Month: February 2019

This week we were delighted to benefit from a guest appearance of Dr Yichen Yang, from the Sichuan University, who outlined to students the Chinese competition system from a comparative perspective. Dr Yang started by contextualising the introduction of competition law in China. She then analysed the Chinese institutional design as well as the key substantive rules. She also addressed the questions of how the Chinese system learnt from the EU regime and explored the challenges facing both China and the EU in this area of law.

We are truly delighted to advertise a guest lecture by Dr Bogdan Chirițoiu, Chairman of the Romanian Competition Council. Dr Chirițoiu will visit Queen’s in March. He will speak about the latest developments in the competition law case law as well as about the cooperation within the European Competition Network. All are welcome!

Please register @ http://go.qub.ac.uk/cBfbc

 

Last week we had fist of our special movie watching session in the course of this module. We’ve seen the Informant!, a movie about uncovering and investigation of the international lysine price-fixing cartel in the United States. One just could not have a more appropriate movie made for this class, in terms of touching upon a whole range if relevant legal issues.

If you missed this session: a DVD with the Informant! is available in our University’s Library on a one night loan.

Interestingly, some of the original recordings made by the FBI in that criminal investigation have been made publicly available and can be found online (for example, see here). We’ve seen them in class as well. They are a real eye-opener as to the nature of the cartel meetings, its agenda and the attitudes of the individuals involved. Enjoy!