Call for Abstracts: JECLAP Competition Law and Gender Perspectives

The Journal of European Competition Law & Practice is proud to announce that it plans to publish a Special Issue on “Competition Law and Gender Perspectives”.

The interplay between Competition Law and Gender Perspectives is a growing focus across various domains – legal (procedural, substantive), economic and policy – such as in the OECD Gender Inclusive Competition Toolkit.

We would be delighted to consider proposals on aspects relating, but not limited, to the following:

• The influence of gender on market definition
• The role of gender in facilitating and investigating cartels
• Gender lens and anti-competitive eOects, e.g. market power’s gendered eOects such as gender-based price-discrimination, gender-based eOects of mergers
• Exploring gender (equality) and public interest justification
• The influence of gender on competition procedures, e.g. gendered data in market studies, gender conscious surveys, gender conscious remedies, gender lens in ex-post evaluations, gender inclusive stakeholder engagement
• Gender considerations and industrial policies
• Institutional gender diversity at competition authorities
• Methodological interaction of competition policy with gender research
• Historical perspectives of gender’s impact on competition policy and enforcement

If you have an idea for a paper, please email JECLAP editor Lena Hornkohl ([email protected]) by 15 September 2024 23:59 CET with your proposal.

Lena Hornkohl will work together with members of the DG COMP Equality Network.

Your proposal should take the form of an abstract of max. 250 words in which you outline:

• the substantive issue you would like to address;
• the contribution your piece is expected to make for the future;
• the point of view you intend to take. As usual, please clarify in your proposal whether you have any conflicts of interests.

If your abstract is selected for publication, we expect the final article (of around 7,000-10,000 words) to be submitted by end November 2024.

We will select abstracts to maximise diversity and balance in the Special Issue. We would be particularly keen to publish new voices and perspectives.

We will contact all authors whose abstract has been selected in due course (if there was any doubt, do not hesitate to contact Lena with any questions, as some of you have already done).