'Non-Competition Interests in EU Antitrust Law: An Empirical Study of Article 101 TFEU': CELS Seminar (audio)

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🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Dr Or Brook (Leeds University) gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "Non-Competition Interests in EU Antitrust Law: An Empirical Study of Article 101 TFEU" on 11 March 2022 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CELS (the Centre for European Legal Studies). Biography: Dr Or Brook is a Lecturer in Competition Law and the deputy-director of the Centre for Business Law and Practice, School of Law at the University of Leeds, where she teaches EU and international competition law, business regulation, and quantitative research methods. Holding an academic background in law and economics, she employs empirical approaches to study questions related to the goals of competition law, the role of public policy consideration, decentralised enforcement, and the exercise of enforcement discretion. Dr Brook is the director of the UK branch of the International Academic Society for competition law (ASCOLA UK) and a Non-Resident Institute Research Fellow at the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies at the Loyola University Chicago School of Law. This entry provides an audio-only item for iTunes. For more information see: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-seminar-series

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0:00.0	Well, good morning, good afternoon, everybody.
0:07.7	Welcome to the Sells Lunchtime Seminar.
0:12.3	I'm really very pleased to welcome Dr. Aubrook from the University of Leeds.
0:19.1	She is the deputy director of the Centre for Business Law and Practice, and one of the
0:29.3	rising stars in competition law academia. She's here today to speak about one of the most topical debates, which is the narrowness
0:43.5	or breadth of the things that you can consider in a competition law authority.
0:51.1	She's agreed to speak formally for around 20, 25 minutes, and then is happy to take
1:00.0	questions. Over to you. Thank you. I mean, we are also quite a small group. So if you have any
1:06.7	questions in the middle of anything you find more interesting, also about the methodology in general,
1:10.7	feel free to stop me and we can, yeah, we can see how the lecture goes.
1:15.1	So thank you very much for the invitation. It's really lovely to be here.
1:18.9	Today I'm going to present my book, which should be out any day now.
1:22.5	And there are some discount codes here if you're interested afterwards.
1:27.1	Okay. What I was hoping today is just to give
1:29.3	a bit of a context of the question of the role of non-competition interest in EU competition law.
1:34.5	Talk a bit about the project and especially the methodology, which is quite different than
1:38.2	regular legal analysis, then present some of the findings and some of the recommendation
1:43.8	that come out of the book. Okay, so just a some of the findings and some of the recommendations that come out of the book.
1:46.0	Okay, so just a bit of the context of this legal question.
1:51.0	So a good example to the question of how to balance competition and non-competition interest
1:57.0	is a Dutch call power plant case of 2013. In 2013, all power plant operators in the
2:07.0	Netherlands came together and they decided to accelerate the closing down of their coal power plants
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