XLI Competition Law Scholars Forum Workshop (CLaSF)
Promoting Fairness, Accessibility, and Sustainability in Digital and
Technology Markets through Competition Law
Friday 5 April, 2023
UMA Law School / Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Málaga, Boulevard Louis Pasteur, 26,
Málaga, Spain
In association with the UMA research projects CODIG-IA and CoMeDi and the support of Pérez-Llorca
Mandatory prior registration by 29th March confirming attendance to Eugenio Olmedo at competenciamalaga@uma.es
Programme
09:30 – 09:50 Registration and coffee
09:50 – 10:00 Welcome and Introduction: Barry Rodger (CLaSF, University of Strathclyde) and Eugenio Olmedo (University of Malaga)
10:00 –11:00 Competition Law and the Broader Public Interest, Chair: Barry Rodger
Maria Campo Comba, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
The concept of fairness and its potential to pursue public interests in EU competition law
Daria Kotova, BRICS Competition Law and Policy Centre
Sustainability and Competition law: A Systems Approach
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 12.15 Fairness and the DMA, Chair: Viktoria Robertson, Vienna University of Business and Economics
Pablo Solano Diaz, PhD candidate Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
From Darwinism to Lamarckism: Contestability and fairness as non-objectives of competition law
Oles Andriychuk, Newcastle University
The Role of Fairness in the New EU DMA and UK DMCC Regimes
12:15 – 13:15 Digital Ecosystems, Chair: Rita Leandro Vasconcelos, Pérez-Llorca
Sara Guidi, EUI Florence
Accessible mobile ecosystems: virtuous competitive dynamics and hidden perils
Fatima Gigirey, University of Seville
Legal and Economic Problems of Market Definition in Digital Ecosystems
13:15 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 –15:30 Green and Digital Markets, Challenges and Strategies, Chair: Francisco Marcos, IE University Madrid
Georgia Theodorakopoulou, College of Europe
The role of soft law in the new era of competition law: Legal certainty, democratic legitimacy and the challenges in the realm of the twin transition
Viktoria Robertson, Vienna University of Business and Economics
Strategic Foresight as an Enabler of the Twin Green and Digital Transition in Competition Law
15:30 – 15.45 Coffee Break
15.45–17:15 Digital Markets – Remedies and enforcement, Chair: Angus MacCulloch, Lancaster University
Linus Hoffmann, Strathclyde University
Liability Rules as Competition Remedies
Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel, University of Liege
Competition ‘sandboxes’: by-design enforcement tools to promote fairness, accessibility and sustainability in EU digital and technology markets?
Carles Górriz López, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
The Google Saga and Epic Games v Apple: Lessons for a Transatlantic Comparison
17:15 – 17:30 Closing comments
18:30 Drinks
20:30 Speakers’ Dinner sponsored by Pérez-Llorca