Competition Law and Policy Workshop: A Foresight Approach
A Cambridge-UCL Competition Law and Policy Hub event
Competition Law and Policy Workshop: A Foresight Approach
04 Jun 2024, 08:30 – 18:30
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.
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
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
Call for papers: Competition Law 2.0: Forging A New Paradigm in a Crisis-Driven World
The Cambridge-UCL Competition Law and Policy Hub is organising its 2nd annual workshop ‘Competition Law 2.0: Forging A New Paradigm in a Crisis-Driven World’, on 23 June 2025, aimed to engage with groundbreaking scholarship on the current and future challenges of competition law. We welcome unpublished academic papers (accepted but not yet published papers may be submitted), early career researchers’ papers (e.g. PhD thesis chapters), and early project ideas on topics
Submission deadline April 22, 2025.
Valentine Korah Laws Memorial Fund
The Valentine Korah Laws Memorial Fund honours the memory of a much loved exceptional scholar and advocate. Explore the opportunities that we believe best honour the spirit Valentine Korah embodied, and the legacy she left at UCL Laws. The new fund will:
- support the Valentine Korah Scholarship
- support an annual Valentine Korah Prize in competition law for undergraduates
- support a Valentine Korah Collaboration Space in Bentham House
- support an annual Valentine Korah Lecture
- support the creation of academic positions in competition law or policy
View full details of the opportunities available and how to donate can be found at:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/remembering-professor-valentine-korah
Further information
Ticketing
Pre-booking essential
Cost
Free
Open to
All