Filip Lubinski

I just came back from the largest annual conference of competition law scholars. This time it was organised jointly by University College London (UCL) and King’s College London (KCL). The former institution is of special importance to me, as it hosts some of the researchers from whom I draw the most inspiration, and I have already presented my work there three times. Here come my highlights:

Presentations

Panel Discussion: The Impact of Competition Law Scholarship (Rupprecht Podszun, Maria Luisa Stasi, Simon Holmes, and Deni Mantzari)

Data, Power and Democracy (Juliane Mendelsohn and Tristan Rohner)

Welfare and Profit Implications of Resale-Below-Cost Regulations in Food Supply Chains (Zombor Berezvai and Magdalena Knapp)

Industrial Policy in Action: Empirical Observations from IPCEI Decisions(Natan Waśniowski, Discussant: Giorgio Mont)

Intellectual History of Monopoly – Sir Edward Coke (Kaarish Shah Maniar, Discussant: Oles Andriychuk)

Innovation Ecosystems in Antitrust (Ketan Ahuja)

The New Space Race and EU Competition Law (Yasmine Bouzoraa)

Startup acquisitions, venture capital, and innovation (Max van Iersel, Discussant: Florence Thépot)

Plenary: Capitalism’s New ‘Code’: Rethinking the Role of Competition Law (Ioannis Lianos, Luigi Zingales, Christel Koop, Michal Gal, Dina Waked, Stavros Makris, Giorgio Monti, Chris Townley, and Spencer Weber Waller)

Abuse of Dominance, Self-Preferencing, and the Quasi-State in Frank Herbert’s Dune (Anush Ganesh)

Coerced Neuro Consent as Abuse of Dominance: Common People and Cognitive Infrastructure Power (Lyuxing Tao)

Other

I had the opportunity to talk with three UCL competition law scholars who share my interest in complexity science: Todd Davies, Ioannis Lianos, and Stavros Makris.

Getting to know many young researchers of my generation from Germany better, among them Simon de Ridder.

Exchanging hugs with a great guy and my co-author-to-be, Lyuxing Tao.

Seeing KCL’s Bush House from the inside.

A Saturday trip to Cambridge.

Now I need to find a way to get to the 2027 conference in Seoul, South Korea!