European Doctorate

We are proud to announce that all PhD students of the first year of the EDLE programme successfully finished their PhD research. Please find hereunder an overview (in chronological order):

Sonja Keske
"Group Litigation in European Competition Law; A Law and Economics perspective"
defence date: 15 December 2009

Claudia Desogus
"Competition and Innovation in the EU Regulation of Pharmaceuticals: The Case of Parallel Trade"
defence date: 7 May 2010

Hanneke Luth
"Behavioural economics in consumer policy - The economic analysis of standard terms in consumer contracts revisited"
defence date: 27 May 2010

Rosa Castro
"Ex-post liability rules in modern patent law"
defence date: 17 September 2010

Stefano Clo
"Economic Analysis of the European Climate Policy: the European Emissions Trading Scheme"
defence date: 17 September 2010

The theses will be published in the EDLE Series, by Intersentia Publ., Mortsel (Antwerp). Expected date of publication: September 2010

The 2010 Summer School of the EDLE will take place from July 5th to July 16th 2010. Classes will be held by Prof. Jonathan Klick (University of Pennsylvania) and Prof. Dr. Axel Dreher (Georg-August University Göttingen)

The Summer School offers a limited number of places to qualified external doctoral students. Please click here for more information.

EDLE welcomes 16 new doctoral students. Their research period will start in October 2010.

This year EDLE received a record number of 239 applications. The partner universities Bologna, Hamburg and Rotterdam finance 6 scholarships, another 10 scholarships are financed under Erasmus Mundus.

EDLE was selected by the European Commission as an excellence programme under Erasmus Mundus in 2009. Together with the new candidates EDLE will have 43 active doctoral students.

Admissions 2010.

239 applications were received. 

On Wednesday 17 March, applicants will be informed by e-mail about their position in the admission ranking.