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Read more at: CELS/USC Virtual Antitrust Workshop Series: 'Shorting Your Rival: Negative Ownership as an Antitrust Remedy'

CELS/USC Virtual Antitrust Workshop Series: 'Shorting Your Rival: Negative Ownership as an Antitrust Remedy'

Speakers: Abe Wickelgren & Scott Hemphill (University of Texas) (9am LA, 12noon NYC, 5pm London) To register your interest for this event please contact Professor Oke Odudu ( oo201@cam.ac.uk ).


Read more at: CCCJ Webinar: 'The Law Commission’s Proposals on Evidence in Sexual Offence Prosecutions'

CCCJ Webinar: 'The Law Commission’s Proposals on Evidence in Sexual Offence Prosecutions'

4:30-6:00pm In this CCCJ webinar, three experts will analyse aspects of the Law Commission’s Consultation Paper on Evidence in Sexual Offence Prosecutions : Dr Matt Thomason (University of Nottingham) will discuss reform of the rules on the admissibility of ’sexual history evidence’ Dr Samantha Fairclough (University of Birmingham) will discuss proposals regarding vulnerable witnesses and special measure directions Mr Paul Jarvis (6KBW) will discuss proposals regarding juries and independent legal representation for complainants. This event will be of interest to all of those interested in this complex and controversial area of the law, including academics and practitioners. There will be a Q&A session following the presentations.


Read more at: CELS/USC Virtual Antitrust Workshop Series: 'Antitrust Without Competition'

CELS/USC Virtual Antitrust Workshop Series: 'Antitrust Without Competition'

Speaker: Professor Daniel Francis (NYU) Title: 'Antitrust Without Competition' Biography: Daniel Francis is an Assistant Professor of Law at NYU. He writes and teaches about regulation and competition -- including antitrust, constitutional, and other rules that affect competition -- with a particular interest in dynamic...


Read more at: Cambridge Legal Theory Discussion Group (CLTDG): 'No Rule of Law without the Hobbesian State'

Cambridge Legal Theory Discussion Group (CLTDG): 'No Rule of Law without the Hobbesian State'

Speaker: Donald Bello Hutt (University of Valladolid) Anna Lukina (Cambridge) will be commenting. The Paper: https://bit.ly/hutt-draft The Zoom link: https://bit.ly/cltdg-easter23-4 You can follow us on Twitter: https://bit.ly/cambridgeltdg or check out our web-page: https://bit.ly/cltdgweb Subscribe to our mailing-list...


Read more at: Cambridge Legal Theory Discussion Group (CLTDG): 'Work as a Right, a Resource and a Crime'

Cambridge Legal Theory Discussion Group (CLTDG): 'Work as a Right, a Resource and a Crime'

Speaker: Maayan Niezna (University of Oxford) The Paper: https://bit.ly/cltdg-niezna-draft The Zoom link: https://bit.ly/cltdg-easter23-3 Everyone is welcome to attend! You can follow us on Twitter: https://bit.ly/cambridgeltdg or check out our web-page: https://bit.ly/cltdgweb Subscribe to our mailing-list for getting...


Read more at: Cambridge Legal Theory Discussion Group (CLTDG): 'The Permissible Limits of Arguing in the Alternative'

Cambridge Legal Theory Discussion Group (CLTDG): 'The Permissible Limits of Arguing in the Alternative'

Speaker: Amitpal Singh (University of Toronto) The Paper: https://bit.ly/cltdg-singh-draft The Zoom link: https://bit.ly/cltdgeaster2023-2 Everyone is welcome to attend! You can follow us on Twitter: https://bit.ly/cambridgeltdg or check out our web-page: https://bit.ly/cltdgweb Subscribe to our mailing-list for getting...


Read more at: Cambridge Legal Theory Discussion Group (CLTDG): 'The Domain of Criminalization Theory'

Cambridge Legal Theory Discussion Group (CLTDG): 'The Domain of Criminalization Theory'

Speaker: Mark Dsouza (UCL) The Paper: https://bit.ly/cltdg-dsouza-draft The Zoom link: https://bit.ly/easter2023-1 Everyone is welcome to attend! You can follow us on Twitter: https://bit.ly/cambridgeltdg or check out our web-page: https://bit.ly/cltdgweb Subscribe to our mailing-list for getting regular updates and...


Read more at: CELS/UCU Webinar: 'The impact of Russia's war against Ukraine on the EU legal order'

CELS/UCU Webinar: 'The impact of Russia's war against Ukraine on the EU legal order'

The Cambridge University Centre for European Legal Studies and Ukrainian Catholic University School of Law are pleased to invite you to a webinar 'The Impact on Russia’s War against Ukraine and the EU Legal Order' . Dr Luigi Lonardo (University College Cork) will discuss his recent book ‘Russia’s 2022 War Against Ukraine...


Read more at: CELS/USC Antitrust Workshop Series: 'Banking Deserts, Structural Racism, and Merger Law'

CELS/USC Antitrust Workshop Series: 'Banking Deserts, Structural Racism, and Merger Law'

Title : 'Banking Deserts, Structural Racism, and Merger Law' Speaker : Professor Christopher Leslie (UC Irvine) If you would like to attend this event, please contact Professor Oke Odudu: oo201@cam.ac.uk


Read more at: CELS/USC Virtual Antitrust Workshop: 'The Corporate Governance Cartel'

CELS/USC Virtual Antitrust Workshop: 'The Corporate Governance Cartel'

Speaker: Professor Danielle Chaim (Bar Ilan University) Abstract: This paper offers a novel—antitrust—perspective on a growing phenomenon in capital markets: institutional investor coalitions. It reveals the anti-competitive risks that investor coalitions pose and challenges the prevailing positive view of this development in capital markets. Traditionally, corporate law has encouraged investor cooperation, regarding it as the solution to the well-known collective-action problem facing public shareholders. As this Article shows, however, the recent evolution of investor alliances into powerful, orchestrated coalitions often emerge at the border between firms and markets, affecting not only the intra-firm governance arrangements of the companies whose stock is held by the coalition members but also the capital markets themselves. At the firm–market border, cooperation among institutional investors— even around seemingly benign corporate governance issues—provides an opportunity for tacit collusion that grants members an unfair advantage in the markets in which they compete. To demonstrate this contention, this Article adopts an antitrust lens to analyze the collective efforts of one particular group of institutional investors: the coalition to inhibit firms’ use of dual-class stock in initial public offerings (IPOs). This original account of the coalition against the dual-class structure exposes the significant anti-competitive effects that may arise when competing buyers of shares in the primary market coordinate their response to a governance term at the IPO juncture. Since the members of the coalition collectively account for most of the expected market demand for public offerings, their orchestrated efforts can be seen as an exercise of buyer-side power. The exploitation of such power effectively creates a cartel of buyers in the primary market, resulting in two potential economic distortions: (1) abnormal underpricing of dual-class offerings and (2) suboptimal governance arrangements. Both distortions point to overlooked perils associated with the mass-scale aggregation of power by institutional investors. The potential anti-competitive effects of such investor coalitions—whose actions may be vigorous and sustained, yet difficult to pinpoint— require an immediate policy response. This Article thus proposes regulatory reforms aimed at preventing institutional investors from engaging in collective actions that limit competition. The proposed policies represent a means to achieve the necessary delicate balance between the goal of corporate law to encourage cooperation among shareholders and the goal of antitrust law to restrict collaboration among competitors. If you would like to attend this event, please contact Professor Oke Odudu: oo201@cam.ac.uk