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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

 

CLaSF Workshop – Critical Evaluation of and New Insights for Competition Law Enforcement and Policy-Making

Call for Papers

XL CLaSF Workshop on Competition Law Academic Scholarship – Critical Evaluation of and New Insights for Competition Law Enforcement and Policy-Making

Friday 22 September 2023

 

Strathclyde Law School / Strathclyde Centre for Antitrust Law and Empirical Study, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

In association with Dentons, Glasgow.

The Competition Law Scholars’ Forum was set up to foster academic interaction and debate on key aspects and themes of competition law and help to promote a sense of an academic community of competition law scholars by facilitating the presentation of research in a friendly and open environment, and consequently allow for contributions to wider developments in competition law and policy.

CLASF is now over 20 years old and in this 40th Clasf Workshop we want to celebrate and showcase the important contribution that competition law academics make to debates on competition law enforcement and policy. Accordingly, the key theme here is research recently or currently undertaken by academics which can help to make a significant contribution to our understanding of aspects of competition law and in particular which will engage with and contribute to recent, ongoing and future developments in competition law enforcement and policy-making.

Against this background the Competition Law Scholars Forum (CLaSF) 40th workshop invites contributions (abstract paper proposals from researchers, scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers) in relation to any issue within this wide subject. We welcome theoretical, economics-driven, practice-based, or policy-focused papers, and we are interested in receiving abstracts for papers which may be focused on perspectives or experience at national, regional (e.g. EU), or international levels, or a combination. We are planning a live, in-person event only.

The Workshop will consist of a mix of invited speakers and contributions chosen following this call for papers. Any person interested in being considered on the basis of the call for papers at the workshop is asked to contact Professor Barry Rodger at barry.j.rodger@strath.ac.uk. An abstract is required of approximately 500-1,000 words, to be submitted by no later than Monday 24th July 2023, and decisions on successful submissions will be taken by Friday 11th August 2023.

Submission of presentation/draft paper is also required a week prior to the workshop. Papers presented at the conference can be submitted to the Competition Law Review editorial board with a view to being published in the Review. Note that the Review is a fully refereed scholarly law journal: submission does not guarantee publication.

Competition Law Review – Volume 15 Issue 1

The latest issue of the Competition Law Review has now been published. This issue features papers from an exciting range of Scholars and focuses on exciting changes to competition law stemming from the development of digital markets.

Papers include: Caforio discussing algorithmic collusion; Lorenzoni examining interactions with AI; Beems, van de Gronden & Catalin Rusu on the DMA; and, Mendelsohn on digital conglomerates. The issues editorial is presented by Oles Andriychuk.

Access to the papers is from the CompLRev page

Call for Papers – 40th CLaSF Workshop

CLaSF is celebrating its 40th CLaSF Workshop by going home!

In this Clasf Workshop we want to celebrate and showcase the important contribution that competition law academics make to debates on competition law enforcement and policy. Accordingly, the key theme here is research recently or currently undertaken by academics which can help to make a significant contribution to our understanding of aspects of competition law and in particular which will engage with and contribute to recent, ongoing and future developments in competition law enforcement and policy-making.

Please see the Event Page for full details of the Call.

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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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.

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

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

Call for Papers: Reform of Regulation 1/2003

The Competition Law Scholars Forum (CLaSF) and 

the Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, University of Warsaw

invite contributions to a workshop

“Reform of Regulation 1/2003 – Effectiveness of the NCAs and Beyond”

At the University of Warsaw, on Friday 28th April 2017

The Competition Law Scholars Forum (CLaSF) will be running a workshop on Friday 28th April 2017 at the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Management, Warsaw, Poland. The subject of the workshop will be the broad theme of ‘Reform of Regulation 1/2003 – Effectiveness of NCAs and Beyond’. Continue reading Call for Papers: Reform of Regulation 1/2003 →