
2025 Antitrust Writing Award

The Awards Jury comprises the Board (composed of leading enforcers), the Academic steering committee (composed of leading academics), the Business Steering Committee (composed of leading in-house counsel), the Student Committee (Composed of students from George Washington University Law School) and the Editorial Committee of Concurrences. Each of these contributes to the Awards selection process. The Editorial Committee selects the pool of all antitrust writings accepted for nomination. The Steering Committees select the award-winning soft laws and make a shortlist of the best academic and business articles. The Board then selects the award-winning academic and business articles among those. The Student Committee, mentored by Board member Prof. William Kovacic, selects the award-winning student paper.
Our Founding Director, Professor Aurelien Portuese is a member of the Jury for the Academic Steering Committee, composed of:
The Academic Steering Committee members for the Antitrust Writing Awards are:
– Alden ABBOTT, George Mason University
– Roger ALFORD, University of Notre Dame
– Marco BOTTA, European University Institute
– Andy CHEN, Taiwan Fair Trade Commission
– Michal GAL, Israel Institute of Technology
– David GERBER, Chicago-Kent College of Law
– Martin GAYNOR, Carnegie Mellon University
– Inge GRAEF, Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society
– Ioannis KOKKORIS, Queen Mary University of London
– Kai-Uwe KUHN, University of East Anglia
– Marina LAO, Seton Hall University
– Mariateresa MAGGIOLINO, Bocconi University
– Imelda MAHER, University College Dublin
– Sandra MARCO COLINO, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
– Damien NEVEN, The Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies
– Julian NOWAG, Lund University
– Wendy NG, University of Melbourne
– Martin PEITZ, University of Mannheim
– Aurelien PORTUESE, George Washington University
– Rena CONTI, Boston University
– Steven SALOP, Georgetown University
– Daniel SPULBER, Northwestern University
– Tadashi SHIRAISHI, University of Tokyo
– Valerie Y. SUSLOW, Johns Hopkins University
– Spencer WEBER WALLER, Loyola University of Chicago

"I am deeply honored to be recognized by the esteemed Antitrust Writing Awards, which bring together a distinguished jury of leading enforcers, academics, in-house counsel, and students, reflecting the collaborative effort and rigor that define excellence in antitrust scholarship."
Aurelien Portuese
Research Professor, Founding Director of the GW Competition & Innovation Lab
Vote for the articles here: https://awards.concurrences.com/