Antitrust Writing Awards 2014

What are the Antitrust Writing Awards?

ARTICLES AWARDS

The Antitrust Writing Awards’ goal is to promote antitrust scholarship and competition advocacy by recognizing and awarding the best articles published in the antitrust law and law & economics fields in the last 12 months. The Awards feature two different categories of articles: Academic and Business. The Academic Articles category comprises articles published in academic journals, whereas the Business Articles category features articles published in professional magazines or newsletters.

There are 8 Awards in each of the Academic and Business categories:

General: including cross-over topics, procedural issues
Anticompetitive practices: including criminal cartel enforcement, civil federal, state, and private enforcement, treatment of joint ventures, vertical restrictions
Unilateral conduct: including attempted monopolization and invitations to collude
Mergers: substantive merger analysis, merger enforcement and guidelines
Intellectual Property: issues relating to antitrust and intellectual property
Private Enforcement: issues relating to antitrust private enforcement
Asian Antitrust: issues relating to antitrust enforcement in Asia (China, Japan, India...)
Economics: including economic theories, models, and statistical tools used in the antitrust field

The articles are selected by the Jury and by readers. The Jury consists of a Board, an Academic and a Business Steering Committees composed of the leading academics and counsels. Readers contribute to the selection process by voting for articles. Click here to see the Jury.

To ensure transparency, but also impartiality and expertise in the processing of the Awards, publications are assessed following an international peer-reviewed evaluation process. Members of the Board and of the Steering Committees are chosen from world-renowned antitrust enforcers, counsels and academics who are committed to judging the Awards fairly. Click here to see the Rules.

The Institute of Competition Law - the publisher of the Journal Concurrences and the e-Competitions Bulletin - and George Washington University Law School Competition Law Center, are organizing these first of their kind Antitrust Writing Awards with the support of partners.

> Click here to read the 2014 winning-award articles and watch winners’ videos
> Click here to read the 2013 winning-award articles
> Click here to read the 2012 winning-award articles

NEWSLETTERS AWARDS & RANKING

While the Articles Awards reward individual articles, the Newsletters Awards reward firms’ publications overall considered. 30 firm’s publications have been reviewed. These concern news letters, client briefs, memoranda, blogs, e-books, webinars, videos… freely made available on the firms’ websites.

They are around 80 antitrust professional publications published by both law firms and economic consulting firms. Quality and interest of these publication vary but are going into the right direction due to increased competition between firms. The increased number of ranking of individual lawyers or firms practices has make it necessary for firms to show their expertise in a different way. However, client capacities to read or browse such publications is limited and they are just too many of them and too many the same to have a fair view of what is worth reading. Ranking such publications is meant to guide readers on which publications they should read first, depending what they are looking for.

> Click here to see the 2014 results of the Awards & Rankings
> Click here to see the 2013 results of the Awards & Rankings

AWARDS GALA DINNER

On March 25, 2014, the Board released the names of the 16 Antitrust Writing Awards winners. The announcement was made during the gala dinner that took place in Washington, DC.

> Click here to see photos of the 2014 Awards Ceremony
> Click here to see photos of the 2013 Awards Ceremony
> Click here to read the testimonials

Testimonials

Bill Kovacic

«By recognizing superior writing in academia and practice, the Antitrust Writing Awards enhance the indispensable intellectual infrastructure of our field. George Washington University Competition Law Center»

Frédéric Jenny

«The Antitrust Writing Awards are the right event, on the right issue, at the right time. I thank George Washington University Law School and the Institute of Competition Law for launching this initiative. OECD Competition Committee»

Eleanor M. Fox

«The awards ceremony was a rewarding event in more ways than one. It was a pleasure to see these outstanding authors from all over the world and to hear a synthesis of their work which has contributed so much to the law and it's practice. NYU School of Law»

D. Daniel Sokol

«The writing awards showcase works that push the boundaries of academic and practitioner knowledge. These works will be cited by courts and agencies and will help top shape antitrust/competition policy going forward. University of Minnesota Law School »

Alden F. Abbott

«The Concurrences writing awards highlight outstanding work by practitioners in the area of competition law and policy and shed valuable light on "cutting edge" topics. BlackBerry»

Andreas Stephan

«The Antitrust Writing Awards are an exciting celebration of the excellent research undertaken in the area of competition policy. University of East Anglia »

Jean-Yves Art

«The quality and conciseness of the Business Articles, as well as the experience and knowledge which their authors are sharing, are of great use to corporate lawyers. Microsoft»

Mathew Heim

«I commend the organisers for recognizing professional writing as a specific category. This initiative will, I hope, increase the quality and depth of such writing to provide the practical complement to academic articles. Qualcomm»

Deborah Majoras

«What I found to be most encouraging about the Antitrust Writing Awards is that they value – and hopefully incent — short-form articles that offer important information and practical advice for antitrust practitioners. Procter & Gamble»

Clifford Alan Jones

«The Antitrust Writing Awards are a great service to the antitrust community. By collecting the best writing in the field of both practitioners and academics, the Writing Awards create a one-stop shop that saves tremendous amounts of time, keeps readers fully cognizant of the best new work, and provides recognition to those who make the effort to share their expertise with antitrust lawyers across the globe. University of Florida - Levin College of Law»

Janusz A. Ordover

«There is a great deal of writing in the area of antitrust, ranging from lengthy scholarly articles to short, timely notes on key cases. The Antitrust Writing Awards uniquely embrace and celebrate that scope for the benefit of all workers in the field. NYU»

David Gerber

«These awards have come to play a very important role in encouraging and rewarding quality writing about competition law! They have helped to spread competition law insights and knowledge throughout the world. I and many others are very grateful that they exist and that they are so effective. Kent College of Law»

Maurits Dolmans

«I was impressed with the diligence with which the jury reviewed and selected the publications. This is a valuable exercise that not only rewards the authors, but also is very helpful for practitioners. We were honoured to receive an award for our firm’s alert memoranda and are grateful to Concurrences for this excellent initiative. Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton»

Mark Gidley

«We are pleased with the significant contribution that the Antitrust Writing Awards program makes to the development and promotion of antitrust scholarship and practical business literature. White & Case»

Olivier Fréget

«As sponsors as well as participants, we are delighted to play an active role in raising the bar of antitrust scholarship and the quality of client publications across the legal community.»

Jonathan M. Jacobson

«The concept of encouraging excellence in both academic and more practical writings on competition is an excellent one, and Concurrences has done a remarkable job in creating a process for doing so. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati»

Olaf Christiansen

«The Antitrust Writing Awards bring together the Academic and the Business world from many countries, contribute to a better understanding of other legal cultures and thereby promote the global development of Competition law. Bertelsmann »

Scott P. Perlman

«I greatly appreciate our receiving this award, and the dinner was a great opportunity to meet and talk with other practitioners and government enforcement officials. Mayer Brown»

Paul Andres

«The Antitrust Writing Awards provide a vital forum for the validation and recognition of thought-leading scholarship. They accompany and consecrate the rising prominence and impact of competition law on the global economy. Nestlé»

Hans Zenger

«This is a great event promoting antitrust scholarship around the world. CRA»

Douglas H. Ginsburg

«Having served as a member of the panel bestowing the 2014 Concurrences Awards for excellence in antitrust writing, I was very pleased to find the submissions ranged from the merely good to the truly outstanding. These awards have surely made antitrust academics and practitioners more alert to the value of writing well, with attention not only to substantive analysis but also to clarity and economy of presentation. Our field is blessed with an erudite academy and an intellectually sophisticated bar; the Concurrences Awards bring out the best in both. George Mason University»

Robert H. Lande

«Law professors so often write without any meaningful feedback or hearing only from those who disagree with them (to be sure, in the spirit of healthy debate). To have our work not only recognized, but recognized by board members whose work we respect so much and by institutions with so much credibility, is a rare and delightful treat. University of Baltimore »

Atilano Jorge Padilla

«The Antitrust Writing Awards represent a unique initiative to reward pure and applied research in antitrust. Academics and practitioners making valuable contributions to the literature see their names recognised and their work publicized. On a personal front, I have enjoyed reading some of the papers that were selected this year, most of which I would have overlooked absent this initiative. Compass Lexecon»

Anna Rosa Cosi

«The Antitrust Writing Awards represent a perfect mix of academic and business writing and set the scene for a valuable exchange among all players in the antitrust arena. SanDisk»

Andreas Mundt

«It was a great pleasure to be part of the 2014 Antitrust Writing Awards Board. The Awards really matter because competition law is experiencing a dynamic development worldwide and the Awards highlight the valuable insights and findings of the international antitrust community. Bundeskartellamt»

Caron Beaton-Wells

«The 2014 Antitrust Writing Awards were a wonderful celebration of the extremely high calibre of antitrust scholarship around the world. Competition policy, law and enforcement worldwide is greatly enriched by the quality of the research that was evidenced in the papers reviewed for the Awards. It was a great pleasure to be involved. University of Melbourne Law School»

Joshua P. Davis

Steven J. Cernak

«The Awards celebrate excellence in an area that clients find important and where most competition lawyers practice every day: explaining in plain language what the law is and where it is – or should be – heading. Schiff Hardin»