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A graduate of the University of Louvain, the College of Europe and New York University, Damien Gerard is currently a Research Fellow affiliated with the Chair of European law of the University of Louvain (UCL, Belgium).  He is a member of the New York Bar and fully qualified in Brussels where he practiced for five years with Cleary Gottlieb LLP.  In 2003-2004, Damien Gerard clerked for Judge Lenaerts of the European Court of Justice.  In 2008-2009, he was a Visiting Lecturer in EC Competition Law at University Paris V - Descartes.  In 2009-2010, he visited Harvard Law School as a Fulbright-Schuman Visiting Research Scholar at the Institute for Global Law & Policy, as well as the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Germany, on a Max Planck grant. 

His most recent scholarship focuses on EU competition law enforcement, including systemic aspects pertaining to judicial review and the operation of the European Competition Network, and the theory of European integration.  He has published and spoken extensively on EU competition law enforcement, substantive antitrust law, EU State aids law (incl. in relation to the financial crisis) and general EU law, including internal market issues and institutional matters.  Representative publications include the chapter on Judicial Review of Cartel Decisions in the leading treatise on Cartel Law in the European Union (M. Siragusa and C. Rizza, eds), one of the first comprehensive article published on EU State aids rules applied to the financial crisis (Concurrences, 2009) and an account of possible remedies to protectionist threats to cross-border mergers in the EU (Common Market Law Review, 2008).

Damien Gerard is also a member of the editorial board of the Belgian competition law journal ("Tijdschrift voor Belgische Mededingingsrecht/Revue de droit de la concurrence belge"), a regular contributor to KluwerCompetitionLaw Blog and an occasional peer reviewer for publishing houses.