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Seminar: "Non-compete clauses in employment contracts: U.S. antitrust and beyond' with Professor Spencer Waller

The Centre for Antitrust & Regulatory Studies (CARS) is delighted to invite you to attend a seminar on “Non-compete clauses in employment contracts: U.S. antitrust and beyond”, taking place on 15 May 2026 from 10:00 to 12:00 in the Faculty Council Hall at the Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw (Szturmowa 1/3, Warsaw).

The seminar will be delivered by Professor Spencer Waller, who holds the John Paul Stevens Chair in Competition Law at the Loyola University Chicago School of Law and is Director of the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies.
Academic commentary will be provided by Dr. Simbarashe Tavuyanago (CARS & University of Warsaw), while Mec. Małgorzata Modzelewska de Raad (Modzelewska & Paśnik) will offer insights from a practical perspective.

The event will be held in person and conducted in English. Participation is free of charge. 
Registration: https://tinyurl.com/5n8r9kr4 

New research project - Horizontal Agreements in Poland in 2004–2024. Analysis of the Decision-Making Practice of the Polish Competition Authority

Researchers at the Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies (CARS) at the Faculty of Management of the University of Warsaw are conducting research on the quality of competition law enforcement in Poland with regard to horizontal agreements in the years 2004-2024. The research conducted by Maciej Bernatt and Antoni Napieralski is part of the international research project COMPO 2.0 ‘Competition System Maturity and Cartel Enforcement in Selected Widening Countries’ (https://www.eui.eu/research-hub?id=competition-system-maturity-and-cartel-enforcement-in-selected-widening-countries).

The project, led by the European University Institute (EUI), analyses the maturity of competition law enforcement systems in Central and Eastern European countries. The involvement of CARS experts specialising in competition law strengthens empirical and comparative research on competition law, contributing to the development of enforcement standards in the region.

YARS 2025 issues published

We are excited to share that the new issue of YARS vol. 18(31), edited by Agata Jurkowska-Gomułka and 18(32) edited by Magdalena and Marek Porzeżyńscy, has just been published. The issue addresses the regulatory and competition law challenges linked to data sharing.

See the YARS 18(31) and the YARS 18(32)

Guest lecture: Ordoliberalism, Neoliberalism, and Beyond: Toward a Human-Centred Digital Economy (dr Anselm Küsters)

The Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies is pleased to invite you to a guest lecture by Dr Anselm Küsters, LL.M., who is currently serving as Interim Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Stuttgart, as well as Head of the Digitalization Department at the Centre for European Policy (cep) in Berlin. The lecture will be delivered in English.
The lecture will take place on 19 February at 6:00 p.m. in Room B109 at the Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw (1/3 Szturmowa Street, 02-678 Warsaw). The lecture is open to the public.
Abstract: 
This lecture offers a wide-ranging intellectual journey through the evolution of European competition law, from its ordoliberal roots to its neoliberal reinterpretations and today’s unresolved tensions. Drawing on original research using Natural Language Processing methods, Dr Anselm Küsters reveals how ordoliberal concepts once shaped the language and practice of EU competition policy and how their meaning gradually shifted over time. Building on this historical analysis, the lecture then turns toward the future, presenting digital decentralization—developed in the forthcoming book Small is beautiful 2.0—as a promising framework for rethinking competition and digital regulation. By connecting conceptual history with concrete policy perspectives, the lecture invites the audience to rethink how platform economies and artificial intelligence might be governed in a way that places human agency, fairness, and democratic values back at the center of economic life.
The event is held under the patronage of the Civic Development Forum Foundation.

SAVE THE DATE! Conference: “The Regulation of Markets in Defence of Democratic Principles” 19-20 March 2026

We are excited to invite you to the conference: “The Regulation of Markets in Defence of Democratic Principles”, organised on 19-20 March 2026

Digital technologies now shape almost every aspect of our social and economic life, raising fundamental questions about the future of democracy, information pluralism, and market fairness. The dominance of large technology platforms and the growing role of algorithms create new challenges - for law, public policy, and democratic debate alike.