Arbitrating Competition Law Issues: A European and US Perspective

Monday 12 June 2006 14:00 to 20:00

Location

The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, South Square, Gray's Inn, London WC1R 5ET
 

Participants

Speakers:

  • Gordon Blanke, SJ Berwin LLP, London
  • Dr Marc Blessing, Bär & Karrer, Zurich
  • Michael Bowsher, Monckton Chambers, London
  • Professor Luca G Radicati di Brozolo, Università di Milano; Bonelli Erede Pappalardo, Milan
  • The Rt Hon Sir David Edward KCMG, former Judge of the European Court of Justice and the European Court of First Instance; British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London
  • Peter E Greene, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, New York
  • Professor Dr Hans van Houtte, Université de Louvain, Belgique
  • Stephen Kon, SJ Berwin LLP, London
  • Dr Phillip Landolt, Tavernier Tschanz, Geneva
  • Dr Christoph Liebscher, Wolf Theiss Vienna
  • Dr Johannes Lübking, European Commission, Brussels
  • Dr Philip Marsden, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London
  • Dr Renato Nazzini, Office of Fair Trading, London; British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London
  • Carl Nisser, SJ Berwin LLP, London
  • J William Rowley QC, McMillan Binch Mendelsohn LLP, Toronto; 20 Essex Street, London
  • Tim Taylor, SJ Berwin LLP, London

This conference will focus on the interrelation between international arbitration and competition law in the widest sense of the word. It will cover both the continental and the transatlantic approach to arbitrating competition law as well as merger control issues. Specific attention will be given to the nascence of the so-called ex officio duty on part of the international arbitrator to raise competition law issues in order to secure the enforceability of his award within the European Union and its development since the ECJ's seminal ruling in Eco Swiss. The use and utility of the European Commission's recent practice to use international arbitration in remedy-related arbitrations within the framework of Articles 81/82 of EC Treaty and EC merger control will receive particular attention.


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