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Uber and Foodpanda Merger
Ascola Asia Workshop in collaboration with Global Dokkin Project
4 July 2025 18:00 - 19:00 (KST & JST) / 17:00 - 18:00 (Taiwan Time)
Speaker: Ya-Lun Yen
National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Online (ZOOM) WS. Please contact m_wakui@nifty.com for the ZOOM link.
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Ascola Asia Regional Workshop 2025
Ascola Asia Workshop
10 & 11 October 2025
Venue: Kyusyu University Hakata Station Office
In person.
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Deadline for submission: 31 July 2025.
Those who wish to participate in the workshop should submit either: (1) a paper published in 2024 or 2025; (2) a work in progress; or (3) an abstract of at least 5 pages long. The more complete the submission the easier it will be for the panel to assess the merits of the paper. Depending on the number of submissions, the panel will review the submissions and select 10 to 15 papers for presentation.
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PAST EVENTS
Keio University / UCL Workshop
In collaboration with Ascola Asia
22 May 2025 17:00 - 19:00 (KST & JST)
Ioannis Lianos (UCL)
Synthetic Futures and Competition Law: AI and Precautionary Principle
Stavros Makris (UCL)
A Smithian Political Economy Approach for the Competition Law of the 21st Century
Venue: Keio University (Mita Campus) North Build. #1 Meeting Room
https://www.keio.ac.jp/en/maps/mita.html (No. 10 on the map)
Please contact m_wakui@nifty.com for the ZOOM link.
Photo by Rchard Liu on Unsplash
Navigating the Future of Indonesia's Competition Policy in the Digital Era: Quo Vadis?
Ascola Asia Workshop in collaboration with Global Dokkin Project
20 May 2025 18:00 - 19:00 (KST & JST)
Speaker: Muhammad Rifky Wicaksono Universitas of Gadjah Mada (UGM), Indonesia & Oxford University
Online (ZOOM) WS. Please contact m_wakui@nifty.com for the ZOOM link.
Photo by Muhammad Rizki on Unsplash
On Draghi Report
Ascola Asia Workshop in collaboration with Global Dokkin Project
15 April 2025 18:00 - 19:00 (KST & JST)
Speaker:
Tommaso Valletti
Imperial College Business School, London
Online (ZOOM). Please contact m_wakui@nifty.com for the ZOOM link.
Photo by Christian Lue on Unsplash
The Data Portability and Competition Law
Ascola Asia Workshop
27 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30 (KST & JST)
Speaker:
Yo Sop Choi
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul
Online & In person
In-person venue: "Small Meeting Room", Main building of the faculties of law and economics 3rd floor Kyoto University Yoshida Campus. For online (zoom), please contact wakui@law.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Photo by Maggie Yap on Unsplash
Ascola Asia Regional Workshop 2024
25 & 26 October 2024, 10:00 - 17:00 (KST & JST)
Keio University (Mita Campus), Tokyo
2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8345
Conference Room No.2, 1st Floor, North Building
See Ascola Asia 2024 website for further details.
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The Efficiency Consideration in DMA Procedures
ASCOLA ASIA ONLINE WORKSHOP
Date and Time: 23 August 2024 (Fri) 18:00 - 19:30 (KST & JST)
Speaker:
Prof. Dr Eckart Bueren
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
Co-host: JSPS Global 'Dokkin' Project (JSPS 'Kakenhi 24H00013)
Photo by Shubham Dhage on Unsplash.
Competition Law Advocacy and the Role of Cross-National Collaboration: In Case of East Asia and the ASEAN Region
Newcastle (UK) in Singapore - Ascola Asia Roundtable
Date: 26 July 2024 2:00 - 4:00 PM (SST)
Venue: Singapore Management University (SMU)
Yong Pung How School of Law,
Seminar Room 2.01 (on Level 2)
Attendees:
Wan Liza Md. Amin, MARA Technological University (UiTM) Malaysia
Thomas K Cheng, The University of Hong Kong
Corrine Chew, Drew & Napier
Yo Sop Choi, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea
Jonathan Galloway, Newcastle University (UK) in Singapore
Sven Gallasch, Deakin Law School, Australia
Kenneth Khoo, National University of Singapore
Nasarudin Bin Abdul Rahman, International Islamic University Malaysia
Alexandr Svetlicinii, University of Macau
Arisa Wakabayashi, Komazawa University, Japan
Masako Wakui, Kyoto University, Japan
Host: Ascola Asia & Newcastle University (UK) in Singapore
Co-host: Global 'dokkin' project (JSPS Grant # 24H00013)
Contact: m_wakui@nifty.com
Photo by Kelbin Zyteng on Unsplash
On Responsive Competition Law Enforcement
ONLINE WORKSHOP
Date and Time: 18:00 - 19:30, 24 April 2024 (KST & JST)
Speaker:
Dr Stavros Makris
The author of 'EU Competition Law as Responsive Law' in Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies (2021; 23: 228-268) [1] and 'Responsive Competition Law Enforcement: Lessons from the Greek Competition Authority' World Competition (2023; 46(2) 205-244) [2].
Host: JSPS Global 'Dokkin' Project (JSPS 'Kakenhi 24H00013)
Co-host: Ascola Asia
Photo by Paulina B on Unsplash
Taking Stock of Google’s Antitrust Troubles as the World Turns Against It
ASCOLA ASIA HYBRID WORKSHOP
Date and Time: 16:00 - 17:00, 6 March 2024 (KST & JST)
Speaker:
Prof Christian Bergqvist
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
In person venue: Room 606, 6F, Boissonade Tower, Hosei University (Ichigaya Campus).
Seminar is arranged by Prof Yuka Aoyagi, Hosei University, Japan.
Host: Ascola Asia
Photo by Nick Karvounis on Unsplash
Digital Regulation in Korea and Japan: Comparative Studies and Dialogue
26 January 2024
14:30-15:45 Open Hybrid Workshop
Self-preferencing in Korea and Japan
Speakers:
Prof. Yo Sop Choi,
Professor, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea
Prof. Kazuhiko Fuchikawa
Associate Professor, Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan
16:00 - 17:00 In-person & Invitation Only Colloquium
Dealing with Global and Domestic Big Techs: Policy and Practices (tentative)
Venue: Osaka Metropolitan University (Umeda Satellite)
Host:
JSPS Research Project 23K01133 (Leader: Prof. Kazuhiko Fuchikawa)
JSPS Research Project 21H00702 (Leader: Prof. Yosuke Okada)
Co-host: Ascola Asia
Photo by Clark Gu on Unsplash
Article 102: from Guidance to Guidelines
Ascola Asia EU Competition Law Special Workshop
Date:
27 December 2023 14:00 - 16:30 KST/JST
Speaker:
Tilburg Law School, Netherland
Venue: Rikkyo University, Ikebukuro, Tokyo & Online (Zoom)
Host: Ascola Asia
Organiser: Prof Yuka Aoyagi, Hosei University, Japan.
Photo by Mark Kieboom on Unsplash
ASCOLA ASIA REGIONAL WORKSHOP 2023
1 December 2023, 10:00 - 17:00 (KST & JST)
ZOOM & Kyoto University Main Campus
Photo by Sen Lee on Unsplash
*For a technical reason, only a few videos are made available on YouTube from the WS.
Antitrust academia meets the real world.
