Yesterday, students had a terrific opportunity to benefit from a special guest lecture delivered by Professor Sofia Pais, Jean Monnet Chair at Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Porto, Portugal. The class focused on the important issue of abuse of dominance.
As always the class included a fusion of analysis of substantive issues and in-class exercises, this time in the form of examination of relevant recent case law.
I am delighted to share that this semester we have a very engaging and diverse group of students from all over the world, with variety of educational backgrounds and career plans. Needless to say, this greatly contributes to very positive class dynamics.
So far, substantively, we managed to cover competition laws aims, key institutional aspects and modes of enforcement. And—of course—there was a Brexit’s special, on practical consequences of Brexit in this area of law. In terms of methods, we had numerous discussions, quite a bit of in-class group work (also with the use of our online collaborative classroom) and we even listened to a recording of a court hearing.
Now we are looking forward to our first guest lecture scheduled for next week—with Professor Sofia Pais from Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Porto, Portugal.
