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Digital Markets, AI, and the Future of Competition Law – Call for Papers

XLVI Competition Law Scholars Forum Workshop (CLaSF)

Digital Markets, AI, and the Future of Competition Law

Friday 25 September 2026
Roma Tre University Law School

Via Ostiense 163 – Sala del Consiglio

Programme

09:00–09:15 Registration and coffee

09:15–09:30 Welcome and Introduction:
Barry J. Rodger (CLaSF, University of Strathclyde) and Margherita Colangelo (Roma Tre University)

9:30–11:30 Digital Markets and Regulation, including DMA
Chair: Francisco Marcos, IE Law School

Manuel Abarca, Diego Portales University
Digital Nascent Markets

Lazar Radic, IE University
From Market Oversight to Market Ordering: The DMA and the New Political Economy of Competition

Matteo Ortino, Università degli Studi di Verona
Simplifying Without Reducing: The Meta Judgment and the Regulation of Complex Digital Systems

Alexandru Sotropa, Vrije Universiteit
Reshaping enforcement in the Digital world: Increasing the collaboration between authorities

Dimitrij Nastevski, Bona Fide
Competition Law and Digital Markets in the Western Balkans: Regulatory and Enforcement Challenges

Blen Beka, University of Milan
The Institutional Resilience of the DMA in the Age of Geopolitical Retaliation

Dionysios Pelekis, Utrecht University
Foundation Models and/as Essential Facilities

Zlatina Georgieva, Utrecht University
Cohering Article 102 Defences and DMA Offences

11:30–11:50 Coffee Break

11:50–13:15 Algorithmic Pricing & AI
Chair: Marilena Filippelli, Sapienza University Faculty of Law

Manuel Contreras, Universidad Carlos III (Madrid)
Algorithm pricing collusion under EU competition law: “known knowns”, “known unknowns” and “unknown unknowns”

Miroslava Marinova, University of East London
From Exploitative Abuse to Regulation: Algorithmic Personalized Pricing in AI-Driven Markets

Andrea Pascale, Trainee Lawyer, Cintioli Associati
Collusion Without Consent: Rethinking Antitrust Liability for Autonomous Pricing Algorithms

Arianna Andreangeli, University of Edinburgh
Markets, AI and algorithm-driven anti-competitive practices: Is the law always “certain” and the consequences for its infringement always “predictable”?

Behrang Kianzad, Malmö University
Unfair Algorithmic Pricing and Corrective Fairness- Re-reading United Brands for AI-Driven Markets

13:15–14:15 Lunch

14:15–15:25 AI and Competition
Chair: Margherita Colangelo, Roma Tre University Law School

Wilson Seraine da Silva Neto, Universidade do Lisboa
Big techs and digital ecosystems: tying generative AI systems as an abuse of dominant position

Christophe Carugati, Digital Competition
Are Competition Rules Suited for Agentic AI?

Klaus Wiedermann, Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition
Agentic AI and Consumer Autonomy

Anush Ganesh, Leeds University
Capturing AI Competition Concerns: Designation as the First Step under the DMA and the DMCCA

15:25-15:45 Coffee Break

15:45-16:55 Digital Mergers
Chair: Angus MacCulloch, Lancaster University Law School

Max Van Iersel, Tilburg University
The Concentration Concept & the Limits of Interpretation: Reverse Acquihires & Centaur Investments under Article 3 EUMR

Carla-Elena Sava, University of Oxford
A Merger Control Assessment of Big Tech’s Acqui-Hires through Carl Shapiro’s Principles

Francesca De Luca, Università degli studi di Teramo
Powering the AI stack: Hardware Mergers under EU Competition Law

Richard Bunworth, Trinity College Dublin
Merger Control and Digital Markets in the UK – A Case of Mixed Messaging?

16:55-17:30 Advanced Issues
Chair: Barry J. Rodger, University of Strathclyde

Liana Japaridze, University of Glasgow
Competition Law as an Enabler for Effective Operation of Regulatory Sandboxes in the Fintech Sector – Case Studies from Singapore, Brazil and the UK

Camilla Signoretta, European University Institute (EUI)
Towards an Integrated Fair Remuneration Standard in Between EU Competition Policy, Digital Markets Regulation and Copyright Law in the Age of 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

 

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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.

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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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