Competition Law and Policy Workshop: A Foresight Approach

The Cambridge-UCL Competition Law and Policy Hub is delighted to invite you to 'Competition Law and Policy Workshop: A Foresight Approach', a conference aimed to engage with groundbreaking scholarship on the current and future challenges of competition law, taking a foresight perspective.

The workshop will be held at UCL Faculty of Laws on Tuesday 4th June 2024 from 11 am to 17.45. It will be preceded by the UCL Competition Law and Policy Book Fest to which you are all cordially invited to attend (from 9.00 - 11.00).

About the workshop

We aim to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of groundbreaking research on new approaches, concepts, tools and themes in EU and UK competition law scholarship that will make an impact in a fast changing world. We are eager to involve junior and mid-career researchers based in the UK (or in the EU) in order to present their recent research that fits the overall theme of the conference.

Each session will be an interactive discussion that will involve a short presentation of the papers by their authors, discussion by a commentator and time for a Q&A session with the audience.

We are particularly eager to promote inter-disciplinary perspectives in competition law scholarship.

Programme

09.30 Welcome: Prof. Ioannis Lianos & Prof. Okeoghene Odudu

09.35 1st UCL Competition Law and Policy Book Fest

This session will proceed to four book launches for books recently published by UCL related authors. A short presentation by the author, followed by brief commentator remarks and then 10 minutes of discussion and questions.

Chair: Okeoghene Odudu (Cambridge)

• Amber Darr's Competition Law in South Asia – comment by Dina Waked (Sciences Po Paris)
• Ioannis  Lianos', Alexey Ivanov's & Dennis Davis' Competition Law and Global Food Value Chains – comment by Eleanor Fox (NYU) & Julian Nowag (Lund)
• Gonenc Gurkaynak's Innovation Paradox in Merger Control – comment by Pablo Ibanez Colomo (LSE)

10.30 Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:00
Igor Nikolic's Licensing Standard Essential Patents – comment by Robin Jacob (UCL)

11.00  Session 1: New Challenges to Competition Law: Digital Ecosystems, AI
Chair: Pablo Ibanez Colomo (LSE)

• Pankhudi Khandelwal (EUI), ‘Interoperability in Digital Markets: Extending the regulatory and technical framework from the financial sector’
• Quentin B. Schäfer (Strathclyde), ‘AI, IP, and Competition Policy: Adjusting Policy Levers to a new GPT’
• Deni Mantzari (UCL), ‘FRAND in Article 6(12) DMA: a pragmatic approach with unintended consequences’
• Ioannis Lianos (UCL), Klaas Hendrik Eller (U Amsterdam), Tobias Kleinschmitt (Humboldt), ‘Towards a Legal Theory of (Digital) Ecosystems’

13.00  Lunch

14.00  Session 2: Law and Political Economy of Competition Law in the 21st century: the complexity challenge
Chair: Ioannis Lianos (UCL)

• Oles Andriychuk (Newcastle Univ), ‘EU Digital Competition Law: The Socio-Legal Foundations’
• Stavros Makris (Glasgow), ‘A Smithian Political Economy Approach for the Competition Law of the 21st Century’
• Amber Darr (Manchester), ‘Human development and the Potential of Competition: a South Asian Perspective’
• Andrew McLean (Edinburgh), ‘Innovation Against Change’

Commentator:  Justin Lindeboom (Groningen)

15.30  Coffee Break

15.50 Session 3: Trends: Main Themes in Competition Law Scholarship
Chair: Despoina Mantzari (UCL)

• Grigoris Bacharis (LSE) and John Kwan (CMA), ‘Public Redress in UK Competition Enforcement: A Study of Rationales and Techniques’
• Matthew Twendell (Geradin and Partners/UCL), ‘Restitutionary relief for competition law infringements’
• Todd Davies (UCL) and Spencer Cohen (Oxford), ‘Error costs, Platform Regulation and Democracy’

Commentator: Julian Nowag (Lund)

17.30 Conclusions and Launch of the Valentine Korah Funding initiative

17.45 - Reception

Book your place

This conference is free of charge for full time academics and full time students. Standard Tickets cost £50.

We particularly encourage junior and mid-career academics and researchers to join us. Book your place at: https://ucl-competition-law-and-policy.eventbrite.co.uk

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About the Cambridge / UCL Competition Law and Policy Hub

The Cambridge-UCL Competition Law and Policy Hub is a joint initiative of the Centre for Law, Economics and Society at UCL Faculty of Laws and the Centre for European Legal Studies at Cambridge University and is directed by Professor Ioannis Lianos (UCL Faculty of Laws) and Professor Okeoghene Odudu (University of Cambridge).

The aim of the Hub is to enhance the research exchanges between academics and PhD students in the areas of competition law and economics and more broadly regulatory policy, between UCL and Cambridge University, but also beyond, and provide a forum for the presentation of groundbreaking research in these areas and of interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and reflections on topics of common interests.

More information about the Hub see https://www.ucl.ac.uk/cles/research-initiatives/cambridge-ucl-competition-law-and-policy-hub

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