Staff Profiles

Peter is a Lecturer in Company and Commercial Law, teaching undergraduate courses in Company Law, Commercial Law, Business Law and postgraduate courses in European Consumer Law and Policy and Law and Economics. His research interests lie in law and economics, law and behavioural economics, company law, and the intersection of law, technology, and competition. His research has been published in flagship American law reviews as well as specialist European law journals. Peter holds degrees from the University of Oxford, Columbia Law School, University College London (UCL), and Maynooth University. He has been the recipient of various academic prizes and awards, including the Valentine Korah Prize for Excellence in Competition Law at UCL.

His DPhil at Oxford, which was awarded without corrections, focused on the interplay between digital platforms, behavioural economics, and antitrust enforcement. His thesis demonstrated how digital platform firms may be able to distort competition through subtle but powerful methods that leverage the bounded rationality and willpower of consumers in their decision-making. His work on this topic has since appeared in the Georgia State University Law Review and the European Competition Law Journal.

Before coming to academia, Peter worked in the Competition department of a Magic Circle law firm
and the UK's Competition and Markets Authority. He has held teaching fellowships across several Business Law courses at UCL and was previously Departmental Lecturer in Law and Finance at Oxford, where he delivered tutorials for several colleges and the Law and Economics of Corporate Transactions and Principles of Financial Regulation courses for the Law Faculty.