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
#ASCOLA2022: Call for Papers
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!
Xingyu Yan wins Best Junior Paper Award
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.
#ASCOLA2021: Here is the programme!
***Updated 23 June 2021*** Finally: Here is the timetable for the #ASCOLA2021 Annual Conference, our 16th Annual Conference. We are very proud and happy to present an enormous variety of papers and bring together scholars from all over the world. We have some extras in stock: a keynote speech by Carl Shapiro, an economic expert panel, a panel on career challenges, the award for the best junior paper and many other exciting side events! The programme may be subject to changes.
On our conference website you find more information on timing, speakers and papers: Conference Website Ascola 2021. Ascola members will automatically receive information on how to join the conference via e-mail.
The organising team (Michal Gal, Rupprecht Podszun, Peter Picht) is looking forward to seeing you all!
Timetable ASCOLA2021-2021-06-23
ASCOLA2021: Carl Shapiro as keynote speaker
The first details of the ASCOLA2021 Annual Conference Programme are out: Carl Shapiro, the famous economist from UC Berkeley, will be the keynote speaker this year. The conference takes place from 1-3 July 2021 in a virtual setting over Zoom. Professor Shapiro will present and discuss his paper “Antitrust: What went wrong and how to fix it” (available for download here).
In the Economic Expert Panel the two renowned innovation economists Richard Gilbert (Berkeley) and Monika Schnitzer (LMU Munich) will discuss innovation economics. Tommaso Valletti, former chief economist of the EU Commission’s DG Competition, now a professor at Imperial College London, will moderate.
Members will be informed via e-mail on how to take part in the Conference.
Please look forward to three days packed with intense high profile competition law discussions!
Spot on: Activities of ASCOLA‘s Regional Chapters
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.
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ASCOLA 2021: Virtual Conference!
#ASCOLA2021 is going virtual! We had originally planned to hold the 2021 conference of the Academic Society for Competition Law in Porto (Portugal) with the great support of Sofia País and her team. Unfortunately, the pandemic situation makes a meeting in person impossible (again, as in 2020). Instead, we decided to do a virtual event again. As in 2020, the Steering Committee of ASCOLA with Michal Gal, Rupprecht Podszun and Peter Picht will organise a three day conference via Zoom from 1-3 July 2021! The main part of the programme will take place at from 12-16 h CEST with accompanying events at other times of the day, so as to enable scholars from all over the world to tune in. The peer review process of papers has been completed. If you submitted a paper you will now have been notified whether the paper was accepted for the conference or not. We had a record number of submissions and needed to select. We did so in a double-blind peer review – so we can promise great papers to be presented already! Please look forward and support ASCOLA in another path-breaking conference!
New ASCOLA book: Challenges to Assumptions in Competition Law
Ascola is proud to present the latest volume in the Edward Elgar ASCOLA Competition Law Series: David Bosco from the University of Aix-Marseille in France and Michal S. Gal from the University of Haifa edited a book on the challenges to assumptions in competition law. They have assembled a classy collection of contributions that go to the very fundamental questions of antitrust. Contributers are Can Atik, David Bosco, Oliver Budzinski, Andrés Calderón, Stephen Dnes, Michal S. Gal, Yajie Gao, Wei Han, Galyna Kostiukevych, Claudia O’Kane, Frédéric Marty, Julien Pillot, Barry J. Rodger, Annika Stöhr and Christopher Townley.
Eleanor Fox says: ‘This is an impressive book’! Nothing more to add.
Digital activities around the world
The bad thing about the lockdowns around the world: We cannot meet in person. The good thing: We have all learned to use digital tools to stay in touch! Our individual members and the ASCOLA Regional Chapters organise many talks, and we are proud & happy to see ASCOLA networks in full bloom everywhere: Scholars from different countries give talks and courses – and everyone can dial in. To be up to date with what is going on where, it is advisable to follow the ASCOLA Regional Chapters in social media. You find a list of links here. See you in the next virtual meeting!
ASCOLA2021 update: Peer review
The Ascola team is now in preparation for the Annual Conference 2021 in Porto (Portugal) that is planned for 1-3 July 2021 #ASCOLA2021. Let us all hope we can meet in person! Currently, the paper proposals are under review in a double blind peer review procedure. Stay tuned!