Dr. Baskaran Balasingham is an Assistant Professor in the department of International and European Law at the Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ School of Law. He is a member of the Utrecht Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe (RENFORCE).
His areas of expertise include competition law, European Union law, and WTO law. His main research focus is on competition law.
Before joining Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ he worked as a lecturer at Macquarie ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ (Sydney, Australia), Deakin ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ (Melbourne, Australia) and Maastricht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ. Baskaran completed his PhD at King’s College London (upon being awarded a full scholarship by the Centre of European Law). During his PhD he briefly worked at the UK Competition and Markets Authority. After his LLM in competition law at King's College London he completed a traineeship at DG Competition of the European Commission. In Spring 2016, Baskaran was awarded an International Scholar-in-Residence scholarship by the American Bar Association which allowed him to conduct research on US antitrust law at the Georgetown ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ Law Center in Washington D.C. He is the founder of the Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Competition Law Moot.
Besides Georgetown Law, he has been a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Munich, Germany) and Hannan ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ (Osaka, Japan).