Steven Uytsel

Steven Van Uytsel is Professor in Competition Law. He received his legal education at the University of Antwerp. During his studies at the University of Antwerp, he spent half a year at Uppsala University in the framework of the European ERASMUS Exchange program. He then went on to complete his LL.M. & LL.D. at Kyushu University and his Master of Arts (Japanese Studies) at the Mercator Hogeschool (now Hogeschool Ghent, Campus Mercator). Steven specializes in competition law, with a particular interest in price-fixing, enforcement issues and the position of competition law in Asian countries.

Steven has been receiving several grants from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, including the Grant in Aid for Young Scholars on "Public Enforcement Institutions and Private Actors - Towards a More Effective Cooperation" (2011-2013), a Grant in Aid for Scientific Research (Kiban C) for research on "Anti-Cartel Enforcement: Toward a Holistic Understanding of Leniency Policies" (2015-2017) and "Artificial Intelligence, Price Setting Strategies and Antitrust Law: Towards a Regulatory Framework" (2018-2021).

Steven has further research interest in regulating innovation, especially in relation to algorithms and artificial intelligence. For this research, he has obtained the Kyushu University's QR Program's Tsubasa Grant for Interdisciplinary Research by Young Researchers (2018-2020).

Steven has been the convener of several conferences. The most recent ones are: "Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Algorithms: Regulation, Governance, Markets" (November 21-22, 2019) and "Collusion, Algorithms and Competition Law" (23 November 2019)

Education

• LL.B. & LLM (Antwerp University),
• MA (Hogeschool Ghent),
• LL.M. & LL.D. (Kyushu University)

Activities & Honors

• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Law and Politics (Kyushu University), 2013 ~
• Program Coordinator, Kyushu University & Thai Office of the Judiciary Diploma Program, 2005 ~
• ASLI Fellow, National University of Singapore, 2012
• Monbukagakusho Scholarship, 1997 - 1998 (LL.M.) and 2001 - 2004 (LL.D.)
• Erasmus Scholarship, Uppsala University, 1996