About
Dr Hedvig Schmidt is an Associate Professor in EU Law within Southampton Law School at the University of Southampton. Dr Schmidt is an expert in competition law and intellectual property rights and the Co-Director for the Research Centre for Law and Technology.
Research
Research groups
Research interests
- Competition Law and Policy
- Antitrust Law
- Intellectual Property Law
- Digital economy markets
- Interface between competition law and IP rights
Current research
Dr Hedvig Schmidt’s main fields of interest are competition law and policy (with expert knowledge of EU competition law and US antitrust), intellectual property law and European Union law. She is currently working on two projects:
1) assessing the competition rules' definition of relevant markets in relation to innovation, the digital economy markets and intellectual property rights; and
2) competition law and AI.
Publications
Teaching
Hedvig teaches on modules at both undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate levels (PG):
Public Law, Intellectual Property Law (UG)
International Competition Law and Policy and Intellectual Property in a Global World (PG)
External roles and responsibilities
Biography
Having attained her BSc Business Administration and Commercial Law at Copenhagen Business School in 2000, Dr Schmidt was awarded her LLM in European Union Law in 2001 (with Distinction) and her PhD in 2008 from the University of Essex.
Dr Schmidt was a Junior Research Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London in 2004-2005, and was also a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Essex between 2002 and 2005.
She joined the Southampton Law School in September 2005 as a Lecturer and was promoted in 2012 to Associate Professor.
Dr Schmidt is an expert in the interface between competition law and intellectual property rights with extensive knowledge of both EU and US antitrust law and intellectual property law. She is the co-author of the internationally recognised book ‘“Competition Law and Intellectual Property Rights, the Regulation of Innovation” 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 2011.
Dr Schmidt is the Co-Director of the Research Centre for Law and Technology, which hosts amongst other events the online Afternoon Tea Talks on the Law and AI.
Dr Schmidt has a strong passion for teaching and in the role as an academic has strieved to facilitate, inspire and encourage the learning and education of others through sharing and creating expert knowledge, research and professional development. As such she works as a mentor and assessor for the University's PREP route to support staff gaining Advanced HE Fellowship (holding herself the Senior Fellowship), as an external examiner at other universities, delivering lectures to national judges on competition law and IP, and Chair of a secondary school's governing board.
She currently works part-time and is a mother of three children.