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On 1 April 2020, almost 5 years ago, 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 Teresa Ribera has kindly agreed to deliver this award. As of this year, we also welcome EU Law Live as a partner in this initiative.

Today, we are announcing the winner and runners-ups of the 5th edition of this award. Thanks a million also to all those who submitted their work for this award. We received a large number of very good submissions and the Jury had a pretty tough time selecting the finalists.

And the winner of this year’s Rubén Perea Award is…

Pablo González Casín for his paper “Airline Cooperation and Competition Law: A Transatlantic Perspective. An analysis of Case Law and Unrealized Scenarios“.

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

• “From Economic Security to Legal Uncertainty: Exploring the Impact of the FDI Screening Regulation and Foreign Subsidies Regulation on Mergers and Acquisitions in the EU” (by Enrico Zonta)
• “Demand in Mobile Application Markets and the Role of Top Charts Ranking” (by Benedetta Gianola)
• “Optimal Fines in EU Competition Law – an Economic Analysis“ (by Adnan Tokić)
• “Smokescreens of Digital Markets – Choice Manipulation and the Illusion of Consent“ (by Naimy Paul)

Our warmest congratulations go to Pablo and to the four finalists.

This year’s jury included various experts, some of whom were also friends, former teachers or colleagues of Rubén, namely Petra Nemeckova, Gianni De Stefano, Lena Hornkohl, David Pérez de Lamo, Nicolas Fafchamps and Eugenia Brandimarte. Our gratitude goes to all of them for devoting part of their time to this project.