Chillin'Competition

This blog is proud to celebrate the memory of the late Rubén Perea, a bright and most promising lawyer who left us all too soon. As we have done every year since 2020, we are launching a call for submissions to the new edition of the Writing Award created in his honour. The spirit of the prize has not changed: we invite the new generation of competition law scholars to share their work, and we give them the chance to see it publish in a leading outlet like the Journal of European Competition Law & Practice (JECLAP).

The winning paper, together with a selection of outstanding submissions, will be published in a dedicated issue of the journal.

Who can participate?

Undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as early-career scholars, public officials and practitioners are all invited to submit their papers. Generally speaking, you may participate if you remain below the age of 30 by the submission date (i.e., if you were born after 16 November 1996). Submissions by authors having followed non-traditional career paths and also at an early stage of their career by virtue of this fact are very much welcome too.

What papers can be submitted?

You may submit a single-author unpublished paper which is not under consideration elsewhere. The paper may be specifically prepared for the award or originally drafted as part of your undergraduate or postgraduate studies. It may cover any substantive, institutional or procedural competition law topic (broadly understood, and thus comprising not just State aid and merger control but also the DMA or the FSR).

The paper must not exceed 10,000 words (footnotes included; we actively discourage the inclusion of a bibliography at the end of the paper).

IMPORTANT: prior to submission, please make sure your paper follows the JECLAP House Style rules, which can be found here.

How to submit?

Please submit the paper via this link: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jeclap. IMPORTANT: when submitting the paper, you will have to indicate that your submission is specifically for the Rubén Perea Award (make sure you do so!).

What is the DEADLINE?

Papers have to be submitted by 23.59 (Brussels time) on 15 November 2026.