XLIV Competition Law Scholars Forum Workshop

College de France, Paris

Friday, 26 September 2025

Amphithéâtre Mireille Delmas–Marty (salle 5)

Place Marcelin-Berthelot, 75231 Paris cedex 05

Mandatory prior registration prior to 22 September by confirming attendance to aurelien.portuese@gwu.edu

PROGRAMME

09:00 – 09:30 Registration and coffee

09:30 – 9:45
Welcome and Introduction: Barry Rodger (CLaSF, University of Strathclyde) and Aurelien Portuese (The George Washington University; College de France)

9:45 – 11:15 Antitrust Goals, the State and the Citizen
Chair: TBC

Francesco Ducci, Western University, Faculty of Law
Antitrust Goals and Decision Rules

Jasper P Sluijs, University of Utrecht School of Law
State Ownership in Industrial Policy: Assessing Anticompetitive Risks on Mixed Markets

Eun Hye Kim, University of Leeds
Citizens’ Attitudes Towards Techno-Nationalism

11:15 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:00 Key aspects of the debate: Direction, Growth and Time
Chair: Francisco Marcos (IE University)

Bill Ryan, PG Student, University College Cork
New Directions of EU Competition Law

Magali Eben and David Reader, Glasgow University Law School
The big growth reset in UK competition law: an alternative take

Gregory Day, University of Georgia School of Law
Antitrust’s Problem with Time

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 15:45 Industrial Policy and State Aid
Chair : Alan Riley, College of Europe

Łukasz Grzejdziak, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
State Aid and Industrial Policy

Lena Hornkohl and Dionysios Pelekis, University of Vienna; Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe (RENFORCE), Utrecht University EU State Aid Control as a Coordination Mechanism for EU Industrial Policy in a Post-Draghi World

Andrés Borja Alcaraz Riaño, European Commission
In search of itself: the strange case of missing compatibility in State aid control

15:45 – 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:00 Industrial Policy and Merger Control
Chair TBC

Paolo Recaldini, Doctoral student, Université Libre de Bruxelles
EU Industrial Policy and Merger Control: revisiting the case of European champions

Annika Stöhr and Oliver Budzinski, Technische Universität Ilmenau
Competitiveness, Competition, and Mercantilist Industrial Policies: Implications for European Merger Control

17:00 – 18:00 Expert Roundtable
Chair: Aurelien Portuese
Panelists: Frederic Jenny (OECD), Anne Wachsmann (VP, Autorite de la Concurrence), Jorge Padilla (CompassLexecon), Janet Lang (Freshfields), Zach Meyers (CERRE), Ori Schwartz (OECD)

18:00 Drinks

20:00 Speaker’s Dinner

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