Wake Me Up When September Ends – Conferences Debriefing

Wake Me Up When September Ends – Conferences Debriefing

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Anders als Green Day hat die Kartellrechts-Community im September 2024 nicht geschlafen, im Gegenteil, es liegt ein äußerst ereignis- und konferenzreicher Monat hinter uns. Helena Drewes und Elisabeth Wondracek waren unterwegs und berichten von zwei Konferenzen in Wien und dem Deutschen Kartellrechtstag in Düsseldorf. Der September 2024 lieferte reichlich Stoff für Diskussionen auf den Bühnen diverser Konferenzen, darunter prominent die Urteile des EuGH in Illumina, Google Shopping und Irland/Kommission, die EuG-Entscheidung in AdSense, die Veröffentlichung des Draghi-Reports („EU competitiveness: Looking…

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Conference Debriefing (43): 7. Offenes Doktorandenseminar

Conference Debriefing (43): 7. Offenes Doktorandenseminar

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Während die langen Abendstunden in den Büros allmählich wieder mehr von den künstlichen Deckenleuchten als von warmen Sonnenstrahlen geprägt werden, traf sich die deutschsprachige Kartellrechtsdoktorandengemeinschaft mittlerweile zum 7. Mal in der Düsseldorfer Innenstadt, um Kontakte zu pflegen und sich über ihre Fortschritte bei der sonst einsamen Schreibarbeit auszutauschen. Leon Kümmel und Moritz Zwilling berichten über ein spannendes Doktorandenseminar des Instituts für Kartellrecht. Alle Jahre wieder Mit einem spannenden Programm lud das Institut für Kartellrecht der Juristischen Fakultät der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf…

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SSNIPpets (49): Last minute

SSNIPpets (49): Last minute

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PDF-Version: Click here Suggested Citation: Podszun, DKartJ 2024, 50-54 It’s the summer sales: everything that has piled up has to go. So it’s time again for SSNIPpets – small but significant news information and pleasantries – the pet project by Rupprecht Podszun. This issue is all about cartels – and a highlight in the calendar of Germany’s competition law capital! Düsseldorf Open We’re as happy as the Serbian mixed air pistol team when winning an Olympic gold medal. And why?…

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Conference Debriefing (42): 19th Annual Conference of ASCOLA

Conference Debriefing (42): 19th Annual Conference of ASCOLA

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PDF-Version: Click here Suggested Citation: Podszun, DKartJ 2024, 38-44 More than 150 competition law scholars from around the world gathered in Würzburg to celebrate their job choice – could it be any better than being an academic dealing with the hottest topic on earth? This was the Annual Conference of the Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA). D’Kart interviewed Rupprecht Podszun, the chairman of ASCOLA, to get a conference debriefing. Here are his insights on trends in antitrust research, German…

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Does Competition Law disappoint football fans? 22nd Annual Meeting of the Association of European Competition Law Judges (AECLJ) – 30.05. – 01.06.2024

Does Competition Law disappoint football fans? 22nd Annual Meeting of the Association of European Competition Law Judges (AECLJ) – 30.05. – 01.06.2024

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PDF-Version: Click here Suggested Citation: Eckel, DKartJ 2024, 35-37 The Association of European Competition Law Judges (AECLJ) met in Berlin just two weeks before the kickoff of the UEFA European Championships. The topic: “Sports, Arbitration and Competition Law”. Wolfgang Kirchhoff, the President of the AECLJ and also the president of the Cartel Chamber of Germany’s Federal Court of Justice (BGH), raised a key question: „Does Competition Law disappoint football fans?“ Philipp Eckel reports from the 22nd Annual Meeting of the…

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Heike Schweitzer – in memoriam

Heike Schweitzer – in memoriam

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PDF-Version: Click here Suggested Citation: Haucap, DKartJ 2024, 33-34 In the early hours of June 11, 2024, Heike Schweitzer died far too early at the age of just 56. It is a shock for the German and European antitrust community. Justus Haucap remembers an important colleague and good friend. Heike Schweitzer was something like the German voice in European competition law. With her death, we have lost a thinker of great intellect and, for many, a friend. Heike will be…

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Conference Debriefing (41): 50 Years of the German Monopolies Commission

Conference Debriefing (41): 50 Years of the German Monopolies Commission

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PDF-Version: Click here Suggested Citation: Steinert, DKartJ 2024, 25-30 Happy Birthday, Monopolies Commission! The “Monopolkommission” has been advising the German government on competition matters for 50 years now. The competition community came together in Berlin to party. And what better way to celebrate the “defender of competition” than with what makes it special: Intense debate and “critical discourse”. Unfortunately, the birthday presents did not include political promises of implementation, but the party offered high-ranking recognition and surprising insights. Sebastian Steinert…

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Much More Than a Market?

Much More Than a Market?

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PDF-Version: Click here Suggested Citation: Monti, DKartJ 2024, 14-18 Europe is preparing for the next Parliament, the next Commission – and all the challenges coming up these days. So, what is the European Union supposed to do, once the successors of Margrethe Vestager & Co. are sworn in? To be prepared, the institutions asked two Italian bigwigs for reports – the Council turned to Enrico Letta, the Commission to Mario Draghi. The Letta Report is now out, and D’Kart turned…

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DMA AI IKK

DMA AI IKK

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PDF-Version: Click here Suggested Citation: Podszun, DKartJ 2024, 7-13 The Digital Markets Act shows its teeth: The European Commission opened the first investigations for non-compliance against Apple, Alphabet and Meta. Rupprecht Podszun reports on the first 20 days of DMA razzle-dazzle. He also looks back at the Bundeskartellamt’s Berlin IKK conference and he has some news from his Chair that he wishes to share. Breathtaking If DMA enforcement keeps up its March-marching pace I voluntarily switch my interest to a…

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Don’t You (Forget About Me)

Don’t You (Forget About Me)

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PDF-Version: Click here Suggested Citation: Klumpe, DKartJ 2024, 4-6 Dr. Gerhard Klumpe, one of Germany’s best-known antitrust judges, discussed private antitrust enforcement in leading jurisdictions in Brussels. For our blog D’Kart, the presiding judge at Dortmund Regional Court describes his impressions of international trends in private enforcement. Don’t You (Forget About Me) – not only is this Simple Minds anthem familiar to anyone who grew up in the 1980s, it is also the defining music of the film The Breakfast…

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