Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Dr. Björn Christian Becker, Visiting Professor

• Location: UL 9, Altes Palais, Room 205
• E-Mail: simon.eric.de.ridder@hu-berlin.de

Short CV 

• Since 2024: Research assistant and PhD candidate at the chair 
• April - June 2024; April - September 2025: Research assistant, Hengeler Mueller Berlin (Competition Law)
• 2019 to 2024: Student assistant, since 2020 at the chair 
• 2018 to 2024: Law Studies at at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (First State Examination in Law), funded by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung 
• August - September 2022: Internship, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Division IB1 (Fundamental issues of competition policy, competition law, competition policy issues of Digitalisation)
• 2018: Abitur (A-Levels), Caspar-Vischer-Gymnasium, Kulmbach 

Research interests

• European and German competition law, in particular abuse control of dominant market positions 
• European platform regulation 
• History of economic law, in particular competition law 

Publications 

I. Articles 

• Varieties of an Effects-Based Approach to Abuse of Dominance: Understanding the Two Concepts of Presumptions in The EU Commission's Draft Guidelines on Exclusionary Abuses, Nordic Journal of European Law (NJEL), Vol. 8(3) (2025), pp. 145-173.
• To Fine, or not to Fine: Reconciling Effective Enforcement with Fundamental Rights in Times of an Effects-based Approach to EU Competition Law, Journal of Antitrust Enforcement (JAE), published online in advance (with Lennart Enwaldt) [SSRN].
• How to Fix a Failing Art. 102 TFEU: Substantive Interpretation, Evidentiary Requirements and the Commission’s Future Guidelines on Exclusionary Abuses, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice (JECLAP), Vol. 15(4) (2024), pp. 222-243 (with Heike Schweitzer).
  • Awarded the Antitrust Writing Award 2025 in the category Academic Articles: Unilateral Conduct 

II. Other 

• Lowering Evidentiary Requirements for the Commission’s Decision Making: The Case for Purely Administrative Procedures, Kluwer Competition Law Blog, 17 September 2025 (Lennart Enwaldt).
• Heike Schweitzer (1968-2024), ORDO – Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (ORDO - Yearbook for the organisation of economy and society), Vol. 74 (2025), pp. 463-487 (with Lennart Enwaldt, Frederik Gutmann, Philipp Hornung, Jonas von Kalben, Robert Welker, Kai Woeste and Maximilian Wolters).
• Ein Jahr ohne Heike Schweitzer: Blicke zurück und Blicke nach vorn beim Gedenken im Reichstagsgebäude (A year without Heike Schweitzer: Looking back and looking ahead at the commemoration in the Reichstag building), D'Kart Antitrust Blog, 20 June 2025. 
• In the Pursuit of Workability: Presuming Exclusionary Effects, EU Law Live’s Competition Corner, 7 November 2024.
• How to Fix a Failing Art. 102 TFEU, Oxford Business Law Blog, 21 May 2024.