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About this conference

For more than five decades, Valentine Korah (1928-2023) was one of the giants of EU and UK competition law. Her scholarship and teaching framed the debate about competition law in Europe, while her international presence and network contributed to making EU competition law the dominant competition law paradigm globally. As one of the first academics to think and write about this subject in the UK she had an undeniable influence on the transformation of competition law and the training of generations of practitioners and academics who moulded this relatively new area of legal practice. Her distinct pragmatic approach argued for more flexibility in the interpretation of the law to enable innovative business practices, more extensive interdisciplinary cooperation (with economics) in the implementation of the law, and a more argumentative model of competition law scholarship and education that challenged received wisdom and the orthodoxy of the day.

This inaugural Valentine Korah conference aims to celebrate Valentine Korah's contribution to the field of competition law. The conference will also reflect on competition law's transformation during the last forty years by exploring some of the most important challenges it currently faces, such as:

• the digital and AI revolution;
• the rise of economic power and concentration;
• the reform of the provisions on abuse of dominance;
• the development of a more dynamic (innovation friendly) and inclusive competition law model;
• the intersection of competition with industrial policy; and
• the revamp of the EU antitrust federalism in an era of continuous transformation of the EU project.

Keynote speeches by:

• Eleanor Fox, Professor Emeritus, NYU Law School
• Marc van der Woude, President of the General Court of the EU

Speakers include:

• Antonio Bavasso, Simpson Thacher & Barlett LLP
• Cristina Caffarra, CEPR Competition Research Policy Network & UCL
• Sarah Cardell, Chief Executive, UK CMA
• Fernando Castillo de la Torre, Principal Legal Adviser, Legal Service, European Commission
• Cani Fernandez, President CNMC Spain
• Amelia Fletcher CBE, Professor of Competition Policy, Norwich Business School, UEA
• Peter Freeman CBE KC (Hon), Competition Appeal Tribunal
• Michal Gal, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa
• Damien Geradin, Professor of Competition Law & Economics, Tilburg University & Geradin & Partners
• Frederic Jenny, President, OECD Competition Committee
• Alison Jones, Professor, KCL
• John Kallaugher, Visiting Lecturer/Professor UCL (1985-2020)
• Bill E Kovacic, George Washington Law School
• Ioannis Lianos, Professor, UCL, Co-director CLES, UCL Faculty of Laws
• Stavros Makris, UCL Faculty of Laws
• Dr. Deni Mantzari, UCL Faculty of Laws
• Linsey McCallum, Deputy Director General, DG Competition, European Commission
• Giorgio Monti, Professor, Tilburg University
• Mr Justice Roth, High Court
• Mr Justice Marcus Smith, High Court
• Florian Wagner von Papp, Professor Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg (HSU)
• Richard Whish, Professor Emeritus, KCL

Programme

09:00	Registration and coffee
09:40	Introduction and Welcome Prof. Ioannis Lianos, UCL Faculty of Laws & Dr. Deni Mantzari, UCL Faculty of Laws
09:45	Panel 1: The transformation of UK competition law: 1956-2024 Chair: Sir Marcus Smith, President CAT Sarah Cardell, Chief Executive, UK CMA Amelia Fletcher CBE, Professor of Competition Policy, Norwich Business School, UEA Peter Freeman CBE KC, former Chairman, Competition Appeal Tribunal Sir Peter Roth, High Court Richard Whish, Professor Emeritus, KCL
11:15	Coffee break
11:30	Panel 2: Challenging the dominant competition law paradigm: nurturing change Chair: Sir Peter Roth, High Court Keynote speech by Eleanor Fox, professor emeritus, NYU Law School Discussion Fernando Castillo de la Torre, Principal Legal Adviser, Legal Service, European Commission Alison Jones, Professor, KCL Frederic Jenny, President, OECD Competition Committee Bill E Kovacic, Professor, George Washington University Ioannis Lianos, Professor, UCL, Co-director CLES, UCL Faculty of Laws
13:15	Lunch break
14:00	Keynote speech Marc van der Woude, President of the General Court of the EU
14:30	Panel 3: Reforming Article 102 TFEU Chair: Ian Forrester, former Judge of the General Court of the EU Cani Fernandez, President CNMC Spain Linsey McCallum, Deputy Director General, DG Competition, European Commission Antonio Bavasso, Simpson Thacher & Barlett LLP Damien Geradin, Professor of Competition Law & Economics, Tilburg University & Geradin & Partners Giorgio Monti, Professor, Tilburg University
16:10	Coffee Break
16:30	Panel 4: New Challenges in EU Competition Law: AI, Innovation, Sustainability, Industrial Policy, EU federalism Chair: Frederic Jenny, President, OECD Cristina Caffarra, CEPR & UCL Michal Gal, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa John Kallaugher, Visiting Lecturer/Professor UCL (1985-2020) Stavros Makris, UCL Faculty of Laws Florian Wagner von Papp, Professor Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg (HSU)
18:15	The Valentine Korah Funding Initiative & Conference Conclusions Eloise Scotford, Dean, UCL Faculty of Laws Ioannis Lianos, Professor, UCL Faculty of Laws
18:30	Reception

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About the speakers

Antonio Bavasso
Antonio Bavasso is a leading antitrust lawyer at听Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP with extensive experience in merger reviews, government antitrust investigations, antitrust litigation, and counseling on a variety of competition issues.听 Antonio leads the Firm鈥檚 European antitrust and foreign investment group and is considered one of the top advisors on merger control and regulatory litigation. He is consistently recognized as a leader in Competition Law by Chambers Global, Chambers UK, Chambers Europe, and The Legal 500 UK (鈥淗all of Fame鈥�), where he is described as a 鈥淪uperstar鈥� with 鈥渁n exceptional understanding of the relevant law, excellent judgement, and superb skills in dealing efficiently and sensitively with clients.鈥� Antonio is co-founder and director of the Jevons Colloquia on competition law at 皇家华人.

Cristina Caffarra
Dr Cristina Caffarra is a leading competition economist with 25 years鈥� experience. She set up the European office of Keystone in 2022, and prior to that she was for 15 years the Head of European Competition at CRA. She has directed economic analyses in multiple competition investigations on landmark mergers and antitrust matters, before the EC and the competition agencies of the UK, multiple Member States, and across the globe. She has provided expert economic evidence in multiple litigated cases before the courts (from the General Court in Luxembourg to the High Court and the Competition Appeal Tribunal in London, and many more). Dr. Caffarra is a recognized contributor to the global discussion on regulation of the digital economy, advising both companies and government agencies, writing and speaking. She regularly keynotes and participates to roundtables events on competition, regulation and digital policy. Dr. Caffarra is an Honorary Professor at University College London and Deputy Director of the CEPR Competition Research Policy Network.

Sarah Cardell
Sarah Cardell was appointed as Chief Executive of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on 19 December 2022. Sarah Cardell was previously appointed as General Counsel at the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on 11 September 2013, and took up the role of Interim Chief Executive between July and December 2022. Previous career highlights include: Legal Partner of the Markets Division at Ofgem, where her responsibilities included leading on competition law matters; Partner in the Competition Group at Slaughter and May, where she advised across a wide range of EU and UK merger and antitrust cases; and working on secondment at the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).

Fernando Castillo de la Torre
Fernando Castillo de la Torre is Head of the Legal Service dealing with competition law (arts 101 and 102 TFEU) and mergers at the European Commission, where he has been working since 1996. He studied both law and political science in Madrid (Spain), graduating in 1989 and 1990 respectively. He subsequently undertook postgraduate studies at the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium). He worked in the chambers of the President of the European Court of Justice between 1997 and 2002. He has been an agent for the European Commission in more than 500 cases in the European Court of Justice. He has published widely on the relationship between legal orders (international, EU and national), judicial review and litigation before EU Courts, and European economic law.

Cani Fernandez
Cani Fernandez is the President of the Comisi贸n Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (the Spanish Competition Authority) since she was appointed in June 2020. Prior to that, she was the director of Cuatrecasas, Gon莽alves Pereira鈥檚 EU and Competition Law group and head of the Brussels office with expertise in EU and competition law. where she advised leading Spanish and international companies on Spanish and EU competition law matters, including advice on merger control, antitrust (defense in cartel and abuse of dominance investigations by national and European authorities) and litigation in these fields. She was also a member of the Board. Her experience covers a wide range of sectors, including pharmaceuticals, chemicals, food, automotive, media, telecommunications and energy. She also advised companies, Governments and EU Institutions on wider EU law. She also has an extensive experience in litigation before the General Court of the EU and the European Court of Justice. Cani teaches in Spain and the US. She was r茅f茅rendaire and chef de cabinet at the EC Court of First Instance (General Court of the EU). She is the author of numerous articles on EU and competition law in several prestigious publications. Recommended as a leading lawyer by several legal directories including Chambers, Plc Which Lawyer and Who鈥檚 Who Legal, among others. Cani has also been named as one of the 25 leading specialists in Competition/Antitrust worldwide by The Best of Best 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 (Expert Guides) and Best Lawyers鈥� 2012 Lawyer of the Year in Antitrust-Spain.

Amelia Fletcher CBE
Amelia Fletcher CBE is a Professor of Competition Policy at NBS and Deputy Director at the Centre for Competition Policy. She is also an editor of the Journal of Competition Law and Economics. She was a member of the HM Treasury-commissioned Digital Competition Expert Panel, which reported in March 2019, and led to the UK Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act. She has been a Non-Executive Director of the Competition and Markets Authority (2016-23), Financial Conduct Authority (2013-20) and Payment Systems Regulator (2014-20), a member of the Enforcement Decision Panel at Ofgem (2014-2022) and Chief Economist at the Office of Fair Trading (2001-2013). Her academic work focuses on competition policy, consumer policy and sector regulation, with a particular focus on behavioural economics and digital markets. Amelia has a DPhil and MPhil in economics from Nuffield College, Oxford. She has been on the Councils of the Royal Economic Society, the Association of Competition Economics and on the advisory panel for the ESRC Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution (ELSE) and the Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP). She has also been a member of DGComp鈥檚 Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy. She was appointed OBE in 2014 and CBE in 2020

Peter Freeman CBE QC (Hon)
Pete Freeman CBE, KC (hon) was, from 2013 until recently, a Chairman of the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal and a Board Member of the Competition Service. He is now a Senior Adviser to the Tribunal. From 2005-2011 he was Chairman of the UK Competition Commission, having been a Deputy Chairman since 2003. Prior to that he practised for 30 years at the international law firm Simmons & Simmons, 25 of them as a partner, managing the Commercial Department and heading the EC and Competition Law practice group. From 2011-2013 he was Senior Consultant to the international law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. He is a member of the Lloyds Enforcement Appeal Tribunal Panel,听 and a non-executive Board Member of the Single Source Regulations Office (SSRO). Peter has written and spoken widely on competition and regulatory law.

Michal Gal
Michal Gal (LL.B., LL.M., S.J.D., Hon. Dr.) is Professor and Director of the Center for Law and Technology at the Faculty of Law, University of Haifa, Israel, and was, until recently, the President of the International Academic Society for Competition Law Scholars (ASCOLA), comprising of more than 600 competition researchers worldwide. She was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, NYU, Columbia, Georgetown, Melbourne, National University of Singapore, and Bocconi. Prof. Gal is the author of听 several books, including Competition Policy for Small Market Economies (Harvard University Press, 2003). She also published numerous scholarly articles in leading journals, iand has won numerous prizes for her research and for her teaching. Inter alia, her paper, "Patent Challenge Clauses: A New Antitrust Offense?" (with Alan Miller) won the Jerry听 S. Cohen Medal, given by the American Antitrust Institute, for best antitrust paper published in 2017. In 2019 she won the highest award given by the University of Haifa, for Best Senior Researcher. In October 2022 she was chosen by Global Competition Review as one of 25 most influential competition academics听 (law or economics) in the world. In April 2024 she received a Honorary Doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa) from the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Damien Geradin
Damien Geradin is the founding partner of Geradin Partners. Before founding Geradin Partners, Damien was a partner at Euclid Law,听 and immediately before that a partner in the Brussels office of Covington & Burling LLP. Damien has assisted clients in many high-stake European Commission investigations, including some of the most complex abuse of dominance cases with a focus on the tech, media and telecommunications sectors. Damien has also developed expertise on the application of competition rules to the licensing of standard-essential patents (SEPs), and he is a member of the Commission Expert Group on SEP licensing and valuation. According to Chambers Global, Mr. Geradin 鈥渋s well known for his writing鈥�, with commentators describing him as 鈥渙ne of the best antitrust theoreticians around鈥�. Chambers Europe also notes that clients report that he is 鈥渧ery responsive and skilled in abuse of dominance cases鈥� and that he is a 鈥渁 living legend鈥� regarding his work on EU telecoms mandates. Damien was also recognised by Who鈥檚 Who Legal 2018 as a Competition expert. Damien is a Professor of competition law and economics at Tilburg University and a visiting Professor at University College London. Over the years, he has held visiting Professorships at leading US law schools including Columbia, Harvard, Michigan and Yale. He was also a visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges, for 15 years.

Fr茅d茅ric Jenny
Fr茅d茅ric Jenny is President of the OECD Competition Committee since 1994, Professor at ESSEC Paris Business School, and Head of the International Committee of the Review Concurrences. He is also Co-Director of the European Center for Law and Economics of ESSEC since 2008. He was previously Non-Executive Director of the Office of Fair Trading in the United Kingdom for 7 years, Judge on the French Supreme Court from 2004 to 2012, Vice Chair of the French Competition Authority from 9 years and President of the WTO Working Group on Trade and Competition from 1997 to 2004. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from University Paris II and from Harvard University. His research areas concern the relationship between structure and performance in European countries, particularly France, antitrust legislation in Europe. He was Global Professor of Antitrust at the New York University School of Law鈥檚 Hauser Global Law School (2014), visiting professor at University College London Law School (2005-2012), Haifa University School of Law in Israel (2012), University of Capetown Business School in South Africa (1991), Keio University Department of economics in Japan (1984), Northwestern University Department of Economics in the United States (1978).

Alison Jones
Alison Jones is Professor of Law at King鈥檚 and a solicitor at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. Prior to joining King's, Alison read law at Girton College, Cambridge, worked at Slaughter & May and completed a BCL at Christ Church, Oxford. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Since joining King鈥檚 Alison has taught Competition Law (EU, UK and US), Trusts, Property, and EU law. Alison researches in the sphere of competition law. As well as having published a number of articles in peer reviewed journals and chapters in edited collections, Alison is the author of Restitution and European Community Law (LLP, 2000), a co-author of Jones and Sufrin鈥檚 EU Competition Law: Text, Cases, and Materials (OUP, 8th edition, 2023) and Combatting Corruption and Collusion in Public Procurement: A Challenge for Governments Worldwide (OUP, 2024). Her research has won Concurrences Antitrust writing awards. She has also prepared expert reports for the European Commission, the UK Government and the US House Committee of the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law. Alison is one of the co-editors of the Yearbook of European Law (OUP).

John Kallaugher
After 4 years working in a major law firm in New York with a focus on regulatory, antitrust, and related IP issues, John Kallaugher took a year off to study in Germany, which included a three month internship at the German Federal Cartel Office. This experience was the springboard for a 40-year career in legal practice based in London and Brussels, from 2002 as a partner at Latham & Watkins. John's practice focused primarily on competition law, with particular interest in transport industries, IP-related problems, and consumer goods. In 1985, John was appointed a Visiting Lecturer at 皇家华人, initially to provide UCL's contribution to the course on International Business Transactions in the University of London joint LLM. When Val Korah took up her "semester-in-New York" post at Fordham, John filled in as teacher of the UCL LLM competition law course each Spring term. Subsequently John took over from Val provision of the UCL contribution to the Joint LLM course on Comparative US/EC/Antitrust/Competition Law and continued to contribute to this course after the shift to the UCL-specific LLM.听 John was appointed Visiting Professor by UCL in 1992, an appointment he held until 2020.

Ioannis Lianos
Ioannis Lianos is Professor, Chair of Global Competition Law and Public Policy at the Faculty of Laws, University College London. He is a member of the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal since 2024. He was President of the Hellenic Competition Commission from August 2019 to January 2024. Ioannis was elected a member of the Bureau of the OECD Competition Committee in 2021 and re-elected in 2022 and 2023. He was also a member of the EU High Level Group for the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and he was part of the Greek delegation during the negotiations for the adoption of the DMA. He was also the Chairman of the Special Law Commission that was in charge of the preparation of the New Competition Law Bill in Greece, which led to a significant reform of competition legislation in Greece in January 2022 (Law 4886/2022 which included important legislative innovations). He is the founding director of the Centre for Law, Economics and Society (CLES) at 皇家华人 Laws and served as the executive director of the Jevons Institute of Competition Law & Economics at 皇家华人. He is also a fellow of the European Institute at 皇家华人. He teaches the EU Competition Law course at the College of Europe in Natolin. He was previously the Vincent Wright chair at Sciences Po Paris between 2018-2019 as well as the Chief Researcher of the Skolkovo Laboratory on Law and Development, National Research University, Higher School of Economics and academic head of the BRICS Competition Law Project (2014-2019). He has also held an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship at the WZB (Social Science Research centre) in Berlin from 2014-2016. Between 2012 to 2014 he was the Gutenberg Research Chair at France鈥檚 Ecole Nationale d鈥橝dministration. He is a visiting professor in competition and intellectual property law at the Universities of Chile in Santiago, the University of Strasbourg and a fellow at the Australian National University鈥檚 Centre for Law & Economics and was an Emile Noel Fellow at New York University School of Law鈥檚 Jean Monnet Centre and a fellow at the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. He was also a visiting professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong in 2014. Professor Lianos has been a Non-Governmental Advisor at the International Competition Network since 2009, a research partner to UNCTAD in competition law and policy since 2010, and an elected member of the advisory board of the American Antitrust Institute since 2010. He is the co-editor of the Journal of Competition Law and Economics and was the co-editor the Yearbook of European Law (between 2015-2019), both published by OUP. He was the co-editor of the GLOBAL COMPETITION LAW & ECONOMICS series with Stanford University press and since 2018 he is the presently the general editor of the book series Global Competition Law & Economic Policy with Cambridge University press. Between 2014 and 2019 he was a member of the review college of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. He has advised a number of governments and companies on competition law, IP matters as well as better regulation (impact assessment, CBA).

Stavros Makris
Dr Stavros Makris joins UCL in September 2024. He was previously a Lecturer in Competition Law at the University of Glasgow from 2022-24. He previously taught EU Competition Law and US Antitrust at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Law School, and various law courses at Wageningen University (Netherlands) and Sciences Po Paris (France). Stavros holds a Bachelor of Law and a Master in Philosophy of Law (with distinction) from the University of Athens, Law School, and an LLM (with distinction) from University College London (UCL). Stavros completed his PhD in competition law at the European University Institute (EUI). His thesis develops the idea of EU competition law as responsive law, and explores the European Commission鈥檚 commitments practice under this lens. During his doctoral studies, he was an editor and the EU Law Head of Section of the European Journal Legal Studies, the coordinator of the EUI Competition Law Working Group and a Grotius visiting researcher at the University of Michigan Law School. Stavros has served as an expert adviser for the Hellenic Competition Commission and as a peer reviewer for several leading competition law journals (Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, Journal of Competition Law and Economics).

Deni Mantzari
Dr Despoina (Deni) Mantzari joined the UCL Faculty of Laws in September 2018 as a Lecturer in Competition Law and Policy and was promoted to Associate Professor in October 2020. Prior to joining UCL, she was a Lecturer at the University of Reading School of Law and Programme Director of the LLM in International Commercial Law (2014-2018). Deni holds a PhD from UCL (AHRC doctoral scholarship), an LL.M in European Union Law (distinction) from UCL and a law degree from the National University of Athens, Greece. In 2013-2014, Deni was a postdoctoral research fellow at the ESRC Centre for Competition Policy at the University of East Anglia, where she undertook research on behavioural economics and comparative (EU, US) antitrust law. In 2010-2011, she was a visiting researcher at the UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law in the USA and in 2016-2017 she was a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London where she undertook research on the influence of economic evidence on the discretionary assessments of the UK utility regulators as part of her BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant. Deni is co-Director of the Centre for Law, Economics and Society at 皇家华人, an associate fellow of the Centre of Competition Policy at the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. Deni is book review editor for the journal World Competition - Law and Economics Review (Kluwer Law), an associate editor for the Journal of Competition Law and Economics (OUP) and sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement (OUP). She is also joint-Editor of Current Legal Problems. Since 2016, Deni is General Editor for the 'Competition Law of the European Union' treatise published by LexisNexis, succeeding the leading Competition Law Professor, Valentine Korah. Deni has been invited to the judicial training programme of the European Commission and as a guest lecturer in many institutions. Prior to joining academia, Deni worked as a trainee lawyer and qualified to practice law in Greece (Athens Bar Association). Deni's monograph entitled: "Courts, Regulators and the Scrutiny of Economic Evidence - Comparative Perspectives" was published by Oxford University Press in September 2022.

Linsey McCallum
Linsey McCallum is Deputy Director-General for Antitrust in the Directorate-General for Competition as of 1 October 2020 and also responsible for Regulation of Digital Platforms since 16 January 2023. She joined the Commission in 1993 from private practice, initially as a trade negotiator during the Uruguay Round. After joining DG COMP in 1995, she held a series of antitrust and merger case-handling and policy posts.听 From 1999-2002, she was a member of cabinet of Vice-President Kinnock before rejoining DG COMP as the assistant to the Director General for antitrust and mergers.听 From 2005-2011 she was Head of Unit for antitrust in transport.听 As of 2011, she was Head of Unit for mergers in digital sectors before her appointment as Director for technology, media and telecoms in 2013.听 As of 2014, she served as Margrethe Vestager鈥檚 Deputy Head of Cabinet with oversight of the competition portfolio. Linsey McCallum graduated with a first class degree in law from the University of Glasgow and holds a master degree in EU law from the College of Europe in Bruges.

Giorgio Monti
Giorgio is Professor of Competition Law at Tilburg Law School. He began his career in the UK (Leicester 1993-2001 and London School of Economics 2001-2010) before taking up the Chair in competition law at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (2010-2019). While at the EUI he helped establish the Florence Competition Program which carries out research and training for judges and executives. He also served as Head of the Law Department at the EUI. His principal field of research is competition law, a subject he enjoys tackling from an economic and a policy perspective. Together with Damian Chalmers and Gareth Davies he is a co-author of European Union Law: Text and Materials (4th ed, Cambridge University Press, 2019), one of the major texts on the subject. He is one of the editors of the Common Market Law Review.

The Hon Mr Justice Roth
Sir Peter Roth is a Justice of the Chancery Division of England and Wales, and President of the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal. He was called to the Bar in 1977 and took Silk in 1997. He was appointed a Recorder in 2000 and a High Court Judge in 2009. Sir Peter was, for many years, a leading practitioner in competition law and, as a judge, has heard many of the recent competition cases brought in the High Court. From 2003 to 2009 he was Chairman of the Competition Law Association, he held a visiting professorship at King鈥檚 College, London, teaching competition law on the LLM course and he was the General Editor of the 5th and 6th editions of Bellamy & Child on European Union Law of Competition.

The Hon Mr Justice Marcus Smith
Sir Marcus Smith was called to the Bar in 1991 and was appointed Queens Counsel in 2010. He was appointed as a Chair at the Competition Appeal Tribunal in 2009, and has sat regularly since that date, hearing cases across the full range of work at the Tribunal. In 2017, he was appointed to the High Court (Chancery Division). He hears cases across the whole range of Business and Property Courts work, as well as sitting in the Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery), the Administrative Court, and the Patents Court. He is one of the judges authorised to sit as a judge of the Financial List. Between 2019 and 2021, Sir Marcus Smith was the Supervising Judge for the Business and Property Courts of the Midland and Western Circuits and Wales.

Florian Wagner-von Papp
Florian is Professor of Private and Business Law at the Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg (HSU) with a research focus on antitrust/competition law, comparative law and contract design. He joined HSU in 2019 from University College London (UCL) where he had been Professor for Antitrust and Comparative Law & Economics (and where he had been teaching since 2005). He has degrees from the University of T眉bingen (First State Examination 1998;听 Doctorate 2004) and Columbia Law School, New York (LL.M. 2002) as well as the full German qualification to practice law (Second State Examination 2000). Florian had visiting positions at Harvard Law School (Visiting Researcher 2011/12), the University of W眉rzburg (Visiting Professor December 2017; January/December 2018) and Osaka University (Special Researcher March 2018; Visiting Professor May 2018 until end of March 2019); between 2008 and 2017 he taught tutorials in competition law at the University of Oxford. In 2017/18 he joined and taught at the HSU on a temporary basis.

Spencer Weber Waller
Spencer Weber Waller is the John Paul Stevens Chair in Competition Law, Director of the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, and Professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where he teaches antitrust, intellectual property, civil procedure, and international litigation courses. He is a member of the American Law Institute, Advisory Board of the American Antitrust Institute, as well as the editorial boards of the Antitrust Law Journal, World Competition Law and Economics Review, and other scholarly journals.听 Professor Waller is the author, co-author, or editor of eight books and over 100 articles on United States and international antitrust, including Antitrust and American Business Abroad, the leading treatise in the field, and the first full-length biography of Thurman Arnold, the founder of modern antitrust enforcement in the United States. His recent scholarship focuses on antitrust, brands, class actions, high-tech industries, innovation, and intellectual property. He is the recipient of the 2014 Concurrence Antitrust Writing Award. Professor Waller previously taught and served as associate dean at Brooklyn Law School. In 2022 Professor Spencer Weber Waller served as a senior advisor to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chair Lina Khan. He is also a member of American Law Institute where he has participated in projects relating to Consumer Protection and Foreign Relations Law.

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The Valentine Korah Laws Memorial fund

We are excited to launch the Valentine Korah Laws Memorial Fund honouring the memory of an exceptional scholar and advocate. Explore the opportunities that we believe best honour the spirit Valentine Korah embodied, and the legacy she left at 皇家华人 Laws. The new fund will:

• support the Valentine Korah Scholarship
• support an annual Valentine Korah Prize in competition law for undergraduates
• support a Valentine Korah Collaboration Space in Bentham House
• support an annual Valentine Korah Lecture
• support the creation of academic positions in competition law or policy

View full details of the opportunities available and how to donate can be found at:
/laws/remembering-professor-valentine-korah

To find out more about donation options and how you can contribute to Professor Korah鈥檚 legacy please contact Thea Gibb.

Queries

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