Ana Vlahek

Professor Ana Vlahek, PhD obtained her BA in Law in 2003 from the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Law, by defending a thesis on the reform of EU competition law. She continued her education at the University of Ljubljana with doctoral studies in civil and commercial law, including short-term research and education visits to Cambridge, Cologne, and Salzburg, as well as an internship at the Higher Court in Ljubljana. In 2005, she was also an intern at UNCITRAL in Vienna. In 2009, she earned her doctorate degree at the University of Ljubljana on the subject of the transfer of ownership rights in movable property within the European legal environment.

Since 2003, she has been employed at the University of Ljubljana where she currently holds the positions of Full Professor of Civil and Commercial Law and Associate Professor of European Law. At the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana, she teaches various subjects (including EU Law, Collective Actions in the EU, Judicial Remedies in the EU, Commercial Law and Procedure, Insolvency Law, and Property Law), and has also lectured at other faculties of the University of Ljubljana as well as at universities abroad. For over 20 years, she has been mentoring very successful teams from the University of Ljubljana in international student competitions such as the Willem C. Vis Moot Court in International Commercial Arbitration (2002-2004), the European Law Moot Court (2003-2007, 2013-present), and the Central and East Europe Moot Competition (2003-present), where she also serves as a judge and arbitrator. During the period from 2023 to 2026, she holds an Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Teaching Module titled Collective Actions in the EU.

Since 2008, Professor Vlahek has been a researcher at the Institute of Comparative Law at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana. She is 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 and in the preparation of Slovenian legislation (Collective Actions Act, transposition of the Antitrust Damages Directive into the Act on Prevention of Restriction of Competition etc.). Her recent research focuses on collective actions, enforcement of competition law, relationships related to infrastructure networks, functional land, and international sales contract. She is Vice-President of the Slovenian Ministry of Justice’s Commission for Issuing and Revoking Insolvency Administrators’ Licenses and a Board member of the Ljubljana Arbitration Centre at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia. She collaborates with UNCITRAL as a contributor to the CLOUT database.

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. Head of project.

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. Research Group Member.

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.