EU Competition Law and Policy Workshop
Annual workshop
Organizers
Director
Philip Lowe, Director General, DG Energie
European Commission
Mr Lowe joined the European Commission in 1973 after a period in the manufacturing industry. He served as Director General of DG Competition from September 2002 to February 2010, and as Director General of DG Development from 1997 to 2002. He has also held posts of Chef de Cabinet and of Director in the fields of regional development, agriculture, transport and administration
Assistant
Mel Marquis, Adjunct Professor of Economic Law
University of Verona
Prof. Marquis teaches competition law and EU law. He has been a Fulbright Scholar and a Visiting Fellow in the EUI’s Law Department, and has practiced law in the US and in Belgium. He has authored a monograph and numerous articles relating to competition law and European economic integration, and is an editor of the academic journal Mercato Concorrenza Regole.
General information
The EU Competition Law and Policy Workshop was established in 1996 by EUI law professors Claus-Dieter Ehlermann and Giuliano Amato. Professor Ehlermann directed the program for 13 years, with the assistance of Isabela Atanasiu (2000-2006) and Mel Marquis (2003-2009). The present Director is Philip Lowe (see above.)
The Workshop’s fundamental aim is to conduct a critical evaluation of competition-related issues – from European, national, comparative, and economic perspectives – with a view to enhancing the quality of law and policy in the competition law field. The Workshop pursues that fundamental aim along ‘horizontal’ and ‘vertical’ dimensions. Horizontally, the Workshop maps out the wide range of legal and economic issues relevant to this field, typically by analyzing discrete subjects each year. Vertically, the participants seek to promote an exceptionally rich and nuanced understanding of those subjects in order to advance the state of the art.
The participants of the Workshop include top-level market regulators, academics, economists and legal practitioners. In an informal and non-commercial environment, they discuss the selected annual topic. In advance of the event, the participants submit written contributions that serve as a platform for in-depth discussion at the EUI.
Although the annual Workshop meetings are closed to the public, both the oral discussions and the written contributions are published by Hart of Oxford, following the event, as part of the European Competition Law Annual series.
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