Peter Oliver

During the 2005-06 academic year, Peter Oliver of the European Commission’s Legal Service held the annual European Commission Visiting Fellowship. Mr. Oliver, who received his legal training at Cambridge, serves as a Legal Advisor in the Commission. For the past five years, he has been assigned to Competition (anti-trust and mergers) and has represented the Commission in cases involving air transport and other sectors before the European Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance. He also is responsible for institutional matters in the Competition Team of the Legal Service and in that capacity participated in the drafting of the competition provisions of the EU Constitutional Treaty. He has published more than 50 articles on a variety of topics involving the internal market, anti-trust and mergers, and rights of action before national courts for the enforcement of Community law rights. In addition, he is the author of Free Movement of Goods in the European Community, which is now in its fourth edition. During 2005-06, he will be teaching an International Relations course on “Contemporary Challenges Facing the European Union.”