Chillin'Competition

On 1 April 2020 we lost Rubén Perea, a truly extraordinary young man who was about to start a career in competition law. We decided to set up an award to honour his memory, and to recognize the work of other promising competition lawyers/economists under 30. EVP Vestager kindly agreed to deliver this Award.

Today we are announcing the winner and runners-ups of the 4th edition of this award. The winner of the 4^th (2023) Rubén Perea Award is…

MUHAMMED MUSTAFA POLAT for his paper “Unraveling Labor Market Collusion: A Comprehensive Analysis Under EU Competition Law “.

The Jury also selected 5 other papers of particularly high quality. JECLAP will publish these papers in a special issue. These finalists and selected papers are:

• “Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence and EU Competition Law: Mandatory Due Diligence Collaborations Under the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive Exempted from the Application of Article 101 (1) TFEU?” (by Lois Elshof)
• “Efficiency and Capabilities in Article 102 TFEU“ (by Selçukhan Ünekbaş)
• “Reconsidering the Limits of EU Competition Law on the IP-Competition Interface” (by Quentin Schäfer)
• ”Access to Environmental Justice under the Aarhus Convention: Evaluating the Contemporary Hurdles for ENGOs in Challenging State Aid Decisions under EU Law “ (by Anna-Lici Scherer)
• “Competition and the Green Deal: a Study of Consumers WTP for CO2 Emissions Reduction in the Italian Car Market” (by Alessandra Catenazzo)

Our warmest congratulations go to Muhammed and the finalists. And thanks a million also to all those who submitted their work for this award. We received a large number of anonymous submissions; you truly made the Jury have a hard time.

This year’s jury composed of renown experts, some of whom were also friends, former teachers or colleagues of Rubén, namely Damien Gerard, Michele Piergiovanni, Gianni de Stefano, Lena Hornkohl, David Pérez de Lamo, Nicolas Fafchamps, Eugenia Brandimarte and myself (our gratitude goes to all of them for devoting part of their time to this project).

We will soon be announcing the 5^th edition of the Rubén Perea Award. Stay tuned!