Amil Jafarguliyev

Amil Jafarguliyev

Amil Jafarguliyev is a PhD researcher at the School of Law, University of Galway, supported by a Hardiman Research Scholarship and supervised by Dr Peter O’Loughlin and Professor Dr Rónán Kennedy. His doctoral research examines consumer lock-in in digital markets and how EU competition law and the Digital Markets Act can address it more effectively. His research critically analyses the effectiveness of remedies aimed at reducing consumer lock-in, including their capacity to address emerging practices in digital markets.

His research interests include EU competition law, digital antitrust, digital platform regulation, law and economics, law and technology, and EU law more broadly. He has published on killer acquisitions in digital markets, the recovery of State aid in tax ruling cases, the copyrightability of illegally placed graffiti, and other contemporary challenges in antitrust and EU law. In 2025, he was also a visiting researcher at UNIDROIT in Italy, supported by a UNIDROIT Research Scholarship, where he researched smart contracts as a medium for anticompetitive practices and distortions of international commerce.

Amil holds an LLM in European Business Law from Lund University in Sweden, where he studied as a Swedish Institute Scholar and specialised in EU competition law. His master’s thesis, supervised by Associate Professor Dr Julian Nowag, examined tying and bundling in digital markets under EU competition law and the Digital Markets Act.

Before beginning his doctoral studies, Amil taught EU law as an adjunct lecturer at ADA University in Azerbaijan. He also has professional legal experience focusing on antitrust and corporate law, gained at a leading Azerbaijani law firm and as in-house counsel in Azerbaijan.