Online Markets and Offline Welfare Effects –
The Internet, Competition, Society and Democracy
Organised by the University of Oxford Centre for Competition Law and Policy
in conjunction with
22 May 2017, Pembroke College, Oxford
Programme
09.00
Assembly and Registration
09.30
Welcome and Introduction: Ariel Ezrachi (CCLP, Oxford University)
Panel 1:
Digital economy and consumer welfare
Chair:
Sir Peter Roth (President, Competition Appeal Tribunal)
Alec Burnside (Dechert LLP)
09.40
Philippe Chappatte (Slaughter and May)
Munesh Mahtani (Google)
Agustin Reyna (BEUC – European Consumer Organisation)
Tommaso Valletti (DG Competition, European Commission)
11.10
Panel 2:
Digital economy, upstream suppliers and freedom of
expression
Chair:
Barry Lynn (Open Markets at New America)
Timothy Cowen (Preiskel & Co)
Brian Message (ATC Music Management Company)
Martin Moore (King’s College London)
Maurice Stucke (Tennessee University)
John Naughton (Cambridge University)
12.30
Lunch break
Panel 3:
Digital consolidation, citizen and community
Chair:
Liza Lovdahl Gormsen (British Institute of International and
Comparative Law)
13.30
Philip Blond (ResPublica)
Christian D’Cunha (Office of the European Data Protection Supervisor)
Maurits Dolmans (Cleary Gottlieb)
Rebecca Williams (Oxford University)
14.50
Coffee/tea break
Panel 4:
Policy and enforcement choices
Chair:
William E. Kovacic (CMA, GWU and King’s College)
Lord David Currie (Chairman, UK Competition and Markets Authority)
Isabelle de Silva (President, Autorité de la Concurrence)
15.10
Terrell McSweeny (Commissioner, US Federal Trade Commission)
Mario Monti (The Senate of the Italian Republic )
Andreas Mundt (President, German Bundeskartellamt)
Lord Larry Whitty (House of Lords)
17.00
Ice cream
Panel 5:
The future - politics, democracy and autonomy
Chair:
Spencer Waller (Chicago Loyola University)
Adi Ayal (Bar-Ilan University)
17.10
Pepper D. Culpepper (Oxford University)
Josef Drexl (Max Planck Institute, Munich)
Harry First (New York University)
Michal Gal (Haifa University)
18.50
Concluding Remarks
19.00
End of Conference