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Dr. K.J. (Kati) Cseres

Faculty of Law
European Public Law
Photographer: Sander Nieuwenhuys

Visiting address
  • Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
  • Room number: 10.06.
Postal address
  • Postbus 15859
    1001 NJ Amsterdam
  • Profile

    Kati Cseres is an Associate Professor of Law at the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG) and Program Director of the EU Law Masters at the University of Amsterdam.  She is a Senior Fellow of the Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics (ACLE).

    In 2018 she worked as a Distinguished Guest Fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. For 2022, she was selected as a Non-Resident Research Fellow, at the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, Loyola University Chicago.

    Kati is Editor of the Journal Legal Issues of Economic Integration. She is also member of the Advisory Board, Loyola Chicago Consumer Law Review.

    Kati has been Non-governmental Adviser to the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) between 2014 and 2020. ) between 2014 and 2020. In 2017 she was appointed as external expert by the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science for determining and adopting of selection lists for the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) according to the Decision on Archives.

    She is a Boad Member of the Stichting Ontwikkelingen Mededingingsrecht.  

    Kati has extensive experience in training national judges, officials of public administration and civil society organizations in EU competition law, consumer law and EU state aid law. As such, she has participated in the Re-Jus project and co-organized and taught in the EEUStAID project 'Building Central and Eastern European judicial capacities for the enforcement of EU State aid law '. She is the main organizer of the first Capacity Building Training for Civil Society Organizations in EU competition law.

    In 2019, together with Or Brook (Leed University) she was awarded the UK’s  ESRC Impact Acceleration Account for their 'Priority Setting Project'.

    Also in 2019 she was awarded a Bilateral Mobility Project with Rita Sik-Simon (Czech Academy of Sciences) Project title: Revisiting the definition and the normative concept of the consumer, case studies in four EU Member States .

    Kati’s research expertise lies in (EU) competition law, consumer law, constitutional law and sector regulation (energy law). She investigates how various sub-disciplines of law, formal and informal institutions are connected (or disconnected) and reinforced (or undermined) in the design and oversight of markets. Her research agenda focuses on fundamental transformations in societies, political systems and economies that disrupt prevailing models of economic law and its enforcement.  She investigates how these models can respond to challenges of growing political and corporate concentration as well as social instability and inequality.

    Key Publications

    Cseres, K. J. (2022). EU Competition Law and Democracy in the Shadow of Rule of Law Backsliding in: “The changing governance of EU competition law: a constitutional challenge” C. Colombo, M. Eliantonio, K. Wright (eds.) Hart Publishing. 2022.

    Cseres, K. J. (2022). Intersection of competition and regulation in abuse of dominance and monopolization in: Research Handbook on Abuse of Dominance and Monopolization, P.Akman, O.Brook, K.Stylianou Edward Elgar 2022.

    Cseres, K. J. Reyna, A. (2021). EU State Aid Law and Consumer Protection: An Unsettled Relationship in Times of Crisis, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice.

    Cseres, K. J. (2020). “Acceptable” cartels at the crossroads of EU competition law and the common agricultural policy, A legal inquiry into the political, economic and social dimensions of (strengthening farmers’) bargaining power, Antitrust Bulletinpp.1-22.

    Cseres, K. J. (2019). Rule of Law Challenges and the enforcement of EU competition law, A case-study of Hungary and its implications for EU law. Competition Law Review, Vo.14(1). pp. 75-99.

    Cseres, K. J. (2019)."Consumer Social Responsibility in Dutch Law", Erasmus Law Review, 4, (2019):94-110

    Cseres, K. J. (2018). The active energy consumer in EU law. European Journal of Risk Regulation, 9(1).

    Cseres, K. J. (2017). Universal Service and Consumer Protection: a paradigm shift in EU law. European Competition and Regulatory Law Review, 4, 1-18.

    K.J. Cseres (2017). Rule of law values in the decentralized public enforcement of EU competition law In: The Enforcement of EU Law and Values: Ensuring Member States’ Compliance, Jakab, A. Kochenov, D. (eds.), Oxford University Press, pp.182-199.

    K.J. Cseres, Outhuisje, A. (2017) Parallel enforcement and accountability: the case of EU competition law, in: M. Scholten and M. Luchtman (eds.), Law Enforcement by EU Authorities. Political and judicial accountability in a shared legal order, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.

    Cseres, K.J.  (2017). Rule of law values in the decentralized public enforcement of EU competition law In: The Enforcement of EU Law and Values: Ensuring Member States’ Compliance, Jakab, A. Kochenov, D.(eds.),Oxford University Press, pp.182-199.

    Cseres, K.J.  & J. Mendes (2014). Consumers’ access to EU competition law procedures: outer and inner limits. Common Market Law Review, 51 (2), 483-521. [go to publisher's site]

    Cseres, K.J. (2014). Accession to the EU’s Competition Law Regime: A Law and Governance Approach. Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, 7 (9), 31-66.

    Cseres, K.J. and Balogh, V. (2013), ‘Institutional Design in Hungary: A Case Study of the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive’, Journal of Consumer Policy 361, pp. 343-365.

    Cseres, K.J. (2010), ‘The impact of Regulation 1/2003 in the New Member States’, Competition Law Review 6(2), pp. 77-121.

    Cseres, K.J. (2008), ‘What has competition done for consumers in liberalised markets?’, Competition Law Review 4(2), pp. 77-121.

    Cseres, K.J. (2007), ‘The controversies of the consumer welfare standard’, Competition Law Review 3(2), pp. 121-173.

    Cseres, K.J. (2007), ‘Multijurisdictional competition law enforcement: the interface between European competition law and the competition laws of the new Member States’, European Competition Journal, 3(2), pp. 465-502.

    Working Papers

    https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=547682

    Books

    Cseres, K J. Broulík, J  (eds.) Competition Law and Economic Inequality,  Hart Publishing (2022).

    Criminalization Of Competition Law Enforcement (2006)

    Competition Law and Consumer Protection (2005)

    Competition Law and Consumer Protection
  • Research

    Kati’s research expertise lies in EU competition law and consumer law, where she investigates how legal rules, formal and informal institutions of consumer and competition laws are connected and reinforced in market design and oversight. Her research agenda focuses on fundamental transformations in societies and economies that disrupt prevailing models of competition law enforcement and consumer law. She is currently working on two projects: ‘Priority Setting Project’, that studies the legal, economic and institutional factors that influence setting enforcement priorities by all 28 national competition authorities in the EU. The project uses a novel empirical methodology and systematically analyses the competition authorities’ priority-setting policies and practices.

    ‘Revisiting the definition and the normative concept of the consumer’, a project investigating how the underlying concept of the consumer within EU law and policy be recast in a more inclusive direction. 

  • Dr. K.J. Cseres
  • Publications

    2022

    • Broulík, J. (Ed.), & Cseres, K. J. (2022). Competition Law and Economic Inequality. (Hart Studies in Competition Law). Hart Publishing.
    • Broulík, J., & Cseres, K. J. (2022). Introduction: Economic Inequality, Competition and Law. In J. Broulík, & K. Cseres (Eds.), Competition Law and Economic Inequality (pp. 1-11). (Hart Studies in Competition Law). Hart Publishing.
    • Cseres, K. J. (2022). EU Competition Law and Democracy in the Shadow of Rule of Law Backsliding. In C. Colombo, M. Eliantonio, & K. Wright (Eds.), The Evolving Governance of EU Competition Law in a Time of Disruptions: a Constitutional Perspective Hart Publishing.
    • Cseres, K. J. (2022). Intersection of competition and regulation in abuse of dominance and monopolization. In P. Akman, O. Brook, & K. Stylianou (Eds.), Research Handbook on Abuse of Dominance and Monopolization Edward Elgar Publishing.

    2021

    2020

    • Cseres, K. J. (2020). “Acceptable” Cartels at the Crossroads of EU Competition Law and the Common Agricultural Policy: A Legal Inquiry into the Political, Economic, and Social Dimensions of (Strengthening Farmers’) Bargaining Power. The Antitrust Bulletin, 65(3), 401-422. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003603X20929122 [details]

    2019

    2018

    • Cseres, K. (2018). Postai fogyasztók az Európai Unióban és a helyi piacokon: az egyetemes szolgáltatások felhasználójától az összes (digitális) postai szolgáltatás felhasználójáig. Verseny es Szabalyozas, 2018, 140-184. http://www.mtakti.hu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Vesz2018_07_CseresK_posta.pdf
    • Cseres, K. J. (2018). Consumer protection in the EU. In P. J. Kuijper, F. Amtenbrink, D. Curtin, B. De Witte, A. McDonnell, & S. Van den Bogaert (Eds.), The Law of the European Union (5th ed., pp. 1145-1164). Alphen aan den Rijn: Wolters Kluwer. [details]
    • Cseres, K. J. (2018). The active energy consumer in EU law. European Journal of Risk Regulation, 9(2), 227-244. https://doi.org/10.1017/err.2018.7 [details]

    2017

    • Cseres, K. J. (2017). Rule of Law Values in the Decentralized Public Enforcement of EU Competition Law. In A. Jakab, & D. Kochenov (Eds.), The Enforcement of EU Law and Values: Ensuring Member States' compliance (pp. 182-199). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198746560.003.0011 [details]
    • Cseres, K. J. (2017). Universal Service and Consumer Protection: a paradigm shift in EU law. European Competition and Regulatory LAw Review, 4, 1-18.
    • Cseres, K., & Outhuijse, A. (2017). Parallel enforcement and accountability: the case of EU competition law. In M. Scholten, & M. Luchtman (Eds.), Law Enforcement by EU Authorities: Implications for Political and Judicial Accountability (pp. 82-114). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786434630.00010 [details]

    2016

    • Cseres, K. (2016). Competition Law Enforcement Beyond the Nation-State: A Model for Transnational Enforcement Mechanisms? In H. W. Micklitz, & A. Wechsler (Eds.), The transformation of enforcement: European economic law in global perspective (pp. 319-340). Oxford: Hart Publishing. [details]
    • Cseres, K. J. (2016). The Regulatory Consumer in EU and National Law? Case Study of the Normative Concept of the Consumer in Hungary and Poland. Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, 9(13), 9-41. https://doi.org/10.7172/1689-9024.YARS.2015.8.12.1 [details]

    2015

    2014

    • Cseres, K. J. (2014). Accession to the EU's competition law regime: a law and governance approach. Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, 7(9), 31-66. [details]
    • Cseres, K. J., & Mendes, J. (2014). Consumers’ access to EU competition law procedures: outer and inner limits. Common Market Law Review, 51(2), 483-521. [details]

    2013

    • Cseres, K. (2013). Relationship between EU competition law and national competition laws. In I. Lianos, & D. Geradin (Eds.), Research handbook on EU competition law: enforcement and procedure (pp. 539-583). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781782546214.00018 [details]
    • Cseres, K. J., & Balogh, V. (2013). Institutional design in Hungary: a case study of the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive. Journal of Consumer Policy, 36(3), 343-365. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10603-013-9236-y [details]
    • Cseres, K., & Schrauwen, A. (2013). Empowering consumer-citizens: changing rights or merely discourse? In D. Schiek (Ed.), The EU social and economic model after the global crisis: interdisciplinary perspectives (pp. 117-139). (Studies in modern law and policy). Farnham: Ashgate. [details]

    2012

    • Cseres, K. J. (2012). Consumer protection in the European Union. In R. van den Bergh, & A. M. Pacces (Eds.), Encyclopedia of law and economics. - Volume 9: Regulation and economics (2nd ed., pp. 163-228). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781782540465.00012 [details]

    2010

    • Cseres, K. (2010). Comparing laws in the enforcement of EU and national competition laws. European Journal of Legal Studies, 3(1), 7-44. [details]
    • Cseres, K. J. (2010). The impact of Regulation 1/2003 in the new member states. Competition Law Review, 6(2), 145-182. [details]

    2008

    • Cseres, K. J. (2008). What has competition done for consumers in liberalised markets? Competition Law Review, 4(2), 77-121. [details]

    2007

    • Cseres, K. J. (2007). Multi-jurisdictional competition law enforcement: the interface between European competition law and the competition laws of the new Member States. European Competition Journal, 3(2), 465-502. [details]
    • Cseres, K. J. (2007). The Controversies of the Consumer Welfare Standard. Competition Law Review, 121-173. [details]

    2006

    • Cseres, K. J., Schinkel, M. P., & Vogelaar, F. O. W. (2006). Law and economics of criminal antitrust enforcement: an introduction. In K. J. Cseres, M. P. Schinkel, & F. O. W. Vogelaar (Eds.), Criminalization of competition law enforcement: economic and legal implications for the EU member states (pp. 1-29). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781847202901.00006 [details]
    • Cseres, K. J., Schinkel, M. P., & Vogelaar, F. O. W. (Eds.) (2006). Criminalization of competition law enforcement: economic and legal implications for the EU member states. Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781847202901 [details]

    2022

    • Cseres, K. J. (Author). (2022). Competition and Conditionality: The missing piece of the puzzle in the case of Hungary?. Web publication or website, Verfassungsblog.
    • Cseres, K. J. (Author). (2022). Mutual (Dis)trust: EU Competition Law Enforcement in the Shadow of the Rule of Law Crisis. Web publication or website, Verfassungsblog.
    • Cseres, K. J. (Author). (2022). The Commission’s missed opportunity to reclaim competition law for the Rechtsstaat. Web publication or website, Verfassungsblog.
    • Cseres, K. J., & Schrauwen, A. (2022). Conditionality and the rule of law. Legal Issues of Economic Integration, 49(3), 237-245. https://kluwerlawonline.com/journalarticle/Legal+Issues+of+Economic+Integration/49.3/LEIE2022011 [details]

    2021

    2017

    • Weimer, M., Cseres, K., & Eckes, C. (Eds.) (2017). The Rule of Law in the Technological Age : Challenges and Opportunities for the EU: collected papers ACELG 6th Annual Conference, 4 November 2016. (Amsterdam Law School Legal Studies Research Paper; No. 2017-35), (Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance Research Paper; No. 2017-02). Amsterdam: Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3005914 [details]

    2016

    • Cseres, K. (2016). The Procedural Aspects of the Application of Competition Law: Consumers’ Participation in Competition Law Procedures. In C. I. Nagy (Ed.), The procedural aspects of the application of competition law: European frameworks - Central European perspectives (pp. 82-109). Groningen: Europa Law Publishing. [details]
    • Cseres, K. (2016). [Review of: B. Cortese (2014) EU competion law : between public and private enforcement]. Common Market Law Review, 53(2), 575-577. [details]

    2014

    • Cseres, K. J. (2014). Enforcing the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive: the enforcement model of the Netherlands. In T. Tóth (Ed.), Unfair commercial practices: the long road to harmonized law enforcement (pp. 19-36). (A Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem, Jog- és Államtudományi Karának könyvei. Tanulmányok; No. 21). Budapest: Pázmány Press. [details]

    2013

    • Cseres, K. (2013). Együtt vagy külön? Intézményi megoldások a fogyasztóvédelem és a versenyjog területén. In P. Valentiny, F. L. Kiss, & I. Nagy Csongor (Eds.), Verseny és szabályozás 2012 (pp. 61-96). Budapest: MTA KRTK Közgazdaság-tudományi Intézet (Hungarian Academy of Sciences). [details]
    • Cseres, K. J. (2013). From the board: Constitutional issues of economic integration. Legal Issues of Economic Integration, 40(3), 191-195. [details]
    • Cseres, K. J., & Szilágyi, P. (2013). The Hungarian car insurance cartel saga. In B. Rodger (Ed.), Landmark cases in competition law: around the world in fourteen stories (pp. 145-166). (International competition law series; No. 53). Kluwer Law International. [details]

    2011

    • Cseres, K. (2011). Competition and contract law. In A. S. Hartkamp, M. W. Hesselink, E. H. Hondius, C. Mak, & C. E. du Perron (Eds.), Towards a European civil code. - 4th rev. and expanded ed. (pp. 205-237). Alphen aan den Rijn: Kluwer Law International [etc.]. [details]
    • Cseres, K. J. (2011). Towards a European model of economic justice: the role of competition law. In H-W. Micklitz (Ed.), The many concepts of social justice in European private law (pp. 405-450). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9780857935892.00030 [details]
    • Loos, M. B. M., Helberger, N., Guibault, L., Mak, C., Pessers, L., Cseres, K. J., van der Sloot, B., & Tigner, R. (2011). Analysis of the applicable legal frameworks and suggestions for the contours of a model system of consumer protection in relation to digital content contracts. - Final report: Comparative analysis, law & economics analysis, assessment and development of recommendations for possible future rules on digital content contracts. (Digital content contracts for consumers). University of Amsterdam, Centre for the Study of European Contract Law [etc.]. [details]

    2010

    • Cafaggi, F., Cherednychenko, O. O., Cremona, M., Cseres, K., Gorywoda, L. J., Karova, R., Micklitz, H. W., & Podstawa, K. (2010). Europeanization of private law in Central and Eastern Europe countries (CEECs): preliminary findings and research agenda. (EUI working papers. Law; No. 2010/15). European University Institute. http://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/14740 [details]
    • Luth, H. A., & Cseres, K. (2010). The DCFR and consumer protection: an economic assessment. In P. Larouche, & F. Chirico (Eds.), Economic analysis of the DCFR: the work of the economic impact group within the CoPECL (pp. 235-276). München: Sellier. [details]

    2009

    • Cseres, K., & Langer, J. (2009). Tetra Laval à la Hongroise. In O. Essens, A. Gerbrandy, & S. Lavrijssen (Eds.), National courts and the standard of review in competition law and economic regulation (pp. 127-144). Groningen: Europa Law Publishing. [details]

    2008

    • Cseres, K. J. (2008). Governance design for European private law: lessons from the Europeanization of competition law in Central and Eastern Europe. In F. Cafaggi, & H. Muir-Watt (Eds.), Making European private law: governance design (pp. 138-193). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. [details]

    2007

    • Cseres, K. J. (2007). Collective consumer actions: a competition law perspective. In W. H. van Boom, & M. Loos (Eds.), Collective Consumer Interests and How They are Served Best in Europe; Legal aspects and policy issues on the border between private law and public policy Europa Law Publishing. [details]
    • Cseres, K. J. (2007). Consumers’ access to justice in the new E.U. member states. In D. Busch, & H. N. Schelthaas (Eds.), Vergelijkend Wijs (pp. 37-58). Kluwer. [details]
    • Cseres, K. J. (2007). Contribution on Hungarian law. In T. M. J. Möllers, & A. Heinemann (Eds.), The enforcement of competition law in Europe Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [details]
    • Cseres, K. J. (2007). The Interface between EC Competition Law and the Competition Laws of the new member States: Implementation or Innovation? In D. Obradovic, & N. Lavranos (Eds.), Interface between EU Law and National Law (pp. 205-231). Groningen: Europa Law Publishing. [details]

    2006

    • Cseres, K. J. (2006). The impact of consumer protection on competition and competition law: The case of deregulated markets. In I. D. Salavrakos (Ed.), From Small Firms to Multinationals: Industrial, Entrepreneurial, Managerial, Financial, Fiscal, Transaction Cost and Consumer Perspectives in the Era of Globalisation, ATINER (pp. 537-558) [details]

    2005

    • Cseres, K. J. (2005). Consumer Law and Consumer Protection. Kluwer Law International. [details]
    • Cseres, K. J. (2005). The interplay between consumer protection and competition law in the EC. Revue européenne de droit de la consommation (R.E.D.C.), 2005(2). [details]

    2004

    2023

    2022

    2021

    2019

    • Cseres, K. J. (2019). Consumer law and competition law.

    2022

    • Cseres, K. J. (2022). Handbook: Competition law and consumer law.. Paper presented at Training Seminar for officials of CMA, Executive Programme for UK’s CMA (Competition and Markets Authority).

    Talk / presentation

    • Cseres, K. J. (speaker) (11-11-2016). Impact Assessment of interventions of competition and Consumer Authorities, Conference on impact assessment of oversight by competition and consumer authorities.
    • Cseres, K. J. (speaker) & Hulstijn, J. (speaker) (7-7-2016). Consumer Protection and the Collaborative Economy, Sixth Biennial Conference, ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance.
    • Cseres, K. J. (speaker) (7-7-2016). Regulatory consumer law, Sixth Biennial Conference, ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance.
    • Cseres, K. J. (speaker) & Butenko, A. S. (speaker) (1-7-2016). User-centered innovation and EU competition law: local energy initiatives in the Netherlands, 11th Ascola Conference Leiden, Leiden.
    • Cseres, K. J. (speaker) (25-5-2016). The Regulatory Consumer: Prosumer-Driven Local Energy Production Initiatives, 10th Competition Law and Economics European Network (CLEEN), Bonn.
    • Cseres, K. J. (speaker) (20-5-2016). E-commerce and unfair commercial practices, 4th Pázmány UCP Conference, Budapest.
    • Cseres, K. J. (speaker) (15-1-2016). The Regulatory consumer: prosumer driven local energy production initiatives, Eindhoven University of Technology.

    Others

    • Weimer, M. (participant), Cseres, K. J. (participant) & Eckes, C. (participant) (4-11-2016). The Rule of Law in the Technological Age. 6th Annual Conference of the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Cseres, K. J. (participant) (2016). External parter RENFORCE project 'Verticalization of enforcement' (other). http://renforce.rebo.uu.nl/bouwsteenprojecten/verticalisering-en-toezichthouders/
    • Cseres, K. J. (consultant) (2016). Legal expert for Fitness Check of EU Consumer law: Second Study on aspects related to the Consumer Sales and Guarantees Directive, ICF International (consultancy).
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