In ‘Making sustainability visible: a new framework and operationalisation tests for Merger Control’ with Elias Deutscher, we explore how merger control incorporate sustainability. The book is open access & covers a wide range of topics! https://t.co/ZDX8Jpev27

It is always a pleasure to discuss legal-theoretical aspects of competition law, and this time also record an in-depth conversation (📽️ https://t.co/osWInoadU5) with one of the leading thinkers bridging competition law and jurisprudence, @StavrosMakris2 from @UCLLaws

📕New article with @StavrosMakris2 Antitrust and Complex Democracy: Reclaiming Markets from Technofeudalism What role can competition law play in a citizens' society challenged by the power of digital platforms❓ Text https://t.co/PPibjEHgiZ Abstract https://t.co/ZZdAcklkkY

📢We are delighted to announce that the UCL Laws team are the Jessup National Champions for the second year in a row! Congratulations to our students who participated and we can't wait for the international rounds! 🔗 Read the article through the link:

Second, on the 18th of March we have an event on "Standard-Essential Patents: Competition / IP law and recent global developments" which is happening in the Faculty's Bloomsbury campus. Sign up here:

Calendars out! We have two exciting events coming up in March. First, on the 6th of March, we have a conference on Academic Capture in Competition Law & Policy taking place in Brussels. It's an important topic and not to be missed! Sign up here:

Interested in competition law litigation? Join us on Wed, 12th Feb at 6:00pm at @UCLLaws where Nicholas Frey (Partner, Freshfield Bruckhaus Deringer LLP) will be talking about truck & tech class actions. Chaired by @GurkaynakGonenc https://t.co/YvkMF2XqDv

It's been a very busy couple of months @UCL_CLES! 📑1. We kicked off the academic year with an event on the Reform of Article 102 TFEU together with the @Inclusive_Comp

I got inspired by the most recent 'Nobel Prize in Economics' to write an article comparing Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson's research program (#NewInstitutionalEconomics) with Classical Political Economy 📔 Working paper: https://t.co/iJazg7rbZY All comments welcome!

A few days ago we celebrated Val Korah's spectacular contribution to competition law (and her fascinating personality). It was a delight to participate in a conference with such distinguished speakers. Here's a peak on what was discussed, prepared by our amazing LLM students.

I am looking forward to discussing the challenges and possibilities that algorithms and AI create for competition law & regulation in this exciting workshop organised by @IoannisLianos and @JusTechne in Rio next week!

Deeply honoured by @UOHS decision to award me yesterday the St Martins medal for my contribution to competition law enforcement, particularly as this recognition comes from one of Europe's most active competition authorities and last year's recipient was Margrethe Vestager.

UCL (@UCLLaws) and the Inclusive Competition Forum (@Inclusive_Comp) hosted a very fun & interesting conference on the reforms of Article 102 TFEU last week, which @StavrosMakris2 and I wrote up here:

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Special thanks to @kaleidoscomp for involving us in this fantastic collaborative project and to @EliasDeutscher for writing with me once again.

6/n (4) Recalibrating the standard of proof (e.g. a relaxed standard of proof may be appropriate when a merger may entail a high-impact but low-probability harm); (5) Filters and Structural presumptions (e.g. a 4-plus rule).

5/n Lastly, we propose 5 policy options to operationalize this taxonomy: (1) Translating sustainability effects into monetary terms (via customer/consumer surveys, willingness to pay studies, and conjoint analysis); (2) Qualitative analysis; (3) Updating the error-cost framework

4/n In this taxonomy we pay special attention not only to innovation incentives, efforts, and output but also to innovation diversity to identify a merger's competition-relevant sustainability effects.

3/n Then we provide a systematic taxonomy of the competition-relevant sustainability harms and benefits that a merger may have. These can involve price or non-price (e.g. quality, choice, innovation) effects.

2/n To do so, first we articulate (relying on the EC's decisions) a threshold test based filtering which sustainability concerns are 'competition relevant' (e.g. when a sustainability parameter allows the merging or non-merging parties to contest their pre-merger sales).