Global Competition Law Centre

The Global Competition Law Centre (GCLC) of the College of Europe aims at promoting cutting-edge research in competition law and economics.

Unlike traditional research centres, the GCLC is not a brick and mortar organization. It has no physical presence on the campus of the College of Europe. It disseminates ideas and promotes research through its website. In addition, the GCLC benefits from a large network of competition professionals, built through the organization of regular activities in Europe and elsewhere. 

Since its inception in January 2004, the GCLC has gained credentials as a high level discussion forum for academics, practitioners, and enforcement officers in the competition field across the world.

The GCLC regularly organizes conferences, publishes books and hosts a working papers series. In addition, the GCLC awards a yearly prize for the best dissertation in competition law and policy written at the College of Europe.

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Forthcoming events:

Half-Day Conference:    

Patent Settlements and EU Competition Policy

On 17 May 2013, the GCLC will organize a conference on: Patent Settlements and EU Competition Policy.  

More information and registrations

Sixty-Fifth Lunch Talk

Compliance Programmes in EU and National Competition Law (Thursday 23 May 2013). 

Speakers: 

Hendrik Bourgeois, General Electric (GE), 

Steven Preece, Office of Fair Trading (U.K.), and Wouter Wils, European Commission and King's College London

More information and registrations

Recent events:

Sixty-Fourth Lunch Talk

The Commission's Decision in the UPS/TNT Case: Another One Bites the Dust? (Tuesday 4 April 2013). Speakers: Stephan Simon (DG Competition), Pierre Honoré (Bredin Prat), Andrea Lofaro (RBB Economics). More information and registrations

Sixty-Third Lunch Talk

Search Engines and Competition Law (Friday 8 February 2013). Speakers: Cédric Argenton (TILEC, Tilburg University), Alfonso Lamadrid (Garrigues), Anne Perrot (MAPP). Slides now available

Eight Annual Conference

On 8 and 9 November 2012 the GCLC organised its Eighth Annual Conference. The 2012 edition was devoted to the Competition Law in Times of Economic Crisis: In Need for Adjustment? More information

Latest publications

Book (GCLC Annual Conference Series):

The Role of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Competition Law Cases (Edited by Massimo Merola and Jacques Derenne). This book discusses the system of judicial review in competition law cases following the establishment of the General Court of the European Union (EU) twenty years ago. More information on the publisher's website (Bruylant).

GCLC Working Paper 01/13

Complainants’ Rights in State Aid Matters: Lost in Modernisation?, by Massimo Merola and Leonardo Armati. Download here. 

News:


On 24 May 2012, Massimo Merola was appointed as new President of the GCLC for the next two years.  Prof. Nicolas Petit was reappointed as Director for an additional two-year stint.


The GCLC is also honoured to announce that Lorenzo Coppi (Senior Vice President, Compass Lexecon and Visiting Professor, College of Europe, Bruges), Philip Marsden (Director, Competition Law Forum and Senior Research Fellow, British Institute of International and Comparative Law; Visiting Professor, College of Europe, Bruges) and Jean-Yves Art (Director of Competition Law  - EMEA, Microsoft; Visiting Professor, College of Europe, Bruges) were appointed as new member of its Scientific Council.
Eric Morgan de Rivery was also appointed to the GCLC's Executive Committee. 

The Global Competition Law Centre is proud to announce that Enzo Moavero Milanesi, judge at the General Court of the EU, has joined its Scientific Council.  Judge Moavero Milanesi is also a Visiting Professor in the Legal Studies Department of the College of Europe.  He is the author of three books (on the EU merger regulation, Community law & policies and on EU competition law) and writes regularly in legal reviews.

The Global Competition Law Centre is pleased to announce that Jose Rivas has joined its Executive Committee. José is a Visiting Professor at the Natolin Campus, a private practitioner at Bird & Bird (Brussels) and the editor of a peer reviewed competition law journal “World Competition – Law and Economics” (Kluwer).
Last updated on 02/05/2013 13:53
Last updated on 02/05/2013 13:53