Today, on 3 November 2025, we publish the Call for Papers for the 21st Annual Conference of the Academic Society for Competition Law, ASCOLA. The Conference will be held in London from 1-3 July 2026, at University College London and King’s College London. The conference is locally organised jointly by University College London (UCL) and King’s College London (KCL) and supported by Queen Mary University London and Cambridge University. We welcome contributions in three streams. The deadline for submissions ends on 26 January 2026. All details can be found in the Call. This is a great opportunity to showcase to an international audience of academic experts your work on antitrust, competition law, competition economics and related issues!

You can find the Call for Papers here.

Please pay particular attention to the instructions for each stream, and the requirements in terms of membership and disclosures.

All submissions are to take place via the conference website.

On 20 November 2025 at 2 pm CET (Brussels time) we invite all ASCOLA Members to join us for the third ASCOLA NOEL – the November Online Event Live!

The theme this year is “Politics and Competition Law”. The event will be held at 14:00 CET on November 20 on Zoom. Joining details were sent via the newsletter. If you did not receive them, please contact Magali.Eben@glasgow.ac.uk. We are honoured to have four speakers to share with us their perspectives on politics and competition law.

Speakers:

Viktoria Robertson, Maciej Bernatt, John Newman, Soojin Nam

Chair: Professor Thomas Cheng

ASCOLA Noel 2025 will focus on a topic that is taking on increasing salience in today’s world: competition law and politics. This 90-minute roundtable discussion will explore the phenomenon of the increasing politicization of competition law enforcement across the globe. There was a time when using competition law enforcement as a political tool can be said to be the exception rather than the rule. That is no longer the case. The politicization of competition law enforcement is seemingly no longer a taboo even among many of the established jurisdictions. This phenomenon has called into question the long-cherished premise that competition law enforcement is and is meant to be a technocratic endeavor and has profound and wide-ranging implications for competition law enforcement. This event will examine a number of questions raised by this development, such as the extent to which this is a truly recent development, whether this is an irreversible trend, and whether anything can be done within the competition law community about it.

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The ASCOLA Regional Chapters are very active in organising events, talks and discussions for the competition law. Here is a link to the ASCOLA Regional Groups. Typically, events are advertised via social media or newsletters. You may find the web presence of the Regional Chapters here.

To give you an impression of the wide array of activities and the excellent scholars involved, let us show you just as examples an excerpt from the ASCOLA calendar in 2021.

Continue reading “Spot on: Activities of ASCOLA‘s Regional Chapters”