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Workshop – Societal Problems: Antitrust Solutions

Societal Problems: Antitrust Solutions

A Competition Law Scholars Forum Workshop
Hosted by the University of Lisbon Law School, Lisbon

Blended event: Online and In-Person

Friday 17th September 2021

Mandatory prior registration by 10th September 2021 by contacting miguelferro@fd.ulisboa.pt, intimating attendance online or in-person.

Programme

09:15 – 09:45: Registration and coffee

09.45: Introduction: Barry Rodger (CLaSF), Miguel Sousa Ferro (Lisbon Law School)

09.50-10.25 Keynote Speaker, Zoom online
Michelle Meagher: ‘What Does Antitrust Actually Do? Considering the Unintended Consequences of Antitrust Policy’

10.30-11.45 ‘The Environment and Sustainability’ Zoom online session, Chair: tbc

Oles Andriychuk, Strathclyde Law School,
The Concept of Sustainability in EU Competition Law: A Legal Realist Perspective

Ritum Kumar, Atlas Law Partners, New Delhi, India and Divya Swamy, PHD student, RML National Law University, Lucknow, India,
Contouring Sustainability through competition Law: The Need and Means of Policy Divergence

Penny Giosa, Portsmouth Law School and Aras Georgopoulos, Nottingham School of Law,
State Aid and Environmental Protection: The Role of Competitors and Civil Society Organisations

11:45-12:10 Coffee Break

12:10-13:00  Fairness and Discrimination, zoom online session, Chair: tbc

Sachin Goyal, Competition Commission of India (CCI) and Konark Bhandari, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP),
Fairness and Public Interest Under Competition Law – How can they Help the Indian Farmer?

Anik Bhaduri, NALSAR University of Law, India and Anupriya Dhonchak, BCL Candidate, Oxford
Gender Wage Discrimination: Antitrust Implications and Remedies

13:00- 14:15 LUNCH

14:15- 15:45 Inequality and Redistribution, In-person session (also live zoom feed) Chair: tbc

Carmen Rodilla, University of Valencia,
Anti-competitive practices in Labour markets and EU competition law

Sandra Marco Colino, Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Sustainability, Inequality and Competition Law

Miguel Moura e Silva, Lisbon University Law School,
Can Competition Law avoid issues of Wealth Redistribution?

15:45-16:15 Coffee Break

16:15-17:15 Wider goals, In-person session (also live zoom feed) Chair: tbc

Maciej Bernatt and Marta Sznadjer, Department of European Economic Law, Warsaw University,
The Role of Competition Law in Preserving media Pluralism

Klaudia Majcher, Vienna University of Business and Economics, and Michael Ristaniemi, Brussels School of Governance, Free University of Brussels-VUB,
From Consumer to Citizen Welfare: Imperfect Competition Calls for a Renewed Policy Goal in EU Competition Law

17:15 – Closing comments

17:45 – Drinks Reception, sponsored by Sousa Ferro e Associados

19:30 – 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’

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CLaSF Workshop: The Courts & Competition Law – Draft Programme

Draft Programme

The Competition Law Scholars Forum (CLaSF) and The School of Law, University College Cork 

present the programme for a workshop on

 The Courts & Competition Law

 at University College Cork, Ireland on Thursday 5 September 2019.

Moot Court Room, School of Law, Aras na Laoi

Mandatory prior registration by  2nd September 2019 at Declan.Walsh@ucc.ie

Programme

09:30 – 09:50 – Registration and coffee

09:50 – Introduction: Barry Rodger (CLaSF), Mark Poustie (Dean of Law, UCC)

10:00 – 10:45 Keynote Speaker – tbc

 

10:45 – 11:00 Coffee

 

11:00 – 12:00 – The EU Context and Private Enforcement, chair: tbc

Charlotte Leskinen, Striking a Balance between Public and Private Enforcement – the Impact of the Case Law of the Court of Justice, IE University

Alexandru Gabriel Soptica-Vid, CJEU case law developments and current issues in allocating jurisdiction in cross-border EU competition law damages actions, UCD

 

12:00 – 13:30 – National Experiences, chair: tbc

Barry Rodger, Competition Law Private Enforcement: driven by EU institutions, Principles and Instruments or National Mechanisms? An analysis of aspects of Key Themes in Recent  UK Case-law; University of Strathclyde

Rita Griguolaite, Is there any room left for purely domestic situations? The analysis of EU competition law application by Lithuanian Supreme Administrative Court in antitrust cases where no Art 101/102 TFEU infringement found, Motieka, Vilnius

Paul Gorecki, The Courts & Competition Law: The Irish Experience, Trinity College Dublin

 

13:30 – 14:45 LUNCH

 

14:45 – 15:45  The Courts and Procedural Issues, chair: tbc

Helene Andersson, Accessing Evidence of Competition Law Infringements through National Courts – A Mission Impossible?, Stockholm University

Haukur Logi Karlsson, Courts and the political mode of deciding, compensating for undue procedural delays in EU’s competition procedure, Reykjavik University

 

15:45-16:00 Coffee

 

16:00 – 17:00  Review of Competition Authority decision-making, chair: tbc

Francisco Marcos, The judicial challenge of the fines imposed by Competition Authorities in Spain: An empirical analysis; IE University

Vincent Power, When does the court of justice of the European Union disagree with the merger decisions of the European Commission?; A & L Goodbody, Dublin

 

17:00 – 17:15 Closing remarks: Declan Walsh (UCC), Barry Rodger (CLaSF)

 

17:45 Drinks Reception at The Kiln, Lady’s Well Brewery, Leitrim St, Cork, kindly hosted by Heineken Ireland

 

19:30 Speakers Dinner, Venue TBC, kindly sponsored by A&L Goodbody Solicitors

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CLaSF Workshop on The International Dimension of Competition Law: EU, Brexit and Beyond …

The Competition Law Scholars Forum (CLaSF) and
The Interdisciplinary Centre for Competition Law and Policy

QMU School of Law

Present a Workshop  on:

The International Dimension of Competition Law: EU, Brexit and Beyond …

at Queen Mary University of London on Thursday, 25 April 2019

School of Law, 339 Mile End Road, London. E1 4NS

Mandatory prior registration by  14th April 2019 via icc@qmul.ac.uk

Programme

09:30 – 09:50 Registration

09:50 Introduction: Barry Rodger (CLaSF),  Eyad Maher Dabbah (ICC)

10:00 – 11:30 Brexit and UK Competition Law, Chair: Angus MacCulloch

Eyad Maher M Dabbah, Brexit and Competition Law: the future relationship between the UK and EU competition law regimes, ICC, QMUL

Barry Rodger, UK Competition Law Enforcement Post-Brexit: Parallel or Subsidiary to EU Law Enforcement?, Strathclyde University

David Little, A “Deep And Special Partnership”? Risks of Misalignment In UK And EU Merger Control  Post-Brexit, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

 

11:30-11:45 Coffee

 

11:45 – 13:00  Brexit and Private Enforcement, Chair: Barry Rodger

Annalies Outhuijse, The Netherlands, the new cartel claim paradise after Brexit?, University of Groningen

Konrad Zawodziński, Antitrust compliance and private enforcement of competition law – at the crossroads of disappearing EU law effet utile and supremacy principles, Koźmiński University

 

13:00 – 14:15 LUNCH

 

14:15 – 15:30  Supra-National Competition Law Enforcement, Chair: Maria Ioannidou

Viktoria Robertson, The ECN+ Directive: Strengthening the Pillars of the European Competition Network’s Architecture, University of Graz

Francisco Marcos, Towards a Supranational Competition Policy in Central America, IE, Madrid

 

15:30 – 15:45 Coffee Break

 

15:45 – 17:00  Competition Law and Trade Policy, Chair: Francisco Marcos

Kalpana Tyagi, China’s (Ab-) use of Competition & IPRs to pursue the Industrial Policy Objectives: Does the WTO (really) have all the answers?, University of Arhus

Galyna Kostiukevych, Competition provisions in preferential trade agreements and their impact on anticompetitive conduct within global supply chains: the EU perspective, EUI

 

17:00 – 17:30 Closing Speaker – Colin Raftery, Senior Director of Mergers, CMA

 

17:30 Closing remarks: Maria Ioannidou (ICC), Barry Rodger (CLaSF)

 

17.45 Drinks, followed by speakers’ dinner, at Morgan Arms, 43 Morgan Street, Bow.

CLaSF Workshop Programme Published

The Competition Law Scholars Forum are delighted to publish the Draft Programme for their 25 April 2019 Workshop on ‘The International dimension of Competition Law: EU, Brexit and beyond …’ at QMU Law School in London.

The full Programme of speakers and details regarding Registration can be found on the Workshop Event Page.

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New Issue of Competition Law Review – Volume 13 Issue 1

The Competition law Scholars Forum are delighted to reveal the latest Issue of the Competition Law Review. The Issue focuses on the broad theme of ‘Competition Law and Enforcement Priorities’. It features an Editorial by Mary Catherine Lucey, and Articles by William E Kovacic, Catalin S Rusu, Aiste Selezeviciute & Zeno Frediano, and Vincent Power.

The full text of the Issue can be found on the Review Page.

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Draft Programme: Protection of Free Competition in Markets across History

Draft Programme

The Competition Law Scholars Forum (CLaSF) and the Facultad de Derecho of Universidad de Granada (Spain)

for a workshop on

“Protection of Free Competition in Markets across History: Culture, Politics and Law”

at the Universidad de Granada (Spain) on Thursday, 13 September 2018

The Competition Law Scholars Forum (CLaSF) will be running its XXXI workshop on Thursday, 13 September 2018, at the Facultad de Derecho of Universidad de Grandada. The subject of the workshop will be the broad theme of ‘Protection of Free Competition in Markets across History: Culture, Politics and Law’.

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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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