Barbora Jedlickova

Dr Barbora Jedlickova specialises in competition law, with principal research interests in competition-law theories, competition law in the digital economy and comparative competition law. Her research has explored various topics, including cartels, vertical restraints, the concepts of ‘bargaining power’ and ‘power’ in competition law, sustainability and competition law, AI and competition law, and economic and jurisprudential theories and arguments in competition law. Within her research expertise, she has written about and analysed specific markets with distinctive issues, such the grocery retail market, the pharmaceutical market and digital markets.

Barbora has published both internationally and nationally, including in highly reputable, leading law journals (Federal Law Review, Jurisprudence, World Competition). Her research monograph Resale Price Maintenance and Vertical Territorial Restrictions: Theory and Practice in EU Competition Law and US Antitrust Law was published by Edward Elgar Publishing. She has presented her research in Australia, the USA, Europe and Asia.

Barbora's engagement and research are both internationally- and nationally-oriented. She led the establishment of the International League of Competition Law (LIDC) Australia and New Zealand, the first LIDC group and association of competition-law experts in Australia and New Zealand. She is also the President of this chapter of the LIDC, which is affiliated under the long-standing International LIDC based in Switzerland and linked to the University of Queensland’s Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law (CPILC). As an active member of the LIDC, she has been involved in several international LIDC projects.

Barbora is a member of the Competition and Consumer Committee of the Law Council of Australia, as well as several international associations. She has visited several European and US institutions as a visiting scholar, including the University of Iowa, Boston University, the US Department of Justice, and the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Barbora has served as an Editor of the Oceania Column of Competition Policy International (CPI) and as a General Editor of the LAWASIA Journal. She is a Fellow of the CPILC and a Fellow of the Australian Centre for Private Law at the TC Beirne School of Law.

Informed by her personal experience and journey, Barbora has been active in advocating for children with brain injuries and carers of children with special needs and seriously sick children. She has been leading the establishment of The University of Queensland’s Network for Carers of Children with Special Needs and/or Serious Chronic Illnesses.

Barbora holds degrees from the University of Glasgow in the UK (PhD in Law, 2012; and LL.M. with Commendation in International Competition Law and Policy, 2007) and from Masaryk University in the Czech Republic (Masters in Law and Legal Studies, 2004). Prior to her academic career, she worked as a Lawyer in the Czech Republic and as a Contracts Officer/Assistant Contracts Manager at both the University of St Andrews and the University of Glasgow in the UK. In 2009, she was a trainee (a blue-book 'stagiaire') of DG Competition at the European Commission in Brussels.