Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, CONFERENCES: Fordham Competition Law Institute to hold 40th Annual Conference on International Antitrust Law and Policy, (Jul 22, 2013)

The 40th Annual Conference on International Antitrust Law and Policy will be held on September 26 and 27, 2013, in New York City at Fordham Law School's McNally Amphitheater. The two-day program, hosted by the Fordham Competition Law Institute, focuses on a wide range of issues related to antitrust policy and enforcement.

The program will begin with introductory remarks from Fordham Competition Law Institute Director Barry E. Hawk. William J. Baer, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, and Alexander Italianer, Director General for the European Commission Directorate General for Competition, will deliver remarks on Competitor Agreements under U.S. Antitrust Law and E.U. Competition Law respectively, followed by a panel discussion, including A. Paul Victor, Deborah Garza, and Mario Siragusa.

Programs and speakers for the remainder of the first day will include: Competitor Agreements under Brazilian Antitrust Law (with President Vinicius Marques de Carvalho, Council for Economic Defence (CADE)); Competitor Agreements under E.U. Member State Laws (with President Bruno Lassere, Autorite de la concurrence); a panel discussion with A. Paul Victo, Gabriel Dias, and Mario Siragusa; and Mergers (with James Keyte; Johannes Luebking, European Commission Directorate General for Competition; President Andreas Mundt, Bundeskartellamt; Chief Economist Aviv Nevo, U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division; Jorge Padilla; and FTC Commissioner Joshua Wright).

E.U. Commissioner for Competition Joaquin Almunia and FTC Chair Edith Ramirez will start the second day with remarks on the Future of Unilateral Conduct Enforcement and Policy from the E.U. and U.S. perspectives, followed by a panel discussion, including William Kovacic and Luc Gyselen. Malgorzata Krasnodebska-Tomkiel and President Eduardo Perez Motta, Mexican Competition Commission, will then deliver remarks on the Future of Unilateral Conduct Enforcement and Policy from the Polish and Mexican perspectives respectively, followed by another panel discussion, including William Kovacic and Jaroslaw Sroczynski. The afternoon will feature a program on Antitrust and the Courts, with Co-Director Frederic Jenny, European Center for Law and Economics, ESSEC Business School; President Gerald Barling, U.K. Competition Appeal Court; Judge Ricardo Villas Boas Cueva, Brazilian Supreme Court; Dennis Davis, South Africa Competition Appeal Court; retired Judge Vaughn Walker, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California; and Nils Wahl of the E.U. Court of Justice.

For additional information, contact Fordham Competition Law Institute, 140 West 62nd Street, Room 05-B, New York, New York 10023; telephone (212) 636-6000; e-mail FCLI@law.fordham.edu, or visit http://www.fordhamantitrust.com.

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