Education CV
Appointments
- Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Competition and Private Law, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Education
- PhD Researcher in Law, University of Cambridge (2020-2024)
- Wright Rogers Scholarship in Law (2020-2023)
- Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, PhD Scholarship (2021-2023)
- LLM (Commercial Law), University of Cambridge (First Class Honours) (2019-2020)
- J.D. Exchange, Cornell Law School (2017-2018)
- LLB, King's College London (First Class Honours) (2015-2019)
Teaching
- Fall 2024: University of Strathclyde, M7925 IP, Commerce and Innovation (Class Co-ordinator, Lecturer, Examiner)
- Fall 2024: University of Strathclyde, M9314 Intellectual Property Law (Class Co-ordinator, Lecturer, Examiner)
- Spring 2024 & Spring 2025: University of Strathclyde, M8909 Law of International Business (Lecturer, Examiner)
- Spring 2024 & Spring 2025: University of Strathclyde, M9212 EU Law (Tutor)
- Spring 2024 & Spring 2025: University of Strathclyde, M9202 Commercial Law (Tutor)
- Spring 2024 & Spring 2025: University of Strathclyde, M9930 LLM Dissertations
- Fall 2023 & Fall 2024: University of Strathclyde, M9318 Competition Law (Lecturer, Tutor, Examiner)
- Fall 2023 & Fall 2024: University of Strathclyde, M9418 Competition Law Honours (Class Co-ordinator, Lecturer, Examiner)
- Fall 2023: University of Strathclyde, M9848 Competition Law LLM (Lecturer, Examiner)
- Fall 2023: University of Strathclyde, M9361 Sports Law (Lecturer)
- 2022/2023: University of Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College & Selwyn College, Intellectual Property Law (Tripos Part IIB)
- Lent 2022: University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law, LLM Competition Law, Workshops on Art 102 TFEU
- 2021/2022: University of Cambridge, Hughes Hall, Equity (Tripos Part IIB)
Additional Examination & Supervision
- 2023-2024: University of Cambridge, LLM Competition Law, Assessor
- 2023-2024: University of Strathclyde, M9436 Honours Dissertation Supervision (5 students)
- Fall 2023: EE (interim) for University of Strathclyde, M9944DL E-Commerce; M9869DL Intellectual Property; M9352 Internet Law; M9437 Internet Law Honours
Pro Bono & Volunteering
- 2022-2023: Executive Director, Cambridge Pro Bono Project
- 2020-2022: Project Manager, Cambridge Pro Bono Project (Projects: Fair Game; Jimmy's Night Shelter)
- 2023: Coach, Cambridge Team, Oxford International Intellectual Property Moot
Academic Positions/Memberships
- Since 2021: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Research Group (Promotionskolleg) “Social Market Economy”
- 2021/2022: Senior Editor, Cambridge Law Review
- 2020/2021: Associate Editor, Cambridge Law Review
Research Assistance
- December 2022 to March 2023: Professor Felix Steffek, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK, and Professor Mihoko Sumida, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan. Research assistance in relation to the publication of a forthcoming book by Professor Felix Steffek (Cambridge) and Professor Mihoko Sumida (Hitotsubashi), entitled ‘Legal Innovation: Conversations about Technology, the Legal Profession and Industrial Change’ (CUP 2023).
- February 2017 to July 2017: Mr Jonathan Moss, Hogarth Chambers, London, UK. Research assistance in relation to a practitioners’ treatise on Damages and Remedies in Intellectual Property Law.
Fields of research
Competition Law; Intellectual Property Law; Patent Law; Law & Technology; Artificial Intelligence; Law & Economics
Research centres and interest groups
Competition law liability for obtaining, maintaining, and exercising invalid or otherwise deficient intellectual property rights
Supervisors
Advisor: Dr Kathleen Liddell
Representative Publications
- Quentin B. Schäfer, “Case T-172/21 Valve v Commission - Revisiting the territorial character and probabilistic nature of intellectual property rights in competition enforcement” (2024) 45(5) European Competition Law Review 229-235. Available (closed access (Westlaw)) at : <https://uk.westlaw.com/Document/I00D06E90016111EFBD2DFAC45DB826DC/View/F....
- Quentin B. Schäfer, “Reconsidering the Limits of EU Competition Law on the IP-Competition Interface” (2024) JECLAP, forthcoming (peer reviewed). Available open access at <https://doi.org/10.1093/jeclap/lpae021>.
- Award: Finalist, 4th Ruben Perea Competition Law Writing Award
- Preprint: Quentin B. Schäfer, “Reconsidering the Limits of EU Competition Law on the IP-Competition Interface” (2024) University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 14/2024. Available at <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4776301>, version of 5 October 2023.
- Quentin B. Schäfer, “AI and Intellectual Property” in A Abbott and T Schrepel (eds), Artificial Intelligence and Competition Policy (Concurrences 2024), forthcoming
- Quentin B. Schäfer, “Article 68f AI Act” in N Forgo, C Pehlivan, P Valcke (eds), EU AI Act and AI Liability Directive (Wolters Kluwer 2024), forthcoming
- Quentin B. Schäfer, “Article 68g AI Act” in N Forgo, C Pehlivan, P Valcke (eds), EU AI Act and AI Liability Directive (Wolters Kluwer 2024), forthcoming
- Quentin B. Schäfer, “Group Purchasing Organization” in D Healey, W Kovacic, P Trevisán, and R Whish (eds), Global Dictionary of Competition Law (Concurrences 2024). Available open access at <https://www.concurrences.com/en/dictionary/group-purchasing-organization>.
Start Date
Oct 2020
Publications
Articles
"Reconsidering the Limits of EU Competition Law on the IP-Competition Interface" (2024) JECLAP
Citation:
(2024) JECLAP
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1093/jeclap/lpae021
Published: Forthcoming
"Case T-172/21 Valve v Commission - Revisiting the territorial character and probabilistic nature of intellectual property rights in competition enforcement" (2024) 45(5) ECLR 229
Citation:
(2024) 45(5) ECLR 229
Published: May 2024
Book Chapters
"Group Purchasing Organization" in D Healey, W Kovacic, P Trevisán, and R Whish (ed(s)), Global Dictionary of Competition Law), forthcoming
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Published Forthcoming
"Article 68f AI Act" in N Forgo, C Pehlivan and P Valcke (ed(s)), EU AI Act and AI Liability Directive), forthcoming
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Published Forthcoming
"Article 68g AI Act" in N Forgo, C Pehlivan and P Valcke (ed(s)), EU AI Act and AI Liability Directive ), forthcoming
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Published Forthcoming
"AI, IP, and Competition Policy: Adjusting Policy Levers to a new GPT" in A Abbott and T Schrepel (ed(s)), Artificial Intelligence and Competition Policy), forthcoming
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Published Forthcoming
"Jettisoning ‘complementarity’ on the IP-Competition Interface" in Thomas Ackermann, Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan (ed(s)), Private Rights and Autonomy in a Fragmented World), forthcoming
Published Forthcoming
Book Reviews
Innovation Paradox in Merger Control
Published Forthcoming
Reports
On the Implementation of the Fan-Led Review of Football Governance
Body / Institution:
Cambridge Pro Bono Project
Link to report
Published: Jul 2022
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