Kluwer Competition Law Blog 2024 Nominees for the Antitrust Writing Awards: Vote!

During 2024, we published many insightful, well-written and even hilarious blogposts on the Kluwer Competition Law Blog. In case that was not enough for us (it definitely is!), we are delighted to learn that some of those pieces were shortlisted for the 2025 Antitrust Writing Awards. Congratulations to all of the authors on the great achievement!

We encourage you to vote for them in the awards' modality of the Reader's choice:

• Manuel Abarca (Universidad Diego Portales), 'Chile's Battle Against MFNs' in the Americas category, vote here.
• Niels Baeten, Elizabeth Malik, Giorgio Motta, Ketevan Zukakishvili, James Anderson, Nathaniel Carden and Vanessa M. Johnson (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom), 'Your Homework Will be Graded: The ECJ's Apple Decision and its Implications for International Tax', in the Cross-border category, vote here.
• Mark Katz, Umang Khandelwal, Jim Dinning and Dajena Pechersky (Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg), 'Canada Toughens its Scrutiny of Foreign Investments' also in the Americas category, vote here.
• Šimon Kopárek (Schoenherr), 'Public Consultation on Possible Changes of Merger Control Legislation by the Czech Competition Authority' in the Europe category, vote here.
• Jay Modrall (Norton Rose Fulbright), Josh White and Claire Paoli (Analysis Group), 'Mission Impossible? Teresa Ribera's Mission Letter and the Future of EU Merger Review' in the Mergers category, vote here.

Given that we thrive in competition at the blog, we would like to note that there are no exclusionary effects in voting for one post or another. There is the possibility to vote for them all at a time, even if they belong to the same category.

Even if there is no foreclosure between contestants, we also encourage a bit of self-preferencing regarding our Deputy Editors, since each one of them has been nominated in the Academic Articles tenet of the awards (at least once!). In particular, the Private Enforcement category is quite disputed, since our editors have seized two seats with the following articles:

• Antitrust Damages Actions in National Courts: Trends in the Case-Law of the European Court of Justice, co-authored by Lena Hornkohl and Nils Imgarten, vote for them here.
• Collective Actions for Competition Law Violations and DMA Infringements Following the Transposition of the Representative Action Directive in Germany, authored by Lena, vote for her here.

And staying in all things DMA (as the blog usually does), Alba Ribera Martínez's article on 'The Decentralisation of the DMA's Enforcement System', published in GRUR International, was also nominated for the Cross-border category. We encourage you to vote for it, here!