Professor Bruce Wardhaugh is Professor of Competition Law at Durham Law School, Durham University in the UK, where he has served as the Law School’s Deputy Dean for Internationalisation.  He earned a PhD and an LLB (JD) from the University of Toronto, as well as an LLM (in International and European Law) from the University of Amsterdam.  He was called to the Bar of British Columbia (Canada) where he practiced for a number of years.

Professor Wardhaugh has published several monographs on these topics, most recently Competition Law in Crisis: The Antitrust Response to Economic Shocks (with Cambridge University Press). This book examines how competition law of the EU and its Member States has adapted to economic problems at the firm and industry-wide level in the past, and in particular whether it has exacerbated or mitigated them. With this analysis in mind, the book then turns to other crises (and their resulting economic fallout), which we now face—particularly Covid, climate change and (in the UK) Brexit. 

In addition to these monographs, Professor Wardhaugh has published numerous articles in scholarly journals, and is a news correspondent for the European Competition Law Review on cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union. In that role he writes frequent comments on that Court’s competition law judgments. He also contributes to academic conferences on a frequent basis. 

Professor Wardhaugh is also actively involved in the Society of Legal Studies (serving on its Executive Committee between 2013 and 2022), and has been an Editor in Chief of Legal Studies, the Society’s journal

Professor Wardhaugh’s research interests are in competition law, particularly in issues of cartels and collusion.