Mislav Mataija, LLM (Columbia), PhD (EUI, Florence), is a member of the Legal Service of the European Commission, where he advises on EU internal market law and international trade law. He has litigated around 30 World Trade Organization disputes on behalf of the European Union and represented the European Commission in around 100 cases before the Court of Justice and the General Court of the EU. He is also a visiting lecturer at KU Leuven. He was previously visiting professor at Columbia Law School, Sciences Po School of Public Affairs, and at the Catholic Universities of Lille and Lyon. Before starting at the European Commission, he was a lecturer at the Jean Monnet Department of European Public Law at the University of Zagreb, and worked as a researcher at the European University Institute Centre for Judicial Cooperation. He has published extensively in EU and international law, including a monograph entitled Private Regulation and the Internal Market: Sports, Legal Services, and Standard Setting in EU Economic Law, with Oxford University Press in 2016.