Jun.-Prof. Dr. Juliane K. Mendelsohn

I. Monographs

•     Systemic Risk and Economic Order in the Banking Sector – The End of “Too Big to Fail,” Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2018

II.  Edited Volumes (Journals and Anthologies)

• MMR – Journal of Digitalization Law, Data Economy, and IT, C.H. Beck, since January 2025

• Buchheim/Kraetzig/Mendelsohn/Steinrötter, Platforms – Foundations and Reform of the Law Governing Digital Platforms, Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2024 

III. Kommentierungen

•  § 32f GWB in: Säcker/Meier-Beck/am Ende, Munich Commentary on Competition Law (Vol. 2), 2026 (forthcoming) 

• “Economic Analysis of Law” in Dornis/Seckelmann/Eichelberger, StichwortKommentar Künstliche Intelligenz, Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2026 (forthcoming)

•  Art. 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 DMA in: Mast/Kettermann/Dreyer/Schulz, DAS/DMA Commentary, C.H. Beck, 2024.

• Art. 15 DMA, in: Jaeger/Kokott/Pohlmann/Schroeder/Seeliger, Frankfurt Commentary on Antitrust Law, Vol. 112, Cologne 2025

IV. Peer-reviewed articles 

• Commutative Justice as Fairness in the Digital Economy – a private law interpretation of fairness in the EU Digital Acts, mit Judith Hantel, submitted to European Law Open (ELO)

• Financial Power in Competition Policy as a Key Component of Modern Bigness, mit Macarena Viertel Iñiguez 21(2) Utrecht Law Review 5–21, 2025 DOI: doi.org/10.36633/ulr.1119

• Forerunners vs. Latecomers – institutional competition in German federalism during the COVID crisis, mit Thomas Grebel, Oliver Budzinski und Lukas Breide, European Journal of Law and Economics (Eur J Law Econ) 2025, 101-132, link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10657-025-09832-4

• Der DMA und das neue Pay-or-Consent-Modell des Meta-Konzerns, mit Nina Färber, MMR (Zeitschrift für das Recht der Digitalisierung, Datenwirtschaft und IT) 1/2005, 3-7

• Considering the direction of innovationin EU merger control, mit Lukas Breide, 27.11.2024, 11/1 Journal of Responsible Innovation, https://doi.org/10.1080/23299460.2024.2425120

• Regulating Big Tech: From Competition Policy to Sector Regulation?, mit Oliver Budzinski, Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (ORDO) Vol. 72/73 No.1, 2023, 215-255

• Reconsidering Conglomerates – how are digital conglomerates different from those in the past? Theory and implications, 15/1 Competition Law Review (CompLRev), 2023, 83-103

• Algorithmic Pricing and Market Coordination – Toward a Notion of ‘Collusive Risk’, 78 THEMIS Law Journal, 2021, 241-255

V. Additional essays, reviews, and case law notes

• Commentary on the Decision of the Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main dated September 10, 2025 – 2-06 O 271/25: Liability of the Search Engine Operator for AI-Generated Summaries, Journal of Digitalization Law, Data Economy, and IT (MMR) 5/2026 (forthcoming)

• Commentary on the decision of the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) of March 18, 2025, KVB 61/23: Overarching cross-market significance for competition – Apple, with Annika Stöhr, Journal of Digitalization Law, Data Economy, and IT (MMR) 8/2025, 619–634

• Ex ante control versus ex post control – a review of structural considerations by Wernhard Möschel (commentary on the article by W. Möschel “Ex ante control versus ex post control in the law of restrictions on competition” ORDO 52 (2001), pp. 63–73, in the anniversary issue 75/1 of the Yearbook for the Regulation of Economy and Society (ORDO) 2026 (forthcoming)

• Review of the Festschrift for Wolfgang Kerber “Competition, Law, and Economic Policy,” 74/1 Yearbook for the Regulation of Economy and Society (ORDO) 2025, 560–568

• Competitiveness Compass 2025, with Oliver Budzinski, Journal of Digitalization Law, Data Economy, and IT (MMR) 7/2025, 483–487

• The DMA and Meta’s New Pay-or-Consent Model, with Nina Färber, Journal of Digitalization Law, Data Economy, and IT (MMR), 1/2025, 3-7 

• Agricultural crisis and sustainability: Part II - New perspectives on competition, innovation and sustainability in the agricultural sector, 01.05.2025, Concurrences N° 5-2025, Art. N° 124908

• The Normative Power of Platforms – A Focus of Future Digital Regulation?, Journal of Digital Law, Data Economy, and IT (MMR) 11/2021, 857–861

• In Search of the Time Gained, Seminar Report on the Seminar “Disruptive Technology” by Prof. Dr. Johannes W. Flume and Dr. habil. Johann Justus Vasel, LL.M. (EUI), Journal of European Private Law (ZEuP) 1/2020, 235–239

• Thinking Macroprudentially, 38/3 Banking & Financial Services Policy Report, April 2019, 1-10

VI. Articles in anthologies and conference proceedings

• Data Law – the Law, Economics, and Ethics of Privacy and Data Use for Researchers, in Domadhidi/Haim, ICA Handbook of Computational Communication Research, Routledge, London (2026 – forthcoming)

• Fairness in the Digital Markets Act, in: Cleynenbreugel/Grozdanovski, The Standards of Fairness in Digital Law (Edgar Elgar 2025) 62–90

• Current Reforms in Competition Policy: Protection of Free Markets or a Path to Market Regulation?, with Oliver Budzinski, in: Haucap/Stöhr/Polk, Competition and Regulatory Policy in a Global Context, Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2025, 165–209

• Enforcement of Section 19a GWB: Initial Experiences and Relationship to the Digital Markets Act, with Annika Stöhr, in: Becker, Competition in Digital Markets, Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2025, 263–269

• Pay or Consent – Data Protection at the Intersection of User Consent and Surveillance Capitalism, with Nina Färber, in: Heinze/Steinrötter, AI and Data – Digital Regulation at Its Peak, DSRI Autumn Academy, Oldenburger Verlag für Wirtschaft, Informatik und Recht, 2024, 103–124

• On Controlling Platform Power on the Internet, in: Knauff/Lehmann, Liking, Sharing, Regulation – The Future of Platform Regulation, Conference Proceedings, Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2024, 55–67

• Towards Privacy-Preserving Mixed Reality: Legal and Technical Implications, with: Stephan Werner, Tobias Schwandt, Philipp Richter, Thomas Köllmer, Wolfgang Broll, in: Nguyen/Strufe/Roos, International Workshop on Privacy and Security in Augmented, Virtual, and eXtended Realities, Conference Proceedings, 2024

• Sustainability in Merger Control, in: Klever et al., Sustainability in Private Law, Yearbook of Young Civil Law Scholars (GJZ), Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2023, 215–239

• Hello, Mandated Unbundling, My Old Friend, in: Kirk/Offergeld/Rohner, Antitrust Law at a Turning Point, Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2023, 245–253

• Consumer-friendly Algorithms – Algorithm-friendly Consumers, with Elena Freisinger, Kuhlmann/De Gregorio/Fertmann/Ofterdinger/Sefkow, Transparency or Opacity – A Legal Analysis of the Organization of Information in the Digital World, Proceedings of the Young Digital Law Conference, Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2023, 71–94

• Platform-Specific Provisions of the Data Act, with Philipp Richter, in: Steinrötter, European Platform Regulation DSA | DMA | P2B Regulation | DGA | DA | AI Act | DSM Directive Legal Handbook, Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2023, 544–564 (also in English, Steinrötter/Heinze/Denga, Hart 2024, 569–587)

• Background, Objectives, and Competition Policy Classification of the DMA, with Oliver Budzinski, in: Hübener/Schmidt, The New Law of Digital Markets, Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2022, 43–65 (also in English, Hart 2023, 11–20)

• Competition, Concentration, and Inequality through the Lens of the Theory of Reflexive Modernisation, in: Cseres/Broulík, Competition Law and Economic Inequality, Hart, London, 2022, 55-72

• The Theory and Principles of Banking Regulation after the Financial Crisis – No (systemic) risk, no fun?, in: Lorenzmeier/Miler, The New Law, NOMOS, 2018, 307-327

• Risks, Crisis and European Union Law: Implications and Parallels for Adressing Financial, Energy Security and Environmental Catastrophe, with Thea Feigenbaum (nee Sveen), in: McIntrye-Mills/Romm/Corcoran-Nantes, Balancing Individualism and Collectivism, Springer

VII. Varia

• Platform Data for the Study of Systemic Risks – Art. 40(4) DAS and the draft delegated act, 20.01.2025, SCiDa-Blog, Projekt „Shaping Competition in the Digital Age“, https://scidaproject.com/2025/01/20/platform-for-the-study-of-systemic-risk-art-404-dsa-and-the-draft-delegated-act/

• EU policy aims for Big Tech ‘gatekeepers’, mit Oliver Budzinski, 360 info 23.5.2022, https://360info.org/eu-policy-aims-for-big-tech-gatekeepers/

• Stronger together – Covid rescue funds and the Dream of True European Solidarity, An Interview with Diogo Magalhaes, EuropeNow, online journal, 27.5.2020, https://www.europenowjournal.org/2020/05/26/strongertogether-covid-rescue-funds-and-the-dream-of-true-european-solidarity/

• Divesting the Dream of the Universal Banking System, Buse Essay Awards, Going Public Magazine, 2015 (3. Preis)

• Diverse Beiträge zur Finanzkrise und zur EU-Geldpolitik in Open Democracy, Huffington Post, Critical Legal Thinking, Verfassungsblog, New York Times (Room for Debate), The European Magazine, 2014-2016

• Systemic Market Power and the Case for Sector Investigations and Remedies: Towards a Coherent Framework in European Competition Law, with Annika Stöhr, XLV. CLaSF Workshop, Competition Law in Transition, University of Lisbon Law School, Lisbon, Portugal, April 2026

• Competitiveness and Competition Law, 18th Speyer Antitrust Forum, German University of Administrative Sciences, Speyer, March 2026

• On Normative Power and Exploitative Abuse in Digital Markets – Navigating Heike Schweitzer’s Notion of the Private Law Society, 14th MaCCI Law & Economics Conference in Memory of Heike Schweitzer, October 2025, ZEW & University of Mannheim, Mannheim

• Competition Law in the AI Stack, AI and Market Regulation, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management (FS), September 2025, Frankfurt am Main 

• Commutative Justice as Fairness in the Digital Economy – a private law interpretation of fairness in the EU Digital Acts, mit Judith Hantel, MPI European Law Group, Annual Conference “Fairness as a Principle in European Law”, September 2025, München

• Normative Power and Autonomy in the Digital Era, Weizenbaum Conference 2025 – Empowering People in Online Spaces: Democracies and Well-Being in Digital Societies, Berlin, September 2025

• The Economic Analysis of the Future – Limits and Possibilities of the Economic Analysis of Legal Issues in the Use of AI Systems, Annual Conference, German Law and Economics Association (GLEA), University of Bonn, Bonn 2025

• OECD Global Competition Forum, Opening panel session “Competition and inequality”, December 2024, Paris, https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/events/2024/12/global-forum-on-competition-2024/GFC-2024-agenda-en.pdf; https://one.oecd.org/document/DAF/COMP/GF/A(2024)1/en/pdf

• A Methodological Co-reliance: Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA), Universität Würzburg, Juni 2024

• Financial Power as a Component of Modern Bigness, mit Macarena Viertel, Modern Bigness Conference, University of Utrecht, April 2024

• Current Reforms in Competition Policy, with Oliver Budzinski, Forum for Competition Policy, Radein, Austria, February 2024

• The Power of Platforms as a Challenge for European Competition Law, Like, Share, Regulate – The Future of Platform Regulation, FSU Jena, April 2023

• Systemic Risk Across Systems, XXXIXth CLaSF Workshop, Markets in Crisis: The stress test for competition law, Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Legal Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence, Budapest, Ungarn, April 2023

• Critiquing the Direction of Innovation in EU Merger Control, Conference der Uni Montreal/ TU Eindhoven, „Critiquing the Direction of Innovation“, online, April 2023

• Ex-ante Regulation, OECD/indecopi Workshop on Competition Law in Digital Markets, Lima, Peru, November 2022

• Market Definition in Digital Platforms, Keynote, OECD/indecopi Workshop on Competition Law in Digital Markets, Lima, Peru, November 2022

• Sustainability in Merger Control, Annual Conference of the Young Civil Law Scholars Society “Sustainability in Private Law,” JKU Linz, September 2022

• Consumer-friendly algorithms – algorithm-friendly consumers, Junges Digitales Recht, Uni Hamburg und Hans-Bredow Institut, Juli 2022

• A new theory of conglomerate bigness as power?, CLasF (Competition Law Scholar’s Forum) Workshop on Competition Law Enforcement in Digital Market, Bocconi University, Mailand, April 2022

• Competition law and Inequality through the lens of reflexive modernization, Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA), Católica University Porto, online, Juli 2021

• Competition, Concentration, and Inequality through the Lens of the Theory of Reflexive Modernisation, Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance: Competition Law and Economic Inequality, University of Amsterdam, online, Mai 2021

• The Market Price in the Age of Dynamic Pricing, Konferenz “AI and Humanity”, University of Liege, Faculty of Law, Juni 2020

• The Metaethics of Algorithmic Collusion, Católica Graduate Legal Research Conference, The Law of Artificial Intelligence, Católica University, Lisbon, September 2019

• Digital Conglomerates and the Return of the “Power Question” in Competition Law, Seminar on “Disruptive Technology,” Kunstschloss Möln, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, June 2019

• Digital Conglomerates in European Merger Control, Doctoral Dissertation, Freie Universität Berlin, May 2018

• The Theory and Principles of Banking Regulation after the Financial Crisis – No (systemic) risk, no fun?, Augsburg Graduate Conference, “The New Law”, Juni 2016

• Property Rights and the Anthropocence, Swiss Philosophy Salon Festival, The Public Sphere (UK) & ETH Zurich, St. Moritz, Switzerland, März 2016

• Risk, Crisis and European Union Law, Implications and Parallels for Addressing Financial and Environmental Catastrophe, ISSS (International Society of System Sciences) „Regulating the Anthropocene“, Berlin, August 2015

• Sustainable Banking Regulation and a Concept of Regulatory Erosion, Católica Postgraduate Law Conference, Lisbon, September 2015

• Understanding Systemic Risk, Queen Mary Postgraduate Law Conference, London, Juni 2014

• Sovereignty, Democracy and the Architecture of the Economic and Monetary Union, Conference, Reforming the EU: The Future of European Law and Policy, University of Birmingham, UK, Juni 2014

• From the Financial Crisis to the Crisis of Democracy and the Rule of Law, Conference “Law and Crisis,” Law in Context, Humboldt University of Berlin, 2013

• Gesellschaft Junge Zivilrechtswissenschaften (GJZ)

• Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA)

• Editor, EuropeNow, Columbia University (2019-2020)

• Academic Director, Master’s in Business, Competition, and Regulatory Law (MBL-FU), Freie Universität Berlin  Associate at PayPal S.a.r.l. et Cie s.c.a., working with Judith Wielens in EMEA Litigation

• Ph.D. under Prof. Dr. Heike Schweitzer (LL.M. Yale) on the topic “Systemic Risk and Economic Order – The End of ‘Too Big to Fail’,” Freie Universität Berlin 

• Runner-up in the World Student Debating Championship, with Dessislava Kirova, Manila, Philippines 

• Legal clerkship and second state examination at the Berlin Court of Appeal, with placements at the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF), the law firm Linklaters LLP (banking supervision law), Frankfurt am Main, and Lawyers for Human Rights (Johannesburg, South Africa) 

• First State Examination in Law

• Studied law at Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Connecticut School of Law

• High school graduation and German language certificate in Cape Town, South Africa