Guest Lecture Programme

The Competition Law & Policy Guest Lecture Programme brings together leading practitioners and academics to discuss recent developments in competition law and policy. Lectures cover both the law and economics of competition law. The majority of lectures take place in Hilary Term at the St Cross building. Lectures are open to Oxford students and university members. Other persons interested in attending are welcome to do so, but are kindly asked to inform the Centre in advance so to ensure availability of places.

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Year 2011/12

	Subject	Speaker	Time and Venue
Monday 17 October 2011	Antitrust Economics	Mark Williams NERA	17h00 Centre for Competition Law & Policy
Friday 4 May 2012	Workshop on Vertical Restraints	Molly Herron and Alex Long Herbert Smith LLP	13h00 Centre for Competition Law & Policy
Friday 11 May 2012	Hard Facts about European Commission’s Dawn Raids	Peter Citron Hogan Lovells	13h00 Centre for Competition Law & Policy

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Previous lectures

Hugh M. Hollman, Attorney Advisor, US FTC, on The International Competition Network – Past Achievements and Future Challenges
Robert L. Steiner on Vertical Competition
Henning Leupold, European Commission, DG Competition, on The Assessment of Horizontal Cooperation Agreements
Terry Calvan, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, on US antitrust law in comparative perspective
Molly Herron and Alex Long, Herbert Smith LLP, on Vertical Agreements
John Temple Lang, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, on Article 102 TFEU (ex Art 82 EC) - Prices and Rebates
Carl Shapiro, US Department of Justice and Hass School of Business, Berkeley, on Mergers and Acquisitions
Wouter Wils, European Commission, on Cartel Enforcement and Criminalisation
Julian Joshua, Partner, Howrey LLP Brussels, on Does Cartel Criminalisation Have a Future Outside of the United States? Insights from the United Kingdom Experience
Micael O’kane, Partner, Head of Fraud/Regulatory Group, Peters & Peters, on Practical Issues Arising from Concurrent Criminal Prosecutions in the UK and Overseas
Caron Beaton-Wells, Associate Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne, on Milestone or Roadblock? The Role of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission in Criminalising Cartels
Christine Parker, Associate Professor and Reader, Melbourne Law School, on Criminalisation and Compliance: The Gap Between Rhetoric and Reality
Christopher Harding, Professor of Law, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Recidivism, Criminalisation and the Growth of the Anti-Cartel Enforcement Industry
Stephen Wilks, Professor of Politics, University of Exeter, on Criminalisation in the Context of Britain?s Traditions of Negotiated Regulation
Andreas Stephan, Lecturer, Norwich Law School & ESRC Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia, on Cartel Criminalisation: The Role of the Media in the 'Battle for Hearts and Minds'
Michael A. Carrier, Rutgers Law School – Camden, on Antitrust concerns and the pharmaceutical sector - Pharmaceutical agreements and generics companies
Alden Abbott, US FTC, on Standard Setting Under Section 5 of the FTC Act
Cecilio Madero Villarejo, DG Competition, on Intellectual property rights and competition rules, a complex but indispensable coexistence?
Philippe Chappatte, Slaughter and May, on FRAND commitments- The case for antitrust intervention
Damien Geradin, Tilburg University, Howrey, on FRAND commitments- The case against antitrust intervention
Pat Treacy, Bristows, on Competition law and Intellectual Property Rights
Edward L. Flippen, McGuireWoods LLP, on US Antitrust law
Michael D. Whinston, Northwestern University, on Vertical Contracting and Antitrust
John Temple Lang, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP, on the Commission Guidance on Article 82 EC
Sir Jeremy lever QC, Monckton Chambers, All-Souls College, on the Commission Guidance on Article 82 EC
Prof. Mario Monti, formerly the European Commissioner for Competition on European competition law and economics
Simon Bishop, RBB Economics, on The law and economics of loyalty rebates
John Davies, UK Competition Commission on What if people make mistakes? The assumption of ‘rationality’ in competition economics
John Temple Lang, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP, on Article 82 EC – Recent Developments’
Dennis Carlton, Chief Economist at the Antitrust Division of the US Justice Department, on the law and economics of tying
Philippe Chappatte, Slaughter & May, on The Impala judgment (Sony/BMG merger)
Ali Nikpay, OFT, on Article 82 reform
Mark Williams, NERA Economic Consulting, on Antitrust Economics
Iestyn Williams, RBB Economics, on Article 82 reform: an economic perspective
Simon Priddis, OFT, on the Law and Economics of Conglomerate Mergers
Philippe Chappatte, Slaughter and May, on International Cartels and leniency Procedures
Terry Calvani, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, on US Antitrust law and Private Enforcement
Terry Calvani, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, on criminal sanctions for competition offences
Don Baker, Baker & Miller PLLC, on Network Effects and Essential Facilities
Edward Flippen, McGuireWoods LLP, on US Electric Deregulation
Peter Willis, Taylor Wessing, on the privilege against self-incrimination in competition investigations
Sir John Vickers, Chairman, OFT, on The abuse of market power
Carles Esteva Mosso, DG Competition, on EU merger control: the current state of play
Philippe Chappatte, Slaughter and May, on International Cartels and leniency Procedures
Chris Bright, Shearman & Sterling, on Dispute resolution and competition law
John Temple Lang, CGSH , on Problems and issues of decentralising European competition law
Mark Williams, NERA, on Antitrust Economics
Alden Abbott, US FTC, US Antitrust Law
Robert O'Donoghue, CGSH, on IP rights & Competition law
Simon Evenett, SBS, on Globalisation & competition law
Phil Evans on Competition enforcement and the consumer interest
Sir Jeremy Lever on Modernisation
John Temple Lang on Article 82 (Abuse)
Prof. Stephen Weatherill on Competition Law and Sport
Dr Mark Williams, NERA, on Antitrust Economics
Malcolm Nicholson, Slaughter and May, on Airtours (MyTravel)
Philippe Chappatte, Slaughter and May, on International Cartels and leniency Procedures
Philip Marsden, BIICL, on Comparative Aspects of US and EU Competition Laws.
Chris Bright, Shearman & Sterling, on the Competition Appeals Tribunal
Michael Rowe, Slaughter and May, on Vertical Agreements – Freezer Exclusivity
Timothy J. Muris, Chairman US FTC, on Current issues in competition and consumer policy
Bernardine Adkins, Wragge & Co, on enforcement
Dr David Gilo, Tel Aviv University, on Passive Investments
Andrew Chin, University of North Carolina, on Microsoft
Jeff Schmidt, Director, Bureau of Competition, United States Federal Trade Commission, on United States competition law policy – the private label experience.
Prof. Steve Anderman, University of Essex, on the essential facilities reasoning in Article 82 and IPRs
Andres Font Galarza, Mayer Brown, on buying alliances: what parameters are set by competition law?
Guiseppe Abbamonte, DG Sanco, European Commission, on the Member States’ approach to the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive and the impact on misleading packaging
Helen Jenkins, Oxera Consulting Ltd, on the economics of Article 82 reform
Dr Ioannis Lianos, University College London, on the classification of abuses in Article 82 EC
Bob Young, Europe Economics, on the UK Competition Commission’s groceries investigation and the implications for competition between branded and private label products
Dr Ariel Ezrachi, CCLP, on private enforcement and Article 82 EC
Dr Gunnar Niels, OXERA Consulting Ltd, on economic effects-based tests and legal (un)certainty under Article 82
Prof Ulf Bernitz, IECL, on the sanction of voidness under Article 82 EC and possible contractual consequences
Dr Dan Eklöf, Stockholm University, on the Microsoft judgment