Competition Law Forum
Overview
The Competition Law Forum is a centre of excellence for European competition and antitrust policy and law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. It provides a forum in which the practical application of competition policy is considered by lawyers, economists, senior business managers, public servants, public affairs professionals, consumer bodies and other specialist practitioners.
The Forum identifies areas requiring debate and analysis, and provides the required forum and experts, thereby contributing to policy initiatives. In doing so it also produces leading-edge applied research, analysis and recommendations on the content, methodologies and application of competition policy at all levels of governance - national, European and global.
In addition, with the impact of a Brexit, the Competition Law Forum will provide a forum for academics and practitioners to debate competition law issues related to Brexit. There are regular private meetings for Forum members.
Latest News item from the Competition Law Forum:
Dynamic Competition and Big Tech Mergers - New report from BIICL
Forum Directors
The Forum Directors are Dr Liza Lovdahl-Gormsen and Phil Evans. Their role at BIICL is to lead the Competition Law Forum and get the Forum involved in national and international competition policy debates through public consultations, engagement with regulators, competition law research and roundtable discussions.
Dr Liza Lovdahl Gormsen is a leading academic and practitioner in the field. In addition to working with the Competition Law Forum she is a Non-Governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network, appointed by the UK Competition and Markets Authority. She is also a member of the International Competition Network's (ICN) Unilateral Conduct Working Group and the Agency Effectiveness Working Group.
Phil Evans is an established practitioner and Decision Maker in competition, consumer and trade law and policy. He has been an Inquiry Chair and Panel Member at the CMA and Competition Commission and is an independent consultant.
He has wide experience in policy, having started at the Economist Intelligence Unit before moving to Consumers' International before spending a decade at what is now Which?. After leaving Which? Phil moved into consultancy work with Fipra International, with whom he still works as a Special Adviser, working on a wide range of issues and cases. In 2009 Phil was appointed as a member of the Competition Commission Panel system becoming an Inquiry Chair at the then newly created Competition and Markets Authority, in 2014.
