Global Competition Law Centre
The Global Competition Law Centre (GCLC) is a research centre of the College of Europe. It was founded on 1 January 2004, aims to promote rigorous legal and economic analysis of competition policy reforms in the EU and globally, and to provide a discussion forum for academics, practitioners, and enforcement officers in the competition field.
Lunch talks
Forty-Eighth Lunch Talk: The Quantification Of Damages For Competition Law Infringements, on 23 September 2010.
Speakers:
Peter Roth, High Court – Chancery Division and Andrea Lofaro, RBB Economics
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Previous Lunch talks
Forty-Seventh Lunch Talk: Putting The Settlement Procedure Into Practice: The Commission’s Drams Decision, on 7 July 2010.
Speakers:
Kris Dekeyser, DG COMP, European Commission; Philip Mansfield, Allen & Overy and Robbert Snelders, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
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Forty-Sixth Lunch Talk: The Review of the Current Regime for the Assessment of Horizontal Cooperation Agreements under EU Competition Rules, on 7 June 2010.
Speakers:
Donncadh Woods, DG COMP, European Commission and Axel Gutermuth, Arnold & Porter
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Forty-Fifth Lunch Talk: The Commission's Pharmaceutical Sector Inquiry - What's Next?, on 20 May 2010.
Speakers:
Dominik Schnichels, Head of the Pharmaceutical Task Force, European Commission and James Killick, Partner, White & Case
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Forty-Forth Lunch Talk: The Lisbon Treaty and the Future of EU Competition Policy, on 28 April 2010.
Speakers:
Christophe Lemaire, Ashurst and University Paris I; Eric Morgan de Rivery, Jones Day and Alan Riley, City University London
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Forty-Third Lunch Talk: The Commission’s Proposed Best Practices in Antitrust Proceedings, on 18 March 2010.
Speakers:
Luiz Ortiz Blanco, Partner, Garrigues and Carles Esteva Mosso, Director (acting), European Commission, DG COMP
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Forty-Second Lunch Talk: Recent trends in the Commission’s Review of Airline Mergers, on 26 November 2009.
Speakers:
Daniel Boeshertz, European Commission DG COMP and Sven Voelcker, Partner, WilmerHale
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Conference
Sixth Annual Conference of the Global Competition Law Centre: The Role of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Competition Law Cases, 7-8 October 2010
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Publications
GCLC Working Paper 02/10:
Behavioral Economics and Abuse of Dominance: A Proposed Alternative Reading of the Article 102 TFEU Case-Law, by Nicolas Petit and Norman Neyrinck.
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GCLC Working Paper 01/10:
Regional Aid: Recent Trends and Some Historical Background (with special focus on large investment projects), by Massimo Merola.
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GCLC Working Paper 03/09:
Evaluating Vertical Mergers Post Non-Horizontal Guidelines: An Economics-Based Approach?, by Álvaro Ramos, Tricia Mohan and Francesco Carloni.
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GCLC Working Paper 02/09:
Limiting Anti-Competitive Government Interventions That Benefit Special Interests, by Daniel Sokol.
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GCLC Working Paper 01/09:
Les stratégies juridiques en droit des coordinations entre entreprises – Une approche scénarisée, by Nicolas Petit.
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GCLC Working Paper 04/08:
Competition law proceedings before the European Commission and the right to a fair trial: no need for reform?, by Donald Slater, Sébastien Thomas and Denis Waelbroeck.
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GCLC Press Release 09/08:
Comments on Consultation on the Functioning of Regulation 1/2003.
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GCLC Research Papers on Article 82 EC: a report containing a set of research papers produced under the auspices of the
Global Competition Law Centre. The papers comprised in this report cover the
main issues raised by the application of Article 82 of the EC Treaty.
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