In-House Counsel Survey ReportBelow you will find this year’s Best Articles, as well as a selection of video submissions from the winners discussing their award-winning articles:
Antitrust Writing Awards Academic Articles Winners
General Antitrust
The Case for Unfair Methods of Competition Rulemaking
Rohit Chopra (US Federal Trade Commission) and Lina Khan (Columbia Law School)
Concerted Practices
Sustainable and Unchallenged Algorithmic Tacit Collusion
Ariel Ezrachi (Oxford University) and Maurice E. Stucke (University of Tennessee)
Unilateral Conduct
Are ’FANGs’ Monopolies? A Theory of Competition under Uncertainty
Mergers
How mergers affect innovation: Theory and evidence
Alexander Rasch, Joel Stiebale, and Justus Haucap (Duesseldorf Institute for Competition Economics)
Intellectual Property
Herbert J. Hovenkamp (University of Pennsylvania)
Private Enforcement
The Case for Placing Limits on Private Litigation of Excessive Pricing
Michal S. Gal (University of Haifa)
Cross-Border Issues
Antitrust: Updating Extraterritoriality
Eleanor M. Fox (NYU Law)
Procedure
Interstate Circuit and Conspiracy Theories
Barak Y. Orbach (University of Arizona College of Law)
Asian Antitrust
Standalone Hold Separate Orders as Remedies in Chinese Merger Control
Wei Han (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), Ranran Yin (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer) and Zeng Xiong (Meituan-Dianping)
Economics
The logic of market definition
David Glasner (US Federal Trade Commission) and Sean Sullivan (Iowa Law)
Antitrust Writing Awards Business Articles Winners
General Antitrust
Create Your Own: Bespoke Antitrust Compliance Programs For Effective Compliance
Leonor Davila (Intel), Gabrielle Kohlmeier (Verizon), Anjali Patel (Verizon), & John Seward (Intel)
Concerted Practices
Keys to Compliance—Practical Antitrust Issues Involving Trade Associations
Creighton Macy (Baker McKenzie) & Matthew Bester (Accenture)
Unilateral Conduct
Data Exploiting as an Abuse of Dominance: The German Facebook Decision
Thomas Höppner (Hausfeld)
Mergers
Pallavi Guniganti (US Federal Trade Commission)
Intellectual Property
District Court Holds That Qualcomm Patent Licensing and Other Conduct Violates the Sherman Act
Renata Hesse, Garrard R. Beeney, Adam R. Brebner, Marc De Leeuw, and Stephen J. Elliott (Sullivan & Cromwell)
Private Enforcement
Insights from the Supreme Court’s Apple v. Pepper Decision
J. Bruce McDonald, Craig A. Waldman, Kate Wallace, and Thomas Forr (Jones Day)
Cross-Border Issues
Development Of Prc Regulations On Cross Border Data Transfer
Susan Ning, Wu Han, Li Yuanyuan, Dan Xuezi (King & Wood Mallesons)
Procedure
Dawn raids: dealing with inspections by European competition authorities
Alexi Dimitriou, Nigel Parr, Denis Fosselard and Euan Burrows (Ashurst)
Asian Antitrust
Vivian Cao, Fay Zhou and Xi Liao (Linklaters)
Economics
“Follow the Money” - Mapping issues with digital platforms into actionable theories of harm
Cristina Caffarra (Charles River Associates)
BEST SOFT LAWS
Competition Policy for the Digital Era
European Commission
Abuse of Dominance Enforcement Guidelines
Competition Bureau of Canada
Bundeskartellamt and Autorité de la concurrence
Autorité de la concurrence
Guidelines on Fighting Cartels in Public Procurements
Brazilian Administrative Council for Economic Defense
BEST SUDENT ARTICLE
Come at the King, You Best Not Miss: The Economics of Direct-Purchaser Suits After Twombly
Miranda Cherkas Sherill (Brigham Young University)
READERS’ CHOICE
Academic Article
The principle of relative responsibility for harm in the Directive 2014/104/UE
Enrique Sanjuán Muñoz (University of Malaga - Law School)
Business Article
Algorithmic Tacit Collusion Is A Limited Threat To Competition
Ai Deng (NERA Economic Consulting)
Soft Law
Guidelines on Fighting Cartels in Public Procurements
Brazilian Administrative Council for Economic Defense
Student Article
Vasiliki Fasoula (University Paris II Panthéon‑Assas)
