Eyad Maher Dabbah holds the Chair in Competition Law and Policy. He joined Queen Mary University of London in October 2001. Prior to that he was a lecturer in law at King's College, University of London where he taught EU competition law on the LLM programme and EU law, property law, trusts law and business tenancies on the LLB programme. Eyad specialises in the field of antitrust and competition. He has published widely in this field and is the author of several books dealing with national, regional and global competition law and policy. He is also the editor of two major works in the field: Merger Control Worldwide (with Paul Lasok QC) and Anti-cartel Enforcement Worldwide (with Professor Barry Hawk). Eyad is a frequent speaker and chairman at competition law conferences and events, and has taught competition law in many places around the world. He acts as special counsel and consultant to several governments, international organisations and business firms. Eyad has handled a number of high-profile competition law matters before competition authorities around the world as well as in arbitration proceedings. Some of the cases handled by Eyad have been the first of their kind in some jurisdictions.
Between 2006 and 2018, Eyad served as the General Editor (with Barry Hawk) for the Antitrust and Competition Series at Cambridge University Press. Eyad was called to the Bar in England and Wales. He is the recipient of a Harmsworth Major Scholarship.
At Queen Mary University of London, Eyad is the course leader of LLM EU Competition Law (also by distance learning), LLM International and Comparative Competition Law (also by distance learning), LLM International Merger Control (also by distance learning) and LLB Competition Law. He is the founder and Director of the Institute for Competition and Consumers (ICC) (formerly, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Competition Law and Policy). He previously served as director of the School of Law LLM programme (between 2002-2005 and between 2014-2017).
Beyond competition law, Eyad has strong expertise in trade disputes and anti-dumping. During the past decade, Eyad handled a number of high-profile anti-dumping cases. He served as the chairman of the anti-dumping tribunal of the Government of Israel between 2012 – 2017.
