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Francesco Ducci is the winner of the 2022 Best Junior Paper Award of ASCOLA, the Academic Society for Competition Law. Francesco is a scholar at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. The jury decided that his paper on “Randomized Access to Digital Bottlenecks” stands out. The jury wrote:

“The piece is highly insightful, bringing new analytical perspectives to a problem that has been relatively little noticed. By identifying the shareability potential of digital rankings and their non-rivalrous nature, the paper suggests using randomized rotation in the design of remedies. (…) All in all, it is a piece of creative and insightful scholarship into an area that deserves to be illuminated, and it brings to bear a well-developed analytical framework that represents first-class scholarship.”

Members of the jury were law professors Fabiana Di Porto (Salento), Thomas Cheng (Hong Kong) and David Gerber (Chicago-Kent). The picture shows Francesco Ducci with Fabiana Di Porto as speaker for the jury on a boat in Porto where the winner was announced during the 2022 Annual Conference.

We are very proud to announce the keynote speaker of this year’s conference: Ascola will host Chief Judge Diane P. Wood of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Judge Wood is a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago. She will speak on “Divergent Paths for Global Competition Law: Top Down or Bottom Up?” The talk will be given during the Ascola Annual Conference 2022 in Porto on Friday, 1 July 2022, at 2 pm local time.

All information on the conference can be found on the conference website:

ASCOLA 2022: 17th annual conference | FD-PORTO-WEBSITE (ucp.pt)

The Conference website for the Annual Conference of the Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA) 2022 is now up & running:

ASCOLA 2022: 17th annual conference | FD-PORTO-WEBSITE (ucp.pt)

The Conference will be held from 30 June to 2 July 2022 in Porto, Portugal, at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Rua de Diogo Botelho, 1327). It will start with the welcoming by President Prof. Michal Gal and host Prof. Sofia Pais at 1 pm local time and kick of with a panel on mentoring, chaired by Vice President Prof. Rupprecht Podszun. Over the next days, many talks will follow in breakout sessions with ASCOLA scholars from around the world!

The official programme will end on Saturday at 1 pm, but a lunch and an optional trip will follow. All information is available on the Conference Website. You can find the programme here.

The 17th Annual Conference of the Academic Society for Competition Law, ASCOLA, will take place as an in-person event in Porto, Portugal from 30 June to 2 July, 2022. The papers to be presented have been picked by a team of peer reviewers in a double blind process from a record number of submissions. You can be sure to experience three days of intense learning & discussing in the friendly atmosphere of the ASCOLA family. Local organisers are Sofia Pais and her team at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto. Make sure to make your bookings. We will inform you here and on Twitter and LinkedIn once the Conference website has been set up! We are looking forward to seeing you!

In a series of events, the Academic Society for Competition Law, ASCOLA, explores the question how to make a great presentation out of the good paper. Sometimes good papers are not presented in the most efficient and attractive, and ASCOLA wishes to help scholars with that.

In a Zoom talk on 24 February 2022, Prof. Eldar Haber from the University of Haifa gave essential advice how to present. His talk can be seen here:

The deadline for handing in papers in response to our Call for Papers for the ASCOLA Annual Conference 2022 has been extended: It now expires on 3 February 2022. The Call for Papers with further information can be found here.

ASCOLA has re-appointed its chairs for the national and regional chapters (see here). Five new members were appointed, broadening the ASCOLA network and serving as contact persons for their jurisdictions: We welcome Francesco Ducci (Canada), Jurgita Malinauskaite (Eastern Europe with focus on Baltic countries), Thala Msutu and Philip Sutherland (Southern and East Africa). Andrés Calderón will serve as a new co-chair for Latin America (without Brazil), supporting Juan David Gutiérrez. The Board thanks all the Chairs of regional and national chapters for their outstanding commitment in the past! We look forward to many future exciting activities on the national and regional level

The Academic Society for Competition Law convenes its 17th Conference for 30 June 2022-2 July 2022. We will meet in Porto, Portugal, at the Católica University (or so we hope). The Call for Paper is out now and submissions can be handed in till January 27, 2022. All information are in the Call for Papers (below). The Board, together with our dedicated local organisers in Porto, is looking forward to many insightful, excellent papers on competition law!

Ascola Call for Papers 2022

At the 16th Ascola Conference, held virtually from 1-3 July 2021, Xingyu Yan won the Best Junior Paper Award for his paper “Towards a More Competitive Mobile Payment Industry: Standardization and Beyond”. Congratulations! Xingyu is a post-doc with Guanghua Law School, Zhejiang University. The jury was composed by Fabiana Di Porto, Thomas Cheng and Daniel Sokol. They also drew on the results of the double blind peer review selection for the conference.