Professor Nazzini’s research interests are in the areas of competition law, commercial arbitration and ADR. Professor Nazzini’s work on competition law has focussed extensively on enforcement, remedies and procedure. His work also focuses on procedural rights, both within the European Union and from a broader comparative constitutional law perspective. He has also written on abuse of dominance and the fundamental question of how legal rules develop in connection with, and relate to, the objectives of competition law and the influence of economics on policy development and enforcement priorities. As regards commercial arbitration and ADR, Professor Nazzini has been one of the first authors to explore the relationship between competition law and arbitration. His research currently focuses on how general doctrines such as res judicata and issue estoppel apply in international arbitration and how the principle of finality is or may be limited because of the multi-jurisdictional dimension of international arbitration.

Teaching

Graduate

•  Arbitration and Dispute Resolution
•  Competition Enforcement and Procedure

Professor Nazzini joined King's College London as Professor of Law in 2012. Previously, he was Professor of Competition Law and Arbitration at the University of Southampton, which he joined from the Office of Fair Trading, then the UK competition authority (now the Competition and Markets Authority), where he was Deputy Director of the Legal and Policy Department and led or advised on major areas of enforcement and policy. His work included the review of the policy on abuse of dominance under Article 102 TFEU, which led to the adoption of the Commission Guidance Paper on Article 102 TFEU, and on the formulation of the policy on actions for damages for competition infringements, which led to major reforms in the UK and in the EU. Professor Nazzini is currently a non-governmental adviser to the International Competition Network (ICN), where he has been particularly active on the Unilateral Conduct Working Group and on the Merger Working Group.

Professor Nazzini is the author of Competition Enforcement and Procedure (Oxford, OUP 2016), The Foundations of European Union Competition Law: The Objective and Principles of Article 102 (Oxford, OUP 2011), and Concurrent Proceedings in Competition Law: Procedure, Evidence and Remedies (Oxford, OUP 2004). He is the General Co-editor of Global Competition Litigation Review and is a member of the editorial board of the European Business Law Review.

Professor Nazzini is also an expert in international arbitration, ADR and civil procedure and is the Director of Research of the Centre of Construction Law and Dispute Resolution.

Professor Nazzini holds doctorates from the Universities of Milan and London and has been Visiting Professor at the University of Turin and Honorary Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He is a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales, an Italian advocate, and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He has been a member of the first ICC Task Force on Arbitrating competition law issues where the topic of arbitration of competition disputes was discussed at an early stage. He has acted as arbitrator and expert witness and has advised and represented clients around the world in competition matters and in complex competition and commercial disputes in arbitration, both ad hoc and institutional, and court proceedings.