CALL FOR PAPERS: Competition Law 2.0: Forging A New Paradigm in a Crisis-Driven World

Call for Papers

This is the second conference in the series of the Cambridge/UCL Competition Law and Policy Hub launched in 2024

The world faces an unprecedented convergence of crises—from COVID-19 and climate change to inflation, digitalization, AI, rising inequality, drastic innovation and geopolitical upheaval. This perfect storm of challenges has created a complex web of regulatory issues for the EU, UK, and countries worldwide. These interconnected problems demand from governments and firms innovative and flexible solutions that can address multiple crises simultaneously. Competition law and associated regulations form a crucial pillar in our collective effort to foster economic dynamism, enhance consumer and more broadly citizens’ interests, preserve market pluralism, and ensure resilience.

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’, 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 We welcome unpublished academic papers (accepted but not yet published papers may be submitted), early career researchers’ papers (e.g. PhD thesis chapters), and early project ideas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 such as:

• Rethinking fundamentals of competition law
• Current legal developments (e.g. the Art. 102 ongoing reform)
• Competing in the age of AI, Big Data and Big Analytics
• Antitrust and Regulation in Digital Markets
• Competition Law, Sustainability, and Market Resilience
• Geopolitical upheaval and strategic competition law/policy
• Enforcement challenges

With this workshop we aim to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of groundbreaking research on new approaches, concepts, tools and themes in 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. In this regard, there will be a session devoted to early career researchers.

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.

Submission deadline April 22, 2025.

The workshop will be held at UCL Faculty of Laws on June 23, 2025.

How to make your submission

Please submit your abstract, extended abstract or draft paper together with your cv.

Send your submission to Dr Stavros Makris at s.makris@ucl.ac.uk