About me

Ayse Gizem joined the LSE Law School in 2023. Her scholarship focuses on creative destruction, innovation, antitrust, entrepreneurship and the history of the ideas that underlie them. At LSE Law School she teaches competition law and information technology law.

She was formerly a research fellow at Sciences Po in Paris and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Glasgow’s CREATe Centre. She supervised the DIGILAW Program at the Sciences Po Law School Clinic. She has designed and taught courses on competition law, law and innovation, sociology of technology, and research methods at Sciences Po and Bilkent University since 2018.

Ayse Gizem has a Magister Juris degree from the University of Oxford, an LL.M. degree from Université Paris II-Panthéon-Assas, and an LLB degree from Bilkent University. She practised as a competition lawyer between 2013-2016 and is a member of the Istanbul Bar Association.

Ayse Gizem is currently researching antitrust history, EU innovation policy, and artificial intelligence regulation. She is interested in the influence of Joseph Schumpeter’s writings on XXIst century economic thought, particularly competition economics.

“Sustainability and Competition Law: Addressing the Broken Links”, collection of papers in the Nordic Journal of European Law, Volume 5, Issue 1 (2022) ed. Ayse Gizem Yasar and Teodora Groza

“Disruptive Innovation and Merger Control: Challenges in a Digitalised World” (paper in Turkish) (in Bilgi University Competition Law in Practice Seminars 2019, ed. Kerem Cem Sanli & Dilan Alma), March 2020

“Not all cartel facilitators are the same: legal implications and policy considerations” (Thomas Reyntjens and Ayse Gizem Yasar) European Competition Law Review, September 2019

“Multisided Markets and the Challenge of Incorporating Multisided Considerations into Competition Law Analysis” (Gonenc Gurkaynak, Oznur Inanilir, Sinan Diniz and Ayse Gizem Yasar), Oxford Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, Volume 5, Issue 1 (2017)

“Competition Law and Personal Data Crossing in Digital Markets” (Gonenc Gurkaynak, Ayse Guner and Ayse Gizem Yasar), Ian S Forrester QC LL.D Liber Amicorum – Volume II, Concurrences Review (2015)

“Gaming without Frontiers: Copyright and Competition in the Changing Video Game Sector”, CREATe Working Paper 10/2023 (October 2023)

“AI and the EU Digital Markets Act: Addressing the Risks of Bigness in Generative AI”, working paper (July 2023)

“Re-examining Schumpeter’s Legacy: Creative Destruction as Competition, Innovation and Capitalism”, working paper (November 2021)

Ayse Gizem is a fellow at CREATe, where she is part of an ongoing project on Cloud Gaming and the Changing Landscape of the Video Game Industry.

Ayse Gizem co-organises the Algorithms, Law and Policy working group at Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG).

She is a member of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought.

New Players in the Game? Investigating the Emergence of Cloud Gaming and the Changing Landscape of the Video Game Industry (2023) (with Amy Thomas, Kenneth Barr and Magali Eben)

How Can the New Competition Tool Help Bridge the Gap Between Sustainability and EU Competition Law? (2020) with Fair Trade Advocacy Office

Fair Trade Advocacy Office Policy Position Paper on EU Competition Law and Cooperation Agreements for Sustainability (2020) with Fair Trade Advocacy Office

LL210: Information Technology and the Law

LL300: Competition Law

LLB LegalTech Skills Programme