Richard Whish: Goals of Competition Law, Digital Markets Act, The Role of Technical Expertise & more

Prof. Richard Whish - Emeritus Professor of Law at King’s College London; KC Honoris Causa. A non-executive director of the Office of Fair Trading in the UK (2003 to 2009). Prof. Whish is the co-author, with David Bailey, of Competition Law, 10th edition 2021 (OUP).
Professor Whish is one of the most competent, authoritative and clear voices in the global competition law & policy community. In this conversation we have discussed a wide scope of issues - from the changing constellation of goals and factors shaping competition law in the 21st century, to the ever increasing role of technical expertise, use and misuse of procedural rights and expert knowledge, the nature, enforceability and justiciability of the DMA and its UK equivalent - Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers (bill), changing role of UK academic world, key features necessary to succeed in the profession by students and early career researchers - these and other topics have been reflected upon by Prof. Richard Whish in this 1-hour interview.
We hope colleagues, friends and students will find this interview useful. Your feedback is welcome.
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All previous episodes (in chronological order):
Richard Whish: Goals of Competition Law, Digital Markets Act, The Role of Technical Expertise & more ua-cam.com/video/12Zja1dRjBc/v-deo.html
Philip Marsden: Comparing EU Digital Markets Act v UK Digital Markets, Competition & Consumers Bill ua-cam.com/video/BNooF4xBnaQ/v-deo.html
Ordoliberalism & Competition Law: Past, Present & Future - Matthew Cole, Karen Horn, Anselm Küsters ua-cam.com/video/V9Zhgnl9XoM/v-deo.html
Giuliano Amato: Antitrust and the Bounds of Power; European Competition Law - Past, Present & Future ua-cam.com/video/KP7T6JhbDTs/v-deo.html
Art 102 TFEU & Exclusionary Conduct - The Reform: Anne Witt, Gönenç Gürkaynak, Massimiliano Kadar ua-cam.com/video/Fx4LKwakjOA/v-deo.html
Eleanor Fox: Goals of Antitrust Consumer Welfare v Fairness & Competitive Process; Types of Populism ua-cam.com/video/9ZHCmg0EXqg/v-deo.html
Brazilian Competition Law: Vinicius Klein, Juliana Oliveira Domingues, Caio Mario S. Pereira Neto ua-cam.com/video/9Z3FJl5qlBE/v-deo.html
Amelia Fletcher: Furman Report 5 Years On; Key Features of Emerging Digital Competition Policy; DMCC ua-cam.com/video/H74HMJHwlaw/v-deo.html
Google AdTech: EU Commission SO. Konstantina Bania (Brunel), Michael Veale (UCL), Mikaël Hervé (CRA) ua-cam.com/video/bQmck6gNIBc/v-deo.html
Competition Policy in the Media: Lewis Crofts (MLex) Javier Espinoza (FT) Samuel Stolton (Bloomberg) ua-cam.com/video/98AvaTIPvYY/v-deo.html
Unboxing UK Digital Markets, Competition & Consumers Bill Liza Lovdahl-Gormsen, Tom Smith, Dirk Auer ua-cam.com/video/mmK-tlVH4sM/v-deo.html
Martijn Snoep: A New Vision of Antitrust Enforcement, Regulatory Dialogue, Compliance, Fines, DMA ua-cam.com/video/WSIchX_Lm24/v-deo.html
Competition Law & Digital Regulation in India: Shilpi Bhattacharya, Raveena Sethia, Anshuman Sakle ua-cam.com/video/zPMauTGwDOw/v-deo.html
Ioannis Lianos: Regulating Competition in Digital Markets; Polycentric & Inter-Ecosystem Competition ua-cam.com/video/DMmhOVuXXxI/v-deo.html
Digital Markets Act & Data-Related Obligations: Natalia Moreno, Jan Krämer, Chris Riley ua-cam.com/video/GSH-wU_e05k/v-deo.html
UK Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers bill: Matilda Curtis (BEIS) co-drafter of the bill ua-cam.com/video/Q1AlEigkCVE/v-deo.html
Giorgio Monti, Or Brook, Magali Eben: The History of the Future: the DMA & National Competition Laws ua-cam.com/video/e8N2k70eHqs/v-deo.html
Oliver Bethell, Google Head of Competition EMEA: Is the DMA a Challenge or an Opportunity? Interview ua-cam.com/video/jDX8trEvCuc/v-deo.html
The 11th Amendment to the German Competition Act GWB Makis Komninos, Rupprecht Podszun, Sophie Gappa ua-cam.com/video/i_Xt0tR7G68/v-deo.html
Video Game Industry and Digital Competition Law: Friso Bostoen, Amy Thomas, Alba Ribera Martínez ua-cam.com/video/9ziBekKoGqs/v-deo.html
Conversation with Johnny Ryan: AdTech, GDPR, 3rd Party Cookies, Real-Time Bidding, Privacy Sandbox, Programmatic ads ua-cam.com/video/3C4H0F7GXqc/v-deo.html
App Store Gatekeepers & the EU Digital Markets Act: Viktoria Robertson, Benedict Evans, Tim Cowen ua-cam.com/video/G0LkYjqbBO4/v-deo.html
The DMA & Interoperability in Messaging Services: Agustin Reyna, Eliana Garcés, Simonetta Vezzoso ua-cam.com/video/2YVC15W8iSc/v-deo.html
MEP Andreas Schwab: Conversation on the Digital Markets Act and EU Digital Competition Policy DMA ua-cam.com/video/UAlkdvgvFlo/v-deo.html
Workshop: Digital Services Act & Digital Markets Act: Comparing the Incomparable? Martin Husovec, Ilaria Buri, Mark Leiser ua-cam.com/video/UKsX8nX0HNk/v-deo.html
Alexandre de Streel on the Digital Markets Act | Compliance | EU Law | Regulation | Antitrust DMA ua-cam.com/video/tGYiazVV1Eg/v-deo.html
Workshop: Niamh Dunne, Miguel Sousa Ferro, Justin Lindeboom: DB Station case: between Competition & Regulation ua-cam.com/video/UCv_MJf4_jo/v-deo.html
Conversation with Tommaso Valletti: the Digital Markets Act, Economics of Antitrust, Experts as Agents ua-cam.com/video/iKIzVCfhElQ/v-deo.html
Workshop 'DMA & Self-Preferencing': Vanessa Turner (BEUC), Denis Sparas (DMA TaskForce), Gonçalo Machado Borges ua-cam.com/video/nUwjSvqly2I/v-deo.html
Workshop 'The Procedural Aspects of the DMA': Marco Botta, Fabiana Di Porto, Henry Mostyn ua-cam.com/video/_GLbXEYMVts/v-deo.html
Conversation with Cristina Caffarra On the effectiveness and enforceability of the Digital Markets Act ua-cam.com/video/j1vmOETUMxw/v-deo.html
Conversation with Prof. Rupprecht Podszun: Digital Markets Act, New German Competition Law, privacy & antitrust ua-cam.com/video/U-wZwVXMPow/v-deo.html
Digital Markets Act: Quo Vadis? A Thematic workshop with the Ana Malheiro DMA Task Force, Dr Assimakis Komninos & Prof. Damien Geradin ua-cam.com/video/MWNEApCPca4/v-deo.html
Conversation with a former Vice-President of DuckDuckGo Megan Gray on the state of competition in online search engine markets ua-cam.com/video/uoPkxG5OLLs/v-deo.html

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Love it, you can talk about consumer welfare as long as you don t define it,😇 And solution for compexity: judges when you don t understand just don t apply😂

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Monopolies are not legal.