Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman was a Luxembourg-born French statesman. Schuman was a Christian democratic political thinker and activist. Twice Prime Minister of France,a reformist Minister of Finance and a Foreign Minister,he was instrumental in building postwar European and trans-Atlantic institutions and was one of the founders of the European Communities,the Council of Europe and NATO. The 1964–1965 academic year at the College of Europe was named in his honour. In 2021,Schuman was declared venerable by Pope Francis in recognition of his acting on Christian principles.
Competition law is the field of law that promotes or seeks to maintain market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies. Competition law is implemented through public and private enforcement. It is also known as antitrust law,anti-monopoly law,and trade practices law;the act of pushing for antitrust measures or attacking monopolistic companies is commonly known as trust busting.
Paul Demaret is a university professor and former rector of the College of Europe,located in Bruges (Belgium) and Natolin (Poland).
Irwin M. Stelzer is an American economist who is the U.S. economic and business columnist for The Sunday Times in the United Kingdom and was for The Courier-Mail in Australia. In the United States,he was a contributing editor at The Weekly Standard,and for the American Interest. He is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute. Stelzer is a consultant on market strategy,pricing and antitrust issues,and regulatory matters for U.S. and United Kingdom industries. He is also an occasional contributor to The Guardian,the Daily Telegraph,Standpoint,The Critic and the New Statesman. He resides in the United States. Some British politicians and newspapers have vilified Stelzer as Rupert Murdoch's right-hand man,an assertion that Stelzer denies.
Microsoft Corp. v. Commission is a case brought by the European Commission of the European Union (EU) against Microsoft for abuse of its dominant position in the market. It started as a complaint from Sun Microsystems over Microsoft's licensing practices in 1993,and eventually resulted in the EU ordering Microsoft to divulge certain information about its server products and release a version of Microsoft Windows without Windows Media Player. The European Commission especially focused on the interoperability issue.
The European University Institute (EUI) is an international postgraduate and post-doctoral research-intensive university and an intergovernmental organisation with juridical personality,established by its founding member states to contribute to cultural and scientific development in the social sciences,in a European perspective. Its main campus is located in the hills above Florence in Fiesole,Italy.
Institute of Competition Law is a think tank focused on bringing together government regulators,private practitioners,and academics to study and shape antitrust policy on an international scale.
Danièle Bourcier is a French lawyer and essayist,who has contributed to the emergence of a new discipline in France:Law,Computing and linguistics.
R. David Edelman is an American policymaker,author and academic who currently directs the Project on Technology,the Economy,and National Security (TENS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Previously,he served as Special Assistant to President Barack Obama on issues of the digital economy and national security. In that role,he led policy development around technology,artificial intelligence and related issues for the National Economic Council. He also served in the Office of Science &Technology Policy,and as the first Director for International Cyber Policy on the National Security Council.
Gilles Lebreton is a French lawyer and politician. A successive member of Sovereignty,Identity and Freedoms and the National Front,which became the National Rally. He has been a municipal councilor for Montivilliers and Member of the European Parliament for West France since 2014.
Fiona M. Scott Morton is an American economist who serves as the Theodore Nierenberg Professor at Yale School of Management. Her research in industrial organization has covered industries including magazines,shipping,pharmaceuticals,and internet retail. She served as associate dean of the Yale School of Management from 2007 to 2010.
Kiran Klaus Patel is a German historian. He holds a Chair at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Peter Whelan is a professor of law at the School of Law,University of Leeds. A qualified New York Attorney-at-Law,Whelan conducts research in competition (antitrust) law and criminal law. He published the first full-length monograph on the criminal enforcement of competition law with Oxford University Press.
Big Tech,also known as the Tech Giants or Tech Titans,are the largest IT companies in the world. The concept of Big Tech is similar to the grouping of dominant companies in other sectors. It generally includes the Big Five tech companies in the United States:Alphabet (Google),Amazon,Apple,Meta,and Microsoft. It can also include tech companies with high valuations,such as Netflix and Nvidia,or companies outside the IT sector,such as Tesla. Groupings of these companies include the Big Four,Big Five,and Magnificent Seven. Big Tech can also include Chinese companies such as Baidu,Alibaba,Tencent,and Xiaomi.
Lina M. Khan is a British-born American legal scholar serving as chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) since 2021. She is also an associate professor of law at Columbia Law School.
Geoffroy Didier is a French lawyer and politician of the Republicans who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2017.
Robin Feldman is a law professor,researcher,and author best known for her contributions to intellectual property and health care law. Feldman is the Arthur J. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California,Hastings College of Law Feldman is a widely cited expert on intellectual property and health care law,particularly as it relates to the pharmaceutical industry,drug policy,and drug pricing.
The Faculty of Law,Political Science and Criminology of the University of Liège is a faculty of the University of Liège located in Liège,Belgium. Founded in 1816 as one of the state university's four original faculties,it brings together the departments of law,of political science,and the Jean Constant Liège School of Criminology.
Samantha Besson,born on March 30,1973,in Beirut,is a law professor specialising in Public International Law and European Law. She holds the chair "The International Law of Institutions" at the Collège de France (Paris) and is a part-time professor at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland).
Paul Reuter (1911–1990) was "one of the twentieth century's greatest specialists on international law" and the principal architect of the legal framework for the European Coal and Steel Community,the first in a series of institutions that would ultimately become the European Union.
