Melanie Schwaderer obtained a degree in law from Humboldt University Berlin in 2005 after having completed studies in law and economics at University of Trier (1998-2000), University of California Los Angeles (1999), University of Antwerp (Erasmus scholarship 2000-2001) and Harvard University (2001). In 2006 she received a Master of Laws degree in European Law from London School of Economics. From 2006 on she worked as an academic assistant for Professor Dr. Dr. Dr. h.c. Saecker at the Institute for German and European Business, Competition and Regulation Law (Free University Berlin). Since September 2008 she is writing her Ph.D. thesis on the ?more economic approach’ to European competition law at the European University Institute, Florence.