Dr. Ben Van Rompuy
Associated Senior Researcher
Dr. Ben Van Rompuy is Senior Researcher and consultant at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut / Asser International Sports Law Centre (The Hague) and Associated Senior Researcher at iMinds-SMIT and the Institute for European Studies (Brussels).
His research focuses primarily on the balancing of economic and non-economic values in different areas of international and EU economic law (competition, trade, internal market), with a particular focus on the sports and media sectors. He is the author of numerous book chapters and articles on the interplay between sports broadcasting rights and EU (competition) law. His major work is "Economic Efficiency: The Sole Concern of Modern Antitrust Policy? Non-efficiency considerations under Article 101 TFEU" (Wolters Kluwer Law & Business 2012).
He has combined his academic work with education and consultancy activities in different disciplines and geographical locations. From 2006 to 2010, he worked as a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for European Studies/SMIT of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He held visiting positions at Georgetown University Law Center (Institute of International Economic Law) and New York University. He also served as a consultant in international antitrust for the US Federal Trade Commission and continues to act as a research fellow of the American Antitrust Institute (Washington, DC).
He holds a doctoral degree in law and masters’ degrees in international and European law and in communication studies. He is editorial board member of the International Sports Law Journal and the Asser International Sports Law book series.
His research focuses primarily on the balancing of economic and non-economic values in different areas of international and EU economic law (competition, trade, internal market), with a particular focus on the sports and media sectors. He is the author of numerous book chapters and articles on the interplay between sports broadcasting rights and EU (competition) law. His major work is "Economic Efficiency: The Sole Concern of Modern Antitrust Policy? Non-efficiency considerations under Article 101 TFEU" (Wolters Kluwer Law & Business 2012).
He has combined his academic work with education and consultancy activities in different disciplines and geographical locations. From 2006 to 2010, he worked as a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for European Studies/SMIT of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He held visiting positions at Georgetown University Law Center (Institute of International Economic Law) and New York University. He also served as a consultant in international antitrust for the US Federal Trade Commission and continues to act as a research fellow of the American Antitrust Institute (Washington, DC).
He holds a doctoral degree in law and masters’ degrees in international and European law and in communication studies. He is editorial board member of the International Sports Law Journal and the Asser International Sports Law book series.
Website : www.asser.nl
Competition law, sports and public service broadcasting: The legal complexity and political sensitivity of measuring market distortion and public value (2012)
Plan to relieve Spanish football club tax debts (2012)
The Impact of the Lisbon Treaty on EU Competition Law: A Review of Recent Case Law of the EU Courts (2011)
The recognition of the specificity of sport in the European Commission’s Article 81 EC decisional practice related to sports media rights (2009)
Case comment: Implications for the Standard of Proof in EC Merger Proceedings: Bertelsmann and Sony Corp of America v Impala (C-413/06), ECJ (2009)
Rethinking European Media and Communications Policies (2009)
Fair access to exclusive sports rights still a long shot in the U.K. pay TV market (2009)
The Standard of proof in EC merger control: what conclusions can be drawn from the Sony BMG saga? (2009)
Ensuring Access to Sports Content: 10 years of EU Intervention, time to celebrate? (2009)
The European Commission’s re-examination of the Sony BMG merger: a precedent-setting attempt to jump the fence (2008)
The Standard of Proof in EC Merger Control. Conclusions from the Sony BMG Saga”, IES working paper (2008)
Plan to relieve Spanish football club tax debts (2012)
The Impact of the Lisbon Treaty on EU Competition Law: A Review of Recent Case Law of the EU Courts (2011)
The recognition of the specificity of sport in the European Commission’s Article 81 EC decisional practice related to sports media rights (2009)
Case comment: Implications for the Standard of Proof in EC Merger Proceedings: Bertelsmann and Sony Corp of America v Impala (C-413/06), ECJ (2009)
Rethinking European Media and Communications Policies (2009)
Fair access to exclusive sports rights still a long shot in the U.K. pay TV market (2009)
The Standard of proof in EC merger control: what conclusions can be drawn from the Sony BMG saga? (2009)
Ensuring Access to Sports Content: 10 years of EU Intervention, time to celebrate? (2009)
The European Commission’s re-examination of the Sony BMG merger: a precedent-setting attempt to jump the fence (2008)
The Standard of Proof in EC Merger Control. Conclusions from the Sony BMG Saga”, IES working paper (2008)
