Jasminka Pecotić Kaufman

Jasminka Pecotić Kaufman is a Professor of Law at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business - Department of Law. She is Vice-President of the Croatian Competition Law and Policy Association (HDPPTN), Co-Director of ASCOLA South-East Europe Chapter, Member of the Editorial Board of the Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies (YARS), Member of the International Advisory Board of the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies (Loyola University Chicago), and Non-Governmental Advisor (NGA) for Croatia with the International Competition Network (ICN). Her recent research has focused on the challenges of enforcing competition rules in European post-socialist countries. Professor Pecotić Kaufman’s work has appeared in the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, the World Competition Law and Economics Review, and the Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, among other journals. She co-authored several books on competition law, including Competition Law in Croatia (2nd ed, Kluwer, 2022) and Competition Law and State Aid Law (in Croatian, University of Zagreb Faculty of Law, 2021).

Education

• 2008: PhD (Univ. of Zagreb, PhD Dissertation: Horizontal Agreements on Prices in Competition Law)
• 2000: Master of Commercial and Corporate Law (LLM), with Merit (Univ. of London, University College London, LLM Thesis: Joint Ventures in Competition Law)
• 1998: dipl.iur. (Univ. of Zagreb, Faculty of Law)

Teaching (Selection)

• Univ. of Zagreb (undergraduate and postgraduate level courses): Commercial and Company Law; Competition Law; Competition Law and Electronic Communications; Competition Law and Intellectual Property