Penelope Giosa is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Portsmouth Law School and Co-Convenor of the Researchers' Network at the University of Portsmouth, which is a vibrant and collegial community supporting academics at UoP.

She is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the Case Report Contributor for Greece & Cyprus in Oxford Competition Law (OCL).

Penelope has an educational and professional background in both civil and common law systems. She had her undergraduate studies at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (LLB, Ptychion) and her postgraduate studies at the University College London (UCL) (LLM in International Business Law) and at the University of East Anglia (UEA) (LLM in International Commercial and Competition Law).

Her PhD studies in Competition and Public Procurement Law were fully funded by the University of East Anglia (UEA) and her PhD thesis on competition law and collusion in public procurement will be published by Routledge.

She also holds a Diploma in Comparative Law (1st cycle) from the International Faculty of Comparative Law in Strasbourg and a Postgraduate Certificate in Management of Shipping Companies from National and Kapodestrian University of Athens.

Before joining academia, she was practicing law in Greece and Cyprus.

Penelope's general research interests are in the areas of Competition Law, Public Procurement, Food Law, and White-Collar crimes. In Competition Law, her focus is on bid rigging, private as well as public enforcement of competition law. She also takes a particular interest in state aid. In Public Procurement, her interests lie in the areas of bid rigging, corruption, and sustainable food procurement. In Food Law, she is particularly interested in organic food legislation and the role of law in supporting agroecological transitions and ecological stewardship. As far as the white-collar crimes are concerned, corruption and fraud are what interest her the most.

Penelope currently teaches the following modules:

• Contract Law (undergraduate)
• European Union Law (undergraduate/module leader)
• International Competition Law (postgraduate/module leader)