Nils Imgarten is a young researcher in European Law. In his research, he focuses on European procedural competition law as well as EU procedural law more generally. He publishes regularly on matters in this field in journals such as European Competition Law Review, Journal of European Competition Law and Practice, Neue Zeitschrift für Kartellrecht, Europäische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht, and Global Competition Litigation Review. That includes works both in English and in German. Besides, he is fluent in French.
He holds a law degree from Goettingen University and a LL.M. from the College of Europe, Bruges. After concluding legal training with clerkships, amongst others, at the German Federal Ministry of Justice (EU Law division, including proceedings before the ECJ), the chambers of Advocate General Juliane Kokott at the ECJ, and at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (EU competition law), he is fully qualified to practice law in Germany.
Currently, he is pursuing a Ph.D. in law (Dr. iur.) at Goettingen University under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Eckart Bueren. His thesis will deal with limits and implications of administrative fact discretion of the European Commission in EU law from a procedural competition law perspective. The research was partly funded by „Arbeitskreis Wirtschafts und Recht“.
As of January 2024, he serves as Deputy Editor of the Kluwer Competition Law Blog.
Short Biography
| since January 2024: | Deputy Editor at the Kluwer Competition Law Blog |
| since November 2022: | Research Assistant and PhD Candidate at the Chair for Civil Law, Antitrust Law, Commercial and Company Law as well as Comparative Law, Georg-August-University Göttingen |
| 2020 – 2022: | Legal clerkship with stations among others at the Federal Ministry of Justice, Department for European Law and Representation before the ECJ; at an international law firm (EU antitrust law) and at the Court of Justice of the European Union (chambers of Advocate General J. Kokott) |
| 2019 – 2020: | LL.M. – Studies at the College of Europe / Collège d’Europe in Bruges |
| 2013 – 2019: | Law Studies at the Georg-August-University Göttingen |
| 2015 – 2016: | Study abroad at the National University of Ireland, Galway |
| 2013 – 2019: | Various internships, including at the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, New York City; at an international law firm in Brussels and at the Court of Justice of the European Union |
Areas of Research and Specialization
- EU and German competition law
- Procedural competition law, including private enforcement
- European law
- European administrative law
- Digitization of civil proceedings
- Legal Tech
Scholarships and Awards
- Doctoral scholarship of the working group „Economy and Law“ in the Donors‘ Association for German Science
- Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation during studies (2014-2020)
- Scholarship of the Free State of Thuringia for LL.M. Studies in Bruges
- Second place in the THEMIS competition of the European Judicial Training Network (Union law Moot Court with about 40 international teams)