Dr Liana Japaridze is a Lecturer in Competition Law. Before joining the University of Glasgow in 2025, she taught Competition Law and European Union Law at the University of Sussex (as a lecturer) and the University of Oxford (as a tutor). She started her academic journey in 2017, after serving as a legal advisor on EU and competition law matters for the Ministry of Justice and the Competition and Consumer Agency in her homeland, Georgia. At the University of Glasgow, she is a member of the School of Law and CREATe.
  
Trained in both law and public governance, Liana earned her master’s and doctoral degrees at the University of Oxford (Wolfson College and Somerville College). She also holds a joint MA in Public Administration from the Speyer University of Administrative Science (Germany) and Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Georgia) and an LLB degree from the latter institution. Her expertise (as an external consultant) has been used by international organisations (such as OECD and EU) and Georgian law firms wishing to develop specialisation in competition cases.
 
Liana is a co-author and co-editor of the first Georgian-language textbook on competition law. She is currently a visiting lecturer at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, where she coordinates the Jean Monnet Module in European and Comparative Competition Law and Policy (ECCLAP).

Dr Liana Japaridze has research expertise in international and comparative competition law and policy. Her work encompasses legal transplants of competition law, goals/limits of competition policy, and effects of institutional design on competition enforcement.

Currently, her principal research interest relates to the effects of the digital revolution on the effectiveness of competition frameworks (combination of policy, law, enforcement and advocacy) in major economies generating ‘blueprints’ for legal transplants (EU and the USA) and in the economies that adopt (or have adopted) those transplants in Western Balkans, Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

She is also interested to explore how the development of digital markets and AI have changed the interaction of competition law and other areas of law, including (financial and energy) regulation, data protection, and IP law.

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Dr Liana Japaridze is a recipient of following teaching and impact-related grants:

2024 - award of 3000 GBP by the Sussex Law School Knowledge Exchange and Impact Fund to organise a conference and a policy roundtable for academics, public servants and legal practitioners about the challenges of evaluating circumstantial evidence in Georgian competition cases in the light of the absence of a uniform standard of proof and evaluation of best international practice in this area. The grant also involved preparing a post-conference publication.

2023 - award of 30 000 EUR by the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) under the ERASMUS+ umbrella to design and deliver the Jean Monnet Module in European and Comparative Competition Law and Policy (ECCLAP) at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia.

Dr Liana Japaridze is happy to supervise students in all areas of competition law and would welcome proposals relating to legal transplants of competition law, institutional design of competition enforcers, and interaction between competition law and other areas of law within the digital realm. She would also be keen to consider proposals related to comparative competition law, involving EU competition law, US antitrust law, and other jurisdictions within her expertise.

Dr Liana Japaridze is a member of competition law teaching team at the University of Glasgow. She co-teaches the following courses:

UG courses:

• Competition Law
• EU Law

LLM courses:

• Advanced Competition Law and Society
• Competition, Innovation and Digital Markets

Dr Liana Japaridze is a member of the Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA).