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SUMMARY:[event] Godefroy de Boiscuillé: The EU Digital Single Market Paradox
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Godefroy de Boiscuillé is Maître de Conférences at Côte d’Azur University and Co-Director of the Chair Competition & Digital Economics at Panthéon-Assas University Paris II. \nDescription: The goal of creating a unified digital economy is being undermined by the steady rise in trade barriers\, often framed under the innocuous term “ex ante regulation.” This presentation will focus on four key points: (1) In digital markets\, the approach of negative integration—removing barriers to trade—is increasingly contradicted by new measures that have effects equivalent to quantitative restrictions. (2) The strategy of positive integration—establishing EU-wide norms and standards—is weakened by the proliferation of conflicting standards. (3) Exceptions to the free movement of goods are multiplying\, justified by objectives that often conflict with other equally important goals. (4) While the Digital Single Market is based on the principles of the common market\, it introduces a less liberal philosophy compared to the traditional internal market framework. Together\, these dynamics reveal a paradox: the very goal of a unified digital market risks being undermined by the growing layers of regulation fragmenting the digital economy. \nFormat: Dr. de Boiscuillé will give a 30-minute talk\, which will be followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Thibault Schrepel. \n  \nLoading…
URL:https://alti.amsterdam/event/godefroy-de-boiscuille/
LOCATION:VU Amsterdam\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference,Law & Technology & Economics
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SUMMARY:[conference] Law & Technology & Economics of AI
DESCRIPTION:Law & Technology & Economics of AI\nDates: May 22 – 23\, 2025 (Thursday – Friday) \nTime: 9:30am – 5:30pm \nOrganiers: Adrian Kuenzler\, Thibault Schrepel\, Volker Stocker \nVenue: Academic Conference Room\, 11/F Cheng Yu Tung Tower\, The University of Hong Kong \nThe conference seeks to provide a multidisciplinary forum to explore challenges regarding AI regulation\, and to shed new light on meaningful regulatory design. It will bring together top scholars from law\, economics\, and computer science to present their work and engage in discussions across disciplinary boundaries. \nRegister here: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regform.aspx?guest=Y&UEID=100103 \n***\n22 MAY 2025 (DAY 1)\nWelcome by the Organizers (9:40 – 10am)\nAdrian Kuenzler\, Thibault Schrepel\, Volker Stocker \nPanel 1: AI and Competition (10 – 11:30am) \nChair & Moderator: Thibault Schrepel (VU Amsterdam) \nPresenters:\n• Julian Nowag (The University of Hong Kong)\nAlgorithmic Predation and Exclusion \n• Nuno Cunha Rodrigues (Universidade de Lisboa/Portuguese Competition Authority)\nCrafting the Regulatory Ecosystem for AI: Competition 2.0 \n• Antonio Capobianco (OECD Competition Division)\nCompetition in the Provision of Cloud Computing Services \n• Elettra Bietti (Northeastern University) \nKeynote Speech (11:45am – 12:45pm) \nChristopher Yoo (Imasogie Professor in Law and Technology; Professor of Communication; Professor of Computer and Information Science\, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School) \nPanel 2: AI Act and Copyright (2:00 – 3:30 pm)\nChair & Moderator: Volker Stocker (Weizenbaum Institute) \nPresenters:\n• Daniel Schnurr (University of Regensburg)\nImplementing the European AI Act: Balancing Horizontal Consistency with Sector-Specific Requirements \n• Sandra Marco Colino (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)\nCopyrighting AI’s Artistic Streak: The China-US Divide \n• Zachary Cooper (VU Amsterdam)\nLimits to Copyright’s Power Over the Next-Generation of Generative AI Media  \nPanel 3: AI Economics and Regulation (4:00 – 5:30pm) \nChair & Moderator: Adrian Kuenzler (The University of Hong Kong) \nPresenters:\n• Jason Potts (RMIT University)\nGoverning Hyperobjects – New Economics of AI Regulation \n• William Lehr & Volker Stocker (MIT & Weizenbaum Institute)\nAgentic AI – Friend and Foe \n• Alba Ribera Martínez (Universidad Villanueva) – ONLINE\nGenerative AI Training Data and the Challenge of Lawful Scale \n***\n23 MAY 2025 (DAY 2)\nKeynote Speech (9:30 – 10:30am) \nSandra Matz (Columbia Business School) – ONLINE \nPanel 4: Data and AI (10:30am – 12:00 noon) \nChair & Moderator: Thibault Schrepel (VU Amsterdam) \nPresenters:\n• Ginger Zhe Jin (University of Maryland)\nArtificial Intelligence and Data Policies \n• Kyohei Yamamoto (Japan Fair Trade Commission)\nAI\, Competition and Data Regulation in Japan \n• Robert Mahari (MIT Media Lab) – ONLINE \nPanel 5: Governing AI (1:15 – 2:45pm)\nChair & Moderator: Volker Stocker (Weizenbaum Institute) \nPresenters:\n• Michal Shur-Ofry (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)\nAI Governance as Regulation of Collective Memory \nPaul Ohm (Georgetown University Law Center)\nFocusing on Fine-Tuning: Understanding the Four Pathways for Shaping Generative AI \n• Harry Surden (University of Colorado Law School)\nThe Limits of Prediction in Technology Policy: Why AI Regulation Must Embrace Uncertainty \nPanel 6: Jurisdictional Challenges and AI Policies (3:15 – 4:45pm) \nChair & Moderator: Adrian Kuenzler (The University of Hong Kong) \nPresenters:\n• Florence G’sell (Scienes Po/Stanford University)\nThe EU’s Model of Comprehensive Technology Regulation\n• Yo Sop Choi (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Seoul)\nThe New AI Regulation in Korea\n• Yasunori Tabei (Japan Fair Trade Commission)\nJapanese AI Regulation\n• Catalina Goanta (Utrecht University) – ONLINE \nClosing Remarks by the Organizers (4:45 – 5pm) \nThis event is free of charge.\n \nFor inquiries\, please contact Ms. Grace Chan at mcgrace@hku.hk / 3917 4727.
URL:https://alti.amsterdam/event/law-tech-econ-ai/
LOCATION:Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:[event] Herbert Hovenkamp: Tech Monopolies
DESCRIPTION:Organizer: Thibault Schrepel\, Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (ALTI). \nSpeaker: Herbert Hovenkamp is the James G. Dinan University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and the Wharton School. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and in 2008 won the Justice Department’s John Sherman Award for his lifetime contributions to antitrust law. In 2012 he served on the ABA’s Committee to advise the President-elect on antitrust matters. His principal writing includes The Opening of American Law: Neoclassical Legal Thought\, 1870-1970 (Oxford\, 2015); Antitrust Law (formerly with Phillip E. Areeda and Donald F. Turner) (22 vols.\, Aspen 2008-2021); Principle of Antitrust (West 2d ed. 2021); Creation Without Restraint: Promoting Liberty and Rivalry in Innovation (Oxford\, 2012\, with Bohannan); The Making of Competition Policy (Oxford\, 2012\, with Crane); The Antitrust Enterprise: Principle and Execution (Harvard\, 2006); Federal Antitrust Policy: The Law of Competition and Its Practice (West\, 5th ed. 2015); IP and Antitrust (2 vols.\, Aspen\, 2017\, with Janis\, Lemley\, Leslie\, and Carrier); and Enterprise and American Law\, 1836-1937 (Harvard\, 1991). He has also co-authored casebooks in antitrust\, property law\, and a free open source casebook on innovation and competition policy. He has consulted on numerous antitrust cases for various government entities and private plaintiffs. He has two sons. \nDescription: In an era defined by the dominance of tech giants such as Amazon\, Apple\, Meta\, and Microsoft\, questions surrounding market power\, consumer harm\, and regulatory intervention are more urgent than ever. Join us for a timely and thought-provoking conversation with Herbert Hovenkamp\, one of the world’s leading antitrust scholars\, as he presents insights from his new book\, Tech Monopoly. In this talk\, Professor Hovenkamp will explore how antitrust law grapples with the complexities of digital markets\, ranging from software and search engines to online retail and hardware. He will examine how features like two-sided markets\, data aggregation\, and platform effects challenge traditional competition analysis and enforcement. From foundational legal principles to pressing policy debates (such as whether Big Tech firms should be broken up and what remedies might actually benefit users) this event offers a clear and accessible entry point into one of today’s most contentious economic issues. Whether you are a legal scholar\, economist\, policymaker\, a practitioner\, or simply interested in the intersection of law and technology\, this discussion will provide valuable tools for understanding and evaluating the current state of antitrust law in the digital age. \nFormat: Prof. Herbert Hovenkamp will give a 30-minute talk\, followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Thibault Schrepel and a Q&A with the audience.
URL:https://alti.amsterdam/event/herbert-hovenkamp/
LOCATION:VU Amsterdam\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference,Law & Technology & Economics
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SUMMARY:[event] Richard S. Markovits: The Impact of Mergers on R&D
DESCRIPTION:Organizer: Thibault Schrepel\, Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (ALTI). \nSpeaker: Richard Markovits is the John B. Connally Chair in Law at the University of Texas. He teaches and writes in the areas of antitrust\, law and economics\, constitutional law and jurisprudence. He is the author of articles in the Harvard Law Review\, Yale Law Journal\, Stanford Law Review and elsewhere as well as the book Matters of Principle: Legitimate Legal Argument and Constitutional Interpretation (NYU\, 1998)\, Truth or Economics: On the Definition\, Prediction\, and Relevance of Economic Efficiency (Yale\, 2008)\, and Economics and the Interpretation and Application of U.S. and E.U. Antitrust Law (two vols.) (Springer\, 2014). He came to Texas from Stanford Law School in 1976. \nDescription: This talk will examine how mergers and acquisitions affect R&D investment through two mechanisms: reducing price competition (which increases investment) and altering investment competition intensity (an overlooked factor in antitrust analysis). It will then challenge the assumption that more R&D will always be economically efficient\, arguing that product R&D will tend to be over-incentivized while production-process R&D will be under-incentivized due to market imperfections. Prof. Markovits will further contend that current policies combining IP protections with immediate R&D expense deductions create uncertainty about optimal investment levels because we are not able to accurately measure how individual projects affect discovery probabilities or the true breadth of IP protection across different types of innovations. \nFormat: Prof. Richard S. Markovits will give a 30-minute talk\, followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Thibault Schrepel and a Q&A with the audience. \nLoading…
URL:https://alti.amsterdam/event/richard-markovits/
LOCATION:VU Amsterdam\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference,Law & Technology & Economics
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SUMMARY:Inaugural Conference: Space Law & Sustainability Center (VU ALTI & ASI)
DESCRIPTION:VU Amsterdam has repeatedly been recognized as the most sustainable university in the Netherlands and\, in 2023\, made a groundbreaking decision to cut ties with fossil fuel companies that do not comply with the Paris Agreement. It is only natural for our university’s focus on sustainable development to extend beyond Earth’s boundaries. \nThe Space Law & Sustainability Center is founded by two existing VU institutes\, Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute (ALTI) and Amsterdam Sustainability Institute (ASI)\, with the purpose of providing an interdepartmental platform for dialogue and multidisciplinary collaboration within the VU Amsterdam community\, focusing on the expanding scope of human activities in outer space. The Center enhances cross-faculty collaboration by demonstrating how ‘space’ connects multiple expertise because it acts as an enabler for the fulfillment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. \nThe Amsterdam Center for Space Law & Sustainability contributes to the activities of the UNSDSN Dutch chapter hosted at VU Amsterdam. Externally\, the Center engages in valorization and impact activities within the Dutch ecosystem and at international level. It aims to collaborate with universities\, research centers\, the private sector\, NGOs and public bodies. \nJoin us on 20 June 2025 in Amsterdam & online for the launch event!  \nThis launch will be marked by an international conference aimed at defining “space sustainability” as a matter of international security. In the context of rapidly expanding space activities\, urgent challenges have emerged—ranging from the accumulation of orbital debris and the militarization of space to the commercialization of space resources without adequate regulatory oversight. Alongside national and international experts\, we will examine the provisions of the Pact of the Future\, a landmark UN Resolution A/RES/79/1 adopted in September 2024\, referring\, among others\, to the need for new frameworks concerning space debris\, space traffic management\, and space resources. The conference will also present a set of critical and innovative assessments concerning the adoption of artificial intelligence and quantum technologies in outer space as well as a series of multidisciplinary approaches to space sustainability. \nAlongside national and international experts we will discuss the following topics: \n\nEUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES (LEGAL & TECHNICAL) ON SPACE SUSTAINABILITY & SECURITY\nFUTURE FRAMEWORKS IN LINE WITH THE UNITED NATIONS PACT OF THE FUTURE\nARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & QUANTUM TECH FOR SPACE SECURITY: LEGAL IMPLICATIONS\nINTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO SPACE SUSTAINABILITY\nINTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION FOR SUSTAINABLE & SECURE SPACE\n\nParticipation is free\, but registration is required. Register here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n 
URL:https://alti.amsterdam/event/inaugural-conference-space-law-sustainability-center/
LOCATION:VU Amsterdam\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:[event] Geoffrey A. Manne: DMA Goes Global
DESCRIPTION:Organizer: Thibault Schrepel\, Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (ALTI). \nSpeaker: Geoffrey A. Manne is the president and founder of the International Center for Law and Economics (ICLE)\, a nonprofit\, nonpartisan research center based in Portland\, Oregon. He is also a Visiting Professor at IE University in Madrid\, and a distinguished fellow at Northwestern University’s Center on Law\, Business\, and Economics. Manne holds AB & JD degrees from the University of Chicago. He is an expert in the economic analysis of law\, focusing particularly on antitrust\, consumer protection\, telecom\, IP\, and technology regulation. From 2003 to 2006 he was an assistant professor at Lewis & Clark Law School where he taught law & economics\, international economic regulation\, corporations\, and other courses. In 2006 he decamped from Lewis & Clark to work in Microsoft’s legal department\, heading up a program on law & economics academic engagement. He subsequently founded ICLE in 2009. Prior to teaching\, Manne practiced antitrust law and appellate litigation at Latham & Watkins\, clerked for Hon. Morris S. Arnold on the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals\, and worked as a research assistant for Judge Richard A. Posner. He was also once (very briefly) employed by the FTC. His writings and publications are available at SSRN and ICLE. \nDescription: This presentation will examine the rise of Digital Competition Regulations (DCRs) such as the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) and their global counterparts. It will argue that DCRs will depart fundamentally from traditional competition law\, prioritizing rent redistribution\, the facilitation of rivals\, and the deliberate weakening of successful platforms over consumer welfare or innovation. Drawing on cases like Apple’s DMA compliance and the Android Auto decision\, the talk will highlight the conceptual ambiguities\, innovation risks\, and broader paradigm shift these regulations will represent for competition policy worldwide. \nFormat: Geoffrey A. Manne will give a 30-minute talk\, followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Thibault Schrepel and a Q&A with the audience. \n
URL:https://alti.amsterdam/event/manne-dma/
LOCATION:VU Amsterdam\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference,Law & Technology & Economics
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SUMMARY:[event] The Future of Competition Law Research
DESCRIPTION:Co-organizer: Thibault Schrepel\, Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (ALTI). \nDescription: The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is delighted to co-organize\, together with ICLE\, a special event dedicated to the Master Thesis Competition in Competition Law. This gathering will showcase the outstanding work of the winners and bring together distinguished members of the jury alongside leading academics in the field. It will be a unique opportunity to engage with cutting-edge research\, exchange ideas\, and celebrate the next generation of competition law scholars. We warmly invite all interested participants to join us on the VU campus for what promises to be an inspiring and thought-provoking afternoon. \nSpeakers: \n\nAlison Jones (King’s College London)\nMariateresa Maggiolino (Bocconi University)\nFrancisco Marcos (IE Law School)\nFrédéric Marty (Université Côte d’Azur)\nHenri Piffaut (European Commission\, DG COMP)\nThibault Schrepel (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)\nAnna Tzanaki (University of Leeds)\n\nProgram: \n1:00 – 1:15 PM — Welcome & Opening Remarks\nDr. Thibault Schrepel\, Associate Professor of Law (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) \n1:15 – 2:00 PM — Award Ceremony\nPresentation of the three competition law thesis awards: \n\nGrand Prize – Best Thesis\nMost Innovative Thesis\nBest Law & Economics Analysis\n\nEach awardee will present their research (10 minutes each). \n2:00 – 2:30 PM — Coffee Break \n2:30 – 4:00 PM — Perspectives on Competition Law Research \nThis session focuses on the current state of research in competition law\, drawing on the speakers’ own experiences through a series of 10-minute presentations followed by discussion. \nThemes will include: \n\nHow researchers find their voice and build a distinctive research agenda in competition law\nHow to balance doctrinal\, empirical\, and theoretical approaches\nThe role of quantitative methods in modern competition research\nLessons from supervising master’s or PhD students\nHow practice and case law can inform theory\nThe papers that most shaped speakers’ understanding of competition law\nWhat economics can (and cannot) contribute to the field\nThe importance of academic research for antitrust agencies\nThe most influential non-competition law works in our field\nHow mentorship shapes a research trajectory\nThe role of failure and resilience in academic careers\nWhy\, and when\, to publish interdisciplinary competition research\n\n4:00 – 5:00 PM — Panel Discussion: The Future of Competition Law Scholarship \nThis session focuses on the future of competition law research. It will explore how technology and new institutions will shape the field in the years ahead. The panel will be boderated by Thibault Schrepel. \nThemes will include: \n\nShould competition law scholars learn to code?\nThe role of open data and transparency in tomorrow’s research\nHow GenAI may transform competition law scholarship\nThe evolution of academic publishing in the AI era\nWhat role will academic research play in shaping the future of competition law?\nThe future of interdisciplinary collaboration between law\, economics\, and data science\nThe role of human judgment in an increasingly automated research environment\nWhat skills and methods will define the next generation of competition law scholars\n\nREGISTRATION OVER HERE
URL:https://alti.amsterdam/event/theses-awards/
LOCATION:VU Amsterdam\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:[event] Frederic Jenny: The Five Crises of Competition Law
DESCRIPTION:Organizer: Thibault Schrepel\, Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (ALTI). \nSpeaker: Frédéric Jenny holds a Ph.D in Economics from Harvard University (1975)\, a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Paris (1977) and an MBA degree from ESSEC Business School (1966). He is Emeritus Professor of Economics at ESSEC Business School in Paris and President of the International Committee of Concurrences Review. He is Chairman of the OECD Global Competition Forum\, and former Co-Director of the European Center for Law and Economics of ESSEC. He was previously Non-Executive Director of the Office of Fair Trading in the United Kingdom (2007-2014)\, Judge on the French Supreme Court (Cour de cassation\, Economic Commercial and Financial Chamber) from 2004 to August 2012\, Vice Chair of the French Competition Authority (1993-2004) and President of the WTO Working Group on Trade and Competition (1994-2003). He was visiting professor at Northwestern University Department of Economics in the United States (1978)\, Keio University Department of Economics in Japan (1984)\, University of Capetown Business School in South Africa (1991)\, Haifa University School of Law in Israel (2012). He was Visiting Professor at University College London Law School (2005-2010)\, Global Professor of Antitrust in the New York University School of Law’s Hauser Global Law School (2014\, 2017 and 2022) and Senior Fellow in the Online Global Competition and Consumer Law Masters Program\, University of Melbourne (Australia) (2016-2018) \nDescription: Industrial policy to promote growth through innovation has taken center stage in Europe’s economic policy. What do we know about the economics of innovation and  the respective roles of competition and industrial policy in the promotion of innovation? Under which condition could these two policies be complementary? \nFormat: Frederic Jenny will give a 30-minute talk\, followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Thibault Schrepel and a Q&A with the audience. \nLoading…
URL:https://alti.amsterdam/event/jenny/
LOCATION:VU Amsterdam\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference,Law & Technology & Economics
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SUMMARY:[event] Teodora Groza: Governing Foundation Models
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Teodora Groza is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tübingen. She has obtained a PhD in law from Sciences Po Law School and has held visiting positions at Harvard Law School and Stanford Law School. Her work is underlined by the belief that technological developments need to be paired with governance innovations and investigates the fitness of various legal interventions for ensuring AI alignment. Methodologically\, she leverages the toolkit of law and economics\, in particular organizational and institutional economics. \nShe has published on data markets\, the governance of AI companies\, the role of regulation in promoting innovation\, and the impact of new business models on the EU and US antitrust frameworks. She regularly intervenes at academic\, civil society\, and industry conferences. \nDescription: Senior executives of frontier AI labs have recently described AI foundation models as either “infrastructures” or “platforms.” Although these terms are often used interchangeably in legal and governance debates\, economists distinguish between the effects and incentive structures they generate. This talk examines the role of foundation models in today’s economy and disentangles their platform-like and infrastructure-like characteristics. Building on this distinction\, it situates foundation models within the existing regulatory architectures of platforms (e.g. social media\, digital marketplaces) and infrastructures (e.g. public utilities). It then analyzes how different governance choices would shape access\, competition\, and the allocation of regulatory authority. \nOrganizer: Thibault Schrepel\, Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (ALTI). \nFormat: Teodora Groza will give a 30-minute talk\, followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Thibault Schrepel and a Q&A with the audience. \nLoading…
URL:https://alti.amsterdam/event/teodora-groza/
LOCATION:VU Amsterdam\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference,Law & Technology & Economics
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SUMMARY:[event] Competition and the Wealth of Nations
DESCRIPTION:Substance Over Slogans:\nCompetition and the Wealth of Nations\nPlease join us for a unique antitrust conference\, “Substance Over Slogans: Competition and the Wealth of Nations” on March 13\, 2026\, at the Palazzo Ripetta in Rome\, Italy. \nOur aim for this conference is to look past the headlines and oft-politicized arguments that have defined the last several years of competition-policy discourse to examine the current academic foundations of antitrust through a rigorous assessment of the legal and economic state of play—this year with a deliberately multidisciplinary lens that pairs subject-matter experts from adjacent fields with antitrust scholars and practitioners. \nThe competition-policy landscape is shifting rapidly\, and making sense of it now requires a genuinely multidisciplinary vantage point. This year’s conference aims to assemble subject-matter experts from fields as diverse as the AI\, cloud\, and chips stack; management and productivity; geopolitics and digital sovereignty; venture capital and bankruptcy. By pairing these voices with leading antitrust scholars\, we aim to translate external evidence into concrete implications for enforcement\, remedies\, and process—clarifying\, for example\, when vertical integration in the AI stack is pro-competitive\, how reallocation conditions shape contestability\, where industrial policy complements rivalry\, and which institutional guardrails best sustain competitive markets over time. \nAgainst this backdrop\, our Rome conference will bring together an unparalleled assembly of top academics\, influential policymakers\, and business experts to discuss the state of the art of economic and legal research and to translate external expertise into concrete implications for enforcement\, remedies\, and institutional design. Each session features a concise 10–15 minute briefing by a subject-matter expert\, followed by a moderated conversation with antitrust discussants. \nOur goal is to investigate the current state of antitrust policy\, focusing on substance over slogans. \nHosted by: \n\nThe International Center for Law & Economics (Geoffrey A. Manne and Dirk Auer)\nThe Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute (Thibault Schrepel)\nIE Law School Madrid (Francisco Marcos and Lazar Radic)\n\nCONFIRMED SPEAKERS:\nDirk Auer (Director of Competition Policy\, International Center for Law &Economics & Adjunct Professor of Law\, University of Liège) \nGustavo Augusto Freitas de Lima (President\, Brazilian Administrative Counsel for Economic Defense (CADE) & Former Assistant Deputy Director of Economic Policy\, General Secretariat of the Presidency of Brazil) \nDavid Bosco (Professor\, Aix-Marseille University Faculty of Law and Political Science & Director\, Center for Economic Law\, Aix-Marseille University) \nHarry G. Broadman (Principal\, WestExec Advisors & Senior Economist\, RAND) \nGiuseppe Colangelo (Jean Monnet Chair in European Innovation Policy\, University of Basilicata & Senior Scholar of Competition Policy\, International Center for Law & Economics) \nJuliana Oliveira Domingues (Professor of Economic Law and Antitrust\, University of São Paulo & Former Attorney General\, Brazilian Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE)) \nHon. Douglas H. Ginsburg (Senior Circuit Judge\, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia & Professor of Law\, George Mason University Law School) \nNicola Giocoli (Full Professor of Economics\, University of Pisa Faculty of Law) \nAndrei Hagiu (Professor of Information Systems\, Boston University Questrom School of Business) \nM. Todd Henderson (Michael J. Marks Professor of Law\, University of Chicago Law School) \nHerbert Hovenkamp (James G. Dinan University Professor\, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School) \nFrédéric Jenny (Emeritus Professor of Economics\, ESSEC Business School & Former Vice President\, French Competition Authority) \nThomas A. Lambert (Wall Chair in Corporate Law and Governance\, University of Missouri School of Law) \nMaria Maciá (Associate Professor of Law\, Notre Dame Law School)  \nMariateresa Maggiolino (Full Professor of Economic Law\, Università Bocconi) \nGeoffrey A. Manne (President & Founder\, International Center for Law & Economics & Visiting Professor of Law\, IE University) \nFrancisco Marcos (Professor of Law\, IE University Law School) \nA. Douglas Melamed (Visiting Fellow\, Stanford Law School & Scholar in Residence\, USC Gould School of Law) \nEduardo Pérez Motta (Founding Partner\, Pérez Motta Estrada & Former President\, Mexican Federal Competition Commission) \nRandal C. Picker (James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law\, University of Chicago Law School) \nLazar Radic (Assistant Professor of Law\, IE University Law School & Senior Scholar of Competition Policy\, International Center for Law & Economics) \nPierre Régibeau (Competition Expert\, Analysis Group & Former Chief Economist\, EU Commission Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP)) \nThibault Schrepel (Associate Professor of Law\, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Faculty Affiliate\, Stanford University CodeX Center) \nEric Seufert (General Partner\, Heracles Capital & Analyst and Podcast Host\, Mobile Dev Memo) \nLauren Wagner (Fellow\, Abundance Institute)  \nKoren W. Wong-Ervin (Partner\, Jones Day & Former Counsel for Intellectual Property & International Antitrust\, U.S. Federal Trade Commission) \nElena Yndurain (Professor\, IE Business School & Director\, AI Project Management\, Microsoft) \nREGISTRATION:\nRight here
URL:https://alti.amsterdam/event/competition-rome/
LOCATION:Rome\, Italy
CATEGORIES:Conference
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