Erini Yemenitzis

Resisting Platform Power: A Comparative Study of EU and US Competition Law in the Digital Economy  

My research aims to assess the extent to which the EU and US competition law frameworks effectively resist the exercise of biopower and its effects on innovation, consumer choice, and privacy. Michel Foucault's work on the nature of power in society is used to examine how dominant technology firms, such as Google, Meta, Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon, influence narratives of innovation, consumer choice, and privacy. The research further examines how EU and US competition law has legitimised and reinforced the power of dominant technology firms, and subsequently looks at regulatory tools, such as the Digital Markets Act, to see if it offers sufficient resistance to digital biopower in the digital economy.

Supervisors: Prof Barry Rodger, Dr Jing Wang and Dr Saskia Vermeylen

Email - erini.yemenitzis@strath.ac.uk