Member of the Legal Service, European Commission
Mislav Mataija, LLM (Columbia), PhD (EUI, Florence), is a member of the Legal Service of the European Commission, where he advises on EU internal market law, including on the Digital Markets Act. He has represented the European Commission in around 100 cases before the European Court of Justice and the General Court, and litigated around 30 World Trade Organization disputes on behalf of the European Union. As visiting professor, he taught EU and international law at KU Leuven, National University Singapore, Columbia Law School, Sciences Po School of Public Affairs, and at the Catholic Universities of Lille and Lyon. Before starting at the European Commission, he was a lecturer at the Jean Monnet Department of European Public Law at the University of Zagreb. He has published extensively in EU and international law, including a monograph entitled Private Regulation and the Internal Market: Sports, Legal Services, and Standard Setting in EU Economic Law, with Oxford University Press in 2016.