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Name: Industrial Policy, Mercantilism, and Competition Law in a Post-Draghi World
Start: 2025-09-26T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-09-26T23:59:59+00:00
Location: College de France

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

Call for Papers

XLIV Competition Law Scholars Forum Workshop

College de France, Paris

Friday, 26 September 2025

Competition Law Scholars Forum (CLASF) is pleased to announce its XLV Workshop, focusing on the evolving relationship between industrial policy and competition law. This is particularly timely given the renewed interest in strategic autonomy, the global rise in mercantilist economic policies, and the recent influence of theDraghi Report on the future of European competitiveness. The increasing prominence of state-led industrial policy, subsidy races, and geopolitical concerns has brought fresh challenges for traditional competition law frameworks. These developments raise fundamental questions:
Can competition law remain neutral in a world of politicised markets?
How should authorities respond to the competitive distortions caused by third-country subsidies?
What role can or should EU State aid rules play in this landscape?
And how might national and supranational competition regimes evolve in response?

We welcome papers that explore these themes from doctrinal, economic, comparative, or policy-oriented perspectives.

Topics of particular interest include (but are not limited to):
The implications of the Draghi Report and related EU initiatives (e.g. Green Deal Industrial Plan, Net-Zero Industry Act) for competition law enforcement;
The compatibility (or tension) between national industrial policy goals and EU competition law;
Competition law enforcement in the face of strategic autonomy, trade defence, or foreign subsidies instruments;
Comparative approaches to balancing industrial policy and competition law (e.g. U.S., China, Global South);
Theoretical re-evaluations of competition law’s objectives in the post-globalisation era.

We welcome contributions from early-career and established researchers alike, as well as from practitioners and policymakers. The Workshop is in-person only and will be held at the Collège de France in Paris, under the direction of Prof Aurelien Portuese (The George Washington University; College de France). Please submit abstracts of 500–1,000 words by 5 July 2025 to Prof Barry Rodger <barry.j.rodger@strath.ac.uk>; and Prof Aurelien Portuese <aurelien.portuese@gwu.edu>. Decisions will be communicated by 19 July 2025. A draft of the presentation or paper should be submitted one week before the event. Selected papers may be considered for publication in the Competition Law Review, a fully refereed scholarly law journal.

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

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 14^th 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.

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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