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Competition Law in Transition – Programme

XLV Competition Law Scholars Forum (CLaSF) Workshop

Competition Law in Transition

Friday 17 April 2026

University of Lisbon Law School

The Competition Law Scholars Forum (CLASF) is pleased to announce its XLV workshop, focusing on the broad topic of ‘Competition Law in Transition’. This is particularly timely given the ongoing debates about the role of competition law in civic society in western democracies.

Programme

09:00 – 09:30 Registration and coffee

09:30 – 9:40 Welcome and Introduction:
Barry Rodger (CLaSF, University of Strathclyde) and Eduardo Vera-Cruz Pinto (Dean, University of Lisbon Law School)

9:40–11:20 Competition Law in Transition: a Broad Lens
Chair:  (TBC)

Amber Darr, Manchester University
Transformative Competition Law

Johan Van de Gronden, Radboud University Faculty of Law
Convergence in EU Competition and Free Movement Law: A Normative Framework for Competition Law in Transition

 Jesus Maria Calderon Arguello, College of Europe
Unveiling the role of competition on the road to a new EU

Linus Hoffmann, Strathclyde University Law School
Competition Remedies Beyond Structure and Behaviour

11:20 – 11:45 Coffee Break

11.45 – 13:00 Competition Law in Transition: Digital Markets
Chair: TBC ()

Sara Guidi, Norwich Law School, UEA
Digital economy, digital economics and digital regulation: a constructivist approach to competition law

 Annika Stöhr and Juliane Mendelsohn, Technische Universität Ilmenau
Systemic Market Power and the Case for Sector Investigations: Towards a Coherent Framework in European Competition Law

 Gul Gok Muller, Southampton University Law School
Back to the Future? The UK DMCCA and the Public Interest Goal

13:00 – 14:15 Lunch

14:15 –15:30 Competition Law In Transition: Private Enforcement
Chair : TBC

 Francisco Marcos, IE University, Madrid
The Damages Directive Turns Ten: Evaluating its Impact on Antitrust Litigation

Barry Rodger, Strathclyde University Law School
Class Actions – The Collective Redress Regime in the UK at a Crossroads

Anush Ganesh, University of Exeter Law School
Collective Proceedings as a Mechanism for Enforcing Competition Law Against Digital Platform Abuses: Lessons from UK Litigation

15:30 – 15:50 Coffee Break

15.50-17.30 Competition Law in Transition: Abusive Behaviour and Art 102
Chair : TBC

Maria Ana Pocas Lourenco, Luxembourg Centre for European Law (University of Luxembourg)
The evolving meaning and role of competition on the merits under Article 102 TFEU in light of the goals pursued by EU competition law

Ece Ban, Oxford University
Regulation as an Input in Abuse Analysis under Article 102 TFEU: Typology and Limits of Influence

Eva Fischer, UCL, London
Technological Progress and the Evolving Role of the European Court of Justice: Competition Law in Transition

Keven A Laurent Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas
From Essential Facilities to Essential Digital Facilities? Re-thinking Article 102 TFEU in the Age of Platforms and Generative AI

17:30 Closing remarks

20:00 Speakers’ Dinner

 

Industrial Policy, Mercantilism, and Competition Law in a Post-Draghi World

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: Francisco Marcos (IE University)

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: María P. Canedo (OECD)

William 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: Angus MacCulloch (Lancaster University)

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

Thanks to our Sponsor

Compass Lexecon

 

Competition Law and the Sporting Arena – XLIII CLaSF Workshop

XLIII Competition Law Scholars Forum Workshop (CLaSF)

Competition Law in a Sporting Context

Thursday 24 April 2025

University of Porto, Faculty of Law

Rua dos Bragas, 223 – Porto

Programme

09:30 – 09:50 Registration and coffee

09:50 – 10.00
Welcome and Introduction:
Paulo de Tarso Domingues (Dean of the Faculty of Law of University of Porto), Barry Rodger (CLaSF, University of Strathclyde) and Jose Reis (University of Porto)

10-10.30 Keynote

Rosalia Ortega Pradilllo, Rosalia Ortega Sports Law, Presidente Instituto Iberoamericano de Derecho Deportivo
The Diarra Case and the Potential End of Release Clauses

10:30–11:30 Transfer Regulations and Player Mobility in Football, Chair: Sandra Oliveira Silva (University of Porto School of Law; Chair of the Disciplinary Council of the Portuguese Football Federation)

Javier Perez, Regula Law
The theories of anticompetitive harm of FIFA’s former transfer regulations: the path to redress and deterrence against a no poach buyer cartel

Miquel Aznar Company, Universitat de Valencia
Player Mobility Regulation and Competition Law: Towards a More Competitive Market?

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break

12.00 – 13.00 ‘The Beautiful Game’?, Chair Miguel Miranda (Head of Competition Dept, Raposo, Sá Miranda & Associados)

Maria Sanchez Magdalena, FILS, Barcelona
Foreign Investment in European Football: The Impact of the FSR

Jose Reis, Porto University
No-poach, crisis cartels and the sporting exception: the strange case of the Portuguese football COVID19 deal

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 –15:30 Competition law Regulation of Rugby: worth a Try?, Chair Angus MacCulloch (Lancaster University Law School)

 Beverley Williamson, McCann Fitzgerald LLP
Professional Rugby Union: Time to stop tinkering around the edges of a cartel

 Richard Bunworth, UCD, Dublin
The Irish Rugby Football Union’s Eligibility Restrictions in Light of the Diarra Case

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00–17:15 Widening the Lens: Sports Authorities and Organizations and the Role for Competition Law, Chair Professor Francisco Marcos (IE University)

Andreas Stephan and Peter Dawson, George Centre for Competition Policy, UEA, Norwich
Exploring the Implications of Recent Competition Law Challenges in the Sports Industry 

Barry Rodger, Strathclyde University
‘Sports’ in which Scottish People excel …to what extent are sports’ governing organisations Snookered by Competition Law

 Angus MacCulloch, Lancaster University
Article 101, Public Harms and Specificity of Sport

17:15 – 17:30 Closing comments

 18:00 Drinks

20:00 Speakers’ Dinner

Call For Papers – Competition Law and the Sporting Arena

The Competition Law Scholars Forum announce a Call for Papers for their 43rd Workshop on Thursday 24 April 2025 at the Universidade do Porto.

CLASF is launching a new workshop to discuss the relationship between competition law and the sporting arena. This has been the subject of three major CJEU rulings within the last year: firstly, two -delivered on the same date- relating to the European Super League (ESL, C-323/21) and the International Skating Union (ISU, C-124/21P) and, secondly, the post-Bosman ruling in Diarra (FIFA, C-650/22). There has been considerable discussion and controversy in recent years about the extent to which EU competition law applies to the regulatory and governance structures involved in sports organisations and any remaining value in the ‘specificity of sport’ concept. This is particularly significant from a commercial, legal, and social perspective given the importance of sports in society and its inherent tension with the economic goals of Competition Law.

Details of the Call are available on the Wokshop’s Event Page

Private Antitrust Enforcement: taking stock and looking ahead – CLaSF Workshop – Programme

XLII Competition Law Scholars Forum Workshop

Friday, 4th October 2024

Private Antitrust Enforcement: taking stock and looking ahead

IE University/ IE Law School, Madrid (Spain)

IE Tower (room T-16/01)
Paseo de La Castellana 259
Madrid E-28046

09:30 – 09:50 Registration and Coffee (HUB 16)

09:50 – 10:00 Welcome and Introduction: Barry Rodger (CLaSF, University of Strathclyde)
and Fernando Pastor (IE Law School)

10:00–11:15 Setting the Context: Private Enforcement under EU Law, Chair: Barry
Rodger

Csongor Istvan Nagy, Galway University
The private enforcement of competition law in Europe: we have a religion- now it’s time to find a founder!

Gustavo Andrés Martin, Juzgado de lo Mercantil 1 of Alicante
Private Enforcement After Ten Years of the Antitrust Damages Directive

Lena Hornkohl, University of Vienna
Collective Actions for competition law violations in the EU: state of play

11:15 – 11:35 Coffee Break (HUB 16)

11:35 – 13:15 Extending Private Enforcement, Chair: Lena Hornkohl

Eduardo Pastor Martinez, Audiencia Provincial of Valencia (section 9)
Contracts and Damages: The Expansive Nature of the Private Enforcement of Competition Law

Antonio Robles Martin-Laborda, Carlos III Madrid University
Standard Arbitration Agreements and Cartel Damages under EU Law

Miguel Sousa Ferro & Ricardo Jorge Silva, Lisbon Law School & Sousa Ferro & Associados
European Commission at Court: Friend or Foe to Antitrust Private Enforcement?

Dominik Wolski, Kozminski University
Harm Displacement and Private Antitrust Enforcement

13.15 – 14.30 Lunch (HUB 16)

14:30 –15:45 Competition law Collective Redress: Key Themes and Developments in the UK, Chair: Angus MacCulloch

Barry Rodger, University of Strathclyde
Key Themes in the Certification of Collective Proceedings in the UK by the CAT under the Consumer Rights Act 2015

Maria Ioannidou, Queen Margaret University
UK Collective Actions against Big Tech: Private Enforcement 2.0

Sebastian Peyer, University of East Anglia
Litigation Funding after PACCAR- challenges in UK competition litigation and beyond

15:45 – 16:00 Coffee Break (HUB 16)

16.00–17:15 Private Enforcement: A Comparative Perspective, Chair: Maria Ioannidou

Aurelien Portuese, George Washington University
Comparative Law and Economics of Private Antitrust Enforcement: a Framework to
meet half way

Rita Paukste, Mykolas Romeris University
Why (Successful) actions for damages are rare in Lithuania

Francisco Marcos, IE University & academic counsel CCS Abogados
Damages in the Spanish paper envelopes cartel

17:15 – 17:30 Closing comments

18:00 Drinks

20:30 Speakers’ Dinner

 

 

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Postponed – CLaSF Workshop: The Fundamentals of Competition Law

Draft Programme

The Competition Law Scholars Forum (CLaSF) and Centre for European Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

Present a Workshop on

The Fundamentals of Competition Law

at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Keynote Speaker

Prof Ariel Ezrachi, University of Oxford, ‘Competition Overdose’

Competition Policy Fundamental Debates

Stavros Makris, EUI Florence,  ‘Openness and Integrity in Antitrust’

Prof Vinicius Marques De Carvalho & Anna Binotto, University of Sao Paulo, ‘Towards a Political ‘Goals of Antitrust’ Debate’

Dr Adriano Camargo Gomes, University of Sao Paulo, ‘A Weberian Approach To The Fundamentals Of Competition Law’

Dr Beverley Williamson, ‘Doughnut Competition and the Consumer Welfare Standard’

Fundamental Issues in Context

Dr. Mary Catherine Lucey, UCD, ‘Vulnerable Consumers: A Gender Critique Of Competition Law Enforcement’

Dr Damjan Kukovec, Middlesex University, London, ‘Theorizing Inequality And The Role Of Competition Law’

Dr Thibault Schrepel, Utrecht University, ‘Blockchain and the theory of the firm in competition law’

Dr Magali Eben, Glasgow University Law School and Dr Or Brook, Leeds Law School, ‘Article 3 of Regulation 1/2003: Between Eu And National Competition Laws And Laws Pursuing A ‘Predominantly Different Objective’’

Market Power

Richard Tepper, Edinburgh Law School, ‘The Unholy Grail: The Systemic Role Of Market Power In Competition Law And Its Weaknesses’

Jan Kupčík, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, ‘Market Shares Presumptions In Eu Competition Law: A Need For A Rethink?’

Stephen Dnes, NCH, London, ‘Efficiency Modelling In Competition Law: Whether To Do It And If So How?’

Xingyu Yan, Zhejiang University, China, ‘Economies Of Scale: Towards A More Coherent Understanding Of Special Responsibility And Competition On The Merits Under Article 102 TFEU’

Anti-Competitive Agreements

Dr Francisco Costa-Cabral, Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC), ‘Collusion’

Dr Elias Deutscher, UEA Law School, ‘Revisiting The Political Economy Of Vertical Restraints’

Fundamental Concepts; ‘By Object’

Angus Macculloch (Lancaster University) ‘The ‘Public’ Wrong Of Cartels And The Article 101 TFEU ‘Object Box’’

Csongor István Nagy (University of Szeged) ‘EU Competition Law Devours Its Children: The Proliferation Of Anticompetitive Object And The Problem Of False Positives’

Andriani Kalintiri, (Dickson Poon School of Law) ‘Sense And Sensibility: The ‘Legal And Economic Context’ In EU Antitrust Analysis’

Heidi Sander Løjmand, (University of South Denmark) and Albert Sanchez-Graells (University of Bristol Law School) ‘Joint Tendering For Public Contracts As A ‘By Object’ Anticompetitive Practice: Revisiting The Fundamentals of a Very Fishy Analysis’

CLaSF Workshop ‘Antitrust at the Intersection of Law and Economics’

Programme

The Competition Law Scholars Forum (CLaSF) and
the Institute of Corporate and International Commercial Law of the University of Graz

“Antitrust at the Intersection of Law and Economics”

at the University of Graz (Austria) on Thursday, 19 April 2018.

Venue: Graz Law Faculty, Universitätsstraße 15, Building Part A, 2nd Floor

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Workshop: Competition Law and Enforcement Priorities

UCD Sutherland School of Law - Business, Law and Regulation Research Group (BLREG) Seminar
UCD Sutherland School of Law – CLaSF Workshop

The Competition Law Scholars Forum (CLaSF) and UCD Sutherland School of Law (BLREG)

 

At UCD Sutherland School of Law (Belfield, Dublin 4) on Friday, 16 September 2016

 

PROGRAMME

 

09:30 – 10.00: Registration

10.00: Introduction – Prof Barry Rodger (CLaSF), Mary Catherine Lucey (UCD BLREG)

10.10-10.45

Keynote Speaker – Professor William E. Kovacic, George Washington University Law School
‘Prioritization, Project Selection and Agency Effectiveness’

 

10.45-11.15 Coffee

 

11.15-12.15

Prioritisation and Article 102 – Chair: Patrick Kenny, Member CCPC

‘Enforcement priorities Paper on Article 102 TFEU: Is a Title Enough to Overtake Constitutional Rules and Fundamental Rule-Of-Law Principles?’,
Konstantinos Sidiropoulos, DPhil Candidate, Oxford University;

‘Far Beyond Meaningless: the non-enforcement of exploitative excessive prices’,
Carmen Rodilla Marti, PhD Candidate, University of Valencia

 

12.15-13:15

Prioritising Enforcement: Commitments and State aid complaints – Chair: Professor Barry Rodger

‘Commitments: Guidance for a New Enforcement Style’,
Stavros Makis, PhD Candidate, Department of Law, EUI, Florence;

‘Prioritisation in state aid control: Filtering out “unwanted” complaints’
Oskar Van Maren, The Asser Institute, the Hague

 

13:15-14:30 LUNCH

 

14:30- 15.45

Priorities in Enforcement: A Global and EU Perspective – Chair: Judge John Cooke

‘Goals, Values and Priorities of Competition Agencies: A View from Practice Around the World’
Dr Julian Nowag, Lund University, Sweden, and CCLP, & Dr Maria Ioannidou, QMU London and CCLP.

‘The Actual Role of Boosting the EU Competition Law Enforcement powers of NCAs: In Need of a Reframed Formula’
Catalin S. Rusu, Associate Professor of European law, Radboud University, Nijmegen

‘Implications Of Competition Law Enforcement In The Electricity Sector: Comparative Analysis Of The UK And US’
Francisca Kusi-Appiah, PhD Candidate – CEPMLP University of Dundee

 

15.45-16:00 Coffee Break

 

16:00-17:10

Enforcement priorities in Scotland and Ireland – Chair: Angus MacCulloch,

‘Is There a case for a Scottish Competition Authority? Contrasting Old, New and Regional Competition Enforcement Priorities in large, small and regional EU Economies’
Aiste Slezeviciute, PhD candidate, Edinburgh Law School, and Solicitor, S and W, Edinburgh and Zeno Frediani, Solicitor, S and W

‘An Analytical Review of the Choices/priorities made by Ireland’s Competition Authority/Competition and Consumer Protection Commission 1991-2016’
Dr Vincent Power, Partner, A & L Goodbody, Dublin

 

17:10-17:30 Closing Address: Dr John Temple Lang

17:30 Closing remarks
Professor Imelda Maher MRIA, Sutherland Professor of European Law UCD Sutherland School of Law, &  Prof Barry Rodger (ClaSF)

17.45Taxis to Central Dublin for bar/restaurant for speakers and participants