Ana Vlahek

Ana Vlahek obtained her BA in Law in 2003 from the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Law, by defending a thesis on the Reform of EC Competition Law. She continued her education at the University of Ljubljana with postgraduate studies in civil and commercial law, including short-term research and education visits to Cambridge, Cologne, and Salzburg. In 2005, she was also an intern at UNCITRAL in Vienna. In 2009, she wrote her PhD on the transfer of property rights in Europe. Since 2003, she has been employed at the University of Ljubljana and currently holds the positions of Associate Professor of Civil and Commercial Law and Associate Professor of European Law. She teaches the following courses at the University of Ljubljana: EU Law, Collective Actions in the EU, Judicial Remedies in the EU, Commercial Law and Procedure, Insolvency Law, and Property Law. She has also delivered many lectures for students at other faculties of University of Ljubljana as well as at universities abroad. For the last 20 years, she has been mentoring highly successful ELMC and CEEMC moot court teams at the University of Ljubljana. She currently holds a Jean Monnet Teaching Module on Collective Actions in the EU.

Professor Vlahek is also a senior research fellow at the Institute for Comparative Law at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana. Her main research currently focuses on judicial remedies in the EU, enforcement of antitrust, collective redress mechanisms, and the problematic of delimitation of public and private land in Slovenia and Croatia. She is the author of several books and academic articles, and has delivered papers at conferences both at home and abroad. She has been active in several national and international law projects. She was involved in the transposition of the Antitrust Damages Directive into the Slovenian Competition Act and co-authored the 2017 Slovenian Collective Actions Act. She is the vice-president of the Slovenian Ministry of Justice’s Commission for Issuing and Revoking Insolvency Administrators’ Licenses.

VLAHEK, A. (2024): The great saga of collective redress in EU competition law : all cry and no wool?, World competition 47 (2024) 1, 53-72.

 VLAHEK, A., POGORELČNIK VOGRINC, N. (2022): First experiences with collective actions in Slovenia, Jahrbuch für Ostrecht 63 (2022), 299-322.

VLAHEK, A., DAMJAN, M. (2020): The uncompleted privatization of functional land in Slovenia and attempts at its re-nationalization, Anali Pravnog fakulteta u Beogradu 68 (2020) 4, 30-55.

GALIČ, A., VLAHEK, A. (2021): Challenges in drafting and applying the New Slovenian Collective Actions Act, in: UZELAC, A. (ed.), VOET, S.  (ed.), Class actions in Europe: holy grail or a wrong trail? Cham: Springer Nature, 215-248.

FATUR, A., PODOBNIK, K., VLAHEK, A. (2020): Competition law in Slovenia. 2nd ed. Alphen aan den Rijn: Wolters Kluwer.

VLAHEK, A. (2019): Development of consumer collective redress in the EU : a light at the end of the tunnel?, Baltic yearbook of international law online 18 (2019) 1, 134-168.

VLAHEK, A., PODOBNIK, K. (2017): Provisions of the damages directive on limitation periods and their implementation in CEE countries, Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies 10 (2017) 15, 147-175.

Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Module - Collective Actions in the EU (CollActEU). Head of Project.

Beyond ECN+ Directive: Judicial Review of Competition Law Enforcement in the EU - Mapping Judicial Review of National Competition Authorities Competition Law Decisions.  Rapporteur.

Enforcement of collective legal protection in cases of mass damage to consumers and other groups of injured parties in Slovenia, Research project (Slovenian Research Agency), Institute for Comparative Law at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana and Ministry of Justice of Republic of Slovenia.

Legal Challenges of the Information Society, Research and Infrastructure Programme (Slovenian Research Agency), Institute for Comparative Law at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana. Research Group Member.

The impact of European electronic communications regulation and competition law on the property rights status of telecommunications networks, Research project (Slovenian Research Agency), Institute for Comparative Law at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana.

COMPO 1.0 Competition system maturity and cartel enforcement in selected Widening countries (EUI Widening Programme call 2025), European University Institute, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. Research Group Member.