Current Workshop
Competition Law, Regulation and the Media
The 19th CLaSF Workshop
Thursday 26 January 2012, City Law School, City University, Atkin Building, Grays Inn.
If you are interested in attending please contact the CLaSF Chair, Prof Alan Riley <chair@clasf.org>. If attending please let Prof Riley know if you will be staying on for the post workshop drinks and dinner.
Programme
09:00 - 09:30 Coffee, Registration and Welcome
09:30 - 10:15
European Merger Control: Does Media Pluralism Fit?
Ms Konstantina Bania, Doctoral Research Student, European University Institute, Florence.
10:15 - 11:00
Media Plurality in the UK: Time for a Reappraisal
Dr Michael Harker, ESRC Centre for Competition Policy and UEA Law School
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee
11:15 - 12:00
Net Neutrality and Competition Law
Mr Balázs Bartóky-Gönczy & Ms Borbála Tünde Dömötörfy, Doctoral Research Students, Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Hungary
12:00 - 12:45
Electronic Communications: The Application of Competition Law in a Heavily Regulated Sector
Mr Eduardo Martinez-Rivero, Acting Head of Unit COMP/C/1 Antitrust – Telecoms, DG Comp
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:45
Market Definition and Search Bias in Online Search and Advertising
Mr Nicolo Zingales, Doctoral Research Candidate, Bocconi University, Milan
14:45 - 15:30
Market Power in the Online Search and Social-Networking Markets: The Indispensability/Input of Two-Sided Market Economics
Ms Florence Theopot, Doctoral Research Student, University College, London.
15:30 - 15:45 Coffee
15:45 - 16:30
500 Million Friends … and a Few Enemies: Is Facebook the Next Microsoft of the Antitrust World?
Prof Veljko Milutinović, Megatrend University, Belgrade
16:30 - 17:15
The EBU’s Eurovision System Governing the Joint Buying of Sports Broadcasting Rights: Unfinished Competition Business
Dr Ben Van Rompuy, Senior Researcher at the Institute for European Studies (IES) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Professor Karen Donders, Professor in European Media Policy and European Information Society at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
17:15 - 17:30 Close of Meeting and Concluding Comments.
Retire for drinks and Workshop dinner.
