Dr Ryan Stones

Overview

Dr Ryan Stones is Senior Lecturer at The City Law School and a specialist in competition law.

Ryan's research has been published in several leading journals, including the Modern Law Review, the Yearbook of European Law, the Journal of Competition Law & Economics, and the European Competition and Regulatory Law Review. He is also the editor of the current intelligence section of the Journal of European Competition Law & Practice. Ryan's research interests are primarily at the intersection between competition law and legal theory, in particular the rule of law (the subject of his PhD thesis, "EU Competition Law and the Rule of Law: Justification and Realisation" (2018)). However, he also has also undertaken research into the history of economic thought on competition enforcement, the use of behavioural economics, and the application of competition law in the video games industry. He also co-authored the UK report on competition enforcement in the digital economy for the 2020/2021 FIDE Congress. Ryan welcomes expressions of interest from potential PhD students in competition law, broadly understood.

From a teaching perspective, Ryan oversees the delivery of all competition law modules at City. Since 2018 he has been the module leader and lecturer for LU3070 Competition Law, a final-year elective on the LLB programme, and LMM182 Merger Control, a module on the LLM programme. He also has extensive experience of lecturing and teaching public law, including as co-module leader for LG2002 Constitutional and Administrative Law on the Graduate Entry LLB programme since 2019. In the past, he has also taught immigration law.

Ryan has previously held significant administrative roles at The City Law School. From 2019 to 2022, he was Co-Director of the LLB Law programme. Since 2020, he has also been Assistant Dean responsible for all aspects of assessments across the LLB, GELLB, GDL, and other programmes.

Prior to joining City, Ryan completed his PhD at the London School of Economics from 2014-2018 under the supervision of Professor Pablo Ibáñez Colomo and Professor Martin Loughlin. From 2013-2014, Ryan completed his master's degree at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford (Bachelor of Civil Law, Distinction). His journey in law started as an undergraduate student at the LSE from 2010-2013 (LLB, First Class), where he received the prizes for best overall examination performance in each of the three years.

Qualifications

• PhD, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom, Oct 2014 – Sep 2018
• Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL), University of Oxford, United Kingdom, Oct 2013 – Jul 2014
• LLB, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom, Oct 2010 – Jul 2013

Employment

• Assistant Dean (Assessments), City, University of London, Sep 2020 – present
• Co-Director of the LLB Programme, City, University of London, Sep 2019 – Sep 2022
• Senior Lecturer in Law, City, University of London, Sep 2018 – present

Memberships of professional organisations

• United Kingdom Association for European Law, Jan 2020 – present
• Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA), Jan 2020 – present
• Fellowship (from June 2021), Higher Education Academy, Jul 2016 – present

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