Postgraduate Research Student & Graduate Teaching Assistant
Liverpool Law School
Email: d.irakiza@liverpool.ac.uk
Biography
Divin joined the Liverpool Law School as a PhD researcher in October 2018. Prior to this, Divin graduated from the University of Liverpool in July 2016 with an undergraduate degree in Law & French and again in 2017 with a Masters in Law (LLM) degree, with a distinction in his dissertation. Divin also spent a year at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne as part of the Erasmus programme.
Divin is also Graduate Teaching Assistant in the School of Law and Social Justice. Divin is also a member of the ‘EU Law@Liverpool’ and GEUPLU (Global EU and UK Public Law) research units within the Law school.
Research
Divin’s doctoral research considers the role of non-economic aims, in particular fundamental rights, in the application and enforcement of EU competition law. His thesis investigates this question through the prism of data protection and collective bargaining rights.
Working thesis title
Does the Charter of Fundamental Rights impose an obligation on the EU Commission to take into account fundamental rights in EU competition law?
Publications
D. D.B. Irakiza - The Charter Of Fundamental Rights, The Aims Of Eu Competition Law And Data Protection: Time To Level The Playing Field (2021) (Forthcoming in the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies.
Teaching Roles
UNDERGRADUATE: Law of the European Union
Module Code: Law210/Law310
Role: Teaching
UNDERGRADUATE: European and Comparative Competition Law
Module Code: Law374
Role: Assistant Module Convenor/Teaching