Andrea Wechsler

Prof. Dr. Andrea Wechsler is Professor of Economic Law at the Pforzheim University, Affiliated Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for intellectual property, and Visiting Professor at the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki. Her research interests are international, Asian and European commercial law, international commercial arbitration and the economical analysis of law. She graduated from the University of Oxford, Columbia University School of Law, Ludwig-Maximilians-University and Peking University. Her work experience includes activities in the international competition and innovation, McKinsey & Company, at the European Court of Justice, and various teaching assignments.

The main objective of the research project is the investigation and assessment of the transformation of law enforcement in European antitrust law. Disclosure and assessment of the transformation processes and their implications from a dogmatic, legal-theoretical and institutional as well as a procedural and substantive perspective is intended. The scientific and social relevance lies in the consideration whether and how the dynamics of European legal harmonization, the economisation, and privatization require a new internal system of antitrust enforcement as well as appropriate legal policy responses.