Academic Society for Competition Law
The renewal process for the regional chapter heads was initiated in April 2026 and 26 regional chapter heads were renewed or appointed at the General Assembly.
The ExCo would like to express our gratitude for the service of those who have stepped down and for those who have come forward to take the regional chapter headships for the next two years.
You can find the list of regional chapter heads here.
Thanks to the support and input by the Board and the Members, the ASCOLA General Assembly could approve major updates to the organizational rules of ASCOLA. They help to adapt them to ASCOLA’s growing size, diversity, and range of action.
You can find the updated Charter and By-Laws here.
Eun Hye Kim is the winner of the ASCOLA Best Junior Paper Award 2026. Her paper has the title “Measuring Incremental Change in the Case Law: A Reliability and Validity Analysis Using the Rasch Model”. The jury says: “This paper constitutes a genuinely innovative and highly accomplished contribution to legal scholarship. By applying a sophisticated quantitative methodology to the study of the evolution of European court jurisprudence, it moves beyond traditional narrative accounts of doctrinal change and offers a rigorous empirical framework for assessing shifts in judicial reasoning. The work establishes a new vocabulary for the study of judicial evolution and opens important avenues for future research. Its methodological ambition, technical execution, and scholarly maturity are exceptional. Eun Hye Kim may rightly be proud of a piece of work whose sophistication would be impressive in any senior academic, and is all the more remarkable in a junior scholar.”
Eun Hye is a Lecturer at the University of Leeds, UK. The jury was composed of professors Fabiana Di Porto (chair), Thomas Cheng and Peter Picht.
The photo shows Thomas Cheng and Eun Hye Kimi during the Award Ceremony at the ASCOLA Annual Conference in London in July 2026. Congratulations! You can find all winners of ASCOLA Best Junior Paper Awards here.
The international community of competition law scholars came together once again, this time in London from 1 to 3 July. It was another great conference, with 28 parallel sessions presenting and discussing the latest research in competition law and economics being done by our members across the globe! There were also four plenary sessions, discussing ‘competition law in a fractured world’ and ‘Capitalism’s “New Code”’, sharing reflections from regional chapter heads, and taking us on a Sci-Fi journey for antitrust ‘From Dune spice cartels to omni-consumer products (Robocop)’.
Between the lively discussions, ASCOLA members took time to reconnect and exchange ideas over dinner, drinks, and afternoon tea on the Thames!
Thank you to the local hosts at UCL(University College London) and KCL (King’s College London): Deni Mantzari, Ioannis Lianos, Stavros Makris, Todd Davies, Chris Townley, and Andriani Kalintiri! They say it takes a village, and in London all hands were on deck to make the conference come to life: the local hosts received support from Okeoghene Odudu from the University of Cambridge and Ioannis Kokkoris and Maria Ioannidou from Queen Mary University.
ASCOLA’s activities are global – with many activities organised by the regional chapters. A list of the regional chapters can be found on the ASCOLA website. The chapter heads of two chapters will step down: we are really grateful to them for the work they put into ASCOLA as chapter heads. We are therefore inviting calls for interest to become chapter heads.
We are looking for chapter heads for two regional chapters: Benelux, and Eastern Mediterranean (Greece, Turkey, Israel).
To be eligible as a regional chapter head you have to be an ASCOLA member, and be based in the region of the chapter you want to head up. Chapter heads are expected to organise regional activities for ASCOLA members, to review papers for the annual conference, to attend (whenever possible) the annual conference, and to overall enhance ASCOLA’s activities and outreach. Chapter heads are expected to endorse ASCOLA’s principles, including on Transparency and Disclosure, and on Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Safety.
To indicate your interest, please email team@ascola.org by 19 June.
An invitation for the General Assembly 2026 has been sent to ASCOLA members via the newsletter and via email, including the agenda of the meeting.
All members of ASCOLA are invited to take part in the annual General Assembly, to take place during the annual conference 2026 in London, United Kingdom.
Time: Friday, 3 July, at 12:30 (local time)
Location: King’s College London, Bush House, BH (N) – 1.01 Auditorium Lecture Theatre, 30 Aldwych, London.
The deadline for submissions for the Annual Conference has been extended to 9 February. All information can be found here: Next ASCOLA Conference
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.
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.
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.