Rate My Professor Katalin Cseres

Katalin J. Cseres is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Amsterdam's Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG). She heads the EU Law Section within the Department of International and European Law and serves as Theme Leader for ‘The Future of European Democracy’ at the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES). Her scholarly work centers on how European law disciplines—particularly competition law, consumer law, constitutional law, and administrative law—can regulate uneven power dynamics between economic, social, and political actors. Cseres explores institutional mechanisms to curb concentrations of power, promoting accountability, fairness, and democratic control in markets. She has notably examined the EU's rule of law crisis, assessing EU competition law's potential to safeguard rule of law principles amid backsliding in member states. Her analyses of the media sector have been highlighted in prominent Dutch publications including NRC, Follow the Money, and De Correspondent.

In her career, Cseres was a Distinguished Guest Fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2018 and a Non-Resident Research Fellow at the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies at Loyola University Chicago in 2022. Among her influential books are Competition Law and Economic Inequality (edited with J. Broulík, Hart Publishing, 2022), Criminalization of Competition Law Enforcement (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006), and Competition Law and Consumer Protection (Kluwer Law International, 2005), the latter cited over 300 times. Key recent publications include "Priority Setting as the Blind Spot of Administrative Law Enforcement: A Theoretical, Conceptual, and Empirical Study of Competition Authorities in Europe" (with O. Brook, Modern Law Review, 2024), "Gender Inclusive Priority Setting in Competition Law Enforcement" (with O. Brook, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, 2025), "Competition Law Enforcement at a Crossroad: Setting Enforcement Priorities in the Era of Digital Markets" (with O. Brook, IIC, 2025), and "The Role of Competition Law in Defending Rule of Law Values in the EU" (in EU Rule of Law Procedures at the Test Bench, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). With 1,139 citations on Google Scholar, her research shapes discussions on enforcement priorities, consumer welfare, and regulatory challenges in digital markets.