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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

 

Competition Law and Sustainability

A Competition Law Scholars Forum Workshop
Hosted by the Department of Commercial Law of Universitat de València Estudi General

Friday 23rd September 2022

Salón de Grados del Departamento de Derecho constitucional y Ciencia Política “Tomás Villarroya”

Mandatory prior registration by 16th September 2022 by confirmation with Carmen Rodilla (carmen.rodilla@uv.es)

09:30 – 09:50: Registration

09:50: Welcome, Barry Rodger (CLaSF), Carmen Rodilla (Universitat de València)

10:00 – 10:30 Introductory remarks, Andrés Boix (Universitat de València)

10:30 – 11:15 General Themes on Sustainability and Competition, Chair: Carmen Rodilla
Johannes Persch, University of Mannheim, Department of Law, ‘Competition Law v Sustainability’

11:15-11:45 Coffee Break

11:45-13:00 Mapping the Competition Law and Sustainability Interface, Chair: Francisco Marcos
Teresa Oriani, PhD candidate, EUI, Florence, ‘Synergies, conflicts, redundancies and gaps: Mapping coordination issues in the competition-environment interface’
Klaudia Majcher, Vienna University of Economics and Business, ‘Protecting Personal Data and the Environment: Doctrinal Challenges for EU Competition Law in Our Day and Age’

13:00 – 14:15 LUNCH

14:15 – 15:30 Sustainability and Aspects of EU Competition Enforcement, Chair: Angus MacCulloch
Tuvana Aras, PhD Candidate Leiden University, ‘The Legal Impact of the European Climate Law on Competition Law Enforcers in the European Union’
Beverley Williamson, Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, Ireland, ‘Sustainability and Merger review: a competition Enforcer’s perspective’

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:15 Competition Law and wider values, Chair: Barry Rodger
Csongor Istvan Nagy, Department of Private International Law, University of Szeged, ‘Competition law and General Societal Values: the unholy marriage of good and greedy?’
Juan David Gutiérrez & Sebastián Solarte, Universidad del Rosario and PhD candidate at UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, ‘Can antitrust contribute to save the Amazon? Deforestation and competition law and policy in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru’

17:15-17:45 Closing comments Tomás Arranz Fernández-Bravo, Partner Uría Menéndez

18:00 Drinks

20:00 Speakers’ Dinner

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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 ‘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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