• Law of the digital economy, platform markets and data driven markets
• European and German antitrust law and policy
• Competition law, entrepreneurial strategies and innovation activities
• Private and commercial law
• Law and Economics

• German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), scholarship for studies in economics and in law
• German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), scholarship for studies in Geneva, Switzerland, Université de Genève
• European Recovery Program (ERP), scholarship of the German Ministry of Economics for studies in the US
• GRUR (Gesellschaft für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht, German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property), (research)
• Max Planck Society (research)
• VG Wort (research)
• Prize of the Munich Law Society (Münchener Juristische Gesellschaft e.V.)

• Recht als Infrastruktur für Innovation (GRUR Junge Wissenschaft, 3) 2019, 339 p. (with Maute).
• Personal Data in Competition, Consumer Protection and Intellectual Property Law – Towards a Holistic Approach? (MPI Studies on Intellectual Property and Competition Law, 28), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 2018, VI + 577 p. (with Conde Gallego et al.).
• Abuse of Dominant Position: New Interpretation – New Enforcement Mechanisms? (MPI Studies on Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, 5), Springer, Berlin 2008, VII + 204 p. (with Conde Gallego, Enchelmaier).

Professor Mark-Oliver Mackenrodt‘s research focuses on „Law of Digital Goods, Commerce and Competition“ (Professur für Recht der Digitalgüter, Wirtschafts- und Wettbewerbsrecht, TUM School of Management, Technical University of Munich). He is also Affiliated Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition.

Professor Mackenrodt holds graduate degrees in law as well as in economics. He studied law (First and Second Juridical State Exam) at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich (Dr. iur., Ph.D. in law), at NYU Law School (LL.M. (NYU)), in Würzburg and at the Université de Genève. In economics he attended the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT), The Research University in the Helmholtz Association (Dr. rer. pol. Ph.D. in economics), the Stern Business School of New York University and the University of Würzburg.

In addition to being qualified as a lawyer in Germany, Professor Mackenrodt is also admitted as an Attorney at Law (New York). His legal and academic practice includes working at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, at Harvard Law School, at LMU Munich, at the Foreign Office, German Embassy London, and at UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development).

• Antitrust law and the role of competition authorities in digital markets and in the platform economy
• Contract law, competition law, regulatory law and their interaction in digital markets and in the data economy
• The role of algorithms and artificial intelligence in competition
• Damage claims and settlements after competition law infringements