By Behrang Kianzad, LLM /PhD, Institute for Global Political Studies, Malmö University & Founder, European Researcher Network on Fairness in Digital Markets and AI Introduction: Fairness was long treated as an unwelcome guest in the house of competition law—too subjective, too moral, too “un-economic.” Yet from the Code of Hammurabi to the Digital Markets Act (DMA), […]
On 27 June 2025, the Autoriteit Consument en Markt approved the merger between the media groups DGP Media and RTL Nederland. With regard to labour issues, the Autoriteit Consument en Markt’s decision is interesting on several levels. In addition to asserting its competence to take labour market issues into account, the authority seeks to address […]
by Deni Mantzari, UCL Laws The EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) is one of the most ambitious regulatory efforts yet to tame Big Tech. While much of the debate has centered on opening up digital platforms to competition, a quieter but equally critical battle is playing out over the question of fairness, specifically, what constitutes a […]
by Jens-Uwe Franck, Department of Law, University of Mannheim, and Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation Introduction All EU policies must contribute to the overarching objective of achieving climate neutrality within the EU by 2050. This also applies to competition policy; even merger control must be reviewed to determine how it can contribute to this […]
01 July 25, 1:00pm-7:30pm The ‘new’ EU merger control and environmental and social sustainability concerns:Opening the pandora’s box or responding to the legitimacy crisis of competition law? Organized by CLES@UCL with the support of the Inclusive Competition Forum About the Conference The European Commission’s decision to revise the EU Merger Guidelines comes at a moment when […]
06 March 25, 1:00pm-6:45pm Academic Capture in Competition Law and Policy?How Corporate Funding Impacts Competition Policy Research & Appropriate Institutional Design Organized by CLES@UCL, Stigler Center@UChicago Booth, Georgetown Law School, Imperial College London Business School and Inclusive Competition Forum About the Conference This conference will explore how corporate funding and corporate relationships more broadly impact competition policy research and policy. […]
by Jan Broulík (University of Amsterdam) Workers have long been neglected as victims of competition law violations. That is nevertheless changing. Enforcement against anti-competitive employer actions has been spearheaded – perhaps somewhat surprisingly – mainly by the United States. To give a recent example, in January 2025, the DOJ and the FTC published their Antitrust Guidelines for Business […]
Invitation only workshop/roundtable organised by UCL’s Centre for Law, Economics and Society with Sciences Po About this event Co-organised by Prof. Ioannis Lianos and Prof. Dina Waked This roundtable is organized in the context of a partnership between the Centre for Law, Economics and Society at UCL, Sciences Po (as part of the Project Liberty Institute research […]
A Workshop in Rio de Janiero organised by CLES@UCL, NEEC@FGV, ICF, CADE About this event The rise of new technologies has always challenged competition law enforcement, starting with the expansion of railways, the development of mobile and wireless telecom networks, digital computing, and most recently AI. As the fourth industrial revolution unveils, fusing the physical, […]
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