The George Mason Law Review, in partnership with the George Mason Law and Economics Center, presents its 15th Annual Symposium on Antitrust Law, Antitrust in High-Tech Industries, on January 26, 2012. mm
The University of East Anglia’s Centre for Competition Policy presents its 8th annual conference, What Do Public and Private Sanctions in Competition Policy Actually Achieve?, June 14-15, 2012. The call for papers deadline (full papers or abstracts of at least 1000 words) is Jan. 16, 2012.
Hat tip: Faculty Law Conference Updates. mw
The University College Dublin School of Law will be hosting the Sixth Annual Postgraduate Workshop Mar. 22, 2012 in Dublin, Ireland. The theme of the workshop is “In Search of Effectiveness: Current Trends and Challenges in Competition Law Enforcement.” Papers are invited from PhD students at different stages of their research on any of the following themes:
- Private enforcement through actions for damages (theme 1)
- Public enforcement: legitimacy, due process and human rights (theme 2),
- Practical aspects of transnational enforcement of competition law (theme 3). The call for papers deadline is Dec. 7, 2011. Abstracts should be sent to lawPhDworkshop[at]ucd.ie.
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The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth (Northwestern University School of Law) is issuing a call for original research papers to be presented at the Third Annual Conference on Internet Search and Innovation, June 21, 2012 (noon) - June 22, 2012 (3 pm). “The conference will cover academic work on Internet search and innovation and the discussion will examine related public policy issues in antitrust, regulation, and intellectual property.”
Attendance for this conference is by invitation only. Potential attendees should indicate their interest in receiving an invitation by sending a message to Derek Gundersen at dgundersen [at] law.northwestern.edu.
The deadline for submitting papers is Feb. 7, 2012.
The conference is organized in cooperation with the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (JEMS), which is edited by Daniel F. Spulber. JEMS encourages submissions on Internet search and innovation. Submissions are independent of the conference. Authors presenting papers at the conference need not submit to JEMS and are welcome to publish their work in other venues (with appropriate acknowledgement of the Searle Center).
Papers prepared for the conference will be permanently hosted on the Searle Center website. mw
The American Antitrust Institute presents the 5th Annual Future of Antitrust Enforcement Symposium on Dec. 7, 2011. nh
Truth on the Market is planning an online symposium, Unlocking the Law: Deregulating the Legal Profession. It will take place Sept. 19-20, 2011.
The “Unlocking the Law” symposium is designed to start an intellectual dialogue on this topic, bringing together legal scholars and economists with a variety of views and perspectives on the law and economics of the legal profession, regulation, antitrust.
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The Henry G. Manne Program in Law & Economics at the Law & Economics Center, George Mason University School of Law presents the First Annual Manne Law & Economics Conference on Lessons Since the Reagan Revolution at the FTC: A 30-Year Perspective on Competition and Consumer Policies to be held at George Mason University School of Public Policy in Arlington, VA on Friday, Sept. 30, 2011. sr
The Asian Competition Forum holds its annual conference Dec. 5-6, 2011, in Hong Kong. The theme is Establishing Sound Competition Cultures in Asia. Abstracts are due July 31, 2011. mw
Fordham Law School will host the 38th Annual Conference on International Antitrust Law & Policy Sept. 7-8, 2011 in New York, NY. The program focuses on a wide range of issues related to antitrust policy and enforcement.
The AALS Section on Antitrust and Economic Regulation and the Section on Law & Economics will hold a joint program on Behavioral Economics and Antitrust Law during the AALS 2012 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. The program, Jan. 6, 2012, 10:30am to 12:15 pm, will focus on the influence of Behavioral Economics on Antitrust Law and Policy. Jump to full post
The American Antitrust Institute will host its 12th annual national conference, International Economics for Antitrusters: Learning from Two Decades of Deep Globalization, June 23, 2011.
The day before the conference (June 22, 2011), AAI hosts an invitational symposium, Antitrust Challenge of Multi-Channel Distribution in the Internet Age. Contact AAI for information about participating.
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The Interdisciplinary Centre for Competition Law and Policy (ICC) at Queen Mary University School of Law presents ICC-Crowell and Moring Annual Conference 2011, Trends and Developments in Global Competition Law, May 20, 2011, in Brussels. mw
The Ph.D. students of the Queen Mary University School of Law present the Queen Mary PhD Conference 2011, Pushing Legal Knowledge Boundaries, June 7, 2011.
The call for papers deadline has been extended to April 25, 2011.
We invite papers from all areas of law, including:Intellectual Property | Public International | Human Rights | Criminal | Competition | Commercial & Corporate | Banking & Finance | Tax | European Union | Litigation | Constitutional | Arbitration | Information Technology
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The Faculty of Law of the Universidad Autonóma de Madrid will host the I UAM International Conference on European Union Law, Recent trends in the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (2008-2011), July 14-15, 2011. The deadline for submitting abstracts is April 10, 2011. The panels are:
The Panels of the Conference are:
Panel 1: Institutional system of the EU
Panel 2: Police cooperation and judicial cooperation in criminal matters
Panel 3: EU Competition Law
Panel 4: EU Citizenship and free movement of persons
Panel 5: Judicial cooperation in civil matters and Private International Law
Panel 6: EU External Action
Panel 7: Internal Market
Panel 8: EU Social Policy
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Northwestern University School of Law hosts the Second Annual Chicago Forum on International Antitrust Issues June 9-10, 2011, Chicago, IL. This two-day conference will examine the latest developments in competition regulation around the globe. sr
The Bundeskartellamt (an independent competition authority in Germany) presents the 15th International Conference on Competition, April 13-15, 2011. The theme is Anti-Cartel Enforcement in the Spotlight. “Conference participation is by personal invitation by the President of the Bundeskartellamt only.” mw
University College London’s Faculty of Laws presents A Global Competition Law and Economics Series Conference,
Competition Law and the State, March 18-19, 2011, in Hong Kong. mw
The George Mason Law Review, together with Navigant Economics and O’Melveny & Myers LLP, presents the 14th Annual Symposium on Antitrust, Horizontal Market Power: The Evolving Law and Economics of Mergers and Cartels, on Wednesday, February 9, 2011, at the Willard Intercontinental Washington. mw
The British Institute of International and Comparative Law presents its 9th Annual Merger Conference March 17, 2011. mw
From June 5 to June 7, 2011, the International Max Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation and the Professorship for Intellectual Property at ETH Zurich will jointly organize their Second Workshop for Junior Researchers on the Law and Economics of Intellectual Property and Competition Law. The workshop will be held in Wildbad Kreuth, a lovely region one hour south of Munich, Germany. The submission deadline is Feb. 28, 2011.
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