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Habilitation of Dr. Cezary Banasiński

We are happy to inform you that the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw has just given Dr. Cezary Banasiński with a postdoctoral degree in law, incl. for his excellent work Discretion in antitrust law (Wolters Kluewer 2015). Dr hab. C. Banasiński is a close associate of CARS, including a member of the iKAR Scientific Council and a member of the CARS Award Committee.

YARS 2014, vol. 7(9)

We are happy to inform that a new special volume of Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies has just arrived. It has been published to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the accession to the European Union of ten European countries, amongst them eight from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Continuing the tradition set by the previous volume of YARS (2013, 6(8)), the research papers published in the current volume focus not only on the Polish competition law regime but also present the national competition laws of some other CEE countries. Read more.

Guest Lecture, Prof. Paul Nihoul (December 17 2015)

We invite you to join us for the CARS sixth Guest Lecture entitled FREEDOM OF CHOICE AS A POSSIBLE PARADIGM FOR COMPETITION LAW. The lecture will be given by Prof. Dr Paul Nihoul from Catholic University Louvain. Prof. Nihoul is also the Chair of Academic Society of Competition Law, ASCOLA and a future judge of the EU Court. Below please find attached the article written by Prof. Nihoul related to the similar topic as the coming lecture.

The Lecture is organized with the support of Office of Competition and Consumer Protection and Competition Law Association.

The Lecture will be held on Thursday (December 17, 2015) at 5 pm at the Conference Centre of Office of Competition and Consumer Protection, UOKiK (Plac Powstańców Warszawy 1). Please feel free to join us for the reception at 4.15 pm

Invilation
Note
CV 
List of publications
Freedom of Choice article

Extended deadline to submit abstracts for the National Consumer Conference

In the attached Call for Papers please find information on the extended deadline to submit abstracts. The new deadline is January 18 2016. The presentation of papers remains unchanged.
Call for Papers

The newest CARS publications

Four monographs from CARS „Publication Programme” have just been published.

Piotr Semeniuk, Concept of single economic unit in competititon law (2015)

Marta Michałek, Right to Defence in EU Competition Law; The Case of Inspections (2015)

Rajmund Molski, Legal and economic aspects of national champion policy (2015)

Konrad Stolarski, Prohibition of abuse of a dominant position in telecommunications markets in European Union law (2015)

Books are available in: „Księgarna Wydziałowa T. Biel”, Warsaw University Faculty of Management, 02-678 Warszawa, ul. Szturmowa 3; tel. (22) 55.34.146; mobile: 501.367.976; e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Guest lecture by Marek Martyniszyn, PhD, November 30, 2015 at 5 pm

Marek Martyniszyn, PhD, Queen’s University Belfast, will discuss “How high (and far) can you go? On fine-setting in cartel cases involving vertically-integrated undertakings and foreign sales”. The lecture will be held on November 30, 2015 (Monday) at 5 pm at the Faculty of Management (University of Warsaw) Szturmowa 3, room B-205. Feel free to join us at the reception at 4.15 pm before the lecture starts.

iKAR 2015, 3(4), 4(4), 5(4) and 6(4)

The 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th volume of our internet Antitrust and Regulatory Quarterly iKAR is available online in Polish! For English version please have a look at “Contents, Summaries, and Key words” at www.ikar.wz.uw.edu.pl

The latest CARS publications

Three new monographs of the CARS publishing program have just been published:
Konrad Stolarski, Zakaz nadużywania pozycji dominującej na rynkach telekomunikacyjnych w prawie Unii Europejskiej (16)
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Rajmund Molski, Prawne i ekonomiczne aspekty polityki promowania narodowych czempionów (17)
See more
Marta Michałek, Right to Defence in EU Competition Law; The Case of Inspections (18)
See more

Books are available at the "T. Biel Department Bookshop", operating in the building of the Faculty of Management at the University of Warsaw, 02-678 Warszawa, ul. Szturmowa 3, phone: (22) 55.34.146, mobile: 501.367.976; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Professor Tadeusz Skoczny becomes a member of the Board of ASCOLA

Professor Tadeusz Skoczny, Director of CARS, has been selected to become a member of the Board of ASCOLA (Academic Society of Competition Law) by its General Assembly on 22 May 2015 during the 10th Annual Conference of ASCOLA held in Tokyo, Japan. As far as the division of competences within the ASCOLA Board is concerned, Professor Skoczny has be tasked to chair the ASCOLA Membership Committee responsible for the expansion of ASCOLA membership primarily in Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa.

A visit to the newly redesigned ASCOLA is highly recommended where additional information can be found concerning, among other things, ASCOLA’s 11th Annual Conference to be held in Leiden (the Netherlands) between the 30 June and 2 July 2016. Detailed information can also be found therein concerning the conditions and procedure of ASCOLA membership.

Many of the participants of ASCOLA’s Warsaw Conference of 2014 will surely recognize themselves from the photos currently displayed on the ASCOLA website!

YARS 2014 7(10), 2015 8(11) and 2015 8(12)

We are happy to inform you that special volumes of our Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies YARS 2014 7(10) as well as YARS 2015 8(11), 8(12) have been already published. The table of contents and Abstract for each article from YARS 2014 7(10) and YARS 2015 8(11) are available in English at www.yars.wz.uw.edu.pl