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Joint statement by several competition authorities on merger control The German Federal Cartel Office, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) agreed on a joint statement on merger control on 20 April 2021. The joint statement reflects the three authorities' shared understanding…

On Monday 28 June 2021, at 2 pm, the world-renowned and renowned conflict of laws expert Professor Dr Toshiyuki Kono will give a lecture/webinar on current developments at the interface of IPR and copyright. Prof. Toshiyuki Kono is professor and director of the LL.M./LL.D. programmes at Kyushu University in Fukuoka…

Dominik Schäfers has been appointed as the new international reporter in Antitrust law for the Bruxelles Conference 2021. Priv.-Doz. Dr. Dominik Schäfers, LL.M.schaefers@jur.uni-frankfurt.de/ dominik.schaefers@uni-muenster.de Forschungsschwerpunkte:Bürgerliches Law, Business Law, Civil Procedure Law, Legal Theory Academic training:2019 Habilitation at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (topic of thesis: "Korrelative Systeminterferenzen -Zum Verhältnis von Öffentlichem…

The additional training in information, telecommunication and media law at ITM Münster will start again in the winter semester. Anyone who is interested in legal issues related to artificial intelligence, blockchain and legal tech is in good hands at the additional training. Professor Dr Thomas Hoeren and Professor Dr Bernd…

On 04 May 2021 from 12:00 to 13:00, Mr Anton Frey will give a lecture on Zoom on the topic of “Abuse period in patent infringement proceedings”. He did his doctorate under Prof. Hoeren on this topic and has now been working as a legal trainee at the Berlin Court…

The Conference "Antitrust between EU law and national law", now in its fourteenth edition, hasbeen held since 1992, every two years, at Fondazione Cassamarca in Treviso. The topical issues and the high qualified speakers made the conference, from the first edition, one of the most significant opportunity for interaction between…

The LIDC will be holding a lunchtime webinar on Thursday 10 December 2020 from 12 to 1.30pm (Continental time) on: “Antitrust enforcement in relation to online sales” National competition authorities from around the world will discuss their recent experience of applying antitrust laws to online sales. As part of this discussion, it will also…

We have the regret to inform you that the next LIDC Congress has been postponed to 2021 due to the current crisis. The questions that will be discussed during the Congress are the following : - Question A : "Tasks and competences of national competition law authorities in a data driven…