Dr. Ben Van Rompuy joined the IES team as a Ph.D. researcher in 2006. He obtained his degree of Doctor of Law from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2011) with a dissertation entitled ‘Is Economic Efficiency the Be-All and And-All of Modern Antitrust Enforcement? The past, current, and future role of non-efficiency considerations in the application of Article 101 TFEU’. His research interests lie primarily in the area of EU/US competition law, with a  focus on questions of normative conflict resolution (particularly in the audiovisual and telecommunications sectors) and the role of economic thinking in the formulation of legal norms. He also has a keen interest in the interface between sport and EU law.

Ben Van Rompuy is currently furthering his research as a Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center, affiliated to the Institute of International Economic Law (IIEL). For his stay at Georgetown Law, he has been awarded the Franqui Foundation Fellowship of the Belgian American Educational Foundation (B.A.E.F.).

Ben Van Rompuy is also affiliated to SMIT, a research partner in IBBT (Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunication). In 2009, he was a visiting research scholar at New York University (NYU). Ben holds a LL.M. in International and European Law, magna cum laude, and M.A. in Communications (media markets and policy), summa cum laude, from the Vrije Universieit Brussel (VUB).

• Caroline Pauwels, Harri Kalimo, Karen Donders and Ben Van Rompuy (eds.), Rethinking Media and Communications Policies (VUB Press, Brussels 2009)

• Ben Van Rompuy, 'The Standard of Proof in EC Merger Control. Conclusions from the Sony BMG Saga' in Caroline Pauwels, Harri Kalimo, Karen Donders and Ben Van Rompuy (eds.), Rethinking Media and Communications Policies (VUB Press, Brussels 2009) 295-318

• Ben Van Rompuy, 'The Standard of Proof in EC Merger Control. Conclusions from the Sony BMG Saga' (2008) IES working paper No. 4/2008, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1523205

• Ben Van Rompuy, Economic Efficiency: The Sole Concern of Modern Antitrust Policy? Non-efficiency considerations within Article 101 TFEU' (Kluwer Law International, forthcoming 2012).
   
• Ben Van Rompuy, 'The Impact of the Lisbon Treaty on EU Competition Law: A Review of Recent Case Law of the EU Courts' (December 2011) CPI Antitrust Chronicle 1.
   
• Tom Evens, Daniel Geey, Katrien Lefever, and Ben Van Rompuy, 'A Dutch solution to Premier League TV issues: part 2' (2010) 8 World Sports Law Report 10.
   
• Tom Evens, Daniel Geey, Katrien Lefever, and Ben Van Rompuy, 'A Dutch solution to Premier League TV issues: part 1' (2010) 8 World Sports Law Report 9.

• Ben Van Rompuy, 'Book review: Article 81 EC and Public Policy' (2010) 31 European Competition Law Review 5.

• Katrien Lefever and Ben Van Rompuy, 'Ensuring Access to Sports Content: 10 Years of EU Intervention. Time to Celebrate?' (2009) 1 Journal of Media Law 2.

• Ben Van Rompuy, 'Fair access to exclusive sports rights still a long shot in UK pay television market' (2009) 14 Communications Law - The Journal of Computer, Media and Telecommunications Law 4.

• Ben Van Rompuy, 'Comment: How to Preserve Trust in Anti-Trust', EUbusiness.com, 8 October 2009.

• Ben Van Rompuy, 'Europees concurrentiebeleid mag niet op een lager pitje', De Tijd, 7 October 2009.

• Ben Van Rompuy and Caroline Pauwels, 'The recognition of the specificity of sport in the European Commission’s Article 81 EC decisional practice related to sports media rights' in Richard Parrish, Simon Gardiner and Robert CR Siekmann (eds.) EU, Sport, Law and Policy: Regulation, Re-regulation and Representation (T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague 2009).

• Ben Van Rompuy, 'Case comment: Implications for the Standard of Proof in EC Merger Proceedings: Bertelsmann and Sony Corp of America v Impala (C-413/06), ECJ' (2008) 29 European Competition Law Review 10.

• Ben Van Rompuy and Caroline Pauwels, 'The European Commission’s re-examination of the Sony BMG merger: a precedent-setting attempt to jump the fence' (July 2008) GCP Online Magazine for Global Competition Policy 2.

• Caroline Pauwels, Sophie De Vinck, and Ben Van Rompuy, 'Lost in liberalisation? Can state aid in the film sector stand the proof of EU and WTO liberalisation efforts?' in Katharine Sarikakis (ed.) Media and Cultural Policy in the European Union (European Studies: An Interdisciplinary Series in European Culture, History and Politics, Rodopi, Amsterdam 2007).