Konstantina Bania

Konstantina Bania is a Senior Lecturer in Commercial and Private Law at Brunel Law School, part of the College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences at Brunel University London. She specializes in competition law, tech regulation, and media law, with a focus on digital markets and platform regulation. Her expertise has influenced legal reforms at institutions like the European Commission and the BBC, while also serving as a private practitioner advising multinational entities in the digital economy.

Research Interests:

• Competition law enforcement in digital markets
• Regulation of tech giants
• Media law in digitized, data-driven markets
• Platform regulation (Digital Markets Act, Digital Services Act)
• Data privacy and media pluralism

Recent Article Trends: Her publications emphasize Generative AI governance, digital-era media policy, and the integration of EU regulatory frameworks like the Digital Markets Act and AVMS Directive.

Scientific Awards:

• 2016 Concurrences PhD thesis award
• Fellowships from Academic Society for Competition Law, Fulbright Commission, Competition Law Scholars Forum, and Institute for European Studies

Advising & Affiliations: Konstantina was appointed as expert advisor to the Greek Competition Commission’s E-Commerce Sector Inquiry (2021) and served in a data governance advisory group for the Greek government (2020). She is currently a member of the Academic Society for Competition Law and an extramural fellow at Tilburg Law and Economics Centre.