Dr Hedvig Schmidt is Associate Professor in EU Law at Southampton Law School, University of Southampton
Hedvig has written extensively on competition law (both US and EU) and in particular on the interface between competition law and intellectual property rights. She is the co-author of the well-known textbook “Competition Law and Intellectual Property Rights, the Regulation of Innovation” 2nd edition, with Prof. Steve Anderman, Oxford University Press, 2011. Her most recent paper is ‘Competition Law and IP Rights: Not So Complementary: Time for Re-alignment of the Goals?’ World Competition 42, no 4 (2019): 451-474.