Staff profile

Lyuxing Tao is a full-time PhD student in Law at Durham University. Prior to his PhD study, he obtained his Bachelor degree in Law from Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST LLB), in 2022. He also earned a master degree in Law from the University of Edinburgh (UoE LLM), in 2023. He started his PhD in October 2023.

• Supervised by Dr Anca Chirita and Dr Angelia Jia Wang, his research is currently delving into issues related to the regulation of digital platforms in the context of the European Union's single market, algorithmic discrimination in the realm of virtual competition and competition microeconomics represented by efficiency optimisation. This project will entail an examination of existing competition laws and specialised legislation for digital markets in the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It will be approached from theoretical perspectives encompassing traditional competition law, data law, and consumer protection law. The project seeks to provide proposal on how competition law should address the digital market and whether a reasonable balance can be achieved between the interests of various legal sectors.