The Competition Law Scholars Forum (CLaSF) promotes scholarship in the field of Competition Law
The primary object of the Competition Law Scholars Forum is the promotion of competition law scholarship, in the United Kingdom, the Member States of the European Union, and those states who may accede to the European Union. Continue reading Welcome
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
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.
The Competition Law Scholars Forum has published the Programme for its next Workshop on 21 April 2023 at the Institute for Legal Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence in Budapest.
The full programme of excellent speakers can be found on the Workshop Events Page
CLaSF has published the Programme for their next CLaSF Workshop. It will be on the theme of Competition Law and Sustainability and will be held at the Department of Commercial law of Universitat de València Estudi General on Friday 23 September 2022.
The full range of exciting speakers and details of how to register can be found on the Workshop Event Page
The Competition Law Scholars Forum (CLaSF) and the Department of Legal Studies of Università Bocconi of Milan
Invite contributions to a workshop on:
at Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy, on 22 April 2022
The Competition Law Scholars Forum (CLaSF) will be running its XXXVI workshop on 22 April 2022, at the Università Bocconi of Milan. The subject of the workshop will be the broad theme of “The Enforcement of competition law in digital markets”. We invite abstract paper proposals from researchers, scholars, practitioners and policy-makers in relation to any issue within this broad theme. 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 (eg EU), or international levels, or a combination. We are planning a live, in-person, F2F event only …
The aim of the workshop is to discuss the challenges that antitrust authorities and courts may face in enforcing competition law in digital markets and/or against digital firms. In addition, proposals are being discussed on both sides of the Atlantic for new rules to address some of these new challenges. For example, since it appears that pricing algorithms have made oligopolistic interdependence more likely, how might antitrust authorities and courts intervene? And who, specifically, should be held liable when a pricing algorithm applies a collusive price? Or, in the face of the “across market” power that so-called big tech companies have acquired, could the proposal to divide them up into many independent firms be a good remedy? Should other legislative or regulatory solutions be adopted? To what extent is it true that the advent of digital technologies has made anticompetitive conduct more difficult to detect and prove? What about blockchains and smart contracts as tools to facilitate and hide collusion? To address these and similar problems, should antitrust authorities and courts be given new tools (digital ones?), investigative powers, and expertise? Moreover, are specific rules required to boost private enforcement action against potential anti-competitive conduct in the digital realm?
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 28 January 2022, and decisions on successful submissions will be taken by 11 February 2022. 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.
CLaSF invites Abstract Proposals for their upcoming Workshop in Cambridge on 16 April 2020, on ‘The Fundamentals of Competition Law’
Proposals of 500 – 1,000 words should be submitted by 3 February 2020.
Full details of the Call and instructions for Abstract Submission can be found on the Event Page.
The Competition Law Scholars Forum are delighted to announce the Draft Programme for our next Workshop to be hosted by UCC School of Law in Cork Ireland, on Thursday 5th September.
The Programme has a fascinating lineup of speakers who will be presenting on the broad theme of the The Courts and Competition Law.
Full details of the Programme, and other information about the event, can be found on the Event Page.
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.
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 ‘Reform of Regulation 1/2003 –Effectiveness of the NCAs and Beyond’. It features an Editorial by Giorgio Monti, and articles by Miguel Sousa Ferro, Carsten Koenig, and Annalies Outhuijse.
The full text of the Issue can be found on the Review Page.
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.