Jasper van den Boom
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. J. van den Boom LLM
- Telephone
- 071 5272727
- j.van.den.boom@law.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-4030-8443
Jasper van den Boom is Assistant Professor EU Competition law at the Europea Institute at Leiden University.
Jasper specializes in the application of competition law to digital markets and digital economic regulation. In 2025 he published his book “Regulating Competition in the Digital Network Industry” with Cambridge University Press. Jasper has published various peer-reviewed articles on abuse of dominance and merger control in digital markets, digital regulation, and sectoral regulation. Recent work includes comparative research on the Digital Markets Act, Digital Markets, Competition, and Consumers Act and Section 19a of the German Act Against Restraints of Competition. As well as the need for effective remedy design in EU competition law procedures and institutional cooperation in digital regulation.
Jasper obtained his PhD degree from Tilburg University in 2023 and has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Academic Collaborative Centre for Climate & Energy (Tilburg University) as day-to-day coordinator from 2023 to 2024. The ACCCE is a collaborative effort between knowledge institutes, policymakers, and industry participants to accelerate the energy transition. Jasper specialized in energy storage in terms of substantive research. From 2024 to 2025 Jasper was the day-to-day coordinator for the project “Shaping Competition in the Digital Age” at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf.
Jasper is currently lecturing in courses on competition law, law & practice, and digital regulation. In terms of research he is working on effective policy interventions as co-PI of the ADAPT project, writing a book on best practices in digital regulation (forthcoming 2027). He is also editor-in-chief of the European Competition Journal starting January 2026.
Assistant professor
- Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
- Public Law
- European Law
- European Law Section A
- Hinck S. & Boom J. van den (2026), Closing information gaps in DMA enforcement: expectations, incentives, and the role of anonymity for whistleblowers, Journal of Antitrust Enforcement 14(2): 268-290 (jnaf017).
- Boom J. van den & Reins L. (2026), Introducing the quadrant of willingness and resources as a heuristic for regulatory design, The Theory and Practice of Legislation : .
- Boom J. van den (2025), Regulating competition in the digital network industry [Concurrentie in de digitale netwerkindustrie reguleren]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Scott Morton F. & Boom J. van den (2025), Are competition authorities equipped to combat entrenched digital monopolies?: Lessons from the US and EU antitrust cases against Google, Journal of law, technology & policy 201x(2): 263-329.
- Boom J. van den, annotation: HvJ EU 6 June 2024, no. C-264/23, ECLI:EU:C:2024:470. SEW 2025(4): 163-167 (SEW 2025/38 Het Booking-arrest: terugslag van de ‘Dutch torpedo’ en de toekomst van pariteitsclausules voor grote platformen (Booking/Appellanten)).
- Boom J. van den, Bostoen F. & Monti G. (2025), DMA enforcement paradise?. In: Muscolo G. & Massolo A. (Eds.), Navigating the DMA: application across national jurisdictions. Paris: Concurrences. 163-190.
- Boom J. van den & Hornung P. (2025), Ecosystems in DMA designation decisions: bridging the gap between legal text and economic reality, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice 16(1): 3-19.
- Boom J. van den & Podszun R. (2025), Procedures in the DMA: Non-compliance navigation – Exploring the European Commission’s space for discretion and informality in procedure and decision-making in the Digital Markets Act, European Competition Journal 21(3): 606-635.
- Podszun R., Rohner T., Boom J. van den, Drewes H., Hinck S. & Wardelmann L. (2024), Making Article 102 TFEU Future-Proof – The Way Ahead: Comments on the European Commission’s 2024 draft “Guidelines on the application of Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to abusive exclusionary conduct by dominant undertakings”. Düsseldorf-Hamburg: -.