Dr Andrew McLean

Dr Andrew McLean is a Lecturer of Law & Political Economy at Edinburgh Law School. He also serves as Deputy Director of Students, Director of the Edinburgh Competition Law and Economics Network, and organiser of the Law, Power and Political Economy Seminar Series. 

Andrew holds a PhD in Law from University College London, an LLM in Law and Economics from Queen Mary University of London, and an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Edinburgh. He was a Lecturer at UCL Faculty of Laws before joining Edinburgh Law School in 2023. Before that, he worked as an investment consultant for KPMG.

Andrew’s research primarily focuses on competition law through an interdisciplinary lens that integrates law, economics and political economy. His research has received various awards and prizes. Andrew was appointed as the American Bar Association International Scholar in Residence for 2019-20 and received the Modern Law Review Scholarship in 2020 and 2021. His paper ‘A Financial Capitalism Perspective on Start-up Acquisitions’, published in the Journal of Competition Law & Economics, won the Best Junior Paper Award at the 2020 Annual Conference of the Academic Society of Competition Law. His latest article, ‘Innovation against change’, published in the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, was shortlisted for the 2024 award. Andrew’s first book, Antitrust and the Age of Asset Management, is being published by Harvard University Press in 2026.

Andrew teaches across a range of subjects at Edinburgh Law School, including competition law, capital markets law, and corporate law and governance. He welcomes approaches for PhD supervision for projects relating to competition law and policy and/or law and political economy.

Current PhD students:

Zekun (Eric) Chang 

Lee Chisman-Russell