with A. Bodnar), Europejski Przegląd Sądowy, Vol. 2010, 6, pp. 48-53 (publication in Polish);
- Nature of services provided by Poland's third sector organizations and definition of economic and non-economic services in the EC law (co-author with A. Jurkowska), Studia Europejskie, 2 (50) 2009, pp. 105-127 (publication in Polish);
- System of justice in Poland (co-author with A. Bodnar), in: Democracy in Poland 2007-2009, L. Kolarska-Bobińska, J. Kucharczyk (ed.), Instytut Spraw Publicznych, Warszawa 2009, pp. 89-127 (publication in Polish);
- Formalism of the civil procedure and the right to due process in the jurisprudence of Constitutional Court in: Commercial Courts in Poland, A. Bodnar, M. Ejchart (ed.), Helsińska Fundacja Praw Człowieka, Warszawa 2009, pp. 26-35 (publication in Polish);
- The protection of business secret, in: Europe of Administrative Officers, Z. Brodecki (ed.), Lexis Nexis, Warszawa 2009, pp. 211-219 (publication in Polish);
- The legal status of an undertaking – should local governments be treated more favourably in relation to the penalties for breaching Polish antitrust law? Case comment to the judgment of the Supreme Court of 5 January 2007 – “City Ostrołęka” (Ref. No. III SK 16/06), Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies (YARS), Vol. 2008, 1(1), pp. 230-235 (publication in Polish).
Selected conference papers and presentations
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