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Deadline extended

admin — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:47:29 +0000

The deadline for submissions for the Annual Conference has been extended to 9 February. All information can be found here: Next ASCOLA Conference

Reminder: Call for papers for #ASCOLA2026

admin — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:27:18 +0000

Have you submitted your paper yet for the ASCOLA Conference? If not, you still have time! The deadline for submissions ends on 26 January 2026.

The 21st Annual Conference of the Academic Society for Competition Law 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. 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.

ASCOLA NOEL 2025: Watch back on YouTube!

admin — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 09:24:56 +0000

On 20 November we invited you to join us for a the third ASCOLA NOEL – the November Event Live! The theme this year was “Politics and Competition Law”. We had an insightful conversation with Professor Viktoria Robertson (WU Vienna), Professor John Newman (University of Memphis), Dr Soojin Nam (Hankuk University), and Professor Maciej Bernatt (University of Warsaw). The conversation was chaired by Professor Thomas Cheng (ASCOLA ExCo).

The recording is now available on ASCOLA’s YouTube channel, where you will also find the two previous editions. You can watch it now.

Call for papers for #ASCOLA2026

admin — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 07:00:00 +0000

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.

ASCOLA NOEL is back: Politics and Competition Law

admin — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 13:13:54 +0000

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.

“Antitrust Paradise”: Marsden’s ASCOLA Rap

admin — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 17:52:19 +0000

On daytime, Philip Marsden is a serious competition law expert, working at the Collège d’Europe in Bruges. But at nighttime, he can turn into a most entertaining rap star, the uncrowned king of the competition concert hall. At the 17th ASCOLA Conference in Porto, he made an appearance as Capt. Felipe during an evening boat trip on the Douro River. He slammed the community in a song based on Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise”. We document the text here – parental warning: Explicit lyrics. Enjoy the new hit: “Antitrust Paradise”!

Marsden’s “Antitrust Paradise” Lyrics

Spot on: Activities of ASCOLA‘s Regional Chapters

admin — Sat, 08 May 2021 13:09:25 +0000

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.

JOINT ASCOLA South-East Europe and ASCOLA Central & East Europe WEBINAR SERIES – Spring/Summer 2021

Fri, April 16, 2021, 10:00 am – 11:15 am (CEST)
EXPERIMENTALIST COMPETITION LAW AND THE REGULATION OF MARKETS / BOOK PRESENTATION
Moderator: Maciej Bernatt, University of Warsaw
Speakers:
Yane Svetiev, University of Sydney (author)
Krystyna Kowalik-Banczyk, Judge of the General Court of the European Union; Polish Academy of Sciences (commentator)
Damien Gerard, University of Louvain (commentator)
VIDEO RECORDING OF THE WEBINAR SOON TO BE AVAILABLE

Wed, 26 May 2020, 14:00-15:00 pm CEST
STRENGTHENING COMPETITION AUTHORITY INDEPENDENCE: EXPERIENCES OF EX-NCAs DIRECTORS
Moderator: Jasminka Pecotic Kaufman, University of Zagreb
Speakers: TBC

Wed, 16 June 2020, 14:00-15:00 pm CEST
MERGER CONTROL AND PUBLIC INTEREST CONSIDERATIONS
Moderator: Alexandr Svetlicinii, University of Macau
Speakers: TBC

For more information go to https://ascolasee.net.efzg.hr

ASCOLA ASIA ONLINE SEMINAR

11 June 2021 18:00 – 19:30 KST & JST
How The Rise of China Challenges Global Regulation
Based on Angela Zhang’s Book, Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism (OUP, 2021)

Speaker: Angela Huyue Zhang, The University of Hong Kong
Comments: Wendy Ng, The University of Melbourne

Registration: Click HERE.
Contact: Masako Wakui m_wakui@nifty.com